Empowered Connection Podcast

Themes: Sex, Partnership, Relationships, ADHD, Neurodiversity, Self Empowerment, Intimacy, Love

Charmaine Ensinger LMFT (she/her) - Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider, Certified Sex Therapist with AASECT and IBOSP, AAMFT Approved Supervisor

As a certified sex therapist and a marriage and family therapist, Charmaine Ensinger is uniquely suited to understand complex relationships in all areas of life. Charmaine enjoys working with people of every ethnic, gender, and sexual background and finds a special connection with people who feel misunderstood, marginalized, or like an “outsider.”

As an ADHD-certified clinical services provider, she is poised to address the complexities of ADHD symptoms and management. Charmaine is currently enrolled in the Clinical Sexology Ph.D. program at Modern Sex Therapy Institutes, where her doctoral project is focused on sex therapy and ADHD.  Additionally, she teaches Human Sexuality as an adjunct professor at Rowan University.

For those looking to empower their sex and their relationships!  In this informative and fascinating podcast, host Daniel Cordua speaks with Charmaine Ensinger on these topics:

- What is sex therapy?  And how could it be helpful to our lives & our relationships?
- Demystifying The scripts about sexuality we learn at a young age
- How couples can get stuck into a pattern of a sexless relationship
- & How couples can bring sexual connection back into a relationship when it is lost
- Sex and ADHD
- Creating more mutual pleasure and awareness in our sexuality
- Exploring our sexuality with more fullness & play
- How our sexuality shifts in a partnership over time
- Key sexual empowerment practices
... and so much more!

Connect with Charmaine here

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Empowered Connection MEN'S CIRCLE starts in-person, in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday September 14th at 2pm.  Email me to register - [email protected].  Online Men's Circle starting soon!!

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Love, Conflict, Healthy Relationships, Interdependence, Doing the Work, Conscious Relationships, Self Understanding, Differentiation

Have you ever felt stuck in your partnership because you feel like your loved one is too different from you?

Are certain differences in relationship incompatible?

How alike do my partner & I need to be for this relationship to survive… let alone thrive?  

Join Empower Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua on this solo podcast episode as he sheds light on..  & gives tools + perspectives on:

- Are differences in relationship good? Bad?
- What are the challenges in relationship when we are reckoning with our differences?
- What are the ways we hide from our differences, & hide from our individual truth,  in relationship & what does that create?
- What do couples most need to have in common for their relationship to survive… and thrive?
- The MOST important thing to have in common in order for health, possibility + longevity in your partnership

and more!

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Empowered Connection MEN'S CIRCLE starts in-person, in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday September 14th at 2pm.  Email me to register - [email protected].  Online Men's Circle starting soon!!

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Themes: Astrology, Relationships, Self Awareness, Partnership, Love, Dating, Spirituality, Yoga, Jyotish, Ayurveda

Christine Rodriguez is a Vedic Astrologer, coach, and host of the Astrology Now Podcast.  She has been studying Jyotish, or Vedic Astrology, for over 10 years.  Her mission is to combine coaching, Vedic astrology, and other Vedantic studies to support others in living in alignment with their personal constitution, karmic makeup, astrological imprint - and how to use this information to their advantage, creating a life of meaning and purpose.

Christine believes that relationships and intimacy act as powerful mirrors for personal development and our partners can be some of our greatest teachers. She views relationships as sacred… and also really, fascinating & challenging!  She combines personal inquiry, self-discovery, and Vedic Astrology to work with couples & individuals in relationship.

Christine’s background also includes an undergraduate & graduate degrees in Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin.

In this fascinating podcast episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua talks with guest Christine Rodriguez about the intersection of vedic astrology, love, relationships, dating, self growth, spirituality and more - including these topics:
- What is Vedic Astrology?
- Learning more about our karmic blueprints & how they can help us be & become ourselves in the fullest way
- Using birth charts to understand more about ourselves & our partner
- How Vedic Astrology give us powerful resources & perspectives for navigating relationship with clarity, awareness + potential
- Greater tools for dating & new relationships
- Karmic perspectives that can empower how we traverse the seasons of our life both individually & when in relationship with others
- Employing our karmic blueprints to help us surrender into our spiritual path, as opposed to trying to over-control our lives
 
Connect with Christine here
Christine's upcoming Vedic Astrology Foundational Course
Mentioned in the episode, Astrology Now podcast on the difference between Western & Eastern Astrology

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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EMPOWERED CONNECTION

Themes: Codependency, Relationships Problems, Healthy Relationships, Partnership, Interdependence

This word is often thrown around a lot, but what does “codependency” actually mean?  And… how do we know if we are in a codependent pattern or relationship?

Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua for a special episode that defines, researches, and explores the nuances of co-dependency.

Learn:
- What exactly is codependency?  And how common is it?
- How do I know if I am codependent or in a codependent relationship?
- What are the key signs & symptoms of codependency?
- Why is a codependent relationship unhealthy?
- What are the ways of consciously doing relationship that can stop codependency?

… and so much more!

If you are looking to understand your own patterns and your patterns in relationship to others more deeply AND empower & improve your relationship to your own self and to others, this episode is a must listen!

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

SUMMER SALE ! Get 25% OFF all coaching journeys and packages by mentioning Empowered Connection - ends next week!

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Power, Interdependence, Co-dependence, Unhealthy Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Mutuality, Conscious Couples

In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua helps the listener navigate the tricky relational terrain of power dynamics in our most important relationships - namely, partnership.

To help give more awareness, tools, and empowerment around how to traverse power in partnership, this episode explores"
- Why discussing power dynamics and "doing power" consciously is important in partnership
- The three general types of power: power over, power under, or power with
- Why certain power dynamics are extremely unhealthy in our partnership
- What is an "interdependent relationship" and how can we establish one
- 5 Tips on how to explore and develop sharing power in our relationship with more mutuality and interdependence
and much more!

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

SUMMER SALE ! Get 25% OFF all coaching journeys and packages by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Themes: Self Empowerment, Victimhood, Authenticity, Healthy Relationships, Nervous System Work, Boundaries, Healing, Trauma, Attachment Styles

Amanda Freed is a bodyworker, anatomist, yoga, meditation, and mindfulness teacher,  speaker, and presenter. Her career spans more than three decades serving humans of all ability levels including collegiate, Olympic, and pro athletes, special needs groups including those on the spectrum, TBI and stroke survivors, and people living with Lupus. Amanda works with high level leaders, corporate groups, 1:1, and facilitates onsite workshops and retreats nationally and internationally. Her current passions include facilitating Vagus Nerve Reset and helping humans to reclaim their Primordial Power through mindfulness, meditation, and movement.

In this inspiring & empowering conversation, Empowered Connection podcast host Daniel Cordua and Amanda talk about:
- Finding Your Primordial Power
- Working with Past Memories and Bringing Them to Light In a New Way
- Honoring Our Need to Blame and then Moving Past Blame
- Exploring Our Earlier Childhood For the Moment Right Refore We Gave Up Our Power
- Starting Our Story with Ourself
- Journeying from Victim to Empowerment
- Becoming our Own Protector
- Finding our Acceptance, Safety & Security From Within 
- Leveraging How We Are Feeling Right Now
and so much more!

Find out more about Amanda here:
Instagram - afyoga25
Tik Tok - afyoga25
Facebook - AF Yoga  

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

SUMMER SALE ! Get 25% OFF all coaching journeys and packages by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Themes: Self Love, Relationships, Partnership, Self Awareness, Conscious Relationships, Shadow Work, Parts Work, How To Love, Relationship Problems

In this shorter podcast episode, Empowered Connection host Daniel Cordua discusses a popular topic: SELF LOVE.

What, exactly, is self love?
Why is it more important - and much less superficial - than we realize?
Why do we need to develop it?
And why is it a necessity in creating healthy, conscious relationships with our most loved ones?

A powerful episode to inspire your relationship to your own self, and the possibility of your deepest relationships to others.

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

SUMMER SALE ! Get 25% OFF all coaching journeys and packages by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Themes: Burnout, Life Balance, Self Empowerment, Relationships, Healing, Ayurveda, Yoga, Self Care, Self Love

Lauren Baptiste is enhancing today’s work culture with a simple strategy: prioritize well-being as the "hardest-working" professionals climb the corporate ladder. As a burnout coach, life coach, and consultant on a mission to help women level-up at work and at home, Lauren brings more than 13 years of experience in corporate culture and workplace burnout alongside her knowledge as practitioner of Ayurveda, hormonal health and other evidenced-based modalities. This results in clients shifting from exhausted to energetic, cynical to optimistic, and ineffective to empowered.

​Lauren is also an international speaker on the topics of burnout, mindfulness and women in leadership, and has consulted for a wide range of clients including IBM, TD Securities, EY, NFL, Warner Music, Estee Lauder, Standard Chartered Bank and the United Nations. Lauren has been published in many established outlets, such as Forbes, Thrive Global, Medium and Authority Magazine. 

In this conversation with burnout expert, coach, & speaker Lauren Baptiste of Acheloa Wellness and Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua, we dive into these insight topics and helpful tools:

- What exactly is “burnout?”
- Lauren shares her personal story of burnout and how it brought her into her healing + towards her mission
- What are the internal stories + patterns from within that bring us to the external circumstances that lead to burnout?
- Living in a culture of over-doing in the West that enables & encourages burnout
- The tell-tale signs that we, or someone we love, is going through burnout
- How to give ourselves the space in our lives, simple boundaries and the self love to create proper awareness, presence + accountability… & help shift a dynamic that could lead to burnout
- Daniel shares his story of burnout as a small business owner in the healing industry
- How we can show up for others in our lives if and when they are experiencing burnout
- Lauren’s 5 step process of rebuilding a foundation within ourselves + our lives that can prevent burnout
- How the improper use of the senses to cope with burnout create more damage to ourselves & more cycling into patterns of burnout
-How to take on a vision of our our life as a "long game"
And much more!

Connect with Lauren's work here: acheloawellness.com

Follow Lauren on Instagram for burnout tips: @thelaurenbaptiste

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

SUMMER SALE ! Get 25% OFF all coaching journeys and packages by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Sponsored by our adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness - RECEIVE 15% OFF  by using the code EMPOWEREDCONNECTION (one word, all caps) at checkout!

Themes: Self Empowerment, Hurt, Wounds, Self Awareness, Family of Origin, Healing, Wholeness, Transformation

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua directs our attention and intention towards our own unique gifts... specifically, the fact that those gifts had their origin story in our early wounding.

In this episode, Daniel explores this challenging, yet beautiful and celebratory, truth.  He also gives the listener tools + tips in how to not only see this truth with more empowerment, but to celebrate our gifts without having to minimize them, feel shameful or guilty about them, or cut them off during the course of our healing journey.

This is an inspiring episode for those looking to reclaim their power while transforming the past.

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

SUMMER SALE ! Get 25% OFF all coaching journeys and packages by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA !! For Philadelphia area yogis & seekers looking to dive deep into their yoga, this is a transformative journey of Self & connection in inspiring community

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Sponsored by our adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness - RECEIVE 15% OFF  by using the code EMPOWEREDCONNECTION (one word, all caps) at checkout!

Themes: Receiving Support, Overfunctioning, Self Empowerment, Intimacy, Self Love, Relationships, Relational Growth, Needs, Emotional Intelligence

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua explores the tendency in many of us to neither receive nor bid for the care and support of others.

Breaking down the reasons why we might push away being cared for, Daniel dives into why "learning how to receive" can deeply benefit and empower our lives and our relationships.

With actionable tools and self reflection prompts, this podcast episode is an important listen for those don't allow for their own needs - while over tending to the needs of others - and those who love them.

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

SUMMER SALE ! Get 25% OFF by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA !! For Philadelphia area yogis & seekers looking to dive deep into their yoga, this is a transformative journey of Self & connection in inspiring community

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Sponsored by our adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness

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