Empowered Connection Podcast

Themes: Rebirth, Self Growth, Self Empowerment, Storytelling, Elders, Spirituality, Life Inspiration, Hero’s Journey, Personal Growth, Healing Journey, Life Wisdom, Self Discovery

Inspired teacher, author + bodyworker, Kate Brenton, Ed.M, helps people connect the dots between their purpose, passion, and true brilliance. 

She especially loves meeting women where they are and guiding them back to their center. Kate's holistic work combines life experience with her studies of Polynesian Healing Arts. Clients work with her one-on-one, in intimate online settings + on retreats.  She hosts Master Writing courses and is also the host of The Rebirth Podcast

Her brand new bestselling book, Rebirth, is out now!  

From the book: “when life is calling, often we need only the space and the support to remember our way. Sometimes we lean into our expansion, and sometimes we bolt from our greatness. The biggest shock is that big change happens in small choices. In Rebirth you will find real-life stories of people who made courageous leaps, inspiring you to make your own… to inspire you as you read others' stories of how they listened and learned to make embodied changes in their own lives.”

In this engaging conversation with host Damodar Cordua we cover these topics and more:

• Beholding life in cyclical time instead of linear time

• Reclaiming & renewing the role of the elder in our lives & within society 

• Storytelling as deep medicine 

• How to step into the unknown in order to beckon forth the new phase of where life is meant to take us 

• The process of moving through life’s journey - instead of over or under - with grace + faith… allowing the universe to work with us, not against us 

• Reintegrating our past selves into the mystery of our next self

• Rebirth: How truly come forth, we must contract and then expand 

• Real life inspiring stories of letting go & letting life lead

• Why we must include ourselves in our own journey… & our propensity not to 

• Birth energy 

And so much more… 

Resources:

Buy your copy of Kate's inspiring, best-selling book Rebirth

Learn more about Kate's work + offerings here: www.katebrenton.com


Connect with Damodar to learn more about his transformative Relationship Coaching + Life Coaching AND  book your first free discovery session: www.empoweredconnection.me

AND stay tuned for upcoming Group Coaching Immersion: Relational Empowerment + Awareness 101 with Damodar live & online starting the end of October!

An article describing Rudolf Steiner's 7 year cycle of life as referenced in the episode

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Themes: Anger, Emotional Intelligence, Self Growth, Relationships, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, Emotions, Self Empowerment, Self Awareness, Emotional Awareness, Self Love

In this solo podcast episode host Damodar Cordua brings us even deeper into the need to cultivate emotional intelligence in our lives, specifically with the emotion of anger.

In this illuminating & practical talk, we explore:

- Our society’s tendency to “make wrong” certain emotions
- Spiritual ideas around experiencing emotions
- Why learning to be with & hold space for our emotional experience is such a powerful place of empowerment
- Getting underneath our emotions, rather than calling our emotions “wrong,” allows us to enrich our lives, show us more about ourselves, make more informed choices, flourish in our relationships AND experience our true Self or soul
- How anger is a specifically challenging emotion for many of us and how we can learn to see our anger as an opportunity, instead of a liability
- The other, at times difficult, but important emotions that lie underneath our anger
- Anger and boundary work
- Practice tools that will allow you to see beneath your anger, become aware of what your anger is showing you, and becoming empowered instead of disempowered by your emotional experience

And so much more!

Resources:

Ready to get underneath your emotional experience and learn what it is showing you about who you are and about your potential?  Ready to learn & the tools that will allow you to become emotionally intelligent and empowered in all areas of your life?

Book your first free coaching discovery call with Damodar NOW!

SAVE THE DATE: Oct 17th starts our next live, online Group Coaching Immersion!  Relational Awareness & Empowerment 101 with Damodar - up-level your relational capacity, with yourself, with your most loved ones, and with the world… become empowered to live more authentically and more connected.  This will be a 5 part online deep-dive of live group coaching, supportive + inspiring community, transformative practices + homework, and an opportunity for personal transformation

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Themes: Narcissist Personality Disorder, Narcissism, Psychology, Psychological Disorders, Narcissistic Abuse, Self Help, Healing, Religious Trauma, Gurus, Spirituality, Religion, Trauma, Vedic Astrology, Bhakti,

Chaitanya Lila Pankhania is an England-based Integrative Psychotherapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Journey Therapist, Past Life Regression Therapist, & EMDR trauma therapist.  She works with the subconscious mind - working with deep rooted beliefs, past negative memories, and emotion reactions that block a person from being able to live at peace with themselves in the present. She was also raised in the Bhakti Yoga spiritual tradition and she blends eastern philosophy into psychology as a way to deeper understand the mind and the Self

In this rich, deep & informative podcast with Chaitanya we delve into these topics:

- What is a narcissist?  What are the tell tale traits of a narcissistic?

- What is the difference between narcissist personality disorder and having narcissistic traits?

- Self help gurus, spiritual leaders & religious communities  and narcissism

- Tips on how to watch out, notice the patterns, and protect yourself from becoming entrenched with a narcissist in relationship

- How to navigate the decision to stay in relationship with a narcissist or leave a narcissist

- Empowering + compassionate sppiritual perspectives on narcissism

- Jyotish - or Vedic astrology - as a resource for healing, dealing with + understanding narcissism

And SO much more…

Resources

Check out all that Chaitanya offers and her vast wealth of enterprise + services here:
www.trikayapsychology.com
And her instagram with tips on narcissism, narcissistic abuse, psychology, and much more:
www.instagram.com/trikaya_psychology

As referenced in the podcast, Sam Vaknin's work as a self-proclaimed narcissist teaching about narcissism:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCLadFapyecCYAeuTqc12avA

Connect with Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your first free coaching session and dive deep into your journey of relational awareness + empowerment, self growth, deep inner connection, emotional intelligence, purpose, and life potential
www.empoweredconnection.me


Empowered Connection

Themes: Shadow Work, Healing, Inner Work, Self Healing, Inner Child, Self Awareness, Self Realization, Emotional Intelligence, Trauma, Self Discovery, Relationships, Shame, Guilt, Anger, Sex, Spirituality

Have you every wondered more about what lies hidden behind some of the actions, thoughts, patterns and behavior in your life?

Ever wonder what the parts of yourself that you judge, dislike or hide from others are telling you?

Are you ready to illuminate what lies beneath the surface of the self you present to the world in order for deeper understanding and potential?

In this solo podcast episode, host Damodar Cordua takes the listener into an exploration of “shadow work,” engaging in these empowering topics:

- What is “shadow work”?
- How can embarking on a journey of shadow work help create more richness, clarity, discovery and empowerment in our lives?
- How do we start the shadow work process?
- What are the areas of our internal landscape and emotional reality that are signifiers that shadow work needs to be explored?
- Questions to ask ourselves to illuminate more clearly what is in our shadow
- Guidelines & boundaries for working with our shadow

And so much more…

Resources:

Dive into your own shadow work journey with Damodar - book your first FREE Discovery Session and start the process of giving your life more clarity, exploration, possibility and empowerment

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Themes: Spirituality, Yoga, Surfing, Personal Empowerment, Life Coaching, Connection, Self Improvement, Self Growth, Yoga Wisdom, 

In this sweet & inspiring episode host Damodar Cordua & Thomas Zielinski discuss:

• The power of yoga lifestyle + yoga wisdom in our day-to-day life
• Feeling small & in awe as a resource for connection + empowerment
• Shifting from victimhood to authorship in our lives
• Positive community - surrounding ourselves with those who inspire us + paying that forward by inspiring others
• Surfing as a practice of reconnection, conscious lifestyle + spirituality 
• The importance of retreats that immerse us in healing, wisdom + community
• Accessing the inner teacher within all of us & our inherent eternality, bliss + wisdom

And much more!

Connect with Thomas and his offerings here Get Wet Soon

Connect with Damodar and his offerings here Empowered Connection

Empower + Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training in Philadelphia starts Sept 2022!

Are My Partner & I Too Different?  with Damodar Cordua

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

Are certain differences in relationship incompatible?

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

Join Damodar 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!

Resources:

Ready to go deeper into the themes presented in this episode or other episodes?  Ready to challenge yourself to grow in your own awareness, possibility, and relationship potential?  Schedule your first free discovery call with Damodar.

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Themes: Embodiment, Somatics, Empowerment, Trauma, Sex, Divine Feminine, Women's Work, Spirituality, Religion, Relationships, Awakening, Self Healing, Dance, Movement

Adriana Marie Rizzolo is a  Somatic Healer, sex educator for women and non binary folks, speaker, meditation, energy healer and embodied movement facilitator, Adriana helps people heal trauma and patterns of helplessness, awaken their power and feel at home in their bodies to start living life in alignment with their souls offerings and within sexy, secure relationships.

Adriana created the Power of Love School after a massive awakening initiating her into the mystical transmission of the Divine Feminine in India in 2013. Her intuitive coaching and healing is super fun and supports people in groups and 1:1 through writing, teaching, somatic practice, chanting and guidance. Her relentless devotion to sobriety and all her teachings are rooted in tradition Tantra and healing her lived experiences growing up around addiction and suicide. She believes that if we can learn to be willing to keep our eyes open in moments of unbearable pain, we will be taken to the dream and desire within us that originated in God.

Her work & content is challenging, confronting, inspiring, playful & galvanizing

In this fun, inspiring & rich episode, discover:

- Being in the body and being with the Divine
- Sexual awakening & spiritual awakening
- Trauma healing through somatic work + yoga 
- Sex, the body & women in spiritual traditions
- Practices of transcendence versus practices of embodiment
- Validation as a pathway to healing, spirituality & life affirmation
- The empowerment of embodiment & intimacy with the divine, intimacy with ourselves & intimacy with our loved ones
- Spiritual warriorship + the grace & empowerment in being of service to others - Relationships as a self growth journey
- Trusting the wisdom of our hearts & our inner way of prayer
- Showing others + ourselves via embodiment instead of "telling" others + ourselves

and much more..
Resources:

Connect with Adriana here -
www.bodytemple.church
www.theloverecovery.com
IG @artofloving

Connect with Damodar here -
www.empoweredconnection.me
IG @empoweredconnection.me

Empower & Evolve Yoga Teacher Training in Philadelphia - starts Sept 2022

Why do partners typically fight about?

In episode #25, we discussed the 7 stages of a relationship.  Today, and in some following solo episodes, we are going to explore in detail aspects of the stage that many couples get stuck in (or break up during) - the differentiation or challenging stage of a relationship

This stage can often be characterized by a lot of conflict.  Couples fight more & they often don’t know why they are fighting… what they exactly are fighting about… let alone, how to fight with more productivity and possibility for connection

In this solo podcast Damodar gives the listener an easy 4 part way to peer underneath conflict and see with more clarity what we are actually fighting about

This will help anyone in relationship now - or in a past or potential future relationship - to start navigating fights and conflict with more awareness and success.

RESOURCES:

Ready to learn how to move more successfully through conflict in your most intimate relationships?  Ready to create more self awareness, relationship possibility, deeper connection and empowerment?  CONNECT WITH DAMODAR for your first free discovery coaching session!

THEMES: pain, hurt, paybacks, empowerment, attachment, victimhood, healing, self-healing, relationships, self growth

Sometimes we hold onto our suffering or pain because we are gaining something from it

It might not be a high gain, it might not be a conscious gain...

But nonetheless there maybe present some payback that is keeping us stuck - that is preventing us from processing and moving forward into our fullest, most empowered version of who we are meant to become

In this solo podcast episode Relationship Coach + Counselor & Life Coach Damodar dives into why we maybe holding onto hurt in order to receive a low-level payback - to confirm a story that keeps us secure, paid attention to, needed or even loved.. or to gain a return.. or keep someone in our life... or keep a dead idea of who we are alive... or play the victim... or rationalize bad behavior...

As he navigates these edgy waters, Damodar gives the listener a series of tools & self exploratory questions that will help give clarity + shed light onto why we maybe holding onto our hurt... and how we can start the path of integrating that hurt in order to move to our best potential


Resources:

Starting on August 3rd 2022, the Emotional + Relational Awareness, Self Love, & Conscious Communication Summer Group Coaching 6 Week Immersion.  Dive in and transform your life & your relationships - still a few spots left!

Ready to empower your potential to connect to yourself, to others in relationship & to something greater within yourself?  reach out for your first FREE coaching discovery session with Damodar

Empower & Evolve Yoga Teacher Training + Personal Transformation Journey starts this September 2022!


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Spiritual Tradition & Individual Expression with Jahnavi Harrison

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode 26 - a conversation with Jahnavi Harrison & Damodar Cordua


In this rich conversation with world renowned & celebrated devotional musician and  recording artist Jahnavi Harrison, this episode covers spiritual & creative topics such as:

- Why we honor the teachers in our lives, trying to live in a state of gratitude, understanding our dependence on others, and humility

- The dynamics of growing up in a religious community & what it brings forward as we grow from it into other stages in our life 

- Externals of spiritual traditions, community + institutions VS individual expression of spiritual connection and the sometimes messy spaces in between

- The independent choice of “sadhana” or the spiritual practices of yoga - the push-pull of a controlled process that actually allows us to to let go, surrender & go deep within in ways we ironically might not have control over 

- The nuances of spiritual or “devotional” music, presenting mantra to others, the creative process, and offering up what we do in this world

- Mantra meditation practice in the the bhakti yoga tradition, or the yoga of love + devotion

- The power of partnership & having someone witness your life, journey and spiritual journey - relationship as a mirror of what we can’t see ourselves and as a reminder to stand in our values 

And so much more ...


Resources:

Jahnavi Harrison

Divine Maha Mantra by Jahnavi Harrison

Jahnavi's music on Spotify

Jahnavi's Patreon Community

Linktree Source for Concerts, Workshops, Retreats & More

Website


Connect with Damodar:

Emotional + Relational Awareness, Self Love, &  Empowered Communication
Summer Group Coaching 6 Week Immersion Online 

Empower + Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training in Philadelphia

Instagram @empoweredconnection.me

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