Empowered Connection Podcast

Become Empowered by Understanding the 7 Stages of a Partnership
Empowered Connection Podcast #25 with Damodar Cordua

In this solo podcast episode,  Relationship Coach + Life Coach - and host of the podcast - Damodar breaks down the 7 primary stages of a partnership.

Understanding these 7 stages can shed light as to where we are in our relationship and give us perspective on what work might need to be done to step into the next space of our partnership's potential.

Even if we have been together for a lifetime, we may remain in one of the earlier stages of relationship - especially differentiation or the "challenging" stage.

This stage is the most difficult to navigate without the proper tools to do so.   But, when we approach this stage with awareness, practices, and dedication we not only become more closely connected in our relationship, but we may also become empowered to finally see - and heal -  some of the patterns that don't serve us as individuals.


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Shifting & Empowering Patterns of Intergenerational Toxic Masculinity 

Empowered Connection Podcast 24 with Michael Brasher & Damodar Cordua

In this important interview, Damodar talks with Michael Brasher -  the CEO of Boys To Men a Tucson nonprofit that strengthens communities by nurturing intentional spaces for boys, men, and masculine-identified folks to practice honest and mindful relationship,

Reshaping and healing toxic intergenerational patterns of masculinity touches all parts of our world, no matter our age or gender.  In this episode we dive deep into why that is so - and how we can shift the narrative to heal + empower not only young men, but men of all ages, generations of manhood, and our society at large.

Some of the themes explored:

• The core beliefs & wounds of masculinity that are passed down through generations
• Challenging some of the normative scrips of manhood…  What would it be like to get a real dose of healthy heartfelt masculinity… what would that look and feel like?
• Shifting some of the disempowering intergenerational patterns of masculinity by working with teenage boys who are often starving for authentic, connected experiences with masculine figures
• Why showing young men vulnerability, acceptance, validation, and emotional awareness is transformational
• Generativity: becoming healed empowered, accountable & connected to multiple generations of men versus the isolation of injured, alienated boyhood + manhood 
• Michael shares his own inspiring story that brought him towards his purpose 
• Cycle of men’s violence + domestic abuse towards women as a shockingly common narrative within many men's & women's lives
• Emotional intelligence - breaking down the myth that “men don’t feel” and the empowerment of being with, processing and stating our feelings as men

And  more..

Resources:

For more about Boys To Men in Tucson & how you can help: www.btmtucson.com
Boys To Men Organizations around the world

Links to books referenced on show
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity + Love
We Will Not Cancel Us

Learn more about Damodar's Transformational 6 Week Group Coaching Summer Immersion!  Emotional + Relational Awareness, Self Love, & Empowered Communication

Empower + Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training  in-person in Philadelphia

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Learning About & Moving Through Burnout with a Burnout Coach with special guest Lauren Baptiste

Empowered Connection Episode #23 with special guest Lauren Baptiste and host Damodar Cordua


In this conversation with burnout expert, coach, & speaker Lauren Baptiste of Acheloa Wellness, we dive into these helpful topics & 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

- 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

- Damodar shares his story of burnout as a small business owner in the healing industry

- The body never lies - our bodies will show us when our stress is leading us to burnout.. what are the signs of burnout in ourselves and others?

- How we can show up for others in our lives if they are experiencing burnout

- Lauren’s 5 step process of rebuilding a foundation within ourselves + our lives that can prevent burnout

- The ayurveda idea of the “gunas” + how they interact with & perpetuate burnout… & how the improper use of the senses to cope with burnout create more damage to ourselves & more cycling into patterns of burnout

- The resource of looking at our life as a "long game"

And much more!

Lauren shares lots of free, actionable resources for burnout information + healing


Resources:

Connect with & learn more about burnout, moving through burnout &  Lauren's work here: acheloawellness.com

Follow Lauren on Instagram for burnout tips: @acheloawellness

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Standing Strong In & Speaking Our Needs in 7 Steps (Needs, Pt. 2) with Damodar Cordua

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode 22 with Damodar Cordua

In this solo podcast episode, podcast host Damodar Cordua dives back into the subject of needs in relationship and offers an actionable 7 steps within which to stand strong in + speak our needs

Cultivating our needs in relationship - a recap

If we don’t develop a culture within our relationships wherein we can speak our most important needs they go “underground” and come out it ways that compromise ourselves and our relationship

It can be difficult to speak our needs because we fear we may lose the relationship, we may fear the other person’s reactions… we also may have no idea that we have needs, even though they are being lived out unconsciously by our actions, our attitudes, and our mindset

Take the time and list out what are the costs of not speaking my needs?

7 Step Process of Standing Strong in & Speaking our Needs

1. Get Clear On Your Needs
2. Own Your Own Needs With Your Own Self & Another Person
3. When Ready to Speak Your Need Lead with Vulnerability + Accountability
4. Speak in 2-5 Sentences Maximum
5. Regulate + Receive How the Other Person is Impacted by the Need
6. Restate The Need, Educate the Other Person More, and “Sell”
7. Keep Noticing + Tuning In To the Part of Yourself that is Resisting or Wants to Settle

Resources:

- Dive deeper into your ability to connect to your needs, understand them and speak them.  Up-level your relationship potential and empower every part of your life with a coaching journey Connect Here for your first free session with Damodar

- Empower all aspects of your yoga practice and your life!  Bring ancient wisdom + healing into the weave + weft of your daily existence and dive deeper into the body, the mind, and spirit. Transform your potential and become a powerful yoga teacher with our one-of-a-kind Empower + Evolve 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training starting this September in Philadelphia PA

We Are All Needy: A Framework for Understanding Our Needs in Relationships
Episode 21 of the Empowered Connection Podcast with Damodar Cordua

In this solo podcast episode, Damodar dives into:

How “neediness” is pathologized by our current culture

Deconstructing this myth: the essence of who we are is actually needy and interdependent - we are ALL needy people

Relational Needs: Our relationships mirror our fundamental survival + emotional needs, regardless of how “independent” we think we are or should be

If we do have relational needs, how do we figure out what those needs are? 

Damodar gives a simple, yet dynamic template of 4 principles within which to understand what our needs are in relationship & partnership and how understanding + meeting these needs can empower our life

Listen to this actionable & inspiring episode and uplevel your relationships!


Resources:

Looking to go even deeper?  Looking to transform + empower your life & relationships?  Connect with Damodar for your first free coaching discovery session

Are you a yoga practitioner ready to dive into your yoga and dive into all aspects of your self: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually?  Join us for Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training starting this September 2022, in-person, in Philadelphia, PA

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Listening is Loving: Transforming Our Lives Through Intentional Conversation & Amplifying What We Love with K.Lee Marks

Episode 20 of the Empowered Connection Podcast with K. Lee Marks and Damodar Cordua

Are you ready to amplify what you love?

Do you long for intentional conversation and listening from the heart?

Join Damodar as he interviews podcast coach, music producer, and branding consultant K. Lee Marks for a dynamic episode that covers these topics and more:

- The importance, possibilities & profound magic of deep listening when in relationship & communication with others

 - Oral transmissions & passing down conversation has been the essence of human society & human truth since the beginning of time

 - How intentional conversation can shift our lives & the lives of others

- Why podcasting?

- How to amplify what we love

- Podcasting as community service, societal healing & social change

- The power of sound vibration to uplift the world

- The alchemy of being curious & listening to our own heart and learning to be in integrity with our inner voice

- Why our story & YOUR story is important & the need to share it

- Transforming your life in 25 conversations

... and much more!


Resources:

K.Lee's upcoming training & info Amplify What You Love

Ikigai

Empower & Evolve Yoga Teacher Training

Upcoming Monthly &/or Weekly Group Coaching, Practice + Community with Damodar

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Giving others feedback.  What an edgy place.

For many of our relationships, this feels challenging & uncomfortable -  I know it does for me.
Or it feels toxic or hurtful... eliciting defensiveness, shutting down, or resentment

Is it hard for you to give your loved ones honest feedback?

Do you give feedback but, when you do, it seems not to land, not to be heard, or it’s resented?

Are you looking to bring a culture of supportive + challenging feedback into your relationships for more intimacy, honesty, growth and potential?  

A culture of calling each other forward, instead of calling each other out - OR - not calling each other at all??

In this solo podcast episode, Damodar gives the listener an understanding of how our culture usually gives feedback through 3 main styles of communication

Then, he breaks down five actionable tools that you can bring into your partner, family, friend, & business relationships to create a culture of positive, challenging, and supportive feedback.

Resources:

- Ready to step further into your relational capability?  Are you an individual or a couple ready to move through roadblocks to your life, your potential, your ability to love?

Connect with Damodar for your first free coaching session and begin a journey of exploration, discovery, clarity and empowerment

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How does creativity bring us to the depths of our authentic self?

How can we break past a need for perfection and catapult ourselves into the realm of feeling it all - our" imperfections," our full spectrum of emotions, and all the corners of our self?

How can we be "Heart-Perfect?"

In this episode of the Empowered Connection Podcast, Damodar interviews Sri Kala, music producer, songwriter, and coach for artists who want to unlock their true creative expression and share that with the world.   Sri has created well-loved spiritually-rooted music and collaborated with some of the biggest names in the conscious music scene.


In this creatively-inspiring, empowering, and healing episode we discuss:

- Sri Kala's story of growing up in Brooklyn’s hip hop world and how moving to the yoga ashram allowed him to step into understanding the science of sound vibration... as the wellspring for his own music and creative offerings

- The importance of offering our creativity to something higher 

- The creative process as trauma work, the creative practice as healing work, the creative process as becoming free

- The new understanding of enlightenment and consciousness: feeling it all -  getting into the space where all our emotions, parts, and corners of ourself are welcome 

- The core of creative and emotional intelligence: our spiritual longing as fuel for our connection & our expression 

- The importance of having teachers, mentors, guides + communities that can unravel us and usher forth towards our truest authenticity 

- Controlled chaos in Sri Kala's inspiring creative process

- The future of music

and so much more..

Resources:

-  Check out all of Sri Kala's work + music here and via his website

-  Connect with Damodar here

-  FREE coaching discovery session 

- Workshops AND Trainings in Philadelphia this June with Damodar + Radha on yoga, spirituality, and ayurveda


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Communication Up-level: Personhood VS Behavior
Episode #17 of the Empowered Connection Podcast

- Ready to communicate more successfully with your loved ones?

- Want a simple, profound way to improve your relationships & connect with more love + support to others?

Join Relationship Coach + Life Coach, host Damodar Cordua on this shorter solo podcast episode as he dials into a simple, profound way to up-level and improve your communication style with others - especially your most loved ones.

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Receive more empowering communication tools and relationship tips via Damodar instagram account @empoweredconnection.me where he posts daily writings and videos

Dive deeper into your ability to communicate with others more successfully, compassionately, and with less conflict + deeper connection by scheduling your first FREE coaching session.

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Finally, check out these upcoming in-person trainings in Philadelphia, PA USA in June 2022 with Damodar & Radha Cordua!
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Developing Conscious Connection to the Natural World & Falling In Love with Nature for Self Preservation + Self Empowerment with Radha Cordua

Episode #16 of the Empowered Connection Podcast

On this episode of the Empowered Connection Podcast Damodar talks with his wife, Radha Cordua, herbalist, Ayurveda practitioner, conscious creator, and developer of Bhava Wellness healing remedy herbal line

In this conversational episode Radha & Damodar explore connecting to the natural world as a way to heal, deepen awareness, create magical relationships, and empower ourselves

Some Inspiring Topics Covered:

- The healing power of developing a relationship with mother nature

- Become attuned to what we regularly take in with our senses & the consciousness that creates

- The importance of presence, self awareness, and ritual on a daily basis and how they can transform our lives

- Tuning into the natural world around us as a means to survive, strive and thrive

- Love languages and the importance of deeper communication in partnership

- Herbal medicine as a path for all in healing ourselves & healing others

and so much more!


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