Explore with Lori Ference

In this episode I speak with Sylvia Warren and Aine Dee of Our Humanity Rising, an inclusive virtual gathering of brave souls ready to engage in a bold quest to clarify, focus, and optimize their efforts for the elevation of humanity.

Episode Highlights

• Discover how the seeds of Our Humanity Rising were cultivated in each of them before they met
• Aine's journey from affluent, yet unaware banking executive through bankruptcy, eviction and loss of family and friends to becoming a mentor, guide and cultural truth-teller ~ Aine the Reimaginer
• Waking up to a segregated framework that only applies to "white, spiritual goddesses"
• Moving from knowledge into wisdom
• Transformation doesn't have to be a struggle
• Receiving resonant energy and understanding in places out of time
• The power of receiving a name
• Experience AWE with Sylvia the Explorer
• Gateway to Our Humanity Rising

The whole planet is a place of awe. ~ Sylvia the Explorer

GUEST BIOS

About Sylvia Warren

As a Travel Shaman in her Wild Wisdom Journeys, Sylvia guides leaders and change makers on virtual adventures in great decision making and advanced problem solving.

As a Conscious Change Catalyst with her Simply the Best Coaching, she helps smart business women and nonprofit executives elevate their leadership, influence and impact for meaningful, fulfilling and lasting results that contribute to and enrich the greater good of humanity, society, and the world.

About Aine Dee

As a Money Mystic, Aine helps visionary humans develop their own Intimate Sovereignty through the right, healthy, and holy use of resources—and to co-create from that a thriving and equitable world—from participation in her Wealth Reimagined programs.

She specializes in helping entrepreneurs to see and shift their own internal and external influences that drive behaviours and impact personal and collective outcomes. So they can make intimate, informed, and conscious choices about designing and managing their resources—money, vitality, and work—in a grounded and holy way.

As a rEvolutionary, Aine has spent a lifetime naming dysfunctional cultural myths and manipulations around wealth and success.

GUEST LINKS

• Our Humanity Rising
• Sylvia Warren - Facebook
• Wild Wisdom Journeys - Facebook (Sylvia)
• Wild Wisdom Journeys (Sylvia)
• Simply the Best Coaching (Sylvia)
• Aine Dee - Facebook
• Wealth Reimagined (Aine)

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• EP6: Sylvia Warren - Wild Wisdom Journeys
• Woodrow Nash- Artist
• EP20: Karen Clothier - Love, Loss and the Black Madonna
• Man's Search for Meaning - book by Victor Frankl

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Most of us are not aware of the extent to which we are out of our bodies. We live in a culture that’s very heady. We are very cerebral about everything. We live more in the possibility rather than the reality.
~Karen Clothier

Talking with wise woman and womb priestess Karen Clothier of WildQueens.com about her road of success through the "go go go" world of  Silicon Valley to newsworthy online retailer to healer and teacher living a simple life in the south of France.

We explore the essence of feminine power and what it means to be called into the body through grief while being guided by the Black Madonna. An especially timely conversation for women in the wake of the #metoo movement. Also, for men who want to understand what's going on with women and what the next phase of our humanity is calling forth.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• Feeling like a failure while living an outwardly successful life
• What Mary Magdalene and the Black Madonna can teach us about being in our bodies
• Finding our value independent of what others think of us
• When you feel emotion as a life energy rather than a story, it passes through you
• Fear is so much worse then the reality

ABOUT KAREN CLOTHIER

Karen Clothier supports women to find their inner Wild Queen, their sovereignty and their true worth without constantly giving and nurturing others. She left a long term relationship at 53 feeling nurturing-fatigued, and moved to the South of France after a series of very specific dreams. Here she is learning about love, loss and the Black Madonna. Extended Bio

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• We can be fit and be unhealthy
• Accomplish more by doing less - focus on what's most important and forget the rest
• Constructing a company with remote team members
• Writing as a gratifying process
• What is "mindful running"?

ABOUT ELINOR FISH

Elinor Fish is the founder of Run Wild Retreats + Wellness, a travel company that specializes in running and wellness retreats in the world's best trail running destinations in Europe, North and South America. Company CEO Elinor Fish founded the company in 2010 while working as the editor of Trail Runner magazine, with the intention of introducing more women to the growing sport of trail running. The instantly popular women’s retreats grew and evolved beyond teaching trail-running skills to focus on what women found most beneficial about running: stress relief.

Run Wild Retreats now operates in six countries, offering unique itineraries that include workshops about how to integrate mindfulness principles into one’s running routine for the purpose of improve health and managing stress. Run Wild Retreats has been featured in The Washington Post, Women’s Health, Men’s Journal, Women’s Running, Runner’s World, The Travel Channel, Fodor’s Travel, Well + Good NYC, and many other media outlets. Run Wild Retreats is an internationally accredited travel agency with IATA, a member of the Adventure Travel Trade Association and Camber Outdoors.

Over Elinor's 15-year career in running and wellness, her articles, programs, workshops and retreats have helped thousands of people make their running a mindfulness practice in order to reduce their stress and bring their best selves to their roles as parents, professionals, caregivers and leaders.

GUEST LINKS

• Run Wild Retreats
• Healthy Runners Community
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Four Perfect Days Running Costa Brava (by Elinor Fish  for Trail Runner Magazine on running in Spain)
Ireland Should be on your Trail-running Bucket List (by Elinor for Trail Runner Magazine)

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When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it. ~Rumi

After a week of repose and relaxation in Prince Edward County, the faery and foodie haven of Ontario, I return with new ideas for the podcast and what we are doing here.

In the last episode, EP17: Encounter with the Hat Man, I promised to share a more recent experience. Here it is. Traveling out of body into parallel realities and calling forth a presence from the shadows. Discovering the power of courage and the importance of the mind to anchor us to our present reality.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• Famous explorers and invisible companions
• The subjective nature of proof
• Waking up inside a dream
• The mind is a placeholder for this space/time continuum
• Letting go of the need to know (everything RIGHT NOW)

"What I want also wants me." ~ Rumi

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• EP17: Lori Ference- Encounter with the Hat Man
• Coast to Coast A.M. Radio
• South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackelton
• Inception (film)

CONTACT LORI

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Episode Highlights

• Looking at dementia differently
• The mind's mastery of time
• Finding power by facing fear head-on
• Simplified choices in exceptional situations

Books and Films Mentioned in the Episode

• The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Children of a Lesser God

Background Listening

• EP15: Lori J. Ference - Transparent
• EP9: Slade Roberson, Part 2 - Cracking the Code of Willpower
• EP4: Lori Ference - Perseverance According to an Ultrarunner

LINKS

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Whenever a seesaw presents itself, you know that both ends are wrong. - Frank W. Butterfield

Episode Highlights

• How to deal with impossible people
• The importance of willingness
• Considering trust in a whole new way
• Getting out of the lesson learning business - why life isn't a school
• Having no idea what you are doing can provide beginner's luck
• What does all this have to do with target market?

ABOUT FRANK W. BUTTERFIELD

​Frank W. Butterfield is a Master Channel who has been working with individuals and groups since 2009 to help his clients remember who they are, in truth. First learning to channel in 1990, Frank has worked both in and out of the corporate world. He has discovered that the best way to live his own life is to allow the Universe to sort things out for him but always remembers that your mileage may vary. Having traveled extensively most of his life, he currently resides in Daytona Beach and has no interest in racing cars or riding motorcycles, but does love the beach.

GUEST LINKS

• https://communionoflight.com
• http://frankwbutterfield.com
• Facebook

BACKGROUND LISTENING

• EP15: Lori Ference - Transparent
• EP11: Frank W. Butterfield, Part 2 - Everything is Always Working Out

Seesaw Photo credit: nzgabriel on Visualhunt.com / CC BY

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For the first time on the podcast, I get behind the mic without a guest and talk about my experiences on the road less traveled including how this podcast happens, tales of woe, heartbreak and redemption in the corporate environment, unimaginable opportunities and the perks of outing yourself.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• ​​​Should visionary entrepreneurs have a target market?
• Finding higher ground - shaming in the corporate environment (and anywhere else)
• Coming out of the closet and why it's important
• The bright side of not getting what you want
• Creating through passionate connection and curiosity

LINKS

Website
LinkedIn
Facebook (private page)
Instagram

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

[Blog post after my podcast hiatus] - Questing Burnout, Part 2

Tamra Fleming's Interview with Me After My 100 Mile Trail Race:
EP4: Lori Ference - Perseverance According to an Ultrarunner

Conversations with Slade Roberson:
EP8: Slade Roberson, Part 1 - The Frankenstein Approach to Career Creation
EP9: Slade Roberson, Part 2 - Cracking the Code of Willpower
Shift Your Spirits EP11: Spirituality, Leadership and Adventure with Lori Ference

The conversation I'm talking about when I mention "Frank":
EP11: Frank W. Butterfield, Part2 - Everything is Always Working Out

Decoding Popularity: The Truth About Success (Video that prompted my target market musings)

LINKS

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​I love Lost Soul. I would go back every year if I could. It is one of the nastiest races that you would never believe is as nasty as it is. Lost Soul is the first race that I ran as 'Me'. - Bobbi Nicol-Coté

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• ​​​Getting back to running after major surgery
• What makes ultrarunning so special?
• Running where she grew up
• Surviving Barkley and Rat Jaw
• Running her first race as Bobbi

ABOUT BOBBI NICOL-COTÉ

Bobbi Nicol-Coté is a 40 something-ish, barefoot ultra-running, transgender female (Transgender? Oh, she doesn't really like that word - she's just Bobbi). She's the wife of an amazing man, 'Roe' of two amazing boys (they already have an amazing mother), daughter to her loving parents, sister to her siblings, aunt and supportive friend to many far and wide. Bobbi works in the Building Engineering field as a Project Manager. She sits on the Board for the Manitoba Runner's Association and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Emergency Patient Care Council. She is involved in assisting nursing coursework with education on transgender awareness and care. ​

GUEST LINKS

Facebook
Instagram

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• ​​Iron Horse Ultra
• Barkley Fall Classic
• ​Tunnel Hill
• Lost Soul Ultra
• Canadian Death Race(CDR)
• Tuscobia Winter Ultra
• EC100
• Hoka running shoes

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I'm not trying to be something I'm not. This isn't a choice. - Bobbi Nicol Coté

While recovering from an injury after running the Tuscobia Winter Ultra 2015, barefoot ultrarunner Bob Nicol, was about to embark on an adventure greater than any other. After deciding it was no longer possible to hide in a physical gender that didn't feel authentic, Bob committed to the process of being Bobbi Nicol.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• Running and avoiding turmoil
• How transitioning was impossible for Bobbi 20 years ago
• Gender identity is not a choice
• Her children's response
• Dating disasters and marrying the love of her life
• Living a life beyond her wildest dreams

ABOUT BOBBI NICOL-COTÉ

Bobbi Nicol-Coté is a 40 something-ish, barefoot ultra-running, transgender female (transgender? Oh, she doesn't really like that word - she's just Bobbi). She's the wife of an amazing man, 'Roe' of two amazing boys (they already have an amazing mother), daughter to her loving parents, sister to her siblings, aunt and supportive friend to many far and wide. Bobbi works in the Building Engineering field as a Project Manager.

GUEST LINKS

• Facebook
• Instagram

MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

Tuscobia Winter Ultra

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