Fiercely Human

Brianna Mercado is a professional dance artist, teacher, choreographer, and speaker based in New York City, and has inspired many with her grit and positivity in the face of incredible adversity. From surviving life-threatening bone cancer at the age of 15, to receiving a full-ride scholarship to UC Berkeley, igniting her career as a professional dancer, and then receiving a second aggressive cancer diagnosis at the age of 22 —Brianna lives by her own credo as she lifts the spirit of the world: Go big, regardless. As an advocate and spokesperson for cancer research and prevention, she believes there must be a better and less toxic way to treat and cure cancer. She is currently on a mission called "Project Get To Zero," where her goal is to completely cure her cancer without the use of conventional therapies. Brianna embodies her belief that inside every impossible situation there is an opportunity to be great and no real reason to wait. If there is more to learn, someone to love, something to give, and things to do, then do them, now. ● What it was like to receive, not ONE but TWO separate cancer diagnoses before the age of 22, and how she coped receiving the "C" word. ● How she approached treatment radically differently from the first diagnosis to the second. ● What it was like to come face to face with your worst fear and handle it with grace. ● How dancing saved Brianna by helping her self-express and move through her fear and grief, and was a powerful catalyst for her artistic growth. ● The powerful promise and declaration Brianna made in the face of her second cancer diagnosis. ● How taking full responsibility for her life (including her cancer), regardless of what happens, set Brianna free. ● How radically shifting her diet & becoming a Buddhist brought helped to decrease the presence of cancer in her body. ● Why Brianna now chooses alignment over hustle now and no longer tries to force things to happen or control life. ● Why Brianna has shifted her language around dominating her cancer, and why wars don't fix anything, even inside our own body, and why she no longer calls herself a "survivor".

Resources Mentioned: Dying to Be Me by Anita Moorjani Landmark Forum Heal on Netflix Brianna's TedX

Where to find Brianna: @bripositive on IG & Twitter Brianna's TedX, "Not Another Cancer Story"

Where to find Beth: @bethclaytoncoach on IG www.soulbodylife.com Grab your free e-book, "The Secrets in Your Sabotage" at www.soulbodylife.com/free-stuff Beth's TedX RIGHT HERE.

Beth Clayton (your host) is a soul-based life and health coach and loves to help open-hearted people break free from their own self-sabotage, outdated thought patterns, and past pain so they can deepen their relationship with their own soul's intuition, speak their truth courageously and fulfill their most authentic desires. She is the creator of multiple group programs, retreats, and transformational workshops, leading hundreds of truth seekers toward finding freedom and ease in their relationship with food, their bodies, their lives and ultimately, themselves. Today I'm answering the question, "How do I let go when I want something really bad?" This is one of the most common challenges that come up with my clients when they are manifesting their visions. In this episode, you will learn: ● Why "letting go" is a crucial part of attaining the vision we have for ourselves. ● How WE start to shift and change when we are able to surrender the "when" and "how." ● How letting go of the outcomes & failure resilience are connected. ● The 4 beliefs we MUST examine as a first step in energetically and emotionally letting go of things going "our way."

You can find Beth at: @bethclaytoncoach on Instagram www.soulbodylife.com Grab your free e-book, "The Secrets in Your Sabotage" at www.soulbodylife.com/free-stuff Beth's TedX RIGHT HERE.

LAURA HEYWOOD is a professional enthusiast: a multi-faceted host, consultant, performer, pundit, and writer widely recognized for her commitment to positivity. Through her social media persona @BroadwayGirlNYC, Laura has become "Broadway's most influential fan" (CBS This Morning) and "the most vocal and visible supporter in the business" (Forbes). In 2018 she worked as the in-house Broadway expert and Video Package Supervisor on the 72nd annual Tony Awards. She regularly acts as a celebrity interviewer for outlets including Build Series NYC and CBS New York, and moderates talkbacks and hosts special events on Broadway stages. She now has her own radio show, as well as podcast, called "Laura Heywood interviews" where she interviews included Tony Award winners, TV stars, fitness experts and activists.

In this episode, we dive into: ● How Laura discovered her life-long quirks have actually been her superpowers in disguise. ● Laura's synchronistic and "zig-zag" journey from radio host to a popular anonymous alter ego, to professional Broadway fandom. ● How writing our personal mission statement can set the stage for a dream job. ● Why primarily focusing on tangible results is deadly to our creativity, joy and even progress. ● Why it is CRUCIAL to start before you are ready (and without a ton of pressure) ● How satisfaction is directly correlated to the "muscle" we put into our dreams. ● What authenticity is REALLY about and how it has been branded incorrectly as a sales technique. ● How Laura has spread joy even in the midst of the lows of debilitating clinical depression. ● The two pieces of advice Laura would give to someone trying to create a career out of their joyful obsessions.

Resources & People Mentioned: Story Pirates Mindset by Carol Dweck Brene Brown

You can find Laura at: @BroadwayGirlNYC across social media platforms http://www.lauraheywoodmedia.com/ Laura Heywood Interviews Podcast Reward the Fan app

You can find Beth at: @bethclaytoncoach on Instagram www.soulbodylife.com Grab your free e-book, "The Secrets in Your Sabotage" at www.soulbodylife.com/free-stuff Beth's TedX RIGHT HERE.

Beth Clayton (your host) is a soul-based life and health coach and loves to help open-hearted people break free from their own self-sabotage, outdated thought patterns, and past pain so they can deepen their relationship with their own soul's intuition, speak their truth courageously and fulfill their most authentic desires. She is the creator of multiple group programs, retreats, and transformational workshops, leading hundreds of truth seekers toward finding freedom and ease in their relationship with food, their bodies, their lives and ultimately, themselves. In this episode, we talk about IDENTITY and how our identity can sometimes hold us back in ways we aren't expecting: ● How our fixed identity prevents us from listening to our intuition. ● How our identity is often born out of past pain, conditioning and narratives that no longer reflect who we are becoming. ● Understanding who we are beneath our identities in a way that helps us to move more freely. ● The four questions you can ask yourself to understand your own fixed identity and the cost associated. ● How letting go of fixed identity can be a path toward personal transformation. ● Beth's super personal stories around letting go of identity, and the liberation that follows.

You can find Beth at: @bethclaytoncoach on Instagram www.soulbodylife.com Grab your free e-book, "The Secrets in Your Sabotage" at www.soulbodylife.com/free-stuff Beth's TedX RIGHT HERE.

Jeanne Grabowski is a career development coach and brand strategist for wellness and spiritual leaders, corporate transitioners, and creatives. She guides them to clarity through a deeper understanding of their skills strengths, needs, and values and helps translate that into tactical steps to turn their new career vision into a reality. She formerly held roles in sales and executive recruiting for high profile start-ups then made the leap in 2010 to fulfill her insatiable yearning to "do something more meaningful in her work", and started her coaching practice. Today she runs private and group coaching programs and workshops, both virtually and LIVE in NYC. Jeanne was also MY own business coach on and off for the last ten years and a HUGE part of my own internal growth. Jeanne joins us today to discuss career alignment, purpose, being in process, transition, aligning what we do with our truest selves, and to serve in a way that aligns with our unique needs and deepest values as human beings.

On the podcast today, we dive deep into: ● How our society has it ass-backward with career alignment and finding our purpose. ● The importance of identifying your core needs as a person as the pillars and letting career move around them. ● Why career alignment always comes back to understanding our motivations and needs. ● Why getting paid to LEARN and EXPERIMENT is a valuable choice. ● Jeanne's three-part discovery process toward finding their truest needs, desires and current values. ● Why Jeanne took a job for $10 an hour when she was at the top of her coaching game and practice. ● The importance of identifying your core needs as a person as the pillars and letting career move around them. ● Jeanne's "Living the Dream Now" philosophy and how it can impact your present circumstances and job. ● Why living into a different future can profoundly affect our present. ● Why tactical action toward change sometimes needs to come AFTER the inner work. ● How our identity can hold back our career fulfillment. ● The stages we experience before letting something die and starting something new. ● How our numbing behaviors are really powerful invitation to look at our career. ● How stepping out of alignment is as important as BEING in alignment with our careers.

Resources Tony Robbins--Six Human Needs Wellness Lately podcast

Where you can find Jeanne: www.jeannegrabowski.com/my-story/ www.careerdiscoveryincubator.com @jeannegrabwoski on Instagram

Where you can find Beth: @bethclaytoncoach www.soulbodylife.com Grab your free e-book, "The Secrets in Your Sabotage)-- www.soulbodylife.com/free-stuff Beth's TedX--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7q5I7_FsfI

Beth Clayton is a soul-based life and health coach and loves to help open-hearted people break free from their own self-sabotage, outdated thought patterns, and past pain so they can deepen their relationship with their own soul's intuition, speak their truth courageously and fulfill their most authentic desires. She is the creator of multiple group programs, retreats, and transformational workshops, leading hundreds of truth seekers toward finding freedom and ease in their relationship with food, their bodies, their lives and ultimately, themselves. In this episode, Beth shares one of the simplest and most powerful exercises she does with clients, while also revealing it's serious limitations, as she breaks down the fallacies we hold about our "dream lives" and how that fantasy stands in the way of our ability to find happiness in the process of creating them, how life is never all good or all bad, why our dream lives aren't all they are cracked up to be and why that is a GOOD thing for our growth. Expect some truth bombs.

Where you can Find Beth: @bethclaytoncoach www.soulbodylife.com Grab your free e-book, "The Secrets in Your Sabotage)--www.soulbodylife.com/free-stuff

Beth's TedX-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7q5I7_FsfI

Why Mark is Fiercely Human: You may remember Mark as CBS journalist and popular news personality. He was a mainstay on the CBS network; from 48 hours to CBS this morning. I grew up watching Mark on TV and can totally relate to the rest of the country when he was named one of the "Ten Most Trusted News Personalities." He has interviewed five presidents, Steven Spielberg, major movie stars like Sidney Poitier and Julia Roberts, cultural icons like Muhammad Ali and musicians like Stevie Wonder and Garth Brooks and has covered the Oscars, to the Olympics to the Grammys and more. Mark has had quite the career and was a constant presence in my home growing up. I met Mark at TedX Broadway a few years back when we were both speakers, and it wasn't until then that I learned more about Mark's story. In 2005, Mark suffered a massive stroke which almost ended his life and shifted the trajectory of his career, relationships, and perspective on life. He wrote a book, "After the Stroke" chronicling the near-deadly experience and his long road to recovery. Now, Mark tours the country speaking on his personal journey and serving as an inspiration for stroke victims while spreading awareness of the warning signs of stroke. Here is what we cover in the episode: ● Mark's unexpected and synchronistic journey from comic, to a weatherman, to prominent national news personality. ● His experience having a massive stroke 30,000 feet in the air and the angel who saved his life before walking back into baggage claim. ● The mantras Mark held tight to when faced with incredible adversity. ● How Mark turned his pain into his purpose.

You can find Mark at: blog iammarkmcewen.blogspot.com website markmcewen.com twitter @mcewenmark

Mark's TedX : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCP3DtdOeiE

You can find Beth at: @Bethclayton coach on Instagram www.soulbodylife.com Snag your free e-book, "The Secrets in Your Sabotage" at www.soulbodylife.com/free-stuff Beth's TedX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7q5I7_FsfI

Beth Clayton (your host) is a soul-based life and health coach and loves to help open-hearted people break free from their own self-sabotage, outdated thought patterns, and past pain so they can deepen their relationship with their own soul's intuition, speak their truth courageously and fulfill their most authentic desires. She is the creator of multiple group programs, retreats, and transformational workshops, leading hundreds of truth seekers toward finding freedom and ease in their relationship with food, their bodies, their lives and ultimately, themselves. In this episode will turn the "goals" conversations on its head, and she drops truth bombs about the true purpose of goals and what they are really about in our personal evolution. In this solo-session, she will jam on: ● How life is not designed to validate us but to grow us, and why that's a good thing. ● The crucial importance of starting before we feel ready. ● The TRUE purpose of goals (hint hint...it's not about the results you get). ● How attaching to the outcome of our goals actually stifles our ability to take action, the joy found in our current relationship with life and "living light." ● How the pursuit of "looking good" or "like a pro" within our pursuits creates self-produced obstacles. ● How perfection keeps us swimming in cycles of procrastination. ● Why intangible benefits are often more important than the tangible results in a journey. ● Why lessons live in the "gray", not black and white. ● Ending up in circumstances that we don't want leads us to understand what we DO want more clearly. ● Why failure resilience is the most important indicator of our success. ● How focusing as much on our internal lives as our external lives elevate our life experience. ● Why our legacy on this earth is a product of who we are BECOMING through the pursuit of our goals. ● Why focusing on who we want to BE is as important as what we want to DO and HAVE. ● How to EMBODY who you want to BE on the other side of our goals.

You can find Beth at: @bethclaytoncoach on Instagram www.soulbodylife.com

Grab your free e-book, "The Secrets in Your Sabotage) www.soulbodylife.com/free-stuff

Beth's TedX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7q5I7_FsfI

Episode #4: Worthy Stokes. She Survived Death. Here is What She Learned About Living.

Why Worthy is Fiercely Human: Worthy is a near-death experience and polytraumatic brain injury, a survivor. After years of her own spiritual awakening and deepening her understanding of neuroscience and as a devout Buddhist, Worthy was hit by a 15-person passenger van while traveling in Seoul, South Korea and spent 120 minutes outside of her body, going into her near-death experience as a Buddhist and coming out with "no religion." She shares what she experienced on the other side and why she chose to come back to her body. Worthy has beautifully simple yet profound messages about how to live life powerfully now as a human and from a place of curiosity and what moves us. She is also a gifted meditation teacher with an ability to uplift individuals at the deepest levels of neurological intelligence. Her Heartmind intelligence meditations exude breath-taking awareness in a fresh, secular approach to ancient spiritual truths. Her compassionate insights reflect years of mystical study worldwide. Oh, and don't put her in a spiritual guru box, because she wants none of that. She is also pragmatic, sexy, super intelligent, funny and bad-ass. This conversation was SO illuminating and fun. I will carry it with me for a long time to come and hope you do too! In this episode, we deep dive into: ● Worthy's five-year journey of spiritual awakening and mystical studies, including studying neuroscience and become a devout Buddhist practitioner (living with monks and learning from Tenzin Rinpoche (Tibetan Dzogchen) preceding her near-death experience and how it prepared her for it. ● What she experienced in the 120 minutes outside of her body and how that has impacted how she lives now. ● Her experience coming back from death to a broken body and injured brain that resulted in the loss of 2.5 senses. ● What she came to understand when she was unconscious and hemorrhaging (but was actually superconscious). ● The importance of coming to know and understand ourselves before we ask anyone else to understand us. ● The gifts in being able to hold anguish and beauty in our experiences at the same time. ● The liberation in rejecting labels and choosing when to put them only when it works for us at that moment. ● The difficulties of coming back to a world that had no context of the awareness she acquired. ● How her near-death experience affected how she lives every day and why her 95-year-old self is the spirit guide driving her Maserati these days. ● What heart-mind meditation is and how Worthy serves the world these days.

Resources mentioned: Molecules of Emotion by Candace Peet Our Town by Thorton Wilder HeartMind Meditation on InsightTimer

Where you can Find Worthy: @thisworthylife on Instagram www.thisworthylife.com

HeartMind Meditation on Insight Timer-- https://insighttimer.com/WorthyStokes

Where you can Find Beth: @bethclaytoncoach www.soulbodylife.com

Grab your free e-book, "The Secrets in Your Sabotage)--www.soulbodylife.com/free-stuff

Beth's TedX-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7q5I7_FsfI