By Lisa Cherney
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Lisa announces some big changes in her life and business, and shares why she feels it’s time to hit pause on the GFR Show after 4 successful years and 128 episodes.
What would you do differently if you had faith in yourself and your mission?
In our last episode for the foreseeable future, Lisa takes a look back at what lessons she’s learned since she got f***ing real with herself and birthed a mission to help others do the same thing. Help us celebrate an incredible run as Lisa walks us through her favorite of among 27 solo episodes where she shared key moments in her life, and hear which GFR Commandments helped usher her into her latest evolution.
Listen in—or watch the video version on YouTube—to find out about an exciting new role as a consultant with Brave Thinking Institute, and learn how Lisa’s balancing that with her 1:1 clients, and her beloved UnMentor Pods moving forward. You’ll hear where Lisa’s creative energy is being spent these days, and discover why her decision to go on hiatus with the GFR Show is actually an act of self-love.
Find out the powerful advice Lisa gave her daughter Bella that inspired them both! Learn a great exercise to try around connecting with your inner child when you are activated or overwhelmed and need clarity.
Lisa hopes this episode inspires you to trust in yourself, your inner knowing and your ultimate purpose, too.
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Dr. Veronica Anderson is a multifaceted entrepreneur, healthcare expert, and Kolbe-Certified Human Design Coach who has authored 4 books on holistic medicine and personal growth.
Have you ever felt like a victim, and if so … what did you do about it?
Dr. Veronica first appeared on the GFR Show in September 2021 - Episode 83: From Depressed Eye Surgeon to Clairvoyant Psychic. Now she is back to talk about how working in a predominately white organization made her feel victimized AND eventually empowered her to birth a business that fully represents her ethnic identity and personal ideals.
Tune in to hear Dr. V’s new story detailing her experience as a Black woman in the white-dominated wellness industry during the aftermath of George Floyd’s 2021 murder. She gets into the ways her well-intentioned colleagues missed the mark with their attempts at allyship, and we find out what (glaringly, in retrospect) simple change in communication could have made a big difference for everyone involved.
We talk about how being tokenized by some, while also being excluded and canceled by others for speaking her truth, made Dr. Veronica feel like a victim. And she confesses how she initially leaned into that role and allowed her external world to impact her vision of herself … and kept her trapped in the victim role rather than pushing against it and transforming it
Learn what spiritual lessons helped Dr. Veronica shift from victimhood to empowerment, and discover how her struggles served as a path to a new, more aligned business. Plus, she tells us exactly what type of support she’d love to get from Lisa, and other white colleagues, that would help her out most as she embarks on her next evolution.
You can listen in wherever you get podcasts, or watch on our YouTube channel to see some of the gorgeous textile designs Dr. Veronica has commissioned for her yoga and meditation product line.
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Episode #83: From Depressed Eye Surgeon to Clairvoyant Psychic
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Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever is an award-winning author, global speaker, media commentator, and the 7-figure CEO of Media to MILLIONS.
Have you ever had a “burn the ship” kind of moment?
Listen in as Dr. Avis tells us about what she calls her “burn down the ship” moment when, on the heels of leaving her husband to become a single mom of two, she voluntarily left what she’d thought was her dream job even though she had no idea where she was headed next. Listen in to hear why she decided to quit, and how her innate confidence reassured her the right next step would appear.
We talk about her childhood and the determination that was instilled in her by her father who’d survived the Jim Crow south to become a successful Black entrepreneur. And you’ll hear about the twists and turns Dr. Avis took along her path to become a 7-figure entrepreneur who now is ushering in a new generation of Black millionaires.
You’ll also learn how Dr. Avis, in addition to shepherding clients to success and normalizing Black abundance, has passed her legacy on to her son who recently closed his first million-dollar deal at just 27 years of age.
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Jennifer Joy Jiménez is Co-Founder of Brave Thinking Institute and the creator of the highly acclaimed transformative movement modality, TrancenDance™.
Is the way you feel about your body preventing you from enjoying your life?
Although she achieved her goal of becoming a professional dancer and was raised by Mary Morrissey, a globally known spiritual teacher, Jennifer realized she still struggled with an internal feeling that she wasn’t measuring up to the people around her.
Listen in or watch on my YouTube channel as Jennifer shares about her transcendental experience through conscious dance and the deep inner work she did to heal her issues around food and her body. We talk about her successful dance ministry she began in her 20’s at her mother’s spiritual center, and she confesses the truth about what led to her total burnout as a mom, a wife, and a career woman.
You’ll find out what God said to Jennifer in the GFR Moment when she realized her spiritual background and work as a health and wellness mentor had not protected her from her internal demons, and how she finally released her addiction to controlling her food and her body, and stepped into a new way of loving herself with grace.
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Anjel B Hartwell is known as The Wealthy Life Mentor and is the creator, executive producer and host of the award-winning Wickedly Smart Women podcast.
Can you be a good mother and have a drug-addicted child?
On this special REPLAY+ episode, Anjel returns to the GFR Show with an update on how she’s been evolving since she first appeared as Emerald GreenForest in September 2019.
In her original episode, Anjel shared a beautifully vulnerable account of her journey with her son and his addictions and confessed the way it affected her professional identity as a healer. She talks about the harrowing GFR Moment when her relationship with her son was transformed, and tells us what an aptly-named cop said that night to help her finally break the lifelong cycle of abuse that trapped her in a “victim role.”
Hear the fascinating backstory of why Anjel initially changed her name from Amethyst Wyldfyre to Emerald GreenForest, and in the PLUS part of this REPLAY+, we hear more about the power of names and why Anjel feels so strongly about being congruent with what she calls herself.
Listen in, or watch on my YouTube channel, for 3 major lessons Anjel’s learned over the past 4 years, and get an update from her on some miraculous shifts she’s experienced as the result of stepping into her authentic self.
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Zarinah El-Amin is an award-winning anthropologist, author and TEDx speaker whose company, Book Power Publishing, revolves around helping clients create cultural change through books and global experiences.
What is the dumbest decision you've ever made in your life?
For this special replay episode that we’re releasing on both audio and as a video on my YouTube channel, Zarinah is back with an update on what’s happened since she first appeared on the GFR Show and opened up about the “dumbest decision” she ever made. She talks about another major loss she's experienced these last couple years, and shares what she's learned around acceptance and letting go.
Being raised a Muslim, Zarinah was surrounded by family friends from many cultures, but as a student in Detroit and later at Howard University, she wasn’t exposed to a lot of different people. Find out what “clicked” that made her know she was a “person of the world.” And how that led to eye-opening experiences like living in Egypt and dating someone in a different caste, and revitalizing orphan programs in Sierra Leone.
You’ll also hear the lessons she learned in her 40th year—a spiritual year of revelations for many Muslims—which came in a series of GFR moments including losing her mom, divorcing her husband of 14 years, and moving in with her father after his stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Plus, you’ll hear the transformational lesson Zarinah learned when she repressed her true nature to try to make her marriage work.
ResourcesLisa’s her own guest as she examines GFR Commandment #10: Know that the struggle/stress/pain prevented with your expertise has enormous monetary value!
Are you owning your value?
One of the biggest hurdles we face as entrepreneurs is undercharging for our products and services, which as Lisa explains on today’s show, comes from minimizing our expertise and the contribution we make. And spoiler: it ends up costing way more than just your income.
We’re releasing this episode on video, so come over to our YouTube channel to learn about the spiritual and mental price we pay when we don’t own our worth as human beings and ask for what we need. Hear stories of how Lisa’s increasingly stepped into her value (financially and otherwise) through her 20+ years in business. And, she shares a recent experience that stretched her to really own her expertise once again.
Lisa talks about her 12 UnMentor Milestones for evolving experts, and takes a closer look at three that relate to the cost of not owning your value. Plus, she offers some ways you can identify where you’re undervaluing yourself, as well as some tips on how to start embodying what you're worth.
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Dr. Aziz Gazipura first appeared on the GFR Show in December 2020, and his episode is one of our most downloaded to date! He’s the founder of the Center For Social Confidence, host of Shrink for the Shy Guy podcast, and today we’re releasing, “From Chronic Pain & Perfectionism to Mass Liberation” on my YouTube channel for the first time, as well as re-airing it on the podcast.
The question for this episode is a two-parter: would you consider yourself a perfectionist and, do you have aches or pains you struggle to fix?
They may seem unrelated, but as you’ll hear in Dr. Aziz’s story of losing his ability to walk at age 15, and his autoimmune disease that caused a lifelong struggle with chronic pain, our mental and physical selves are a lot more connected than you might realize.
Listen as Dr. Aziz shares what he discovered about the mind-body link between his perfectionism and his pain, and tells us how his healing journey eventually led to one of his greatest physical achievements.
You’ll find out what lessons Dr. Aziz learned from his physical body, what he means by “holistic mass liberation,” and how he’s now helping others achieve it.
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Dr. Amanda Kemp AKA Amanda Aminata Sol, is founder of Racial Justice from the Heart and the bestselling author of “Stop Being Afraid: 5 Steps to Transform Your Conversations About Racism.”
What is your relationship with nature?
Dr. Amanda survived the NYC foster care system before graduating from Stanford University and embarking on a journey to be a leader in the racial justice conversation. Her webinar, “How White Women Can Talk With Women of Color About Racism,” was developed in 2019, and when the murder of George Floyd sparked global awareness, it became a go-to for people of all races who wanted to do something about the injustices in our society.
Listen in as Amanda confesses the way that her hugely successful business led to massive burnout, and shares the spiritual experience that happened during a coaching session to make her realize it was time to break away from the “tyranny of production,” and follow her calling to foster a new relationship with the trees.
We talk about Amanda’s struggle between feeling ready to get out of her business, while feeling equally pressured to stay in because it was such important, timely work. On the show, you’ll hear about a special moment Amanda had with her intuitive daughter where she uncovered that her need to prioritize work over herself, and her tendency to be “graspy” with money, were rooted in a poignant experience from her foster care days.
Learn what Amanda unearthed regarding her beliefs around hunger and lack, and find out how Harriet Tubman plays into Amanda’s current evolution as the Mother Tree Queen, Aminata Sol Plant Walker Fire Woman.
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Natalie J. Clayton is an ICF Certified Personal Development Coach and the #1 bestselling author of “Awaken the Leader Within: 15 Steps to Shine Your Light.”
Are you running from something?
Natalie takes us on a journey through the badges and life degrees she’s earned from being a wife, a mother, an undercover police officer, an activist, and a cancer survivor. Hear how her unshakable faith has served her through traumas like being told her son wasn’t going to make it after a horrific accident, and caring for him through the 38 surgeries that saved his life.
Listen for the story of how Natalie was given a prophecy of what she was meant to do after delivering a talk on faith, and the way she ran from her purpose until her father’s death helped her acknowledge her gifts of clairvoyance and discernment, and finally step into who she was authentically meant to be.
Find out how Natalie is continuing to evolve through “learning to unlearn,” and how she’s now using her life experience (the best credentials) to bring people out of their foxholes by teaching them how to lead themselves and see their personal light.
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If you liked this episode let me know! Reviews for the podcast on iTunes are much appreciated! This helps us reach entrepreneurs just like you to be unapologetically themselves. If you received value from this episode, it would mean the world if you could take a moment and leave your 5-star rating and positive review. You can do that by visiting right here.
The podcast currently has 131 episodes available.