Going Conscious

Courtney is a professional coach and corporate strategist who teaches top performers and innovators to release emotional fragility and rise to a level of passionate sovereignty beyond their wildest dreams. She is also the founder of wild skincare brand Sloane Marley, drawing on deep tradition and the science of fermentation.

In this episode we talk about how to navigate the pain of figuring out your independent path to purpose and how to take a chance on yourself. We talk about the physical toll of not being aligned with your values in work, how to be instinctive and intuition-led, how to trust the process, how to separate your sovereignty from other people's expectations, emotional fragility, how to let go of identity roles, why we stopped reading the news, and what we learned about ourselves from the enneagram.

Discover show notes, Courtney's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

Connect with Courtney:LinkedIn: Courtney Fiederwww.courtneyfieder.com

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Nutritionist, mother, researcher and educator, Nimisha's life passion is for women's health. She is a functional medicine nutritionist, Ayurvedic counselor, Yoga Nidra/meditation teacher, and former tech founder. In Nimisha's private practice, Moon Cycle Nutrition, she specializes in fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum care with an emphasis on the mind, body, and soul. Nimisha combines functional medicine nutrition with ancient Ayurvedic principles. She is also a health and wellness board member and a speaker.

In this episode we talk about how Nimisha was expected to become a medical Doctor but the conventional system didn't resonate with her and she took her own path to discovering her passion for holistic women's health. We talk about how Nimisha was one of few female tech founders in gaming 12 years ago, her journey to preventative medicine, combining her expertise to advise fem tech companies, the importance of listening to your body's intuition, living an alcohol free life, why your period is the 5th vital sign for your health, and how to take care of your cycle.

Discover show notes, Nimisha's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

Connect with Nimisha:Instagram @mooncycleNew to TikTok @mooncyclenutritionClubhouse @nimishawww.mooncyclenutrition.com

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Originally from just outside of north London, England, Joey's first break in fashion came in Melbourne, Australia, as an accessories designer for Crumpler. He has since worked as a technical bags developer for MEC and most recently as the accessories lead for tentree, where he worked with factories across Vietnam and China. On a business trip to China in 2018 Joey met with a factory in Guangzhou and the conversation to start a green factory model together developed. Joey is now the Founder & Co-Owner of Veshin Factory in China, where he and his partners are on a mission to move the fashion accessories industry to conscious, sustainable, vegan production.

In this episode we talk about Joey's strong gut feeling that pulled him to Guangzhou which changed his life, plant-based leather and the circular economy changing fashion and how he is helping his green factory blossom. We talk about Joey's adventures around the world, how he removed the clouds over his intuition, how to discover the guidance of transcendental meditation (TM) to go back to yourself, veganism as a state of consciousness, how to learn to enjoy the ride and not get frustrated, and how to wake up personally to grow consciousness as a whole.

Discover show notes, Joey's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

Connect with Joey:

Instagram @veshinfactory

LinkedIn Joey Pringle

www.veshinfactory.com

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LGO (Laura Gassner Otting) is a globally touring professional speaker (from TEDx Boston to The TODAY Show) and the Founder of Limitless Possibility, a niche consulting firm working with entrepreneurs, philanthropists, executives, and thought leaders to get them unstuck and achieving extraordinary results. Previously she was the Founder and CEO of NPAG (executive search firm serving nonprofits, foundations, universities and advocacy organizations) and a Political Appointee at The White House, USA.

In this episode we talk about why purpose doesn't have to be high or lofty, how we end up with other people's definitions of purpose and the freedom of having more than one purpose. We talk about why millennials are the first generation who live as the same person at home and at work, brain science behind manifestation, the discomfort of going conscious, how hindsight makes a challenging journey sound easy, faking being an extrovert as a raging introvert, defining and creating your own success and why success means finding your own model of leadership.

Discover show notes, LGO's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

Connect with LGO:

Instagram & Clubhouse @heylgo

www.heylgo.com

www.myfourquestions.com

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Deanna is a sustainability focused entrepreneur and human-centered designer, working intentionally through a lens of mental health, social impact, and intersectionality. She is passionate about humanising the production process and encouraging a collective slowing down in the way we produce and consume. Her clothing brand, Vincetta, focuses on community building and education through storytelling, engaging collective discussions, and generating thought provoking conversation and questions. Previously she worked for brands including J. Crew and Ralph Lauren and spent 3 years as a Venture Fellow at a Sustainability Incubator in Brooklyn, NY.

In this episode we talk about how Deanna loves the creative challenge of working with what is already there, and how she cared about sustainability before she even knew what it was. We talk about how Deanna's mission to normalise mental health was spurred by losing her Mum, holistic sustainability, how internal work yields external results, breaking down social constructs, collectively slowing down, being more intentional about what we put out in the world, humanising customers and community, body acceptance, the importance of who you surround yourself with, feeling enough without any material item, and creating your own standards.

Discover show notes, Deanna's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

Connect with Deanna:

Instagram @vincettastudio

Clubhouse @deannaansara

www.vincettastudio.com

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Dr Philip Goff is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. His research focuses on how to integrate consciousness into our scientific world view. He has authored an academic book with Oxford University Press – Consciousness and Fundamental Reality – and a book aimed at a general audience – Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness. Goff has published 45 academic articles as well as writing extensively for newspapers and magazines, including Scientific American, The Guardian, and the Times Literary Supplement.

In this episode we talk about panpsychism and the "hard problem of consciousness" - understanding that you can't capture experience with mathematics. We talk about how consciousness is not an abstract intellectual puzzle but core to the human experience, the problem built into the way science was designed, the connection between biological evolution and consciousness, why matter is consciousness, we ask "is there a purpose to everything?", where philosophers and scientists come together, why consciousness is a taboo topic, why science can be a crutch just like religion, tree intelligence, trusting mystical experiences, why only believing in a narrow view leads to an impoverished human existence and rethinking our picture of the universe.

Discover show notes, Philip's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

Connect with Philip:

YouTube channel: Mindchat

Twitter: @philip_goff

Blog: conscienceandconsciousness.com

www.philipgoffphilosophy.com

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Giap was born in Bangkok, where she grew up between her family village and the city. Her childhood was immersed in local culture, food and spirituality with Buddhism at the core.

After moving to London in 1991, she started her career as a professional dancer and then, seeking stability, transitioned into the fast-paced finance sector. She observed how stress taxes one's health and undermines the body's resiliency. Putting herself on the path towards inner peace, she studied various aspects of human behavior through psychotherapy, yoga and spiritual healing which ultimately helped her to create her own proven system to share with others.

In this episode we talk about how Giap transitioned from dancing to banking and then realised she needed to go back to her family's Buddhist roots. We talk about how Giap went on her own healing journey initially without the intention to make healing into her career, dealing with imposter syndrome, conscious relationships, a very honest conversation about Giap's current personal relationship situation, the effects of the full moon, surrendering and not having control, how the universe will provide when you focus on serving others and empowering people to go on their own inner health journey.

Discover show notes, Giap's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

Connect with Giap:www.tongsayor.comInstagram: @giap_sayorClubhouse: @tongsayor

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Karen is a business strategist and course creator who helps six-, seven- and eight-figure entrepreneurs scale their online brands. As part of her Signature Impact mentoring program, she uses techniques that blend neuroscience-based learning and her unique holistic marketing strategies to help coaches, thought-leaders and service providers package their genius into scalable programs. Her mission is to create positive global change by helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs build the impactful businesses they were born to lead.

A natural entrepreneur, Karen started a six-figure fashion company in Trinidad at the age of 16. Three decades later, she's launched businesses in five different industries, including three multi 7-figure businesses.

In this episode we talk about how Karen found her purpose early and how she helps other people break down their barriers. We talk about how to let go of the belief that you have to achieve to receive, how to stop doing and start being, how when Karen was told she had 6 months to live she said "no", integrating neuroscience, the holistic science of marketing, the emergence of more conscious leaders, being an enneagram 8 woman (both of us!), how to tune your brain to hear your heart, and why success is what you feel like not what you look like.

Discover show notes, Karen's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

Connect with Karen:www.signaturesuccess.comInstagram: @signaturesuccess.officialClubhouse: @karensmith

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Abraham is a mindset coach who works with socially conscious entrepreneurs to grow their business and increase their impact. At the start of 2017, Abraham was an overworked and underpaid filmmaker, sleeping on the floor of a yogic monastery. Resolved to change, Abraham quit his job, moved out and began his coaching practice. In less than one year, he built a six-figure business guided by determination and a willingness to face his own truth.

In this episode we talk about how his soul felt lonely when he wasn't fulfilling his purpose, and how he found his flow state. We talk about money mindset, breaking stories in our subconscious, internal leverage, using motion to change your emotion, breathwork as a hack, maximising your ability to serve, choicefulness and why growth is proportional to the truth you can take about yourself.

Discover show notes, Abraham's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

Connect with Abraham:www.heislercoaching.comInstagram: @abeheislerClubhouse: @abrahamheisler

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Casilda is a shamanic healer, impact entrepreneur and a former tier one global marketing executive. She serves as a bridge between spirituality and corporate, to help elevate the consciousness of corporate to be a force for social good. She is a pioneer paving the way to lead industry and category transformation, first through deep inner transformation that can help bridge insights and intuition for innovative business advantage. Casilda discovered that she comes from a lineage of shamanic healers and now uses these gifts as a trusted heart-centred transformation mentor for leaders and visionaries through Sol Medicine Immersions. She is also working on her own impact focused eco-conscious lifestyle brand, and is the author of two upcoming books.

In this episode we talk about workaholism and burnout, creating space and opening up to plant medicine to connect the conscious with the subconscious. We talk about why being over-productive depletes our soul, how to trust and surrender, how to strip away external validation, realising the need to love yourself enough to let go, pioneering the new earth consciousness - the birth of something radical, embodying interconnectedness and unlocking what we have to contribute to the planet.

Discover show notes, Casilda's book recommendation and more on www.goingconscious.com.

Connect with Casilda:www.casildasol.comInstagram & Clubhouse: @casilda_sol

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