I Awaken

This episode is for anyone who's been feeling off for a while and can't quite explain why. Host Swati talks with building biology expert Risa Suzuki about how awakening isn't always a dramatic light-bulb moment, and how the environments we live in can quietly shape our sleep, energy, and sense of self before we ever think to question them.

Risa shares her own health journey, the story of a client whose sleep was being disrupted by something as unexpected as a security camera, and why focusing on just a few changes at a time matters more than trying to fix everything at once. It's a grounded conversation about paying attention to the small signals your body has been sending all along.

About the Guest:

Risa Suzuki is a Certified Building Biology Environmental Consultant based in Seattle, and the owner of Healthy Homes Northwest. After more than two decades in the technology industry, she turned to building biology following her own experience with unexplained health symptoms, and now helps people identify and address hidden factors in their homes affecting sleep and wellbeing.

Key Takeaways:

• Awakening isn't always a sudden realization. For many people, it's a gradual accumulation of small symptoms the body has been signaling all along.
• Minor, easy-to-ignore symptoms, poor sleep, lingering allergies, unexplained fatigue, are often the body's early warning signs.
• You don't need to fix everything in your home at once. Identifying the "low hanging fruit" first often creates the biggest shift.
• Trying to address every possible issue can lead to overwhelm and diminishing returns. Focus on the few things with the greatest impact.
• Setbacks, like one off night of poor sleep habits, don't erase consistent progress. Self-criticism isn't necessary when the overall pattern is still moving forward.
• A simple daily check-in, morning and night, can help you notice when you've drifted from yourself and gently come back to center.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: https://risasuzuki.com/home

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Cold Open — Awakening as an invitation, not a breakdown

[01:30] Meet Risa Suzuki — From Microsoft to building biology and healthy homes

[05:00] The Biggest Misconception About Awakening — Gradual signals vs. sudden realizations

[09:30] What Keeps People Stuck — Why symptoms get dismissed until something breaks (approx.)

[14:00] The Low-Hanging Fruit — A client's sleep problem traced to a security camera (approx.)

[19:30] Focus Over Overwhelm — Why doing a few things well beats doing everything (approx.)

[24:00] Setbacks Without Self-Criticism — A simple daily check-in practice (approx.)

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This episode is for anyone waiting for one big lightning-bolt moment of clarity before they change anything. Host Vivek talks with business coach Louis Swart about why awakening rarely arrives as a single dramatic event, and is instead made up of small, easy-to-miss shifts that only add up when you look back.

Louis shares the wake-up call that reshaped how he built businesses, a simple exercise for figuring out what your time is actually worth, and why gratitude and delegation are quiet daily practices rather than one-time decisions. It's a grounded, practical conversation about noticing the moments of change already happening around you.

About the Guest:

Louis Swart is the founder of Ironbrij, a business coaching and virtual assistant company based in Australia. With 35 years of business experience, he now helps entrepreneurs and business owners learn to delegate effectively so they can grow without burning out.

Key Takeaways:

• Awakening is rarely one dramatic moment. It's usually made up of small realizations that accumulate quietly over time.
• Knowing what your time is actually worth per hour can change how you decide what to keep doing yourself and what to delegate.
• Doing low-value tasks yourself isn't saving money, it's costing you the higher-value work you should be doing instead.
• Gratitude is easy to overlook because we take basic comforts, clean water, a bed, food, for granted until we're asked to name them.
• Falling off a routine, like missing the gym, isn't a failure. It's a signal to honestly ask whether you actually want to keep doing it.
• Taking one small action from what you learn matters more than simply being entertained by it. Momentum comes from implementation, not information.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: https://louisswart.com

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Cold Open — Transformation as a return, not an event

[01:30] Meet Louis Swart — 35 years of business, and the wake-up call about delegation

[05:30] The Biggest Misconception About Awakening — Why it's rarely one big moment

[09:00] What's Your Time Worth? — A simple tool for deciding what to delegate (approx.)

[15:00] The Small Shifts We Miss — Awakenings that happen quietly, like losing weight (approx.)

[20:00] Gratitude in the Ordinary — Noticing what we take for granted (approx.)

[24:30] Setbacks Without Guilt — What to do when you fall off a routine (approx.)

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What does it truly mean to awaken?

Many people imagine spiritual awakening as a dramatic life-changing event, but according to spiritual healer Shawngela Pierce, awakening is often a quiet unfolding that happens through presence, stillness, and conscious awareness.

In this deeply reflective episode of I Awaken, Shawngela shares how slowing down, reconnecting with nature, embracing forgiveness, and cultivating gratitude can help us move beyond conditioning and rediscover our authentic selves.

Together, we explore why modern life keeps us disconnected from our inner wisdom, how nature becomes one of our greatest teachers, and why awakening is less about reaching a destination and more about returning to who we've always been.

If you've been searching for greater peace, clarity, or spiritual connection, this conversation offers practical reflections for beginning that journey.

About the Guest:

Shawngela Pierce is a spiritual healer, mentor, and retreat facilitator who helps individuals reconnect with their authentic spiritual power through meditation, divine guidance, healing practices, and transformational retreats. Her work focuses on helping people embrace presence, inner peace, forgiveness, and conscious living.

Website:

https://seekwithinyou.com

What You'll Learn

• Why spiritual awakening is usually a gradual process rather than a dramatic event
• How stillness creates space for greater awareness
• The role conditioning plays in shaping our identity
• Why spending time in nature accelerates inner healing
• How gratitude, forgiveness, and laughter support spiritual growth
• Practical ways to reconnect with your authentic self
• Why awakening is a lifelong journey rather than a destination

Key Takeaways:

• Awakening begins with presence, not perfection.

• Stillness allows us to notice the subtle shifts already happening within us.

• Society often conditions us to remain disconnected from our true nature.

• Nature offers one of the most powerful environments for healing and self-awareness.

• Spiritual growth requires self-compassion rather than self-judgment.

• Gratitude and forgiveness create emotional freedom.

• Every person experiences awakening differently.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:15 Meet Shawngela Pierce

05:30 What spiritual awakening really means

10:20 Conditioning and unconscious patterns

16:40 Why stillness changes everything

21:00 The healing power of nature

26:10 Forgiveness, gratitude, and spiritual growth

31:30 Practical ways to begin awakening

35:00 Where to connect with Shawngela

Guest Resources

Website:

https://seekwithinyou.com

The website includes information about:

• Spiritual Mentoring
• Meditation Retreats
• Spiritual Retreats
• Workshops
• Free Resources
• Gratitude Challenge
• Laughter Challenge
• Upcoming Forgiveness Challenge

Memorable Quote"Awakening isn't one dramatic moment. It's a series of quiet moments that slowly transform who you are."

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Most of us begin a spiritual path looking for certainty. Walk it long enough and it turns around and starts asking questions back, the kind that reach into who you think you are.

Doug Red Hail Pineda sits with Archita on identity, inherited belief, and why integration matters more than any single experience. A conversation for anyone whose path has stopped offering neat answers.

About the Guest:

Doug Red Hail Pineda is the founder of The Church of Psychedelics. He has spent his life exploring consciousness, personal transformation, and the ancient questions that have shaped human cultures for thousands of years.

Key Takeaways:

• A spiritual path is not a route to certainty. It slowly loosens what was never truly yours.
• Doug's starting lens: we are spiritual beings having a human experience, which means consciousness and awareness are two threads of the same work.
• Agency is the whole practice. Walk your talk, or the randomness of your reactions writes your reality for you.
• Ask why you believe what you believe. Inherited belief feels identical to conviction until you look at it.
• The experience is the small part. Integration into an ordinary Thursday is where the real work lives.
• Tonight's invitation: hold one long-held belief gently and ask if it is truly yours.

Connect With the Guest:

• Website: https://thechurchofpsychedelics.com
• Newsletter and free membership: https://thechurchofpsychedelics.com/newsletter
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougredhailpineda

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] When the Path Stops Answering and Starts Asking (approx.)

[03:00] The Biggest Misconception About Awakening (approx.)

[07:30] Consciousness and Awareness: Two Threads, One Path (approx.)

[12:00] Taking Agency Over Your Own Spirituality (approx.)

[16:30] Re-examining the Beliefs You Never Chose (approx.)

[22:00] Why Integration Is the Hardest Part (approx.)

[27:00] Is This Belief Mine, Or Did I Inherit It? (approx.)

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The biggest changes rarely arrive with a thunderclap. More often they start quietly, with a question you cannot ignore or a feeling that something is asking for more. If you have been waiting for a dramatic awakening before you are allowed to begin, this conversation gently lets you off that hook.

Thomas R Wilson, a storyteller who found his footing through stories when people around him had written him off, reframes awakening as ordinary, available and non-linear. He untangles self-care from selfishness, and offers a working test for it, and is candid about a hard week and the gentle voice that carried him through.

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Thomas R Wilson is a storyteller, advocate, writer and facilitator based in Colorado, with lived experience of neurodiversity and mental health challenges. Stories were his early refuge and mentors, and his work now centres on empathy-based storytelling and the belief that stories are as human as we are.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Awakening is not theatrical or reserved for a few. It is available to anyone, any day.
• It can be as small as a promise to a child or a kinder look in the mirror.
• What keeps us on the surface is often the fear that caring for ourselves is selfish.
• Self-care is not selfishness. You tend to yourself so you can show up for your community.
• Self-awareness is the line between the two: you are tending to yourself for others too.
• Choose a path because it is healthy for you, not because it looks good on someone else.
• Early signs you are on the right path: smiling more, real passion rather than all-or-nothing drive.
• Growth is non-linear. Slipping back is part of it, not a failure of it.
• Be your own hype: name what went well and genuinely celebrate it.
• Accountability without self-punishment, and hold others accountable too, kindly.

CONNECT WITH THE GUEST:

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-wilson-42762927b/

Website: https://www.rhcreativeadvocacyandstorytelling.net

All links: https://linktr.ee/ndttrpg

EPISODE CHAPTERS:

[00:00] Welcome to I Awaken: change that begins quietly, not with a thunderclap (approx.)

[02:00] Stories as his earliest friends, mentors and source of healing (approx.)

[05:00] The biggest misconception: awakening is neither dramatic nor for the few (approx.)

[09:00] What keeps us asleep, and untangling self-care from selfishness (approx.)

[13:00] Self-awareness as the dividing line, and the good-parent test (approx.)

[16:00] Awakening on an ordinary hard week: the messy hair and the gentle voice (approx.)

[20:00] Where to begin: choose what is healthy for you, not what looks impressive (approx.)

[25:00] Non-linear growth, being your own hype, and where to find Thomas (approx.)

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Most of us are living inside a story we never consciously chose, one built from old beliefs about what we can and can't have. In this episode of I Awaken, host Ria talks with spiritual business coach and author Pamela Chen about waking up to your own narrative, rewriting the identity that no longer serves you, and learning to trust yourself as the creator of your reality.

Pamela shares how she moved from struggling for money in her teens to building a life around manifestation, energy, and self-trust, and why it's never too late to become someone new. This is a conversation about releasing the past without erasing it, and choosing, again and again, who you want to become.

About the Guest:

Pamela Chen, also known as Pamela Unicorn, is an author with Llewellyn Worldwide, Hay House, and US Games. She is a psychic advisor, Akashic Records mentor, and spiritual business coach who, with her business partner Alexandra Hanley, trains coaches and leaders in manifestation and energy work.

Key Takeaways:

• Your past doesn't dictate your future. What matters is the choices you make in the present moment
• Changing your mindset works because it shifts your energy, and energy has to match what you want to call in
• Chanting, prayer, or repeating a sound can shift your frequency faster than willpower alone
• Find a "why" bigger than your discomfort. It's what keeps you consistent when the old story feels safer
• Visualize the life you want deliberately. Your brain doesn't fully distinguish between a vivid memory and a vivid imagined one
• You don't need complete trust in the process before you start. Small results build belief over time

Connect With Pamela Chen:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pamelaunicorn/
• Website: https://www.magicalpam.com

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Welcome to I Awaken — waking up to the story you've been living

[02:30] (approx.) Pamela's journey from broke teenager to spiritual business coach

[06:00] (approx.) The biggest misconception about the stories we tell ourselves

[09:30] (approx.) Recognizing you're the creator, not just the character

[13:00] (approx.) Chanting, frequency, and shifting your energy day to day

[16:30] (approx.) Finding your why and staying consistent when it's uncomfortable

[19:30] (approx.) Closing old timelines and building trust through small wins

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We spend so much energy coping, pushing through, holding it together. This episode of I Awaken offers a quieter possibility: meeting what lives inside us instead of surviving it. It's for anyone who senses that today's tension isn't really about today.

Rosanne Nieboer treats the chakra system not as colours and crystals, but as an energetic map of the body: where we hold relationships, emotions, and tension. You'll learn to ask where a feeling lives in your body, and how breath and awareness help you move through it.

About the Guest:

Rosanne Nieboer is a yoga teacher, meditation guide, and chakra educator, and the creator of The Chakra Way. She offers intuitive chakra readings and helps people understand the connection between the nervous system, emotions, energy, and well-being.

Key Takeaways:

• The chakra system maps where you hold relationships, power, and emotion.
• A stiff knee or tight jaw can point to what you're resisting.
• When a hard feeling arises, ask where it lives in your body first.
• Move through discomfort, not around it. Breath and sound release it.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: chakra-way.com

Instagram: @yogawithrosanne

TikTok: @thechakraway

Facebook: facebook.com/chakrawayyoga

YouTube: @thechakraway9141

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Beyond Colours and Crystals — the chakra system as an energetic map

[05:00] The Relationships We Hold in the Body — from root to crown

[10:00] When the Body Speaks — reading pain and physical signals as messages

[15:00] Why Emotions Get Stuck — moving through discomfort instead of around it

[19:00] From the Mat to Real Life — using yoga's lessons to release old tension

[24:00] The Wisdom Within — trusting the body to guide your healing

[27:00] One Honest Breath — this week's invitation to feel before you fix

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We're told the goal after trauma is recovery: get back to who you were. Steven Hoskinson offers a different possibility. Not a return, an arrival. Something opens through the wound that was never open before.

In this conversation with Archita, Steven explains why the body is already moving toward wholeness, how the negativity bias quietly cancels every moment of relief, and why healing may begin by looking outward, not inward. A gentle, science-grounded invitation to stop fighting your own process.

About the Guest:

Steven Hoskinson is the founder of Organic Intelligence and an internationally recognised teacher, author, and innovator in post-trauma growth. Over more than 20 years he has trained thousands globally, taught with the JFK School of Psychology, and was featured in Dr. Mark Hyman's Broken Brain docu-series.

Key Takeaways:

• Recovery and growth are different destinations. One returns you to baseline; the other opens something new.
• The brain predicts more than it reacts. Feed it the present through the senses and it prepares you for now, not for then.
• Orientation is the first step: let your attention go outward into the environment before going inward.
• Steep in feeling better for seconds, not minutes, then return to orientation before the "yeah, but" arrives.
• Healing isn't done to trauma. It emerges in the person, and the work is largely to stop interfering.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: https://organicintelligence.org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenhoskinson/

Programs mentioned: The End of Trauma course, OI Coach Certification

Episode Chapters: (approx.)

[00:00] The Story We Tell About Trauma: survive, recover, return

[03:40] Recovery vs Growth: coming back with scars, or coming back changed

[08:15] Holding Up a Mirror: the body's own impulse toward wholeness

[13:00] The Negativity Bias: why relief gets stamped void

[17:30] Orientation: coming back to your senses, literally

[22:10] Home Base and Small Ventures: two seconds of feeling better

[27:00] Where to Go Deeper with Organic Intelligence

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Professional success won't protect you from personal collapse, no matter how strong you think you are. This episode of I Awaken sits with that hard truth directly. Host Nazish talks with structural engineer and entrepreneur Jasper Calcara about the cracks we quietly ignore beneath outer success, and what it takes to actually repair them before the weight becomes too much.

Jasper shares how nearly 30 years of building businesses came to a breaking point after the loss of his business partner, a close family member, and eventually his marriage, and how he rebuilt using a framework drawn directly from his structural engineering background. This conversation offers a grounded, literal way to think about the difference between a life that merely looks stable and one that actually is.

About the Guest:

Jasper Calcara is a structural engineer and entrepreneur, and President of D.H. Charles Engineering, with nearly 30 years of experience building businesses and leading teams. After profound personal loss forced him to confront long-ignored inner struggles, he developed the "Be Good, Do Good, Evolve" framework to help others build sustainable, fulfilling lives from the inside out.

Key Takeaways:

• Outer success and inner stability aren't automatically connected. Ignoring inner struggles while chasing achievement often catches up with you eventually.
• The clearest early signs of an unstable inner foundation usually show up in your closest relationships, not in how you perform at work.
• Awareness alone isn't enough. Self-forgiveness is what actually allows you to move forward instead of getting stuck in shame.
• The "Be Good, Do Good, Evolve" framework rests on three pillars: knowing your real strengths and limits, acting with genuine intention toward others, and staying willing to adapt rather than repeating the same approach indefinitely.
• Constantly compensating for an unaddressed weakness quietly drains energy that could otherwise go toward growth. Addressing the weakness directly frees up that capacity.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: https://jaspercalcara.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaspercalcaraofficial

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Welcome to I Awaken — meeting Jasper Calcara (approx.)

[03:00] What people get wrong about outer success and inner wellbeing (approx.)

[08:00] The losses that forced Jasper to finally confront his own cracks (approx.)

[15:00] Where an unstable inner foundation first shows up in daily life (approx.)

[20:00] Awareness, forgiveness, and the danger of staying stuck in shame (approx.)

[24:00] The Be Good, Do Good, Evolve framework explained (approx.)

[29:00] Why addressing your cracks is strength, not weakness (approx.)

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There is a quiet moment many people know, when something you believed about yourself your whole life stops being true, nothing dramatic on the outside, everything different underneath. This episode of I Awaken sits inside that exact moment. Host Architha talks with trauma-informed coach and author Anu Verma about what it really means to wake up to a new way of seeing yourself, and why that shift so often begins in the body before it ever reaches the mind.

Anu shares her own path through burnout, unresolved wounds, and the slow work of coming home to herself, along with why boundaries, self-respect, and rewriting your story are not indulgent but essential. If you have ever sensed an old identity loosening its grip, this conversation offers real permission to let it.

About the Guest:

Anu Verma is a trauma-informed coach and author of "Victim 2 Victor," a memoir and platform built from her own healing journey. She works with people navigating unresolved trauma and past pain toward greater self-trust and self-acceptance.

Key Takeaways:

• Success on the outside does not guarantee fulfillment on the inside. Ask yourself honestly whether you feel grounded, not just whether things look fine.
• Unresolved wounds often trace back to old beliefs about not being worthy or not being enough, and naming them is the first step to loosening their hold.
• Self-respect grows from self-acceptance, and it shows up as boundaries that protect your energy and peace.
• Changing your story starts with one decision, not a complete transformation. Trust that decision even when it feels uncertain.
• Journaling your old story can help you carry its lessons forward while consciously beginning to write a new one.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: https://victim2victor.net

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victim2victor_anuverma

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anuvermaV2V

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuvermav2v

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Welcome to I Awaken — meeting Anu Verma (approx.)

[03:00] What awakening feels like before words come (approx.)

[07:00] Burnout, success, and the wound underneath both (approx.)

[14:00] Why old stories feel unquestionable until they aren't (approx.)

[20:00] Self-respect, boundaries, and refilling your own glass first (approx.)

[26:00] The quiet grief of outgrowing roles others still expect (approx.)

[29:00] One decision, one new chapter (approx.)

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