Igniting the Spark

We all know how important it is to have goals and make plans for how we want to live our lives. Have you thought about how you would want the ending of your life to be? Why would that be important and how does it enhance our ability to live more fully now?

These and many other questions are answered in this week's episode when I meet with the Spiritual Director of Empowered Endings, Elizabeth Uslander.

Elizabeth and her husband Bob Uslander, MD are on a mission to transform the experience of Life, at any stage in the face of illness and dying. They help individuals and their loved ones move beyond fear and discomfort when facing a serious illness or the end of life so they can live as full, present, and peaceful as possible, until their last breath.

Bob, who’s been practicing medicine for more than 30 years (22 of them in the Emergency Room), saw firsthand that the quality of most patients' end of lives was missing. As a result, he co-founded Empowered Endings, with his wife Elizabeth who’s the Spiritual director, to support people through their end of Life.

In this conversation, we discuss the significance of open and honest conversations about mortality and the value of how planning reduces stress and anxiety allowing freedom to live fully. It is an important conversation that will leave you uplifted and inspired to enjoy the full journey of life.

Learn more at https://empoweredendings.com

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Are you ready to be inspired? My conversation with Lanee Blaise is going to illuminate the way for you to learn how you can have more peace and happiness in your life, actualize your dreams, and add your original spark to help light up the world.

Lanee is a Television and Film Writer, Motivational Speaker, and a Podcaster, as Co-Host of Imagine Yourself Podcast.

Lanee is married to her college sweetheart, mother of a wonderful daughter and a son, and part of a big, loud family. Her life experience has blessed her with an inspired perspective that she uses to ignite other’s to imagine and live their best lives.

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Are you ready to step into abundance and true wealth in your life but don't know how to get there? What if you had the specific steps that could lead you on a journey to discover your abundant life from the inside out?

Get ready for a high-charge, high-energy, deeply inspiring interview as I speak with author, motivational speaker, and senior minister of Unity Chicago, Rev. James Parker about the journey to unparalleled abundance and success.

Rev. James brings all of his rich experience and wisdom to the pages of his new publication, The Wealth Spark book. In this interview, we dive into this rich content that will help you discover your potential and create an abundant, and fulfilling life. He offers transformative exercises, profound insight, and tools to help you unleash the power from within.

Michael Bernard Beckwith states, "This book will start you firmly on the path to stepping into your greater-yet-to-be. Take it in and be abundantly blessed."

I hope this episode truly blesses you!

Learn more at https://www.thewealthsparkbook.com

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How do you recover from an addiction and is it possible to rewire your brain for better habits and a healthier lifestyle? These and many more questions are answered on this high-energy episode of Igniting the Spark with my guests Emergo Academy co-founders, Susan and Dave Kenney. 

What Is Emergo Academy? Emergo Academy created programs based on the principles of a brain-first approach to thriving: physiology, biology, spirit, connections, and Lifestyle. Susan and Dave created a breakthrough approach that recognizes the undeniable connection between your brain and your behavior, based on cutting-edge modalities in neuroscience, positive psychology, functional medicine and so much more.

Their dream is to make an impact. Their goal is to teach and certify 1,000 coaches, who each help 1,000 clients by 2026—the result means over 1,000,000 people and their families can thrive by learning what truly drives these debilitating behaviors.

Learn more at https://www.emergoacademy.com/

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What is important when we are looking for a partner? What are the key elements that are important to finding lasting love and creating a future together?Join High-Performance Coach, Chiropractor, Professional Speaker and My Husband, Morgan Oaks, as we discuss the essentials we learned from past relationships, what the tools and tricks are to making love last, and the realities of navigating a long-term relationship where you and your partner can grow individually as well as together. 

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Are you ready to take a quantum leap into hope and your heart in 2024? In this interview I talk with Phoenix Rose about her new book, Hope and Heart, A Quantum Leap into the Aquarian Age, where she encourages you to trust in yourself, and follow your intuition to guide you to a more expanded and meaningful life. 

Hope and Heart, A Quantum Leap into the Aquarian Age (fifty years a student of metaphysics, a long time Rosicrucian, amateur astrologer, and lover of science and nature), and was published by Balboa Press. Her book is an inspirational, multi-faceted poetry and prose anthology about love, nature, optimism, self-reflection, and a new understanding of consciousness and science through Quantum physics.

Theoretical Quantum physicist, Amit Goswami, PhD., whom she frequently quotes from his numerous books, contends that “not matter, but consciousness, is the basis of all being.” If accepted by all science, this could prove the notion of an interconnectedness – a Oneness - of all life, and radically change the thinking of humanity. One day this could reunite science and spirituality.

The Poetry section is divided into six themes: Nature, Innocence, Going Within, Love, Aspiration and Joy. Mostly written since 2006, but ranging from 1963 to the present, her sixty poems are 'sprinkled' with the author's burgeoning artwork.

Her prose is Aiming High, Quantum Hope, A Paradigm Shift in Science and Peace Begins Within.

The author shares that we have responsibility and creative power to elevate our consciousness toward a higher level, our Home Sweet Home; and quoting Rumi, who said, “What you seek is seeking you.” Finally, she admonishes us to “Keep anticipating your creative Quantum leaps and always have hope!”

Phoenix Rose has an Associate of Arts and Sciences degree from North Lake College near Dallas, Texas, and at the University of Texas at Arlington, was inducted into the Alpha Chi Scholastic Honor Society.

A writer, artist, student of life, and perennial volunteer, she studied astrology in the 1970s with Arlene Kramer, Uranian astrologer and former president of the American Federation of Astrologers, and later studied with Mae R. Wilson-Ludlam, PMAFA.

In Ontario, the author is a member of several local community groups – one for Climate Action, another to preserve nearby wetlands, and two writers’ groups. She has developed and facilitated numerous community workshops on metaphysical and spiritual topics.

In her spare time, she enjoys Taoist Tai Chi, yoga, forest bathing, gardening, reading mostly non-fiction and historical fiction. To recharge her creative “well” she especially relishes taking walking meditations along the beaches of Georgian Bay, Ontario and those near Charleston, SC with her husband. They recently retired after twenty years of ballroom dancing lessons. The mother of three, she has six grandchildren, and wants the best future for them and all humanity.

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Do New Year's resolutions really work? What makes it so hard to set resolutions and then truly follow through for ourselves?

This week on Igniting the Spark, Stephanie James brings you the ideas and inspiration to create your best life in 2024. By looking back over the last year, she helps you design a plan for creating real change and real movement in your life, so you aren't just surviving the next year, you are lit up and thriving through it! 

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Are you ready to increase your confidence and experience more wellbeing? Then join me for this episode with Confidence Coach Anna Gradie. 

Anna Gradie is a Confidence Coach for women in tech. Using science-backed tools, she helps her clients increase their confidence, accelerate their performance, and build strong relationships. In 2010, she co-founded and scaled an EdTech company into a multi-million-dollar business. She was the COO and head of HR but noticed a huge gender gap in the industry. After a successful exit in 2020, she created her coaching business. Anna’s purpose is to help close the gender confidence gap and to accelerate equality in the tech industry by empowering women. 

-Get her free 5-Step Confidence Guide

-Book a free Confidence Booster session

-Connect with her on LinkedIn

-Visit www.annagradie.com

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How are you? I hope the holidays are wonderful for you. I know that for some people, the holidays also can bring with them some grief for those we have lost. How do we most effectively heal our hearts and move towards joy? Join me this week with my very special guest, Author, Podcaster, Speaker, and founder of the Grief and Happiness Alliance, Emily Thiroux Threatt. Jack Canfield, Michael Beckwith and Marci Shimoff all recommend Emily's amazing work at helping people heal, grow, and thrive again in their lives.

Emily wrote the book Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief: A Comprehensive Guide to Reclaiming and Cultivating Joy and Carrying on in the Face of Loss which provides guidance for navigating the downs and ups of that unfamiliar territory.

She felt something was missing in the work she was doing, and through the inspiration of author Marci Shimoff, she recognized the importance of helping people discover how allowing happiness to coexist with grief is essential. She created the popular podcast Grief and Happiness, but she knew she wanted to do more.

To help provide comfort, support, love, and happiness to those dealing with grief and loss, she founded the Grief and Happiness Alliance. This group meets on Zoom weekly to write about dealing with grief and to learn happiness practices. These meetings and other services are provided by the Grief and Happiness Alliance Nonprofit Organization so there is no charge to those who attend.

Emily retired on the beautiful island of Maui in Hawaii after a rich and varied career of teaching writing and owning and operating business ranging from an ambulance company to a live theatre, to a school of arts and more.

She spends her time now writing and teaching others how to deal with grief and loss and she teaches happiness practices.

Learn more about Emily at https://lovingandlivingyourwaythroughgrief.com/

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Are you aware that you are not alone? What if you realized that no matter where you are or what your current situation may be, you are actually one of the essential golden threads in the tapestry of humanity?

My very special guest this week is Evolutionary Pioneer, Author, Global Speaker, and co-founder of Humanity's Team, Steve Farrell. In this episode we talk about Steve's journey from the pinnacle of Silicon Valley success as co-founder of two high-tech firms, to his pivot to lead Humanity’s Team, a global nonprofit helping people everywhere awaken to our interconnectedness. 

Vibrant and engaging, this conversation brings to light how we can get off of the "rollercoaster of life" and move into conscious living where we can experience more happiness in our lives and contribute to the wellbeing of the world as well. Steve also transforms the definition of success in his new book, "A New Universal Dream," and shares with us the key steps in how to live a more conscious life and create a brighter future for us all. 

Farrell is the co-founder (with Neale Donald Walsch) and Worldwide Executive Director of Humanity's Team, a non-profit organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The organization is focused on helping people worldwide awaken to their deeper selves through an awareness of the interconnectedness of everything.

Today, Humanity’s Team has approximately 700,000 friends in over 150 countries. Their projects include the Conscious Business Declaration and the Conscious Business Change Agent (CBCA) certification program; Transformational Education programs in business, science, spirituality, creativity, relationships, healing, and conscious living on the Humanity Stream+ streaming service; free programs from luminaries such as Gregg Braden, Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D, and Lynne McTaggart; the annual Global Oneness Day celebration, created following a Humanity’s Team visit to the United Nations in May 2010; and service projects focused on improving the environment and lives of people worldwide.

EXCITING NOTE: My film, When Sparks Ignite, has now joined the Humanity's Stream Platform and is available at https://stream.humanitysteam.org/browse and https://stream.humanitysteam.org/when-sparks-ignite-by-stephanie-james

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