Are you ready to up your happiness? Did you know there are specific things you can do to increase your well-being and they are accessible at this moment right now? If you are ready to feel better and boost your joy, then join me for this warm and wonderful conversation with Paula Vail. 

Paula is the renowned award-winning author of "Why Am I So Happy" and the Podcast Host of "Elevating Your Life", besides being a Reiki Master & Teacher. Her show introduces experts in the field of happiness and self-improvement for the betterment of mankind.

In 2017, Paula won the International Association of Top Professionals' "Wellness Coach of the Year." She was recently featured in Women of Distinction Magazine for her achievements in her business and in her life! Paula is featured in the health and wellness category. The magazine recognizes many outstanding women for their hard work and achievements. It was such an honor to be recognized alongside these amazing women!

Find out more about Paula at https://www.wellnessinspired.com/

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This is an essential time of healing on the planet and if you are ready to rise to your next level of healing and happiness, then this episode is for you. I am so excited to share this truly wonderful and life affirming interview with the amazing Lisa Tahir.

Lisa is the founder of Psychoastrology® and the author of The Chiron Effect: Healing Our Core Wounds through Astrology, Empathy, and Self-Forgiveness, which has been endorsed by His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama who says, “As a student of Buddhist Science, I have great confidence in the role empathy and forgiveness play in human development. The Chiron Effect, will be of interest to many and will greatly benefit readers."

 Lisa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) for over 20 years certified in EMDR level I, Reiki level II, and as a Thought Coach through the Institute for Transformational Thinking. She resides in Los Angeles, CA and New Orleans, LA.

The Chiron Effect - Healing Our Core Wounds through Astrology, Empathy, and Self-Forgiveness (Inner Traditions Publisher, November 2020)

The Chiron Effect is a guide to using astrology as a diagnostic tool to identify one of 12 core wounds, and heal them utilizing a prescription of psychology, spirituality, and taking personal responsibility. Lisa reveals how to transform your wounds, also experienced as areas of vulnerability that you may edit or hide from others from fear of being rejected or judged, and unconscious patterns that block self-empathy and forgiveness, and prevent you from living your most true and authentic life.

Lisa is the host of the weekly podcast All Things Therapy which she began in 2016. Dedicated to Changing Consciousness One Conversation at a Time, Lisa’s show promotes personal growth and transformation, advancing the conversation on emotional, psychological, physical, financial, and spiritual development. Among her guests in almost 350 episodes are Marianne Williamson, Nancy Levin, John Gray, Ph.D, David Kessler, Katherine Woodward Thomas, Alan Weiss, Judith Orloff, M.D., Ora Nadrich, and many others.

Lisa is also an invited Executive Contributor at Brainz Magazine.

Learn more at www.nolatherapy.com

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Are you ready to tap into your creativity and go beyond what you thought you could achieve? Then get ready for this inspiring conversation with Katrina Pfannkuch. Katrina is a creative consultant, project manager, producer, writer, editor, podcaster, and mindset coach. She collaborates and coaches with artists, and creative entrepreneurs, to clear creative blocks, gain clarity, generate focus, and create what they envision. Katrina works with these individuals to create a clear artistic vision and business strategy to bring it all to life.

In addition to having blog posts on creativity and mindfulness, she also hosts and produces a podcast called Flirting with Enlightenment. She covers “everyday life” topics, and offers practical suggestions on how to tap into your own inner wisdom to create and foster a growth mindset. 

Learn more at https://creativekatrina.com/

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Do you know that your dreams are your internal GPS to self-knowledge and personal development?

Join me for this fascinating conversation about how you can utilize your dreams to tap into deep wisdom as I speak with the amazing author of Dream Guidance, Machiel Klerk.

Machiel is a social entrepreneur, licensed mental health therapist, international speaker, dream worker, and published author. Machiel founded the organization Jung Platform based on a night-time dream. This organization focuses on providing quality programs for personal development from a soul-centered perspective. Machiel is an internationally recognized and gifted dream worker. His book Dream Guidance, published by Hay House shows how one can connect and find guidance from the soul through dreams. He travels extensively to Africa, Europe, and the United States and lectures on soul-oriented psychological topics. He has also been a mental health therapist since 2006.

Learn more at https://machielklerk.com.

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What if you could talk to God? What do you imagine you would hear? How would your life be different if you knew that you were intimately connected to the Divine and that wisdom, love, and support were only a breath away when you paused to listen? 

In this extraordinary episode, I speak with beloved author, international speaker, and modern-day spiritual messenger, Neale Donald Walsch. Neale has published 33 titles in the past 20 years, including the Conversations with God books, which have been translated into 37 languages and read by millions.

He has lectured on every continent and facilitated extended personal renewal retreats across the globe, creating, as well, both short-form and year-long online programs, with every outreach designed to assist people in applying a revolutionary spiritual approach to life. 

Our heart-to-heart, magnificent conversation explores the topics of Divine connection, suffering, true compassion, eternity, and how you can begin to transform your own life, adding to the rising collective of higher consciousness and positive world change. Get ready to ignite your spirit and add joy to your soul, here, on this episode of Igniting the Spark. 

Learn more at  http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com

Neale's latest book: God Talks - Experiences of Humanity's Connections with a Higher Power - https://a.co/d/17JdSJR

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Can you rewire your brain to experience more joy, peace, and happiness by dropping more fully into your heart? Holly Copeland, MA is a former conservation scientist turned certified Human Potential coach and NeuroMeditation teacher, sound healer, and Reiki master. She is a practitioner and teacher of non-dual awareness and subtle energy meditation techniques and uses neurotechnology, Reiki, and tuning forks in transformative quantum healing experiences and in her coaching work.

Holly's childhood passion for maps, the environment, technology, and spirituality initially led her to a 25-year career as a conservation scientist mapping the Earth's ecosystems with GPS. Heartbroken by the state of the planet coupled with a personal health crisis, she set out on a new path of healing and transformation. She shifted her focus from exterior to interior and rewired her brain to a state of resilience and joy.

As a scientist and biohacker who unites ancient wisdom with modern science, Holly now harnesses modern technology and neuroscience to empower others on their path to human flourishing and upgrading from “ordinary mind" to luminous awareness. She guides people out of the muddy waters of the thinking mind to live in flow joyfully and effortlessly from their own inner compass--their own stable ground of being.

 Holly’s website: https://www.heartmindalchemy.com.

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Are you ready to up the love, communication, and wellbeing in your life? Join me for my soul-filled conversation with the highly regarded love & relationship coach and the author of Soul Statements – A Love Coach’s Guide To Successful Communication, Corey Lyon Folsom.

Corey has been a professional tracker, aboriginal skills instructor, wilderness guide for newly sober people, and a vision quest leader. After a spiritual soul-awakening, Corey participated in Ipsalu, Source School of Tantra Yoga, Love Coach Academy, and Tony Robbins programs.

As a certified NLP practitioner and love & relationship coach, he assists people from all over the world to increase the soulfulness, clarity, and ease with which they experience life. Corey's passionate about helping people expand their empathy and uplevel communication skills.

Corey’s new book, Soul Statements, is a guide for increasing inner clarity and for better communication. It offers simple methods for making small shifts that produce outsized benefits in love and life. Along the way, readers will be inspired and engaged with stories from his wilderness experiences and real-life examples of persons who’ve used Soul Statements to increase personal fulfillment.

Learn more at https://corerelationship.com

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Are you ready to take a little mini-retreat that will greatly improve your wellbeing? Come join me for an episode that will give you some of the golden nuggets from the retreat I just led in Sayulita, Mexico. You will learn some of the potent tools for self-transformation and how to cultivate a loving relationship with yourself. 

As you befriend yourself more deeply, you not only give others the permission to do the same, you become a magnet for attracting more joy, peace, and happiness in your life as well. 

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Pick up my latest book Becoming Fierce about how to live life fully, embodying the powerful, passionate, fiery energy that is the authentic expression of you!

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With gratitude and much love to you listener!

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Have you ever met someone who is sunshine in a bottle? Someone who is fully lit up because they are living their dreams and by living their dreams so fully they inspire you to do the same? Well get ready be lit up as I speak to former Host of Nick Jr. & Radio Disney, award-winning actress, screenwriter, producer, singer, songwriter & 3X Voice Arts Awards nominated Voice Over Artist, Hillary Hawkins.

Hillary is the creator of “Stuck For A Reason” which aired on ABC, CBS, NBC & FOX as a part of “African American Short Films” and is currently starring as Sunny Love in “Actors Anonymous Hotline”, a series which she created to help actors in need of tender love and care.

In between writing, directing, casting, producing and starring in episodes of “Actors Anonymous Hotline”, Hillary narrates children’s books and creates lyrics and melodies as a Christian Music Artist. Some of her albums include “Let’s Imagine A World of Love”, “Love Lessons 101”, “Sweet Dreams” & “Love Lessons 102”, available on Amazon, Apple Music, Pandora and more. Over 100 audiobooks narrated by HILLARY HAWKINS are available on Audible.com including “Oprah”, “Your Word Is Your Wand”, “Creative Mind & Success”, “The Game of Life and How to Play It” and several Books of the Bible.

In addition to being the voice of numerous spiritual self-help books, Hillary’s voice can be heard in commercials and videos for Lego, Disney, UNICEF, World Health Organization, AT&T, Verizon, American Red Cross, World Bank, Make-A-Wish Foundation and much much more. She also is author of the Amazon Bestselling Book “How To Become A Voice Over Artist Spiritual Keys To Success” which ranked #1 New Release in 3 Categories: Teen & Young Adult Careers, Teen & Young Adult TV & Radio and Teen & Young Adult Performing Arts E-books.

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

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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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