Inner Monologue

This week's guest on Inner Monologue is Entrepreneur and Artist, Antoinette Cauley.  In this profoundly diverse conversation, we begin our conversation discussing our different struggles with mental health issues and even touch upon a discussion of race issues. We also share stories of frustration and inconvenience in terms of handling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Social Anxiety. Antoinette shares her journey of success to becoming a full time artist. She talks about the stress of making ends meet, building confidence through each painting and art show and how she has ultimately used art as a tool for self discovery. 

This week's guest on Inner Monologue is Yoga Teacher, Meditation Guide and Sound Healer, Hamid Jabbar.  Hamid shares his experiences with spiritual drive-by, which he  considers to be a transformational life experience that alters your life course to a new chapter. Due to several of these experiences, he shifted his life from stressful living in Los Angeles as a lawyer to a meditative yogic lifestyle.  We also discuss the value of applying what one learns in yoga and meditation into real world scenarios.

This week on Inner Monologue podcast we have storyteller and organizer of Chatterbox Storytelling, Jessie Balli.  Chatterbox Storytelling is a local weekly storytelling event in downtown Phoenix. We begin our conversation  reflecting upon the function of the storyteller within society. Jessie also shares how she got involved with storytelling. There is a very profound community building that takes place in sharing stories, which ultimately allows us to learn from one another and connect.

This week on Inner Monologue podcast we have artist Andrew Morales. Andrew is currently a tattoo apprentice at Old Town Ink in Scottsdale, AZ. In addition to tattooing, Andrew is a painter, digital graphic artist and also involved in block carving for making his own customized t-shirts.  He shares his journey of apprenticeship as well as its origin. He has gained profound experience and knowledge through the wild antics and fellowship of the artists in the shop. He also reflects on an odd experience he had with a customer and their request for the most unconventional place to get a tattoo.

This week on Inner Monologue podcast we have filmmaker and creator of The Just Be Love Project, Ann Cabano. The Just Be Love Project is dedicated to education, awareness, and inspiring action for social justice and human rights issues through educational events and socially conscious films.  She is inspired by becoming your own hero, succeeding and achieving your own dreams while connecting to others authentically. With over a decade of being a holistic teacher at Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, she shares the emotional responsibility that we need to have to find a balance for ourselves in self care. She opens up about the importance of taking care of yourself and healing your internal world in order to connect to the outside world. She also reflects on the projects she is developing, including a documentary film and the power of getting out of your own way to claim your greatness.

This week's guest on Inner Monologue podcast is musician, Rob Riccardo.  Born and raised in Long Island, NY, Rob found passion in skateboarding, surfing and music.  Living near beaches, he shares the potent influence the ocean had on him and its healing and meditative power. Rob opens up about his experience working at Fox News in New York City, his love for long distance running and the inevitable need to find a slower pace for his life by moving to the desert. We also discuss his recommitment to his music and the inspiration for his debut album, The Calm Within.

This week's guest on Inner Monologue podcast is loss survivor, Jen Scott Innocenti.  Jen lost her husband to suicide in the beginning of 2016. She opens up to share her story of loss and how she responded to the traumatic experience, as well as the healing journey she embarked upon. Jen made a conscious decision to seek out professional help, gain support from community and learn different tools that inspired her and her three young boys to heal.

This week on Inner Monologue podcast we have Pamela Argust, co-founder and Curriculum Coordinator of Mindful Youth Project, a local non-profit organization dedicated to educating youth with mindfulness, connection to nature and conscious awareness. We discuss the power of raising children who are conscious in the world and how our current educational systems don't provide a platform for children to truly play and learn about life. We speak about what brought her to the journey of being inspired to support children in this way and the profound effect this can have on her own family and community. She also shares the importance of self expression, giving yourself permission to explore and seeing that you matter by putting your mark in the world. Ultimately our creative expressions in life, in education and what we are involved in allows us to learn more about who we are as people and supports the youth of our world. 

This week on Inner Monologue podcast we have artist Erik Booker joining us for a second time to chat about some really powerful topics and relevant perspectives for our society and world at large.  We discuss race in pop culture and the concept of white washing in film, with the predominant race in main stream movie culture being white.  With our background in nerd and pop culture, we dissect several movies and the concepts and roles of race for popular characters in films. 

​This week on Inner Monologue podcast we have Therapist, Jane Fendelman. She works with individuals, families and couples in counseling sessions. Through her work, she developed a technique to heal old childhood trauma and sexual assault.  We discuss the vulnerability of men sharing their emotions and men's body image issues. She shares the sexual assault experience she had as a child which led her into her own journey learning to cope with the difficulty of that occurrence.  We discuss the concept of being in denial of a traumatic experience and then  being authentic with ourselves in order to heal.  Her path of purpose evolved from leaving job positions that weren't the best fit for her interests and she opened up an after school program for latchkey children. She was inspired to open the school due to her own experiences of being deeply lonely after school and engaging in unhealthy habits.  Her own journey of healing and trauma fueled her life's mission of all of her dreams and service to help others in her field, being the figure for others to believe in them and ultimately offer healing support.