In this episode I speak with Tahira Jamani about Mindfulness and the search inside yourself for alignment, authenticity and vulnerability. Tahira shares how she dramatically changed her life after realizing how unaligned she was to her purpose. From this place of feeling unaligned she found the courage to change her life from one driven by ego and stress to one filled with alignment and purpose. Learn how she made this transformation with mindfulness and how she is now living her best life. 

About Today’s Guest:

Tahira is a mindfulness coach and founder of The Chain Reaction. She is a certified teacher of the mindfulness based emotional intelligence leadership program that was developed at Google called Search Inside Yourself and was trained at Berkeley University.  Using neuroscience and scientific findings, she makes mindfulness relatable and accessible to create positive change. She has also completed two 10-day silent meditation courses and currently works with individuals, groups and workplaces through one-on-one coaching and workshops.

Connect with Tahira:

• www.chainreaction.life
• @the_chain_reaction_

"This Is Me" tip of the episode:

Listen to your own internal voice. Tahira calls these your "internal jabs" and they will always try to speak to you and its your job to find stillness to listen to them. They are always trying to guide you to your truth and purpose. 

Song of the episode:

Xavier Rudd - True to Yourself 

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Matt Landsiedel is a transformative coach, intuitive, podcast host, and author from Calgary, Canada. Matt specializes in teaching people how to heal shame and embody their authentic self so they can enjoy meaningful connections in their lives. His areas of expertise are working with gay men and people with emotional eating and food addiction leading to weight issues.

Inspired to Be Authentic is a mission Matt has purposefully created. Through his content and coaching, he offers you inspiration to share more of your truth with the world. He does this by teaching you life changing skills and sharing energetic transmissions that inspire you to show up courageously in your own life by practicing vulnerability. 

In his spare time, you can find Matt traveling the world, writing, reading, working out or doing yoga, meditating and contemplating life, spending quality time with family and friends, hanging out with his cat Darryl, watching hockey, and spending time building his coaching business.

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In this episode of the Inspired to Be Authentic podcast I speak with Cam Fraser about penis shame, porn, male sexuality, non-ejaculatory orgasms, and how to explore new ways of enjoying sex as a man. The episode is loaded with tips to improve your sex life and also ways to improve your relationship with yourself and how you view the concept of pleasure.


About Today’s Guest:
Cam is a certified professional sex coach, sexologist, counsellor and tantric yoga teacher. His work integrates scientifically validated, medically accurate information about sexual health with sacred sexuality teachings from the mystery traditions. As a coach, he helps men go beyond surface level sex and into full bodied, self-expressed sexual experiences free of anxiety or shame.


Connect with Cam:

• www.cam-fraser.com
• @thecamfraser

"This Is Me" tip of the episode:
Find ways to release tension in your body because this is best way to begin to connect to your body and start to practice new ways of enjoying sex and intimacy. It is about making space for your body to enjoy the moment and let your mind have a break. Yoga can be a great way to do this. 

Song of the episode:
Jason Gray - I'm Gonna Let It Go

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About the Host:
Matt Landsiedel is a transformative coach, intuitive, podcast host, and author from Calgary, Canada. Matt specializes in teaching people how to heal shame and embody their authentic self so they can enjoy meaningful connections in their lives. His areas of expertise are working with gay men and people with emotional eating and food addiction leading to weight issues.

Inspired to Be Authentic is a mission Matt has purposefully created. Through his content and coaching, he offers you inspiration to share more of your truth with the world. He does this by teaching you life changing skills and sharing energetic transmissions that inspire you to show up courageously in your own life by practicing vulnerability. 

In his spare time, you can find Matt traveling the world, writing, reading, working out or doing yoga, meditating and contemplating life, spending quality time with family and friends, hanging out with his cat Darryl, watching hockey, and spending time building his coaching business.

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In this episode of the Inspired to Be Authentic podcast I speak with Justin Lee about how to practice conscious relationships by sharing soulful intimacy and connection. Justin teaches us his 7 Pillars of Highly Soulful Relationships and we learn about co-creation and the importance of showing up in the fullest expression of who we are when it comes to having a successful intimate relationship. We also talk about abandonment wounds and how this plays into anxious and avoidant attachment styles.


About Today’s Guest:
Through a combination of 1:1 and group work, Justin helps men and women to create the meaningful, empowering relationships they know are possible. His vision is a world where we share deeper intimacy and connection with each other, in and outside of the bedroom. Justin has over a decade of experience in community building and holding intentional spaces across the globe. Trained and mentored by some of the world’s best teachers in conscious relating, somatic awareness, embodied movement, and sacred sexuality, he brings a unique blend of tools, magic, and experience to those seeking a new paradigm for love, connection, and intimacy.


Connect with Justin:

• www.soulfulintimacy.com
• Justin's newsletter
• Facebook
• 7 Pillars of Highly Soulful Relationships

"This Is Me" tip of the episode:
Use the affirmation "It's okay" to be all that you are. Give yourself permission to just be you.


Song of the episode:
Adele - Hiding My Heart

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About the Host:
Matt Landsiedel is a transformative coach, intuitive, podcast host, and author from Calgary, Canada. Matt specializes in teaching people how to heal shame and embody their authentic self so they can enjoy meaningful connections in their lives. His areas of expertise are working with gay men and people with emotional eating and food addiction leading to weight issues.

Inspired to Be Authentic is a mission Matt has purposefully created. Through his content and coaching, he offers you inspiration to share more of your truth with the world. He does this by teaching you life changing skills and sharing energetic transmissions that inspire you to show up courageously in your own life by practicing vulnerability. 

In his spare time, you can find Matt traveling the world, writing, reading, working out or doing yoga, meditating and contemplating life, spending quality time with family and friends, hanging out with his cat Darryl, watching hockey, and spending time building his coaching business.

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In this episode of the Inspired to Be Authentic podcast I speak with IzaBelle Sweet about growing up with a narcissistic mother. She talks openly about the impact this had on her ability to love and accept herself. IzaBelle shares her favourite love-based strategies that help her move through her adversity and enable her to step into her authenticity and own who she is everyday! The episode is loaded with tips and tricks to reconnect to your inner child and begin to live a more playful and authentic life. 

About Today’s Guest:
Izabelle Sweet is a University of Michigan graduate with a degree in Psychology, with a career focused in research. She is a writer and quantum healer with a specialization in inner child healing. She is passionate about helping you release the thoughts that hold you back and keep you small. She wants to teach you how to be your biggest, brightest, most awesome self. Izabelle is a huge proponent of inner child work and is passionate about teaching us how to reconnect with our inner children through playfulness. Izabelle is preparing to publish her new book Adult Kindergarten: Re-schooling the Inner Child to be published by Hay House in June 2022

Connect with IzaBelle:

• Instagram
• Facebook
• YouTube 
• www.izabellesweet.com

"This Is Me" tip of the episode:
Picture your 5 year old self and send love to that inner version of you. Practice self-compassion by finding a photograph or home video of yourself when you were 5 years old and begin to reconnect to that little version of you with a loving heart.  

Song of the episode:
Kelly Clarkson: Broken & Beautiful

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Matt Landsiedel is a transformative coach, intuitive, podcast host, and author from Calgary, Canada. Matt specializes in teaching people how to heal shame and embody their authentic self so they can enjoy meaningful connections in their lives. His areas of expertise are working with gay men and people with emotional eating and food addiction leading to weight issues.

Inspired to Be Authentic is a mission Matt has purposefully created. Through his content and coaching, he offers you inspiration to share more of your truth with the world. He does this by teaching you life changing skills and sharing energetic transmissions that inspire you to show up courageously in your own life by practicing vulnerability. 

In his spare time, you can find Matt traveling the world, writing, reading, working out or doing yoga, meditating and contemplating life, spending quality time with family and friends, hanging out with his cat Darryl, watching hockey, and spending time building his coaching business.

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Will Blunderfield candidly shares tips to move through the spiritual journey while maintaining one of the most important aspects of our authenticity - our sexuality. Will shares some insights about growing up bi-sexual and how he has learned to embrace himself in the fullest expression of who he is. He beautifully weaves his music, yoga practice, nutrition and sexual Kung Fu into his life. Our conversation left me intrigued and wanting to learn more.


About Today’s Guest:
Will Blunderfield has been teaching yoga throughout Canada, the US and Asia for the last 11 years. In 2008, he completed his first training with the Vancouver School of Yoga, followed by a hot yoga certification deeply rooted in the hatha yoga lineage. As he became more fascinated with the mind-body connection, he decided to pursue a degree in psychology at UBC with a minor in Food, Nutrition & Health. He recently completed a kundalini yoga teacher training program, and a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Facilitator training from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Will performs original Kirtan/Sacred Song in his classes, retreats and workshops and his music is released through Nettwerk Records/Sony. Will completed an associate degree in Musical Theater from the American Musical & Dramatic Academy of New York (AMDA). Favourite performances include opening for Ace of Base and working with Brian West, producer of Nelly Furtado, Maroon 5, and Bono on his recent album Wild Horses.


Connect with Will:

• linktr.ee/wblunderfield
• @willblunderfield
• 30 Day Challenge  
• Only fans

"This Is Me" tip of the episode:
Let your mess be your message


Song of the episode:
Will Blunderfield - Dancing in the Rain
Nirinjan Kaur - Kirtan Kriya Short Version (mantra Will spoke about)

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About the Host:
Matt Landsiedel is a transformative coach, intuitive, podcast host, and author from Calgary, Canada. Matt specializes in teaching people how to heal shame and embody their authentic self so they can enjoy meaningful connections in their lives. His areas of expertise are working with gay men and people with emotional eating and food addiction leading to weight issues.

Inspired to Be Authentic is a mission Matt has purposefully created. Through his content and coaching, he offers you inspiration to share more of your truth with the world. He does this by teaching you life changing skills and sharing energetic transmissions that inspire you to show up courageously in your own life by practicing vulnerability. 

In his spare time, you can find Matt traveling the world, writing, reading, working out or doing yoga, meditating and contemplating life, spending quality time with family and friends, hanging out with his cat Darryl, watching hockey, and spending time building his coaching business.

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In this episode of the Inspired to Be Authentic Podcast I speak with Amanda McFadyen about her journey through her own "I am not good enough" story caused by sexual abuse and shame. She openly shares how she has overcome this and is now living her most authentic life.

About Today’s Guest:
Amanda is a single mom of two grown amazing people. She has battled mental health issues, eating disorders, and a host of other self hate based issues due to childhood sexual abuse, and absorbing difficult energy in her life. She is in the field of social work and works with families in crisis to assist them in gaining skills to move towards a more authentic and true sense of self in their lives. Her next steps are to complete a Masters program to further assist individuals in their healing and provide her with the opportunity to further her own. Amanda plans to travel and learn more about the ways cultures come together and support each other in healing and growth. Hers is a journey of healing, growth and helping with no fixed destination.


Connect with Amanda:

• Instagram
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"This Is Me" tip of the episode:
Every time you go to the bathroom say something nice to yourself in the mirror.


Song of the episode:
Fia - Shedding Skins 

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About the Host:
Matt Landsiedel is a transformative coach, intuitive, podcast host, and author from Calgary, Canada. Matt specializes in teaching people how to heal shame and embody their authentic self so they can enjoy meaningful connections in their lives. His areas of expertise are working with gay men and people with emotional eating and food addiction leading to weight issues.

Inspired to Be Authentic is a mission Matt has purposefully created. Through his content and coaching, he offers you inspiration to share more of your truth with the world. He does this by teaching you life changing skills and sharing energetic transmissions that inspire you to show up courageously in your own life by practicing vulnerability. 

In his spare time, you can find Matt traveling the world, writing, reading, working out or doing yoga, meditating and contemplating life, spending quality time with family and friends, hanging out with his cat Darryl, watching hockey, and spending time building his coaching business.

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Gloria Stewart shares her secrets to living a life with more joy by aligning to your purpose. We talk about how to feel more safe to show as yourself and strategies to do this. Gloria shares how she lost 75 pounds by focusing on the emotional aspects of her weight. She has done this by asking herself "what am I actually hungry for?" She realized she was feeding herself physically to fill a need she had to tend to emotionally by going within. Once she started this inner work the weight began to release from her body. 

About Today’s Guest:
Gloria Stewart is an Author and Joy/Abundance Activist who helps individuals and organizations expand their prosperity by moving beyond survival and into joyful thriving. Before writing her book, Being Joy™ she spent more than thirty years as a successful business owner helping social-purpose organizations raise millions of dollars for causes that improve the well-being of individuals and communities. Gloria has also embarked upon a deeper commitment to elevating the human spirit as author of Being Joy™, a 40- Day practice for joyful living. Being Joy™ is a culmination of personal experiences and observations that have led to her conclusion that when people combine purpose with passion, their joy expands. And as they become more joyful, their vibrational frequency increases which improves their overall mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, professional and financial well-being.

Connect with Gloria Stewart:

• www.gloriastewart.ca
• Read her book Being Joy™

"This Is Me" tip of the episode:
Look in the mirror and offer yourself love everyday. Stop body shaming and send love to the things you see that you may not love about yourself. Every aspect of you is beautiful because your body is the vessel that is carrying your soul through life. Your body is the proof that you are living this beautiful expression of consciousness in human form. Embrace it all.  

Song of the episode:
Elijah Ray - Walk with me

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About the Host:
Matt Landsiedel is a transformative coach, intuitive, podcast host, and author from Calgary, Canada. Matt specializes in teaching people how to heal shame and embody their authentic self so they can enjoy meaningful connections in their lives. His areas of expertise are working with gay men and people with emotional eating and food addiction leading to weight issues.

Inspired to Be Authentic is a mission Matt has purposefully created. Through his content and coaching, he offers you inspiration to share more of your truth with the world. He does this by teaching you life changing skills and sharing energetic transmissions that inspire you to show up courageously in your own life by practicing vulnerability. 

In his spare time, you can find Matt traveling the world, writing, reading, working out or doing yoga, meditating and contemplating life, spending quality time with family and friends, hanging out with his cat Darryl, watching hockey, and spending time building his coaching business.

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Blake Spence talks openly about the impact masculinity can have on our ability to be authentic. He shares his journey with us on how he is redefining what it means to be a man and how this is having a positive impact on his relationship with himself and others. He shares a deep personal story about a young gay boy he went to school with who completed suicide and the impact this had on him. Together we share our experience growing up gay and we break down some of the dynamics we've experienced within the gay community. 

About Today’s Guest:
Blake Spence is from Calgary, Canada, has worked in the non-profit sector for 10 years and runs his own LGBTQ focused event company. In 2012 he started a successful, nationally recognized and award winning school based program for young men called “WiseGuyz”. WiseGuyz aimed to teach young men about sexual health, healthy relationships and healthy masculinity. In 2015 Blake was invited to offer a TEDtalk on how his own experiences shaped his work in WiseGuyz and the LGBTQ community. 

Connect with Blake:

• Instagram
• Watch Blake's TEDtalk
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"This Is Me" tip of the episode:
Put a little piece of yourself out there by taking a risk. Try something that is outside your comfort zone because what do you have to lose?

Song of the episode:
Dierks Bentley: Stranger to myself 

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Matt Landsiedel is a transformative coach, intuitive, podcast host, and author from Calgary, Canada. Matt specializes in teaching people how to heal shame and embody their authentic self so they can enjoy meaningful connections in their lives. His areas of expertise are working with gay men and people with emotional eating and food addiction leading to weight issues.

Inspired to Be Authentic is a mission Matt has purposefully created. Through his content and coaching, he offers you inspiration to share more of your truth with the world. He does this by teaching you life changing skills and sharing energetic transmissions that inspire you to show up courageously in your own life by practicing vulnerability. 

In his spare time, you can find Matt traveling the world, writing, reading, working out or doing yoga, meditating and contemplating life, spending quality time with family and friends, hanging out with his cat Darryl, watching hockey, and spending time building his coaching business.

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Seth Santoro shares his very personal relationship with death. He survived cancer and being held at gun point by Mexican cartels. He shares candidly these experiences and how he has overcome his trauma and used this strength to live his most authentic life with purpose and passion. He talks about his "SMILE" method to overcoming trauma from his latest book: How I learned to Smile from the Inside.


About Today's Guest
Seth Eliot Santoro is an Intuitive Business Coach, Author, Medium, HR Advisor, Keynote Speaker, and Death Expert. Seth’s vision is to inspire the world, one by one, to smile and therefore heal from the inside. Author of, “How I Learned To Smile From The Inside,” he believes we can all heal from absolutely anything. Combining his passion for Corporate America, his training as a coach, and his metaphysical gifts of intuition and mediumship, Seth partners with clients to reframe their minds, re-engage in their present, and create a better legacy, future, and fulfilling life for themselves and everyone around them.

Connect with Seth:

• Get Seth’s Book
• SethSantoro.com
• IamSethEliot.com

"This Is Me" tip of the episode:
Practice accepting where you are now in every moment you find yourself. Draw yourself back from the future and into yourself with a moment of presence. Smile to affirm your attention has arrived in the present moment where you can hold yourself in the experience you find yourself. This is the gift of allowance. 

Song of the episode:
Rob Riccardo - The work

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Matt Landsiedel is a transformative coach, intuitive, podcast host, and author from Calgary, Canada. Matt specializes in teaching people how to heal shame and embody their authentic self so they can enjoy meaningful connections in their lives. His areas of expertise are working with gay men and people with emotional eating and food addiction leading to weight issues.

Inspired to Be Authentic is a mission Matt has purposefully created. Through his content and coaching, he offers you inspiration to share more of your truth with the world. He does this by teaching you life changing skills and sharing energetic transmissions that inspire you to show up courageously in your own life by practicing vulnerability. 

In his spare time, you can find Matt traveling the world, writing, reading, working out or doing yoga, meditating and contemplating life, spending quality time with family and friends, hanging out with his cat Darryl, watching hockey, and spending time building his coaching business.

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Inspired to Be Authentic is a podcast where we converse with people who are living their most authentic lives. We get real with our guests and talk openly about how they live with courage to be themselves. We explore barriers they have overcome to be more authentic and aligned to themselves and their purpose.

We ponder the question “how much of me can I be?” By asking ourselves this question, we practice giving ourselves permission to be who we are Now, and who we want to become, through vulnerability. Each episode we play a game where the guest randomly chooses a question from my master list of questions which are predetermined by myself and the audience. This is a fun way to dive deeper into ourselves and explore the more intimate sides of ourselves.

I am on a mission to deeply understand what gives people the courage to show up exactly as they are without feeling the need to hold back aspects of themselves. Authenticity is the expression of alignment, and the Inspired to Be Authentic podcast helps our audience understand what it takes to become aligned with who we are. 

Authenticity is about owning who we are so we can attract what we need in our lives to feel fulfilled. The podcast explores barriers to authenticity such as shame, perfectionism, ego, fears, comparison, judgment, self-animosity, low self-worth, etc. 

The podcast motto's are:
“Our vulnerability is our superpower.”
“If we own who we are, we will attract what we need.”
“Authenticity is the expression of alignment.”
“Alignment is when we no longer choose to reject aspects of ourselves and we choose to love them instead. Then we feel safe to show up exactly as we are.”

"This Is Me" tip of the episode:
Place both hands over your heart and say "This Is Me" and own the energy of who you are exactly as you are in each moment you do it. Whatever energy you find yourself in practice allowance for that and give yourself permission to just be you. 

Song of the episode:
P!nk: the last song of your life

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About the Host:
Matt Landsiedel is a transformative coach, intuitive, podcast host, and author from Calgary, Canada. Matt specializes in teaching people how to heal shame and embody their authentic self so they can enjoy meaningful connections in their lives. His areas of expertise are working with gay men and people with emotional eating and food addiction leading to weight issues.

Inspired to Be Authentic is a mission Matt has purposefully created. Through his content and coaching, he offers you inspiration to share more of your truth with the world. He does this by teaching you life changing skills and sharing energetic transmissions that inspire you to show up courageously in your own life by practicing vulnerability. 

In his spare time, you can find Matt traveling the world, writing, reading, working out or doing yoga, meditating and contemplating life, spending quality time with family and friends, hanging out with his cat Darryl, watching hockey, and spending time building his coaching business.

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