Journey to There

Traci’s favorite thing about Andrew Holecek? He teaches on the opportunities that exist in obstacles.

In this episode:

Find more about the thrill of waking up in your dreams and having the time of your life in the privacy of their own mind.

Tips on making better use of the combined 50 hours a week the average person spends in slumber and turn part of it into a life-transforming experience.

Drawn to the concept of Lucid Dreaming as a vehicle for awakening or spiritual expansion

You can add up to six years of your life by leveraging your lucid dreams.

Every human being on this planet sleeps and dreams.

Have you ever wondered what’s going on when you sleep and dream?

What are those shadowy states of consciousness we all share?

Are they mere rest that serves no other purpose than rejuvenating your physical body?

What if there was more to the story?

What if those were the greatest missed opportunities of humankind?

Takeaway:

Honor your dreamstate by starting to journal your dreams.

QUOTES:

We can add 6 years to our life by attaining awareness of our dream experience.

~Andrew Holecek

The unconscious mind dictates much of our conscious mind.

~Andrew Holecek

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Which came first the partnership or the friendship? What are the personal and professional impacts..either way? Our guest, Jessica Rhodes & Margy Feldhuhn, share how they co-create together in business and life.

In this episode:

• Advantages of having a business partner vs being a solo entrepreneur.
• What happens to your perspective when you shift from being someone’s employee to being someone’s business partner?
• Learn 3 reasons why having a business partner can make you a better business owner.
• Your best friends and business partners. What happens when the sh*t hits the fan at work?
• How can business partners utilize each others strengths to fill gaps in the weak areas?
• Why are venture capitalists afraid of partnerships and spouses that work together?
• Why you should sign a business pre-nup before official business partners?

Takeaway:

There is no better way to problem solve than to bounce ideas off someone else and get their perspective. If you don't have a business partner then seek out an accountability partner or find other business entrepreneurs in your same industry or of a similar age and exchanges ideas for creative business solutions.

How you feel is not a result of what other people are doing it's all about how you are processing what other people are doing and then internalizing it. Pay attention to you are saying in your head about yourself and about other people. Feelings are not always factual.

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There's nothing more rewarding than seeing other women break down the barriers of fear, and realizing that they are worthy of all their deepest desires. Our guest, Rachel Joy is a Lifestyle Designer, helping women create the life and biz of their dreams. It's her job to guide women how to manifest their dreams into reality.

In this episode:

~ How do essential oils work effectively in Holistic Health Healing?

~ There's nothing more rewarding to me than seeing other women break down the barriers of fear, and realizing that they are worthy of all their deepest desires.

~  Let’s talk hustle vs Align.  Does exterior world reflected my inner world

~ How to tell your old stories to stop talking to you. Replace the language

~ Why are morning rituals so important to personal and business growth

~ The only way to effectively change your state is by changing your physiology. How do you change your physiology, you may ask?

Resources:

Rachel Joy is a Lifestyle Designer, helping women create the life and biz of their dreams. As a certified Health Coach, Personal Trainer, Addiction Counsellor, and lover of personal development and other "woo-woo" things, it's my job to guide to manifest their dreams into reality.

Rachel Joy - www.theracheljoy.com

Facebook: @healthybodyhappyheart1

Instagram: @theracheljoy1

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Everyone is looking for the magic pill but taking the long road leads to better results not only in weight loss but also in life. Our guest, Jessi Culyer, is a wife and a mom of 3 kids who is passionate about helping women figure out the missing link in their health.

In this episode:

~ Do your homework on nutrition and understand what it is that you're taking in.

~ Did you know sugar is 8x more addicting than cocaine?

~  Shop the perimeter of the grocery store not the internal aisles.

~ If you think of your entire life as a puzzle. There are different pieces of the puzzle that all have to be there in order for you to be healthy.

~ There is a lot of misinformation and confusion about the food industry and in the weight loss industry. This is mainly due to the fact they are large profit centers and the confusion is by design.

~You’ve got to do more than just sit in front of your computer and sniff lavender all day to be healthy

Takeaway:

Think about decisions that you make out of habit - At any point you're feeling resistant to change stop and pause in that moment and ask yourself “Am I doing this because it's what's best for me? Or “Am I doing this because it's something I've always done?

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Barrie Risman is widely regarded as one of Canada’s most highly skilled yoga educators, teacher–trainers and mentors. She conveys the essence of the wisdom teachings of yoga with exceptional clarity, insight, and relevance to students of all levels and from all walks of life.

Yoga classes can be intimidating. It is ok to admit it.

Barrie shares her experience of  her immersion into the practice of yoga. From 1997-2003, Barrie served as a full-time staff member for the SYDA Foundation in India and the US, immersed in the study and practice of all the traditional yogic disciplines.

Can yoga increase your sex drive?

Spiritual Yoga practices vs Physical Yoga practices or can you do both?

How do you get past the physical challenges if that is what is blocking you?

What is the one important thing to do before you begin a yoga class?

The word YOGA refers to a state of union between body, breath and mind but it also refers to everything we do to connect to that state.

What exactly is HOT yoga?

The importance of teaching mindfulness in schools.

Progress in yoga is to respond to the same situation in a different way.

Everything we do in yoga is a microcosm for life. A field for experimenting for how we live our lives.

Takeaway:

~ You only need to have 2 things to start a yoga practice. A yoga mat and the willingness to learn

~ You don’t have to be interested in spirituality at all to get the benefits of yoga

~Before you start a yoga class give yourself an opportunity to check in with yourself. Allow yourself to be present

~ Breathe into your challenges. It builds the muscle to do that in all areas of your life

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Michelle Pippin, Founder of WOW (Women who WOW!) shares her powerful drive behind supporting women entrepreneurs while focused on building her own business.

In this episode:

Go big or go home - is more than just about the money. It is a mindset.

Exploring the myth of NOT selling in entrepreneurship.

WHY IN THE WORLD should we pay ourselves LESS than a company would pay us?

WHY wouldn’t we go into business determined to make FAR more  than we’d ever make elsewhere? After all… we get to choose.

What factors to consider when setting your prices?

Just say no. Some business opportunities are not always a fit for your GROWTH.

You choose your industry. If it doesn’t work out. You have the choice to make a change.

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Traci returns after an unexpected podcast sabbatical and she has some explaining to do!

A candid conversation about aging parents, dominating personalities, shutting down and coming back. 

What caused her to shut down? How are things now? She shares behind the scene personal circumstances which led to old behavior habits of avoidance, people pleasing, isolation and how getting to the other side was more challenging for this time than ever before.

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Journey to There is debuting it’s new series of Ladies Room episodes. These episodes are designed to dig deeper on issues you feel like you would want to talk about with your girlfriend. Those questions and topics you would only feel comfortable asking a really close friend.

Traci kicks off the premiere “Ladies Room” episode by hosting her long time best friend of 35 years. Tammy Jacobs and Traci met in high school and have shared life ever since.

Russ plays the best friend version of the newlywed game with Traci and Tammy to see how well they really do know each other!

Listen as they discuss how shared experiences boost bonding and why that is important.

Traci and Tammy successfully navigated working together in a highly competitive work environment. How did they do it and stay such close friends?

Traci and Tammy’s keys to success to long term friendships? Respect. Respect personally, professionally. Respect each others relationships and respect each others confidence.

Take time for each other. Challenges of technology give you an artificial sense of closeness. Make sure to keep close by spending time together that is real quality time. 

“Lifelong friends not only know the person you are, but also the person you were,” explains Irene Levine, Ph.D., a psychologist and creator of The Friendship Blog. “Having that shared history makes it easier to communicate in shorthand. They understand your roots and may have been witness to other important people and events in your life.”

Create a friendship memory milestone where you can always rely on each other to share it with you during good times and bad times.

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Living simply is not always easy. It is not a destination it is a journey. Before you even begin to  simplify you will need to identify how you define simple, where your life is complicated and explore why you seek simplicity in the first place.

Humans have the tendency to over complicate the simple.

About 5% to 7% of adults in the U.S. are pursuing some form of voluntary simplicity, according to Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute in New York.

Simple is relative. Everyone’s definition is different.

You need to know where your life is complicated before you can simplify it.

How do you know when enough is enough?

What does embracing simplicity mean to you?

Why are you seeking simplicity?

What are some steps large or small you can take to live more simply?

How is your debt load? In a study published in 2000 in the journal Social Science & Medicine, researchers from Ohio State University and the University of Alabama found that people with a high ratio of credit card debt to income were in worse physical health than those with less debt.

Here’s a thought...

If you are willing to honor the four agreements as outlined by don Miguel Ruiz then your life is immediately more simple.

Takeaways:

Consolidate emails- Minimize multiple emails by using the Google Apps feature lets you use an alias feature so you can consolidate them.

Purse in a Purse - Ladies, Buy a small purse that holds your cash, credit cards, phone and a lipstick. You can switch purses quickly and make sure you have everything on the go.

Time block your days so all of your in=person or phone meetings are in all on the same day or half of a day and reserve the other day to focus on administrative or other focused work.

In a study published in 2000 in the journal Social Science & Medicine, researchers from Ohio State University and the University of Alabama found that people with a high ratio of credit card debt to income were in worse physical health than those with less debt.

If you don’t have the cash flow – it is a no go.

Resources:

Define simple. It means different things to different people

http://simplicitycollective.com/what-does-the-simple-life-mean-to-you

Identify areas in your life where you can simplify.

https://www.positivityblog.com/simplicity-habits/

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/cut-stress-simplify-life#2

The Four Agreements

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005BRS8Z6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

QUOTE

If you don’t have the cash flow – it is a no go.

@TraciDeForge  #debtfree              

You need to know the areas your life are complicated before you can simplify it.

@TraciDeForge #embracesimplicity

How do you know when enough is enough?

@TraciDeForge   #itsnotaboutthemoney

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Can I ask you a question?

Traci sits down to do her morning journal and an episode is born! It starts with a conversation with herself and then evolves into a fun experiment for you! Listen as she reads out loud from her journal pages and then proposes...Can I ask you a question?

IN THIS EPISODE:

I have a thought provoking but fine experiment for you to try. How I came about this experiment was actually a happy accident. You may know that part of my new activities I put it into my schedule this year includes writing and journaling 3 pages every morning before I check my email

This morning when I went to do my page is something fascinating happened and I thought I would share it with you and see if you want to give it a try and see if you've found it to be as insightful as I did. When I do these pages I just sit down and the are completely blank. I just write the first thing that comes to my mind. This morning the first thing that came to my mind was... Can I ask you a question? which is feels a little odd when you're writing that and you're in THE ONLY ONE you're talking to! But I went with it because it was the first thing that came to my mind, right?

I thought I might read you my actual journal entry based on the fact that I prompted myself with...Can I ask you a question. Now, don't get scared about getting inside of my head. It's not as dangerous of a place as you might think! Here we go. I write,

 Can I ask you a question? What would happen if you release the fear   of any outcome?

 And then did whatever you wanted to do with your time?

 How would you spend it?

 Would you still work as much as you do?

 Or would you play more? What does play look like to you?

 Do you know how to play?

Would you play creatively? like go to a studio and play? Would you make art? Would you paint? Would you make jewelry? Would you put beads on canvas? Would you write what would you write about your experiences?

What is the most profound experience that comes to mind? Is it painful? Has the pain fully healed? How could you heal it further? Can your pain help others avoid pain? Can it help them walk through it more swiftly more thoughtfully with a new perspective?

 As pause here. I realize I can see the funnel of what's happening in this most unexpected experience.

 My exercise of doing this first brought me back to dead center of an issue I struggle with constantly. How to play was the first thing that came up in the stream of consciousness. Yet as I kept asking myself the questions I expose the layers of what was really most important to me. Where I would spend my time and how I would spend it. What evolved out of the process was I would spend the time creating whether it is writing or art or even strategy in business.

 I create with the sole purpose of healing my painful moments or so I can help someone else have a new perspective on their painful experiences or just even to give insight on how to avoid them altogether.

 And then…. I realize I AM  doing what my soul craves.

 I am using my voice my stories my lessons on this show.

 Sharing them on this show which is really what feels like play to me. Problem solved in three pages or less. There you have it!

How you spend your time is probably one of the most important questions you can ask yourself. Second only to... how would you spend it differently?

Taking a look at how you spend it differently presents an area where you could either feel disconnected void or seeking something soothing to heal an avoidance which opens up the question... Why don't you spend your time on this one area you crave so much?  Is it based on fear? What is driving the fear? When you figure out the one thing that you need or want to do more of is also the one thing you do not know how to do. Literally, figuratively, physically, or  emotionally dont know how to...