Lessons Lived

Camden Hoch is the founder of the Awareness Transformation Method, creator of the

Truth & Dare podcast, and author of her soul-stirring memoir, Roadmap to Radiance.

She a wisdom-educator, life coach, author, yogini, wife, and mom to two beautiful young

women.

Her Life’s Work unfolds through retreats, speaking, workshops, classes, and

her Digital Sanctuary spaces. She passionately supports her clients to discover

their heart’s true wisdom—from which they create and experience more peace,

power, and prosperity in all aspects of their lives.

Her thought leadership, fueled with her own metamorphosis, makes her

an inspiring and powerful activist for good in the world (one being at a time).

LESSONS:

1) Embody your life-wisdom

2) Live with an open heart.

3) Awareness and resilience are your master keys

SOME QUOTES FROM THE EPISODE:

“I was very empathic, very intuitive, and I would get hurt really easily. And so what I decided to do, whether consciously or subconsciously, whatever I was a child, it was like, how do I best protect myself? The best way was to shut my feelings down.”

“This went on for a really long time in my life and I got very destructive, self-destructive with drugs and alcohol. I tried to kill myself and I was just super low. I really didn't care what happened to me.”

“I'm going to open my eyes more and open my heart a little bit more and, and we're going to go step by step.”

“When there's trauma inside, we do our best to hold it in because it's painful. We shelve it, we compartmentalize it, we put it away. When that pain comes up, the thing to do is to grab that thing that pushes it back down”

“Now the part of that I think that's important to recognize is that we do have feelings and we're not meant to rush through them-- grief, loss, when we move, when we get divorced, even when we get married.. They are changes in life and life's transitions, but we need to give ourselves space to process what it means for us and what is the wisdom that we can garner from those experiences.”

“I call the heart the digestive center of the body with regard to feeling, because we do digest through that emotional center and all kinds of feelings go through it.”

“Part of messing up is part of the practice of life, of being awkward, and of being accepting of ourselves, and of being silly and curious and childlike and all those things. If we're trying to be perfect, we're pushing out the feeling.”

“If we all look at all the people around us, they're the ones who really trigger us from the outside-- when we get pissed at somebody, or we are in pain about something, or somebody just gets under our skin-- that is the person that we can learn the most about ourselves from.”

“I think that we're explorers and the more that we can all be curious about ourselves and about connecting to other people, the more that we can be compassionate towards ourselves and towards others. We're all going through this together.”

“We're always looking for our purpose and our contribution, but it's all right here and it all opens up as we really choose to dive into our deeper personal transformation.”

FIND CAMDEN AT:

https://camdenhoch.com

IG & Twitter @camdenhoch

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Camden’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/Roadmap-Radiance-memoir-Camden-Hoch-ebook/dp/B01GDET0DO

Toan Lam is Founder of Go-Inspire-Go. He's a filmmaker, a storyteller, a motivational speaker, university instructor, and most recently, he's working on a youtube series called Style Your Spirit, which consists of short videos with simple designed tips to have a big impact on your space and your life.

LESSONS:

1) Find your truth

2) You need a spiritual practice

3) Give back to others

SOME QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

“I was eight months old and my parents decided to take all five kids and any family members that wanted to come on a boat in the middle of the night-- we escaped the country… They gave everything up. And we ended up in a refugee camp in Indonesia for a couple of years.”

“Following your truth is hard. Maybe you instead want to be a musician, or own a cupcake shop--if you don't follow that truth, you are betraying yourself. Figure out a way to do what it is that excites you.”

“It's about storytelling and it's about representing other Asian males and the Asian community out there, because there are very few Asian males on air. For me, it’s about inspiring people to be better and do better for themselves and other people.”

“I believe that we should all be more present to the beauty around us. And I'm not just talking about interior design, but the design of nature, or the design of this beautiful, present conversation. Right now, I'm not looking at my phone. I'm looking you in the eye, and speaking with you, and we're sharing this moment. When you are being present to the beauty around you, and then that feeling you get inside you-- something changes.”

“When your home is cluttered or dirty, there's stuck energy there. When there's dust bunnies everywhere, that's stuck energy. Somehow the energy isn't flowing into your life.”

“Worry is like poison, because worry steals the present moment away from you.”

“The biggest thing for you to think about is you still have to make time for you, and doing the things that excite you.”

“So many people are like, ‘You know, when I make more money,’ or ‘When I have more time, I want to do what you're doing.’ And I'm like, ‘No. Now is the time… the next moment is not promised.’”

“Challenges are here to teach us something. That's what they are. If you don't learn from it, it comes in a different way, shape and form-- It will keep coming back.”

FIND TOAN AT:

http://StyleYourSpirit.Co

Max Conserva- Coach at San Francisco Crossfit. He is the creator of Adaptive Athletics and “The Good Leg Project”

Find Max at:

http://maxconserva.com/

LESSONS:

1) If you have a difficult or complicated problem you need to overcome, you need to be the driver of the process

2) Find purpose through solving your personal problems

Some Quotes from the Episode:

“If my opinion of myself is so great, why can I solve the biggest problem in my life, which is my own physical condition and my own perception of my physical condition?”

“Don't let other people define what you can and can't do; don't let other people define what's important”

“We're constantly taking nods from other people in order to build a framework of how we should operate in the world. Those are some basic guidelines so as not to run into major problems, but I think as you get older, it's incumbent on yourself to reassess those guidelines”

“If you just got into it because it was a prestigious position and people told you it was a good thing and people pat you on the back while you got there, you'll end up chasing something that you don't really think is important”

“If you're there telling yourself that some day, once I get X amount of money, I'm going to make the jump and do something else… That is a trap that most people fall into, that unfortunately is really hard to get out of”

“This is about taking control of your situation rather than allowing society... the doctors… whoever... to tell you what your options are-- you’re in the driver's seat”

“I went from being like patient “N” in a normal distribution of outcomes, to being the ideal patient to work with because I was taking the responsibility in my own hands”

“I can function so much better by just having a concrete understanding of what my body's supposed to be able to accomplish”

“Improvement is SO possible. There's always improvements to be made”

“I would do this and not get paid for it-- and that's what I started doing”

“I really enjoy finding people that have had nagging problems for their whole life. I like piecing the puzzle out for those people to help them build a physical practice, a way to be conscious of their body, to move their body in the world, and ultimately, just be more functional”

“You can feel purpose when it hits you”

Michael Puente is the founder of the Lessons Lived project, LessonsLived.com and The Lessons Lived Podcast. He is a husband and father to two very sweet boys.

Find Michael at:

Website: https://www.lessonslived.com

FB https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=404936563693424&ref=br_rs

Email: [email protected]

LESSONS:

1) Realize that everyone, including yourself, has something to teach the world.

Some Quotes from the Episode:

“What would you teach the world is a heuristic for self reflection that leads to increased self awareness.”

“So, now, when you look at your neighbor … you look at them from a different angle and wonder what they have to teach you. You can wonder about what they have learned in this world.”

“We can use this philosophy and this awareness to live a better life in community with others. So, instead of reacting to challenging situations with another person with anger, or annoyance or irritation, we can contemplate, “What would you teach me if given the opportunity?”

“Part of my mission is to have everyone realize that they have this incredible value that they can add to the world and that their life is meaningful, and their life is worth learning from.”

“All our mistakes, all our failures, all of our errors, are opportunities to do better next time. When we learn something from our mistakes, we can benefit by not repeating that mistake, and, by sharing what we’ve learned, we can make if of value to others.”

“Imagine a place where millions of lessons that are the result of millions of lives are available for the people of the world to learn from.”