Are you working in a hybrid or remote work environment and seeking ways to optimize your experience?

Join me and my guest is Melissa Romo, the author of a new book called "Your Resource is Human: How Empathetic Leadership Can Help Remote Teams Rise Above." We talked about why she wrote her upcoming book and how every leader and every employee who is working right now in this hybrid or remote work environment should be reading this book. And, she shared how she found time to balance working full-time, raising a family writing, and writing this book.

Highlights:

• Why she wrote her upcoming book "Your Resource is Human" and a sneak peek of what the book is all about.
• What companies need to do to keep employees engaged and thriving in this new environment.
• Sneak peak at some of her findings from interviews for the book.
• How to bracket your day to optimize your time and protect your boundaries.
• How to keep a remote team tightly knit together.
• The remote leadership wheel and the five emotional pitfalls.

Find the full show notes: https://akuzmagroup.com/podcast/optimizeremotework

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Have you ever met someone and known they’d be in your life forever?

That’s how I felt when I met Cat Caldwell Myers. During our podcast episode, Cat and I talk about how we met serendipitously at a retreat last fall and the journey that we’ve both been on as mothers, entrepreneurs, and spiritual beings on our dharmic path.

Highlights from this episode:

• Learning to love and accept ourselves.
• Her journey to self-love and body-positivity.
• Magical connections between humans and horses.
• What you can do when you’re struggling with toxic thoughts.
• Why she started her podcast.
• Our experience during Cathy Heller's retreat.

Find the full show notes: https://akuzmagroup.com/podcast/meetingwonderwoman

To connect with Cat:

Website: https://catcaldwellmyers.com/

Horses, Mountains & Dogs Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/horses-mountains-dogs/id1658895153

Instagram: @catcaldwellmyers

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hiddenranchlifestyle

If you like today’s podcast, please like, subscribe, write a review, share it with others, and please tune in as I have real conversations with my guests on how they’re living the width of their lives.

What exactly happens at a virtual book launch party? Join us for this intimate gathering! It was an opportunity to celebrate a huge milestone with friends and loved ones in my community who are reading the book.

They shared their favorite passages, we talked about how it's impacting them, and they asked me some great questions about the writing process and my hopes for the impact the book would make.

Join me for this solo episode as I share why I enrolled in a six month breathwork facilitator program with Pause Breathwork and learn how you can sign up for a free breathing class with me!

Some of the benefits of breathwork include:

• Stress reduction & anxiety relief. 
• Connection with your emotions & changing your response to them.
• Revitalizing your organs.
• Giving you access to your higher power.
• Reducing toxins in your body & providing an energetic release.
• More energy & mental clarity.
• Deepening your relationship with your body.
• Releasing trauma that has been stuck in your system for years.
• Better access your intuition, higher self, and source.

Find the full show notes: https://akuzmagroup.com/podcast/breathwork

If you like today’s podcast, please like, subscribe, write a review, share it with others, and please tune in as I have real conversations with my guests on how they’re living the width of their lives.

Have you ever experienced anxiety, panic attacks, depression or dreamt of leaving your day job and freelancing but were worried about security? Come and join me on our new podcast episode with Mister Fred, a surface pattern designer, illustrator, and art director, as he shares his life story and work experiences that negatively impacted his mental health and how he left his full-time job, started his own design business and created from a place of creativity, self-love, and love - all while still being fearful. One courageous step at a time!  

Highlights from this episode:

• How sustained periods of stress impacted his mental health
• How he leveraged self-care routines and affirmations to quiet his inner critic. 
• How morning pages help him and become part of his morning routine.
• How he turned his challenge into a career as a freelance designer/illustrator
• What he does do to motivate himself when the inspiration is not present. 
• His journey to self-healing.
• His definition of mindful design and how it creates freedom.
• How he embraced his authentic design style even when others discouraged him.
• How he speaks to his inner critic, “Karen”.
• The power of affirmations, Abraham, and his creation box.

Find the full show notes: https://akuzmagroup.com/podcast/overcominganxiety

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Do you feel like it’s too late to switch careers? Have you dreamt of turning your childhood passions into a business? We want to arrive at our goals quickly, but we can’t always see the dots connect going forward, but we can when we look backward. Join me and Matt Katz, CEO of Cornerstone Design and Renovation as he shares his unique career and life journey to having his own business, and finding his biological family.

Lessons:

• His unique and untraditional career path.
• How he turned his passion and curiosity for design, architecture, and historic preservation into a business.
• How serendipity connected him with his biological family.
• His thoughts on nature vs. nurture and what he discovered about himself as he connected to new family members.
• Living with ADD impacted his life, which is why it’s his superpower in his business today.
• His journey of acknowledging and accepting his true self.
• How meditation, energy work, and other modalities help him stay optimally healthy.

Find the full show notes: https://akuzmagroup.com/podcast/connectthedots

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Happy New Year! I wanted to come on with this solo episode to share some upcoming news, thank you for your support of Live the Width of Your Life book, and share my end-of-year practices to make the upcoming year the best year ever.

• You'll learn about my end-of-year practices.
• Why vision boards help you align daily to your priorities
• Why you should write a letter to yourself to read on 12/31/2023.

Are you ready to cultivate more love, integrity, and harmony in your life? Do you seek real connections? Join Prem Sadasivanada and me as we discuss cultivating relationships with ourselves, others, and, finally, with all of creation.

Lessons:

• What made him interested in studying yoga.
• Benefits of practicing yoga.
• The structure of modern families and impact on wellbeing.
• His view on the educational system in the current generation.
• His morning routines that promote alignment.
• Why mindful journaling is helpful on one's spiritual journey.

Find the full show notes: https://akuzmagroup.com/podcast/cultivatemorelove

If you like today’s podcast, please like, subscribe, write a review, share it with others, and please tune in every Tuesday as I have real conversations with my guests on how they’re living the width of their lives.

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I finally did it, I wrote my first book titled "Live the Width of Your Life"! Join me on this solo episode as I share more about why I wrote my first book, what I hope the reader gains from the book, and when it will be available.

This book is a daily companion and guides its readers on their transformation journey to explore who they are, what they want, and how to get there. With 365 daily meditations, challenges, and journal prompts, the reader will elevate their mindset, become the healthiest version of themselves, celebrate their progress, and live more intentionally and purposefully.

Highlights:

• Why I wrote the Live the Width of Your Life book
• Lessons I learned along the way
• What I'll do differently when I write in the future
• How you can get the intro and first chapter NOW!

Have you wondered why you have sinus issues, brain fog, headaches, or bloating? Join me and Dr. Marcus Cirelli, CFMP, D.C., Founder of Total Body Health, as we discuss gut issues, foods to avoid, and simple changes we can make right now to improve our health. Learn the common daily toxins that we're exposed to, foods we should be incorporating in our diet right now, and what to avoid.

Highlights from this episode:

• Difference between functional medicine and western medicine.
• Common reasons for people to visit a functional medicine doctor.
• Top foods to avoid to improve your gut health.
• How chronic illnesses are brought on by stress.
• How to determine whether the products you're using contain safe chemicals.
• Foods that are beneficial for your brain health.
• Things to do to increase healthy habits

Find the full show notes: https://akuzmagroup.com/podcast/takecontrolofyourhealth

If you like today’s podcast, please like, subscribe, write a review, share it with others, and please tune in every Tuesday as I have real conversations with my guests on how they’re living the width of their lives.

Thank you!