Living Fearlessly

Have you been sleep deprived and waking up even more tired? We sit down with Australia’s #1 Sleep Expert, Olivia Arezzolo, to learn about her 7 steps program on how to achieve consistent and restful sleep. Her method is proven, and has been recently featured on Forbes. We learn about the impact of napping (should we or should we not nap?) and the key mistakes we make that reduces the quality of our sleep. Olivia candidly shares how the constant pressure of being productive in our society often obstructs our ability to rest and sleep well.

Tune in and learn how you can build daily habits for a well rested sleep.

You can reach out to Olivia Arezzolo at @oliviaarezzolo. If you like this episode, please leave us a 5-star review and say hello on instagram!

What is your relationship with food? In this episode, we learn about how to eat and choose foods that are aligned with our physical, mental and spiritual body. Our guest, Sloane Elizabeth, is a food freedom and intuitive eating coach. She helps women stop dieting and restricting food, so they can eliminate the guilt & fear around food and achieve total, permanent food freedom.

Unlike other food freedom coaches, she will never tell you what or how much to eat. Instead, she uses a combination of science & manifestation to empower you to tap into your own intuition. In this episode, she encourages us to choose food that are not only healthy for our physical body, but also to eat the food that makes our mind and soul happy. She emphasizes that our happiness is a part of our overall health.

Her role as a coach is to help you feel like the radiant, confident, magical woman that you were born to be.

You can reach out to Sloane Elizabeth at @sloaneelizabeth. If you liked this episode, please leave us a 5-star review and say hello on Instagram!

Although divorces are becoming increasingly more common around the world, the stigma and shame around it still exists in many cultures. Jigna Patel, a fashion blogger, went through a divorce at 27 years of age and was in no way prepared for the judgement unfairly associated with it. Five years on, she is now using her social media platform to dispel the stigma and show how going through a divorce can be one of the most rewarding things that can happen to you. Hailing it as the best decision she ever made, Jigna shows how divorce can be a new beginning. 

Our goal in this episode is to break the stigma of divorce, especially within traditional cultures. We hope that this episode will be helpful for someone who is thinking of breaking an engagement or marriage, are in the middle of getting divorced or have already gone through a divorce. This episode will shed light to how you can be happy in your life after divorce, and how to heal feelings of shame from society.

You can reach out to Jigna Patel at @jigna_madeup. 

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What are you ultimately trying to accomplish with your life? In this episode we sit down with the Founder of Ocean6, Jay Gangnes, who has taken an innovative spin on the financial world. Jay helps us to understand that getting clear about your dream life is the first step in building a successful financial plan. He speaks about how your goals act as your compass in your financial journey and how your goals should not just have to do with money, but all areas of our lives: relationships, skills, reputation.

Jay shares that understanding our goals is crucial, because if you don’t know where you’re going, you’re never going to get there. After all, financial freedom is different for everyone. For some, it means not living paycheck to paycheck. For others, it means the flexibility to travel, own a boat, or buy a vacation home. Get clear on where you are going, what your goals are and what you are excited about accomplishing in your life.

To get started, check out this goal setting and visualization exercise: The Future You - Visualization & Goals Planner. To get in touch with Jay you can visit the Ocean6 website or Instagram.

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Manasi Arya, an artist, influencer, and founder of ”Art with Manasi”, talks about her journey in accepting her ethnical background as a South Asian woman, and how she uses art to create representation for colored women around the world.

She launched her art and clothing line in 2020 when the COVID pandemic started. Through her art, she encourages women to embrace their brown skin, and challenges the beauty standards in our society and culture. She believes that representation is really important, and reinvents childhood characters such as Power Puff Girls and Spongebob with a South Asian twist. Her ultimate goal is to empower people to embrace their identity, and excited to pursue their dreams regardless of the society and cultural expectations. 

Connect with Manasi on Instagram and check out her clothing line at artwithmanasi.com. Follow us on Instagram to learn more @livingfearlesslypodcast.

Have you ever sat down to question the social constructs and beauty standards you conform to everyday? In this episode, we sit down with Veerja Mehta, a self-taught photographer, makeup artist and writer, who uses multiple mediums to challenge social constructs and express radical self-love. As three South Asian individuals, we discuss the expectations and social pressure women face on a day-to-day basis. For example, the beauty industry tells us that we need to contour, blush and highlight in a specific order. Are we doing this because we want to or because we are told this is more desirable in society?

Veerja shares how she uses her many art forms to facilitate dialogue and dismantle barriers on taboo subjects including patriarchal systems, beauty standards, colorism and mental illness. She hopes to facilitate dialogue through her work on the acceptance of emotions in a society that often creates shame around them. With all of these societal pressures in today’s world, we highlight how crucial cultivating self-love is more than ever.

Connect with Veerja on on Instagram @iamme.vi. Follow us on Instagram to learn more @livingfearlesslypodcast.

Are you limiting your own life? Often times you are your own block to living your most purposeful live. In this episode, we sit down with James Silvas, Mindset Coach, who walks us through a live demonstration on how to breakthrough your fears to go after the life you want. We discuss how you can improve your mental performance by changing your patterns and sustaining them over time. Also, James demonstrates how you can uncover your limitations to strengthen your mindset and take action toward living life on your terms.

James Silvas has worked with high performing athletes, entertainers, CEO’s, entrepreneurs and growth-minded individuals to understand their minds, so they can optimize their personal and professional lives, including clients such as Nike, Caesars, MGM and ADT. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree at UNLV studying under a 4x World Renowned Mental Performance Coach, Dr. Mark Guadagnoli. He has worked with over 6,000+ people on developing the mindset that will take clients to the next level. He is also the founder of ’Be That 1%’ – which consists of a movement, brand, and podcast that inspires others to live life on their terms, overcome obstacles, and do what 99% of people won’t.

Connect with James on Instagram or on his website jamessilvas.com.

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Have you experienced colorism? Colorism has been a hot topic globally spreading awareness on the privilege of light skin over darker skin tones. In this episode, we sit down with Anita Kalathara, an actress, writer and filmmaker, who played the Young Mindy Kaling on ”The Mindy Project”, has appeared in ”Trafficked” starring Ashley Judd, and also voices a character on Dreamworks ”Trollstopia” on Hulu. Anita loves creating characters and telling stories of women of color, and speaks openly about her recent viral short film, ”Unfair & Lovely”, targeting colorism in India.

We learn about her personal experience with colorism and how it impacted her since a young age. She talks about how colorism also exists in Hollywood and what she’s doing to educate the world on the topic. With this episode, we hope to support one another through spreading awareness so we can create a world where every skin color is celebrated.

Connect with Anita on Instagram at @anitakalathara and you can follow us on Instagram to learn more @livingfearlesslypodcast.

Are you aware that you are emotional eating? During the covid-19 pandemic, emotional eating has been on the rise. Krisztina Marshall, a certified counsellor specializing in eating disorder and obesity, discusses how our relationship with food can be complex and vary depending on our life experiences. Krisztina shares her touching story of how she suffered with eating disorder for over 15 years, and slowly healed her relationship with food despite her medical doctors, friends and family giving up on her. Because of her own experience, she is now helping many people recover from emotional eating through a truly unique approach that is compassionate and effective.

As emotional eating is often normalized in our society, tune in to learn why it is important that we are aware of our relationship with food.

Connect with Krisztina through her website heemangforyou.com. Follow us on Instagram to learn more @livingfearlesslypodcast.

Have you ever set goals based on feelings? In this episode, Kate Bouchard, a Purpose Coach, walks Laila and Krysha through a live exercise to help learn how to create goals from feelings. The exercise emphasizes the power of visioning and manifesting the life we want. Follow along as Kate coaches Krysha, Laila and listeners through the exercise - make sure to grab a pen and paper while you listen to this episode. You will walk away with a transformed set of goals that will leave you exhilarated with new possibilities that you can apply to your everyday life. Try it out for yourself. The worksheet to follow along can be found at @livingfearlesslypodcast.

Connect with Kate Bouchard through her website purposecoaching.ca or on Instagram at @mskathrynanne.