Living in Alignment ⓖ

I am thrilled to announce that after facilitating Living in Alignment podcast for almost two years, I came to the realization that Living in alignment has served its purpose and it's time for it to come to its natural conclusion.

This will be the last year for Living in Alignment. we have completed 54 episodes and will always have here on the platform to share with our community !

The good news is that we will be moving onto a new podcast project.Yay!

The Conscious achiever.

The purpose of the conscious achiever is to disrupt and reframe how we think about achievement and wellbeing in the workplace, invite new models of leadership that promotes work/life harmony, mental health and alignment. Our goal is to activate and motivate to live a more holistic view of a fulfilling career and happier life. The aim is to collect and tell stories from people, businesses, and leaders about how they anchor in self-leadership, happiness, compassion, and positive impact. It is my hope that the podcast will help growth seekers, leaders, business owners, organizations and anxious achievers reframe how they think about achievement and invite them to create conscious cultures in business, life, and the world.

=>I would love to hear if anyone has recommendations of people I should keep on my radar as potentials to interview!

=> Meanwhile, keep an eye on Instagram and LinkedIn for the first episode to drop in September.

=> Start listening to the conscious achiever podcast on Sep 26/2022  by following the link 

We appreciate your support over the past two years. A big appreciation  to all our guests and contribution. Thank you all for being here, thank you for listening, Thank you for your curiosity and questions, I look forward to our upcoming journey together on the conscious achiever show, see you soon.

Today, we welcome guest Nicolina Werther to discuss the topic of being embodied and offer practices to help you return to your embodiment as a source of wisdom, guidance, and leadership with your family/friends and at work.

 Nicolina  is a trauma-informed success coach, intuitive business guide and embodiment facilitator who helps sensitive creatives to get their most fulfilling work out in the world. She combines a background in the performing arts and as a well-being practitioner with teaching entrepreneurial and leadership skills. Nicolina’s courses and bespoke coaching programmes are designed to help her clients align their inner world with their outer aspirations and build a career or business that is deeply fulfilling. Her clients describe working with Nicolina as empowering and transformative, growing them as a person as much as a professional.

<<EPISODE NOTES>>

• What is the definition of embodiment and what does embodiment feel like?
• What’s the role of the body and its benefits 
• Steps and practices to become consciously embodied
• Nicolina’s  favorite practices in facilitating greater levels of embodiment in ourselves and other’s

<<RESOURCES AND LINKS>>

• Nicolina Werther on Instagram 
• Nicolina Werther Website
• Ghada B Khalifeh
• Review Living in Alignment on iTunes

Relationships and Self Worth may seem like two completely unrelated topics, but the fact is the health of your relationship can clearly reflect the condition of your self-esteem.

We are welcoming again guest expert Annie Lavin today to discuss relationships and how to align with relationships that reflect a healthy sense of self-worth. Annie is a Dating Relationship Coach and relationship skills Educator. Annie works with people nationally and internationally to empower them to create and maintain conscious intimate relationships.

[EPISODE NOTES]

• What are we doing wrong that they we attracting the wrong people?
• How do we stop tying self worth to relationships ?
• Understanding Needs vs Wants 
• Where do we draw the line between love and  self worth  ?
• Why do we seek external validations ? What are the common fears? 
• How do we create ongoing boundaries 
• What are the key strategies or habits to develop inner self worth,  in other words how to build habits that help you project an image that is aligned with who you are? and therefore help you find the partner you deserve or give a relationship a fresh start?

[RESOURCES AND LINKS]

• Episode on Website 
• Annie Lavin on Instagram 
• Annie Lavin Website
• Ghada B Khalifeh
• Review Living in Alignment on iTunes

If the word not enough frequently pops up in your inner dialogue: not  smart, not cool, not strong, not pretty, not successful enough ...then this episode is for you. 

Today’s  guest, Dr Mandy Lehto, walks us through the journey of enoughness and shares a tool kit  to remove blockers and build up enoughness . 

Mandy  is an expert on high performance, especially in private equity, investment banking, law, and tech. Her clients are senior executives around the world who are looking to get more out of their leadership --and their lives. Mandy has a Doctorate from Cambridge University. In her former career, she was a Director at a global investment bank. Mandy is a former columnist for Psychologies magazine. She has written for (or featured in), The Sunday Times, Psychology Today, Top Sante, The Huffington Post and on CNBC. She’s also the host of Enough, the podcast on Spotify and iTunes. She’s a member of 4PC, the invitation-only coaching community for some of the world’s most extraordinary coaches. She's also a member of the Association for Coaching.


[EPISODE NOTES]

• What it means to feel good enough
• The common “not enough”  beliefs  and behaviors that are causing our  imbalance
• How the feeling of not enough shows up in our daily lives
• Achievement, perfectionism and pleasing as a way of numbing out the voices in our head 
• The need for self-improvement and its impact on our authentic self and wellbeing 
• Four practices on how to detox those “not good enough” thoughts and behavior
• Minimum Viable Productivity practice to take the body slowly into a safer place 
  
  

[RESOURCES AND LINKS]

• Episode on Website
• Mandy Lehto on Instagram 
• Mandy Lehto Website
• Ghada B Khalifeh
• Review Living in Alignment on iTunes

Fitness is often thought of as HIIT studios, boxing gyms, cross fit boot camps, but fitness can also be used to help heal the body by taking a safe, mindful, trauma informed approach. In our episode today, we have guest expert Alicia Putinski who is going to introduce us to trauma- informed fitness approach, walks us through her own journey and healing nervous system, her growth as a fitness professional and the impact on her clients and overall wellbeing. 

Alicia is a  trauma- informed life coach and personal trainer with over a decade of experience in the health and fitness industry.

[Episode notes]

• What made Alicia step away from fitness 
• Types of Trauma and how it present itself in a body 
•  How to sense where someone's nervous system is that day 
• What’s it like to part ways with resistance training
• The cost or sacrifice made  and the reward
• How Trauma healing change Alicia’s  health and fitness philosophy 
• Strength Training , stress hormones and nervous system
• What Trauma healing taught Alicia about body image
• How to embrace spiritually our womanhood
• The wrong way for someone with trauma to approach fitness
• Fitness programs should you consider when looking for healing 
  
  

[Links]

• Alicia Putinski on Instagram 
• Episode on website 
• Ghada B Khalifeh
• Review Living in Alignment on iTunes

In this episode, we are going to learn from an inspiring leader Natalie Brite how to build a culture of sustainability and develop a sustainable business model.

Natalie is on a mission to help businesses innovate and transform to put sustainability at their core. She is a Portland-based creative director, sustainable developer, and strategist. She specializes in ethical project and business development, branding, marketing, and strategic, whole systems planning for impact-driven folks.

[Episode Notes]

• Sustainable: What does it mean
• What sustainable business /project is
• Why it is important to integrate sustainability into a business   
• The fundamental pillars of sustainable projects or businesses 
• Status quo ,toxic and manipulative marketing,  instant gratifications
• Instability and unsustainable system of hoarding 
• The challenges of doing projects sustainably 
• Examples of sustainable business project 
• The role of sustainability in the success and performance of our businesses
• The sustainability study

[Resources and Links]

• Episode on Website 
• Natalie Brite on Instagram 
• Natalie Brite Website 
• The Sustainability Study Podcast 
• Ghada B Khalifeh
• Review Living in Alignment on iTunes

Recognizing the need for Self Care is one thing, but adopting a self-care practice that can improve your life is another, you may be on board with the benefits it can offer —  But when you’re working, caring for your family, and trying to find time for yourself, it can be overwhelming to take concrete steps toward a self-care plan. I’m honored  to have with us today guest expert Suzy Reading and tap into  self care and how we can create intentional, accessible and sustainable practices. 

Suzy is a Chartered Psychologist, yoga teacher and author. She specializes in empowering people with the tools of self-care, helping them manage their stress, emotions and energetic bank balance. Suzy is on the editorial board for Motherdom Magazine, the Psychology Expert for wellbeing brand Neom Organics and is a founding member of the ‘Nourish’ app. Her first book ‘The Self-Care Revolution’ published by Aster came out in 2017, 'Stand Tall Like a Mountain: Mindfulness & Self-Care for Children and Parents' and 'The Little Book of Self-Care’ came out in 2019. ‘Self-Care for Tough Times’ and her first children’s book ‘This Book Will (Help) Make You Happy’ were published in 2021. Her first journal And Breathe is hot off the press and Sit to Get Fit is available for pre-order now.

[ EPISODE NOTES ]

• What is self care  
• The different forms of self care .
• The vitality wheel? 
• Why is self care so hard to practice ? Why is it so difficult to relax ? 
• Myths about self care  
• The common challenges that you see many women face 
• How to create a self care culture in our home
• The impact of having “all or nothing “mentality on us
• How to create a non-negotiable sustainable self-care practice 
• Suzy’s self care routine  
• The impact of movement 

[RESOURCES AND LINKS]

• Episode on Website 
• Suzy Reading on Instagram 
• Suzy Reading Website 
• Suzy Reading on Facebook
• Ghada B Khalifeh
• Review Living in Alignment on iTunes

I’d like to welcome the new year with the pivot method as it has been my major mind hack to keep returning to the flow state and to alignment; and therefore manifesting what I want with ease, flow and harmony. 

This pivot method practice is simple but not easy. It has helped me so much that I decided to share it with you here as the last episode for 2021 on living in alignment podcast.

In this episode on Living in Alignment Podcast,  I  give you an overview of  the 6 steps to guide you through the pivot method.(inspired by Abraham hicks book , ask and it's given).


[Resources and Links ]

• Episode on website
• Ghada B Khalifeh
• Review Living in Alignment on iTunes

Some high achievers and high performing individuals tend to be overly rigid with their career and life behaviors.This comes with a high cost that drives them towards unhappiness and impacts their ability to live in/out of flow with their authenticity, fulfillment and purpose. I am happy to introduce you this month to redefining success mini episodes. The purpose of this mini series is to offer you a new perspective that helps you redefine and anchor a new way of thinking about hard work, achievement and success. 

Our guest expert today is Gia Lili. Gia  is a U.K based, ICF-accredited and certified Neuroscience-based Coach, Consultant and Life Strategist to busy professionals, business owners and entrepreneurs from all over the world. She delivers a unique, holistic and inclusive approach to transforming every area of her clients’ lives through her coaching and consultancy work. As former COO of an American-based business coaching company, and having held other positions of management, Gia brings her stellar reputation of building strong and strategic partnerships with individuals and companies, organizations and individual clients she works with. Gia has been featured in ‘Business Insider’, ‘Bustle’ and ‘Business Bully TV’. She also delivers personal development, and interpersonal relationship tips on her own podcast show.


[Episode Notes ]

• How do you define experiencing success
• What does success look like today for Gia
• An experience where Gia  felt successful
• Stress vs Chronic Stress and How stress can be helpful 
• How does Gia’s  definition of success differ from how she were  taught to approach success?
• How has Gia’s personal definition of success changed
• Her thoughts on the statement “If you work hard enough you will succeed”
• What are the cost and sacrifices of this mantra ?
• Powerful questions/ inquiry to help you question the way you look and think of success  
• Advice for someone currently working to succeed at achieving a goal in their personal or professional life

[Resources and Links ]

• Gia Lili on Instagram 
• Episode on Website
• Ghada B Khalifeh
• Review Living in Alignment on iTunes

So often trauma is seen as a personal issue but what happens when trauma exist not just in you, but in everyone in your family, community, culture, the collective, and even beyond?

In today’s episode guest Nisha Mody, explains about collective intergenerational and cultural traumas and walks us into her perspective on trauma that addresses both its visible effects and its most hidden roots.
 
Nisha is a Feminist Healing Coach, Writer, and Librarian who holds space for those who question the way they "should" live and want to heal for themselves and the collective. As a daughter of South Asian immigrants, she has actively reflected on the internalized sexism, classism, and colonization that conditioned her ways of being. Nisha has worked as a consultant, recruiter, voiceover actor, speech therapist, and librarian – all of which have centered her values around connection, unlearning, compassion, curiosity, humility, vulnerability, and liberation

[ Episode Notes ]

• What is collective trauma 
• Examples that cause collective trauma
• The impact of colonization on Nisha’s family and her ways of doing and being 
• The systematic trauma impact on defining success  
• What does trauma do to our body and nervous system
• Healing is not a problem to be fixed 
• What are the symptoms of all these interconnected traumas on us
• How our inheritance of previous systems of trauma and fear shaped and continue to shape our reality
• Where do we start to heal the collective trauma , how does the healing process work 
• What is our responsibility, in healing Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds

[Resources and Links ]

• Episode on Website 
• Nisha Mody on Instagram 
• Nisha Mody Website
• Ghada B Khalifeh
• Review Living in Alignment on iTunes