Lucid Cafe

I think this quote from Kevin Hancock’s book Not For Sale: Finding Center in the Land of Crazy Horse pretty much captures the spirit of his message and his journey: “You can learn a lot by losing your voice.”

In this powerful episode Kevin shares:

• How a rare speech disorder led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 
• How his time in South Dakota became an unintended spiritual quest
• What he learned from spending time with members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe
• The power of awareness and connectivity
• His thoughts on cultural appropriation
• The wisdom he witnessed
• The importance of our relationship with the natural world
• How he brought what he learned and experienced to his workplace 
• The gift of losing his voice
• How to make the seemingly impossible possible
• The process of creating his photojournal book 48 Whispers
• Rebuilding your world from within
• His philosophy regarding leadership
• How he works with other companies
• How his speech disorder changed him
• His thoughts on how to make the planet and humanity better

Kevin’s website:  https://thebusinessofsharedleadership.com/

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To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Tina Zion is a fourth-generation intuitive medium, educator, and is considered an expert in medical intuition. She is an award-winning author, specializing in medical intuition and teaches internationally. 

 In this episode Tina shares:

• How she came to be a medical intuitive
• Her definition of intuition
• What it takes to become your own medical intuitive
• Her mentorship program
• How she works with students
• Some of the challenges we all face as we develop out intuition
• How intuition comes easily if you get out of your own way
• Different ways to perceive
• Discerning the difference between true intuitive guidance and wishful thinking
• Working with spirit helpers
• The many sources of illness
• The importance of asking the right questions

Tina’s website: https://tinazion.com/

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To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD, is a retired clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst, a businessman, and a shamanic practitioner, author, and philanthropist. He is the best-selling, award-winning author of Change Your Story, Change Your Life and Change the Story of Your Health.

In this episode, Carl discusses:

• His motivation for writing a self-help inspired memoir
• His later-in-life career change
• How we can find the sacred in our every day, practical lives
• The wisdom of nature
• His experience using psychedelic plant medicines and how they transformed him
• Different ways to interpret maligned forces
• Changing the story of your life
• His health journey

(*Concluding with a deeper dive into the nature of evil.)

To learn more about Carl: https://carlgreer.com/

Lucid Cafe episodes by topic: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/lucid-cafe-podcast

Listen to Lucid Cafe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSseC4eLwkov3lFSZVkYDYA

Find cool totem animal, metaphysical, psychedelic t-shirts, blank notebooks and journals at the Lucid Path Etsy Shop! 

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To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Linda must have to use very small type on her business card to capture all the skills she’s amassed over the years! 

In part one of my conversation with Linda we discuss:

• How astrology and magic got her attention when she was a teen
• Spellwork and practical magic
• How American culture makes doing magic challenging
• How she sees astrology as the symbolic language of time
• How your astrological chart can help you understand the complexity of your life
• What she would say to skeptics
• The big picture of what the astrology is suggesting over the next couple of years (the rest of 2021-2023)

Learn more about Linda: https://www.lindarivervalente.net/
Want a regular dose of Linda's magic? check out her patreon https://www.patreon.com/LindaRiverValente

Listen to Lucid Cafe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSseC4eLwkov3lFSZVkYDYA

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Gina Caputo is an ACE Certified Health Coach, Behavior Change Specialist and a seasoned yoga instructor. During the pandemic she created The Yoga Potluck as a way to be in relationship and community with people from all over the world. 

In this episode Gina discusses:

• Her definition of yoga
• How practicing yoga applies to daily life
• The consequences of poorly managed stress
• Bringing focus inward
• Setting reasonable goals
• How language matters
• Our relationship to suffering
• Trust
• Why self-care is vital
• The Yoga Potluck
• Exploring our blindspots
• Ways to motivate yourself
• Her approach as a Health Coach

Learn more about Gina Caputo: https://ginacaputo.com/

The Yoga Potluck: https://ginacaputo.com/products/the-yoga-potluck-membership

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Controversies regarding the treatment of Lyme disease abound. This episode is chock full of helpful information…and for people struggling with chronic Lyme disease, hopefully some validation. 

In this episode, Dan discusses:

• The history of Lyme disease
• The “Lyme Wars”
• Prevalence
• Where Lyme cases are found
• The “myth” of Lyme in the medical world
• Symptoms of chronic vs acute Lyme
• The role of trauma and stress
• Co-infections
• Contributing factors to the severity of the disease
• The role of belief
• Three components of the immune system
• Epigenetic influence
• The importance of social connection
• His holistic approach to treatment
• Recent study with adolescents diagnosed with mental illness
• Brains of fire
• Potential impact on mental health
• Hyper-inflammation 
• Ways to activate the parasympathetic nervous system

Dan Kinderlehrer: https://recoveryfromlyme.com/

Dan’s Book: Recovery From Lyme Disease 

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Martin Lee is a veteran journalist and the co-founder/director of Project CBD - a California-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting and publicizing research into the medical uses of CBD and other components of the cannabis plant. 

In this episode Martin discusses:

• The collaboration between Project CBD and Reader’s Digest
• The pro-cannabis shift that’s happening
• How CBD challenged the public’s view of cannabis
• The rediscovery of CBD
• Individual and social healing
• How cannabis is a community-building botanical
• The strangeness of the commercialization of CBD
• Therapeutic nature of growing cannabis plants
• Why CBD is so beneficial to the human body and health
• The endogenous cannabinoid system
• How THC and CBD are different
• Full spectrum CBD oil
• The downside of unregulated CBD production
• Healer CBD and CBDA products
• Terpenes
• His background investigating CIA-funded LSD research
• The common link between CBD and LSD
• The startling discovery regarding neuroplasticity
• Project CBD

Project CBD https://www.projectcbd.org/

The Essential Guide to CBD https://www.projectcbd.org/guidance/essential-guide-cbd

Healer CBD products: https://healer.com/

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

In her new book The Missing Element, Debra Silverman helps you “find a new way to understand yourself and others using the wisdom of the ancients and your natural ability for compassion.” 

In this episode Debra discusses:

•  How she designed her book to “prevent boredom”
•  Her recipe for using astrology and psychology to help people overcome limiting beliefs - Her wish to make weird normal
•  The ways in which astrology serves as short-hand
•  How we’re more than our thoughts
•  Her passion for returning people back to the ancient system of astrology
•  The importance of reconnecting with the Earth
•  Karma
•  The stupid stories we tell ourselves
•  How to change your narrative
•  Working with the elements in her own life
•  How to use her book
•  The nature of this particular time on Earth

Debra’s website: https://debrasilvermanastrology.com/

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

What happens when we die? No one knows for sure, but for people like Jacob Cooper who’ve had a near death experience and gotten a glimpse of another existence beyond the physical, they’re forever transformed. 

In this episode Jacob discusses:

• His NDE and how he made sense of it
• How the experience changed him spiritually
• His experience of eternal love
• What the other side was like
• How revisiting a past life informed his current life
• Suicide
• Breaking free from internal imprisonment
• Life’s purpose
• How he deals with skepticism
• Reincarnation 
• Mindfulness movement
• The growing acceptance of NDEs
• Common changes experienced by near death experiencers
• His motivation for sharing his experience

Jacob’s website: https://jacoblcooper.com/

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

 Mitch Horowitz is an author, lecturer, and historian of alternative spirituality who brings esoteric ideas and concepts firmly down to earth, where they belong. .

In this conversation Mitch discusses:

•  His definition of the word "miracle"
•  Power and ethics
•  Power vs force
•  Mental agency
•  The complex nature of reality
•  The concept of the mind
•  The power of emotions
•  What placebo studies suggest
•  The 10-Day Miracle Challenge
•  Selection vs manifestation 
•  The nature of evil 

To learn more about Mitch Horowitz, please visit his website

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website