Mindfulness Mode

Tonya Duncan Ellis is the author of the bestselling SOPHIE WASHINGTON children’s chapter book series and THEY BUILT ME FOR FREEDOM. She enjoys inspiring other authors with mindset tips for author success. Tonya has spoken and taught at writing conferences at the Highlights Foundation and for SCBWI in New York City, Houston, and Austin, TX chapters. A former journalist and freelance magazine writer, she is a graduate of Centre College of Kentucky and holds an MBA degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

• Website: www.tonyaduncanellis.com

• Her Mom

• It's been very beneficial to me, I do journaling every day. Being mindful and intentional in what I'm doing helps me stay focused because there's a lot of rejection in my business. So it just keeps me focused on my goals and moving in a positive direction.

• I don't do a lot of it. But I have taken Pilates and some yoga classes at times. And I find that they do a lot of breathing in the exercise. And it's like a release and helps relieve a lot of your stress and anxiety. And even when I do walking and movement I think it helps me overcome anxious feelings and be more positive.

• Book: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

• The second book in my series, is Sophie Washington, the Snitch. It's about children being bullied by a new girl at school who's taking their lunch money and shoving them around. And I think mindfulness may have been helpful for the bully herself.

• Breath and Fire; Michelle Hillier

2000 Books To Improve Your Life by Mani Vaya

Michelle Gauthier is a professional life coach who helps busy, overwhelmed people create a more calm and intentional life. Michelle is a single mom of two adopted kids and used to be an overwhelmed busy working mom herself. She quit her successful 20-year corporate career to become a life coach to help other people navigate their careers and home lives with ease. When she’s not working, Michelle spends her spare time watching her kid's sporting events, going to Burn Bootcamp, organizing things just for fun, shopping online, and reading self-improvement books.

• Website: www.michellegauthier.com

• Her Dad

• When I was really stressed and overwhelmed, I used to brag about how many years it had been since I cried. And I would say, I don't get sad; nothing upsets me. I kind of acted like I was this steel wall. And I could just handle and do anything. Give me any problem. I can handle it.

• Square breathing is my go-to. I teach that to all my clients. I've taught it to my kids. That's just where you breathe in for four, hold for four, breathe out for four, and then hold it at the bottom for four.

• Book: The Gap and the Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success Dan Sullivan, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, et al.

• I think as a parent, you have to have a lot of mindfulness around bullying, it just seems so prevalent right now. And I just was reading something that after COVID, there's even more bullying because kids have less social skills and less confidence and things like that.

• Use Meditation to Master Yourself; Ashley Williams

One Woman’s Journey to Elation; Pat Alva-Kraker

Matt Zemon is the Chief Experience Officer and Co-Founder of Happyy.me, a mental health company on a mission to improve people's happiness by providing guided ketamine therapy and digital wellness programs. As a serial entrepreneur, Matt has had two successful exits. He was the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Psychable, an online community connecting people who would like to legally explore the healing power of psychedelics with a network of practitioners and psychedelic-based treatments. He was also the co-founder of Take2Minutes, a nonprofit dedicated to helping individuals improve their mental health and well-being. Matt is the author of Psychedelics for Everyone: A Beginners Guide to These Powerful Medicines for Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Expanding Consciousness and received his Master of Science in the Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health with honors from Kings College London.

• Company: Happyy.me

• The mother of my great friend from high school.

• I had never heard that emotions are our feedback; their unrealized thoughts are thoughts that have fully been formed. If I see a Tiger in the Jungle, I know that Tiger is gonna eat me. I can be scared. That's that type of emotion.

• I wasn't aware of my breath or wasn't aware of how powerful and automated our breath is and that when I focus on my breath, just that simple thing, it's easy to calm down, and it's easy to become present.

• Book: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment by Adyashanti and Sounds True

• I've seen some bullying behavior from certain individuals and what medicine has forced me to do is look at that and say what is really happening? Why am I allowing myself to interact with this person? Or how am I interacting with this person? And then what do I need to do to change that interaction? And to do so in a way that is not good, not from a victim's perspective.

• Grow your Business, Health, and Happiness; Sheena Cantar

Brent Seal: From Aspiring Hockey Player to Global Mental Health Educator

Jason Barnard is the CEO of Kalicube, a software company that leverages Google to create future-proof brand-focused digital strategies for businesses. Jason has been touted as the one person Google says has as much insight into their knowledge algorithms as their own insiders. Jason is known as The Brand SERP Guy, a digital marketing consultant who specializes in Brand SERP optimization.

• Company: Kalicube.com

• Boo-ah (That's me. A creation of both me and my ex-wife). His personality had an incredible, calming influence on me. His personality rubbed off on me, and Boo-ah is a deeply kind, generous, and deeply thoughtful, mindful character.

• Being aware that you can't change something, and learning to accept it reduces massively, frustration for me. So one thing that I got out of my experience in Mauritius, and my depression, was that frustration in my life reduced significantly afterward.

• The only time I ever focus on my own breathing is when I'm singing, and what I've learned from singing is that I got quite powerful lungs, so I can actually get a lot of air in and sing quite a lot of time without taking another breath.

• Book: Confucius from the Heart By Yu Dan

• Sometimes in my personal life, but in business as well, I feel that I've been bullied by somebody. And it's more along the lines of manipulation. But manipulation is a kind of bullying. And it's psychologically very violent.

• The Gut-Brain Connection; Wade Lightheart

How To Live From The Heart; Nanette Hucknall

Jay H. Tepley is an author, entrepreneur, international speaker, and spiritual mentor. A lifelong geek and a dedicated researcher, she offers world-class personal training for A-players in marketing, coaching, and community building to help them fly high and achieve beyond what other people think possible by aligning with their soul Purpose.

Over the last 20 years, her New Era Superhero program showed many men across the globe the path to increased revenue, success, impact, and personal fulfillment.

Her charity work supporting mental health through lightsaber training has been featured in the Guardian, The Jeremy Vine Show, and BBC 1.

• Website: https://newerasuperhero.com/

• Serene Maharshi

• It allowed me to become a real-life superhero.

• Breathing is key to your mental and physical health and emotional control. And I would sincerely recommend the book; Pranayama: The Energetics of Breath: The Yoga of Breathing By Andre Van Lysbeth . It's absolutely fantastic.

• Book: The Lightwatch Chronicles By Jay H. Tepley

• Oh, well, kids tried to bully me at school because I was so different, but I flaunted it. I just put it in their face. I thought it was the best joke ever. And so their bullying attempts fell completely flat on their face because they're like, well, you're weird. I'm like, that's how I roll.

• 2000 Books To Improve Your Life by Mani Vaya

Getting Booked and Paid To Speak; Grant Baldwin

Colin Kingsmill is a transformational coach and Founding Partner at Whole Human Coaching. He is currently authoring a book entitled “Fear Less: Crossing the Bridge from Fear to Bliss.” When people get stuck at critical transition points in their lives, he assists them in deconstructing the stories in their heads, overcoming fear, and reconstructing a new narrative to move forward, live their authentic selves, and thrive. Today, he is dedicated to helping people become fearless and rediscover their humanity and freedom; remember who they are and who they will be to make positive change in our world.

• Website: www.colinkingsmill.com

• Sam Harris

• It completely changed the way I live. Prior to getting it, it was all over the map and expanding energy all over the place. Now, it's just about energy conservation and nonreactivity. So it's been very positive.

• My only thought is, I don't think we get taught enough about how important it is. And that's why we're here. But we forgot. We get distracted, and we take it for granted that we can always have it.

• Book: Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That’s Lost Its Mind By Jamie Wheal

• I wasn't bullied as a child, but I was in a very much bullied environment as an adult in the last sort of 20 years. It was interesting because the first one lasted about three years of awful treatment and accepting it. And I don't know why I accepted it. But I was in this situation for three years, with management that was really awful by any standard.

• Your Life IS Meditation; Mark Van Buren

Use Meditation to Master Yourself; Ashley Williams

Faust A. Ruggiero’s professional career spans almost 40 years, and is diversified and compelling, as it has consistently established new and exciting cutting-edge counseling programs in its pursuit of professional excellence and personal life enhancement. He is a published research author, clinical trainer, and a therapist who has worked in settings that have included clinics for deaf children, prisons, nursing homes, substance abuse centers, inpatient facilities, major corporations, both national and international, and as the President of the Community Psychological Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania. In that capacity, he developed the Process Way of Life counseling program and has developed it into a formal text presented in the Fix Yourself Handbook.

• Website: www.FaustRuggiero.com

• Mother Teresa

• The key for me, and what I tried to teach is for people to slow their life down; you're not going to be mindful, you're not going to be conscious.

• I use it as a preparation for meditation. Breathing puts you in the moment because you got to focus on your breathing. So the one thing people don't think about is that they think I gotta go slow. And there you are, there's that slow and my mind has to work on this. Because all of it ties in together.

• Book: The Fix Yourself Handbook: Using the Process Way of Life to Transform Your Life into a Happy, Healthy Journey

• What happens is that when you're bullied for a while, you begin to take that person on and you begin to act as a victim, not just with that bully, but everywhere.

• Mindfulness In Mental Health Care With Ruby Mabry

Mind, Mountains, and Mental Health; Mike Schauch

Dana Sardano is an artist who fully embraces her artist’s life to model for her daughters the importance of listening to your soul’s purpose by following your bliss. In January 2015, Dana picked up a paintbrush for the first time since childhood. That was the catalyst for a major shift in her career in June 2017. She has since opened Ubuntu Fish Gallery in Stuart, Florida, co-founded Phenom Publishing and FindUniquelyU.com, and has authored several books for both adults and children, never for a second regretting her decision to take that leap of faith.

• Website: www.ubuntufishgallery.com

• Her husband.

• It's everything. The thing about mindfulness is it's quick in 10 commandments, I think it's the second recommendation I shall not become entrenched in my emotions. We get all sorts of entrenched in our emotions.

• I have truly learned to take a breath. I've learned mindfulness I've learned to become mindful of what I hold my breath. When I'm tense. I've learned to become mindful of when I'm in pain or worried to breathe through it.

• Book: Veda Finds Her Crown: Second Edition By Dana Sardano and Angela DiMarco

• If we individually learned to value ourselves and not to circle back to VEDA because what I do is I touch on every developmental age. And when the trauma or when something happens that alters the mindset that creates a belief system that might be toxic, or doesn't serve you.

• A Hypnotic Approach to Wellness; Adrianne Hart

Your Creative Art Oasis; Faigie Kobre

Alex Sanfilippo is an entrepreneur who is the CEO and founder of PodPros, a software company focused specifically on the podcasting industry. He is also a podcast host of the top-rated podcast called Podcasting Made Simple and a leading educator in podcasting. Something that keeps Alex awake at night is that people full of passion and purpose often get into podcasting and then either stop or fail. He firmly believes there's a way to make podcasting work within your life in a way that feels natural and doesn't cause a podcasting/work/life imbalance to happen. On this episode, you’ll hear how Alex uses mindfulness to keep his focus and help achieve success.

• Company: Pod Pros

• Jesus Christ

• It goes back to my talk about having those people in your life that speak into you like they've helped me remain mindful about who I am. And where I'm going. It's a really intentional effort for me to remember the direction I'm going in, and where I want to end up in life.

• You want to be intentional with it. When stress starts hitting, you start falling behind on emails, you got a pile of papers on your desk, we start panting without realizing it, like we breathe really, really shallow. I just remind myself and that was another great reminder to sit back and just deep breathe.

• Book: Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking Dr. Caroline Leaf

• I wasn't necessarily directly bullied growing up, or even as an adult or anything like that. if you could consider this in some way, was in some of my relationships growing up with girlfriends.

• Self-Actualization Through Mindfulness; Nicholas Gregoriades

The Mind Is A Curious Thing; Wendy Nash

Dr. Margaret Cochran is a transpersonal psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker, educator, and author with more than 25 years of clinical experience. A seasoned professional dedicated to the health and well-being of all her patients, Dr. Cochran takes a whole person approach to mental health and wellness.

A respected resource and passionate advocate for mental wellness, Dr. Cochran has been featured in a range of media outlets throughout the country including BBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX affiliates, CBS Radio, Yahoo Life, Huffington Post, Healthline, Mercury News, Authority, Thrive Global, Total Beauty, and many additional outlets. Dr. Cochran has also been featured regularly on FOX San Francisco as well as NBC Sacramento’s morning show and hosted radio programs such as, “Wisdom, Love and Magic” and “A Mental Health Moment.” Dr. Cochran is also author of a number of books including Nayogi and the Secrets of the Universe and “What Are You Afraid Of?”

• Website: https://www.drcochran.com

• Carl Jung

• Mindfulness has allowed me to step back from the 3d temporal world and understand that each being, no matter what their species might be, is here on their own journey. It's above my paygrade to understand why they choose particular challenges like Johnny Appleseed in his schizophrenia.

• One of the things that often happens to us is we get overwhelmed to the point where we just can't process anything else and we kind of shut down. And I have a little 478 I am enough exercise that I think is very helpful.

• Book: Nayogi and the Secrets of the Universe By  Dr. Margaret Cochran

• I had a little boy who came to me and he was in the third grade. And he was being picked on something fierce by some older boys, fourth graders and fifth graders. They would take his money and push him down and all this kind of stuff and he didn't want to go back to school. And he was feeling really bad.

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