Modern Spirituality

As automation and technology continues to rapidly replace our human skills, emotional intelligence has never been more critical. Empowering the heart of you and your team of people gives you the leading edge that can help guide you towards inspiring shifts.

"When we remember that connection is our greatest currency, we can empower the necessary action to turn the tides. When people feel their contribution matters, you embolden them to give their best and everybody wins."

- Jessie May Wolfe  on The Modern Spirituality Show

This week's guest is Jessie May Wolfe, founder of  The HeartRise Movement.  Jessie May builds bridges, transforms people and evolves cultures. Jessie May works with leading brands including  Amazon, Soho House, Uber and UCLA, that understand how important it is to lead with the heart in today’s fast-paced world.  If you, your company or community, would like to explore more about the intersection between business, spirituality and heart centered innovation, be sure to tune into this inspiring episode between author and founder, Jessie May Wolfe and 4x bestselling author & meditation/mindfulness expert, and your host of The Modern Spirituality Show, Ben Decker. Once you learn the Language of the Heart, you can connect with and empower more people and serve the global spiritual awakening that is taking place around the world.   

Big thanks to our sponsor Open for bringing you this episode. Open is a mindfulness app built to transform your life. Experience the power of combining breathwork, meditation, sound, and movement to strengthen your mind-body connection. Practice with the best teachers in the world – anywhere, anytime. You can experience Open for 30 days free with Ben Decker’s promo code DECKERVIP, or claim here: http://withopen.com/deckervip

Learn More About Our Guest & The HeartRise Movement:
Jessie May Wolfe is a world traveler that ignites hearts everywhere she goes from London to Hong Kong, Montreal to Los Angeles ~ including Australia, Kenya, India, Costa Rica, Mexico to name only a few. 

From Wellness to Tech, Sports to Advertising, Real Estate to Non-Profit, and Education, HeartRise ignites the heartbeat of culture ~ offering a fresh take on heart-powered leadership.

Heartrise for your company:
https://www.heartrisemovement.com/corporate-programs

Follow Jessie May  on Instagram

Order Jessie May's book, High On Heart
https://www.heartrisemovement.com/heartrisebook

Book a visionary coaching session with Jessie May:
https://www.heartrisemovement.com/founder

Deepen Your Meditation Practice with Books by Ben Decker:

https://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-W.-Decker/e/B07C9WKP8J?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000

Work with Ben Decker:
https://bendeckermeditation.com/

Contact The Modern Spirituality Show:

Host/Executive Producer: 
Ben Decker
Twitter.com/BenDecker
Instagram.com/BenjaminWDecker
[email protected]

Producer:
Ansley Weller
[email protected]

This week your host Ben Decker welcomes musician, author and mindfulness teacher, Justin Michael Williams onto the show. Justin just traveled across America to the frontlines of the mental health crisis afflicting young activists today. Collaborating with his friends, and award-winning musicians the Brothers Koren, they go on a songwriting journey to turn their pain into inspirational anthems for change while learning more about what it truly means to change on the inside.

"What Generation Z is dealing with are things like "Imposter Syndrome," being 21 and everyone thinking you're going to save the world. We did shadow work and internal work to help them break through and we actually had them turn that pain into art, we wrote a song with them and then I went to the recording studio and we actually made an album of all their songs." - Justin Michael Williams

Big thanks to our sponsor Open for bringing you this episode. Open is a mindfulness app built to transform your life. Experience the power of combining breathwork, meditation, sound, and movement to strengthen your mind-body connection. Practice with the best teachers in the world – anywhere, anytime. You can experience Open for 30 days free with Ben Decker’s promo code DECKERVIP, or claim here: http://withopen.com/deckervip

Learn More About Our Guest:
From growing up with gunshot holes outside of his bedroom window to sharing the stage with Marianne Williamson and Deepak Chopra, Justin Michael Williams knows well the power of healing to overcome. This dynamic millennial who grew up marginalized in almost every way teaches meditation as a means of self-empowerment to those who need it most. But he’s not your grandma’s guru. In breaking the meditation mold, he shows others how to break free from the past and take action to create a new future. He is an author, transformational speaker, and top 20 recording artist who has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Grammy.com, Yoga Journal, Billboard.com, The Root, and South by Southwest®. With his groundbreaking new book Stay Woke and over a decade of teaching experience, Justin has become a pioneering voice for diversity and inclusion in wellness.

Follow Justin  on Instagram

Watch Justin Michael’s new show - Inside Change 

https://join.soundstrue.com/watch-now-inside-change-with-justin-michael-williams/

Listen to Justin Michael’s New Meditation Album - Meditation for The People: 

https://platoon.lnk.to/meditations-for-the-people

Order Justin Michael’s new book - Stay Woke 

https://www.justinmichaelwilliams.com/stay-woke-give-back

Deepen Your Meditation Practice with Books by Ben Decker:

https://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-W.-Decker/e/B07C9WKP8J?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000

Contact The Modern Spirituality Show:

Host/Executive Producer: 
Ben Decker
Twitter.com/BenDecker
Instagram.com/BenjaminWDecker
[email protected]

Producer:
Ansley Weller
[email protected]

What would it mean to truly live with intention? Imagine going after your career goals with enthusiasm and excitement and opening yourself up to deeper love and appreciation for yourself and others.  What would it feel like to fully accept that all of it was here for a reason, the desires, the struggles, the situations? Even when you experience rejection, imagine  feeling peace and leaning on the knowing that what’s meant for you, wouldn’t miss you. Perhaps you learn to accept that rejection is simply divine redirection. When you face a struggle, what if you could ask yourself, “what is this here to teach me?” Perhaps consider that you can live with intention and that everything is divinely designed. How would knowing this allow you to move through your life differently? Imagine approaching obstacles with grace, accepting and nurturing your dreams, and most importantly, accepting the role of a divine co-creator of your own reality.

This week your host Ben Decker welcomes his friend and colleague Cassandra Bodzak onto the show where they discuss their careers in television as well as authors and entrepreneurs.  You will hear how they navigate whichever triumphs and tribulations life hands them with more intention, grace and ease.   

"We are divine creators, at the very essence of our being, and when we have these heart centered desires, I also believe that they were placed in us by the Divine, and so part of our journey is to go on to manifest them." - Cassandra Bodzak

Open is a mindfulness app built to transform your life. Experience the power of combining breathwork, meditation, sound, and movement to strengthen your mind-body connection. Practice with the best teachers in the world – anywhere, anytime. You can experience Open for 30 days free with Ben Decker’s promo code DECKERVIP, or claim here: http://withopen.com/deckervip

Learn More About Our Guest:
Cassandra Bodzak is a thought leader, best-selling author and sought after on camera personality and speaker in the mindfulness and personal development world. She is also the host of the popular spiritual podcast, "Divine Downloads".

You may have seen Cassandra on ABC's The Taste with Anthony Bourdain as the "happy, healthy living guru" or in her work with SHAPE, Eating Well, Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, Thrive, Fabletics, Lululemon and SoulCycle.

Cassandra helps people all over the world learn The Process for bringing their soul's desires into their everyday reality through her online group program, Divinely Design Your Life.

Books by Cassandra Bodzak:

Spiritual Awakening Journal
Manifesting Through Meditation
Eat With Intention

Follow Cassandra on Instagram

Listen to Cassandra's Podcast, Divine Downloads:

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Contact The Modern Spirituality Show:

Host/Executive Producer: 
Ben Decker
Twitter.com/BenDecker
Instagram.com/BenjaminWDecker
[email protected]

Producer:
Ansley Weller
[email protected]

Join host Ben Decker in a timely, groundbreaking conversation with friend Marianne Williamson on spirituality and social justice.

Marianne is best known for her 13+ bestselling books on the application of universal, spiritual principles, and her 2020 campaign for president. She was the first ever spiritual teacher to run for President and make it to the televised Democratic Presidential Debates, and was the most Googled candidate after the second debates.

Marianne initiated a global about face, as the intriguing freshness of her candidacy resulted in millions of people being exposed to a deeper, more spiritual and heart-centered approach to politics.

Marianne and Ben discuss several important topics including:
🌟 Denial vs Transcendence
🌟 Finding Your Voice & Discover Your Power
🌟 Capitalism and Spirituality
and more!

Open is a mindfulness app built to transform your life. Experience the power of combining breathwork, meditation, sound, and movement to strengthen your mind-body connection. Practice with the best teachers in the world – anywhere, anytime. You can experience Open for 30 days free with Ben Decker’s promo code DECKERVIP, or claim here: http://withopen.com/deckervip

Learn More About Our Guest:
Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, political activist and spiritual thought leader.

For over three decades Marianne has been a leader in spiritual and religiously progressive circles. She is the author of 14 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times best sellers. A quote from the mega best seller A Return to Love, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.

Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit that has delivered more than 13 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989. The group was created to help people suffering from the ravages of HIV/AIDS. She has also worked throughout her career on poverty, anti-hunger and racial reconciliation issues. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance and supports the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace. In 2021, Marianne launched MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com and the TRANSFORM Podcast.

Deepen Your Meditation Practice with Books by Ben Decker:

https://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-W.-Decker/e/B07C9WKP8J%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Contact The Modern Spirituality Podcast:

Host/Executive Producer: 
Ben Decker
Twitter.com/BenDecker
Instagram.com/BenjaminWDecker
[email protected]

Producer:
Ansley Weller
[email protected]

This week your host Ben Decker & the The Modern Spirituality Show welcome Diego Perez, a New York Times Bestselling author, poet and philosopher.  Diego is a meditator, writer and speaker who is known by millions as Yung Pueblo, a pen name that means “young people.” Yung Pueblo serves to remind Diego of his Ecuadorian roots, his experience in activism, and that the collective of humanity is in the midst of important growth. Diego's favorite word is liberation which took on a deeper meaning once he started meditating vipassana (silent meditation) in 2012. His focus through meditating, writing and speaking is to support the healing of the individual, realizing that when we release our personal burdens, we contribute to a global peace. 

Learn more about our guest here:

Pre-Order Yung Pueblo's latest book, Lighter, coming out October 4, 2022. 
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667686/lighter-by-yung-pueblo/

Follow Yung Pueblo on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/yung_pueblo/

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Ben Decker's Top App Recommendation:
Open is a mindfulness app built to transform your life. Experience the power of combining breathwork, meditation, sound, and movement to strengthen your mind-body connection. Practice with the best teachers in the world – anywhere, anytime. You can experience Open for 30 days free with Ben Decker’s promo code DECKERVIP, or claim here: http://withopen.com/deckervip

Book a trip to Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica on October 9th - 16th, a special retreat hosted by Ben Decker.

Develop Your Meditation Practice with books by Ben Decker:

Modern Spirituality: A Guide to the Heart of Mindfulness, Meditation, and the Art of Healing

Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You

Daily Mindfulness: 365 Exercises to Deepen Your Practice and Find Peace

Meditations on Christ: A 5-Minute Guided Journal for Christians

 Contact The Modern Spirituality Show:


👉Benjamin W. Decker, Host/Executive Producer
 
[email protected]
 
Twitter.com/BenDecker
 
Instagram.com/BenjaminWDecker
 

👉Ansley Weller, Producer

[email protected]

Are you ready to stretch the edges of your comfort zone, befriend your mind and feel at home in your body? Do you desire to experience more  of what life has to offer while also showing up for every aspect of your life? Join Ben Decker and his dear friend Moun D'Simone on this fascinating and empowering episode where they discuss:

🌟How to Tune Into Your Own Personal "Path Within the Path"
🌟 Making Authentic Decisions Free from Conditioning
🌟 Moun's recent three month retreat in Nepal 
🌟 How to Embody Being a Modern Day Dakini
🌟 Responding with the Buddha Nature
🌟The Importance of Sangha (Community) and Friendship
🌟 The Shadow Aspects of Personality
🌟 Mirror Neurons and Neuroplasticity
 
Moun is a Modern Day Dakini, a Tibetan Buddhism term for a female messenger of wisdom, an outstanding practitioner, with immeasurable intuitive force.  Dakinis are direct, sharp, intelligent, radical, and courageous while also very warm and compassionate. To really meet the Dakini within, you have to go beyond duality and learn to hold Life's paradoxes. 
 

Join Moun's Modern Dakini Advanced Group starting September 24th, 2022
https://www.moundsimone.com/group-programs

Follow Moun on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/moundsimone/

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Book a trip to Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica on October 9th - 16th, a special retreat hosted by Ben Decker.

Experience Ayahuasca Plant Medicine at the First Ever Medically-Licensed Resort to offer this sacred shamanic experience, Rythmia Life Advancement Center. Enjoy a week of deep transformation with four plant medicine ceremonies led by shamans trained in the Columbian tradition and plant medicine preparation and integration workshops.


Ben Decker in The Unplug App & The Modern Spirituality Podcast in The New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/30/well/guided-meditations.html

Develop Your Meditation Practice with books by Ben Decker:

Modern Spirituality: A Guide to the Heart of Mindfulness, Meditation, and the Art of Healing

Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You

Daily Mindfulness: 365 Exercises to Deepen Your Practice and Find Peace

Meditations on Christ: A 5-Minute Guided Journal for Christians

 Contact The Modern Spirituality Show:


👉Benjamin W. Decker, Host/Executive Producer
 
[email protected]
 
Twitter.com/BenDecker
 
Instagram.com/BenjaminWDecker
 

👉Ansley Weller, Producer

[email protected]

www.ModernSpiritualityShow.com

You go to the gym and eat quality food for your body; you read, study and see your therapist every week for your brain; and you may even tune into a spiritual guide for your spirit but what about our liberation? How can we learn how to get free and unlearn the scripts of the systems of oppression? How can we contribute to the joy and pleasure of the entire collective?

What many don't realize is that oppression is bondage for not just for the oppressed but also for the oppressor.  Our guest this week, Liberation Coach, community founder  & podcast host, Martissa Williams, has a solution of how to get free and unlearn oppression as a crucial embodiment practice towards modern spirituality and spiritual awakening.  Liberation Doula, Martissa Williams and your host Ben Decker, challenge us this week to harness the power of imagination to envision a mutually satisfying world where we can align with our intuition and actually unlearn oppression as a daily practice.

Learn more about Martissa Williams here:

Become a member of The Toolbox, a 12 month membership for making anti-oppression a pleasurable daily practice. Unlearn oppressive ways of being that are keeping you from living a life in alignment with your highest values. 

https://www.letsgetnekkid.com/thetoolbox

Listen to Martissa's podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nekkid-conversations/id1519542577

Follow Martissa on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/letsgetnekkid/

Book a trip to Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica on October 9th - 16th, a special retreat hosted by Ben Decker.

Experience Ayahuasca Plant Medicine at the First Ever Medically-Licensed Resort to offer this sacred shamanic experience, Rythmia Life Advancement Center. Enjoy a week of deep transformation with four plant medicine ceremonies led by shamans trained in the Columbian tradition and plant medicine preparation and integration workshops.


Ben Decker in The Unplug App & The Modern Spirituality Podcast in The New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/30/well/guided-meditations.html

Develop Your Meditation Practice with books by Ben Decker:

Modern Spirituality: A Guide to the Heart of Mindfulness, Meditation, and the Art of Healing

Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You

Daily Mindfulness: 365 Exercises to Deepen Your Practice and Find Peace

Meditations on Christ: A 5-Minute Guided Journal for Christians

 Contact The Modern Spirituality Show:


👉Benjamin W. Decker, Host/Executive Producer
 
[email protected]
 
Twitter.com/BenDecker
 
Instagram.com/BenjaminWDecker
 

👉Ansley Weller, Producer

[email protected]

www.ModernSpiritualityShow.com

Subscribe to The Modern Spirituality Show Youtube Channel:

What if you could walk with confidence, move with ease, and think with clarity? What if you could rid yourself of stress and live your most optimal life? The fundamentals on how to do so are simple. No matter who you are, or what stage of life you are in, you are more than capable of applying these practices to your daily life. 

Our guest , Aaron Alexander, CR, LMT, is a pioneering manual therapist and movement coach, who believes there is a direct correlation between our physical health and our psychological wellbeing. If we want to change the quality of our lives, we first need to change the way we move through our lives. How do we do that? Align our mind, body and movement. 

Learn more about Aaron Alexander here:

Order Aaron’s book:

https://www.alignpodcast.com/alignbook

Listen to Aaron’s podcast:

https://www.alignpodcast.com

Join the community:

https://www.alignpodcast.com/community/

Book a trip to Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica on October 9th - 16th, a special retreat hosted by Ben Decker.

Experience Ayahuasca Plant Medicine at the First Ever Medically-Licensed Resort to offer this sacred shamanic experience, Rythmia Life Advancement Center. Enjoy a week of deep transformation with four plant medicine ceremonies led by shamans trained in the Columbian tradition and plant medicine preparation and integration workshops.

https://rythmia.link/deckerevent

Ben Decker in The Unplug App & The Modern Spirituality Podcast in The New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/30/well/guided-meditations.html

Develop Your Meditation Practice with books by Ben Decker:

Modern Spirituality: A Guide to the Heart of Mindfulness, Meditation, and the Art of Healing


Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You

Daily Mindfulness: 365 Exercises to Deepen Your Practice and Find Peace

Meditations on Christ: A 5-Minute Guided Journal for Christians

 Contact The Modern Spirituality Show:

👉Benjamin W. Decker, Host/Executive Producer
 
[email protected]
 
Twitter.com/BenDecker
 
Instagram.com/BenjaminWDecker
 

👉Ansley Weller, Producer

[email protected]

www.ModernSpiritualityShow.com

Subscribe to The Modern Spirituality Show Youtube Channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcE0Cr7KOWwXlVOYXvaYyTw

Our guest this week is Alexandra Roxo, a prominent voice in transformational healing and the divine feminine. Alexandra is a bestselling author, creative, and transformational coach specializing in the intersection of spirituality and sexuality, emotional and creative expression, and embodiment. You may have seen her on the Netflix show Too Hot To Handle where she was touted as “The Deeper Connection Queen” and viewed by millions.

What if your deepest fears and wounds were the KEY to living a turned on, passionate life, sharing your gifts with the world? And what if you could embrace all of you―all of your messy, wild, raw, sensual self―exactly as you are right now ? Learn how you can let life make love to you and enjoy every bit, even the parts that hurt, and to find the magic in all of it.

Learn more about our guest:

Website:
https://www.alexandraroxo.com/

Book:
https://www.alexandraroxo.com/book/

Podcast:
https://www.alexandraroxo.com/podcast/

Instagram:
https://instagram.com/alexandraroxo?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Press article links:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/style/california-pilates-healer-wellness.html

https://www.instyle.com/reviews-coverage/alexandra-roxo-how-to-fuck-like-a-goddess-interview

Book a trip to Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica on October 9th - 16th, a special retreat hosted by Ben Decker:

Experience Ayahuasca Plant Medicine at the First Ever Medically-Licensed Resort to offer this sacred shamanic experience, Rythmia Life Advancement Center. Enjoy a week of deep transformation with four plant medicine ceremonies led by shamans trained in the Columbian tradition and plant medicine preparation and integration workshops.

https://rythmia.link/deckerevent

Ben Decker in The Unplug App & The Modern Spirituality Podcast in The New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/30/well/guided-meditations.html

Develop Your Meditation Practice with books by Ben Decker:

Modern Spirituality: A Guide to the Heart of Mindfulness, Meditation, and the Art of Healing

Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You

Daily Mindfulness: 365 Exercises to Deepen Your Practice and Find Peace

Meditations on Christ: A 5-Minute Guided Journal for Christians

 Contact The Modern Spirituality Podcast:

👉Benjamin W. Decker, Host/Executive Producer
 
[email protected]
 
Twitter.com/BenDecker
 
Instagram.com/BenjaminWDecker
 

👉Ansley Weller, Producer

[email protected]

Your host Ben Decker brings his longtime friend Dr. Ron Alexander onto the show where they  discuss Ron's newest book, Core Creativity: The Mindful Way to Unlock Your Creative Self.  Dr. Ronald A. Alexander, PhD, is a psychotherapist, a mindfulness trainer and a creativity, business and leadership coach.

Order Ron's Books here:

Core Creativity: The Mindful Way to Unlock Your Creative Self

Wise Mind, Open Mind: Finding Purpose and Meaning in Times of Crisis, Loss and Change

Website: www.CoreCreativity.com

Connect with Ron on social media:

Instagram:  @drronalexander

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RonaldAlexanderPhD

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronald-alexander-ph-d-b5a57a2

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RonAlexanderPhD 

 Ben Decker, The Unplug App & The Modern Spirituality Podcast in The New York Times: 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/30/well/guided-meditations.html

Develop Your Meditation Practice with books by Ben Decker:

Modern Spirituality: A Guide to the Heart of Mindfulness, Meditation, and the Art of Healing

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1647398150/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i2

Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1641520256/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i0

Daily Mindfulness: 365 Exercises to Deepen Your Practice and Find Peace

https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Mindfulness-Exercises-Deepen-Practice/dp/164739192X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Meditations on Christ: A 5-Minute Guided Journal for Christians

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1646118065/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i3

Affiliates of The Modern Spirituality Podcast:

🙏Chopra Global Certifications with Deepak Chopra

Become a  Meditation Teacher or an Ayurvedic Health Coach with a prestigious  certification through Deepak Chopra's Chopra Global at Chopra.com/certifications. Mention Ben Decker as your referral.

🙏Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica

Experience Ayahuasca Plant Medicine at the First Ever Medically-Licensed Resort to offer this sacred shamanic experience, Rythmia Life Advancement Center. Enjoy a week of deep transformation with four plant medicine ceremonies led by shamans trained in the Columbian tradition and plant medicine preparation and integration workshops - with special guest Ben Decker. Book your trip today at Rythmia.Link/DeckerEvent

Contact The Modern Spirituality Podcast:

👉Benjamin W. Decker, Host/Executive Producer

[email protected]

Twitter.com/BenDecker

Instagram.com/BenjaminWDecker

👉Ansley Weller, Producer

[email protected]