Manipulation sounds scary. Sounds like something we all want to avoid, right? Have you ever stopped to ponder on what ways you might be manipulative though? Or how you have been manipulative in the past? The hardest thing to do is be honest about how we are not always good. And most of the time, manipulation is an unconscious thing that people do. It’s very rare to meet someone that’s consciously manipulating you. However, to protect yourself from manipulation, the best thing to do is become aware of it in yourself so that you can see right through someone else.

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A Guide to the Power You Seek Free Workbook: https://mailchi.mp/e2b7bd12022f/a-a-guide-to-the-power-you-seek

What would happen if we gave ourselves permission to be wrong? What if things were much simpler than we made them out to be? In this episode, Stephanie Hunter, creator of Tao of Self teaches us about self-discovery, conscious relationships, shadow work, intuition, and what’s behind our fear of connecting with people authentically.

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Stephanie’s Website: taoofself.com

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A Guide to the Power You Seek Free Workbook: https://mailchi.mp/e2b7bd12022f/a-a-guide-to-the-power-you-seek

Kalee recently joined Instagram and started creating open dialogue around the reality of living with AIDS. Diagnosed when she was 7 and later getting sick with meningitis four times, Kalee became hyper aware of humanity, death, and self-compassion. One of the reasons I was drawn to Kalee was because of her “Go F*ck Yourself” mindset: an empowering way to have your own back and establish boundaries with anyone that brings you down. We liberate the conversation around stupid stigmas like sex and STD’s, and discuss where it originates from: our education system.

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A Guide to the Power You Seek Free Workbook: https://mailchi.mp/e2b7bd12022f/a-a-guide-to-the-power-you-seek

This might be the most important episode of the season because an end goal of “happiness” is the answer I get when I ask people what it is that they want for their lives. Happiness is not a goal. Happiness is a choice, and the feelings associated with that word is fleeting. Why chase something that is so fleeting? Find something that goes beyond happiness. WHAT is it that makes your happy? In this episode I go into why it’s important to find something that you’d put your full life force energy into. What is that one thing that drives you? That you would continue doing whether you succeeded or not?

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A Guide to the Power You Seek Free Workbook: https://mailchi.mp/e2b7bd12022f/a-a-guide-to-the-power-you-seek

Travis Friday and I have an intimate conversation about exposing sexuality publicly and openly. Here are some of the questions we tackle: What’s the difference between being nude for artistic purposes on cinema vs. photography? What’s the difference between exposing your nips vs. genitalia? Why would one’s standard in society go down once they make art with their sexuality outside the bedroom? And how can we live authentically if we care so much about what people think… especially when it might come to our own families?

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A Guide to the Power You Seek Free Workbook: https://mailchi.mp/e2b7bd12022f/a-a-guide-to-the-power-you-seek

Do we all have a dark side? What even is that? In this episode I go into why life gets so much more interesting when we decide to take a look at our shadows, when there’s a darkness in us to shed light on. To see yourself as purely good is to not really see yourself. Life is a balance between the yin and yang, and when we decide to own all these aspects within ourselves, that’s when the magic starts to happen. That’s when we start to come alive a little more.

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A Guide to the Power You Seek Free Workbook: https://mailchi.mp/e2b7bd12022f/a-a-guide-to-the-power-you-seek

Which of the voices in your head are yours vs. other people’s? In this bonus episode for the Season 2 drop, I expand more on power and authenticity.

Why would we be scared of our own power? What would happen if we were unapologetically ourselves? Is power a choice?

Let’s get in to it.

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Perhaps you’ve asked yourself something along the lines of, “What’s the purpose of my life?” Well, what if we took one word out of that question and asked ourselves, “What’s the purpose of life?” You may get a shift in perspective.

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A new species has been introduced to the world, and that is AI. Eric and I talk about the relationship we have with technology and the growing political concerns that we’re seeing in the world today. As cool and useful AI is, we need to be honest about the down sides. At the end of the day, it all comes back down to taking responsibility for our own relationship with AI and how we choose to relate as human beings.

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I share some wisdom I learned from a bad acid trip. Yes, you read that right.

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