Old Souls and Seekers

“When you’re going through such big shifts in your life through personal development, you start to see yourself as a different human being.” 

- Guy and Ilan Ferdman

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As you know, our podcast is very focused on holesome progress in life. We cover things from spirituality and emotional health to career goals and skin care. One of the things we haven’t discussed much is the way that our parents/family might influence personal development and how it may affect those relationships. For some, family is a key part of our growth. For others, our families may have missed out on the entire journey, resulting in out-of-sync relationships and possibly dissonance.

It’s important to know that your experiences, concerns, and discomfort you might feel around your family are all valid; but it’s equally as important to learn how to navigate them.

Today on Personal Development Without The Fluff, we discuss our journeys from childhood to parenthood, our spiritual growth, and how all of those things are interconnected.  Tune in to this conversation to possibly hear a story you’re able to relate to, especially if you struggle with carrying your new-found growth with you into settings that involve the people you grew up with.

We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed the conversation!

“My feeling as to why family is so agitating to our systems is because what you learn as a child and the things that you’re critical about are the things that your family is generally critical about.”

- Guy and Ilan Ferdman

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The Cliff Notes:

Sometimes it takes distance from family for growth to happen.Feeling a connection with someone can be as simple as just sharing physical space with them.It’s not uncommon for family dynamics to cause agitation within you when you’re on a journey of personal/spiritual growth.For many of us, our inner critic voice is a replication of the criticism we observed or received in our childhood.Sometimes your family might be too stuck in their idea of the “old you” to acknowledge your personal growth as the “new you.”Whether it be socializing, working, or anything else, we can get distracted by putting on a performance rather than being focused on being present.

“When you’re around family; when you’re around parents and grandparents etc., to me it’s a physical manifestation of the inner critic of your voice.”

- Guy and Ilan Ferdman

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“With all the fertility issues out there, you have to wonder how much of that could be related to the skincare you're bombarding yourself with.”

- Trina Felber

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Recently we released part 1 of our interview with Trina Felber and discussed hacks to skincare that we don’t hear about in commercials and retail brands. Check out episode 183 if you haven’t yet!Today we present part 2 of this episode! We’ll talk more about skincare, but also about other aspects of our overall well-being that are important to pay mind to. The body’s systems are intricately interconnected, so holistic care is essentially to health. Tune in to this continued conversation to learn more about Trina’s company Primal Life Organics and to learn valuable information about holistic self-care.

You can learn more about Trina and her company here: https://www.primallifeorganics.com/

“The root of disease is inflammation. If your gums and your teeth are not in good condition, that's a portal-way for inflammation into your heart, your liver, your kidneys, your lungs... everywhere.”

- Trina Felber

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The Cliff Notes:

Many common over-the-counter products contain skin-irritants like benzoyl peroxide.Cayenne pepper increases blood flow therefore it works as a wonderful acne treatment.Your skincare regimen can ultimately affect your metabolism.Most antiperspirants have aluminum which is also found in brains with alzhimers.Antiperspirants essentially can trap toxins into your body by not allowing them to sweat out.Science says that we all have multiple personalities and one of them is naturally oriented towards health and wellness.

“Everybody has a healthy personality living in them.”

- Trina Felber

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“What you are doing as you do this work is you're bringing online an aspect of you that has been in atrophy.” - Guy & Ilan Ferdman

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 Our minds are all about patterns. We are naturally wired to respond to anything and everything we encounter with the survival instinct that will keep us safe. On the contrary, our intuition has a mind of its own. Intuition is that wild idea you have that seems risky and nonsensical. Intuition is that fun adventure that popped up that seems ridiculous and even dangerous to try. Intuition is that voice that many of us are taught to basically silence, but it has so much to tell us if we listen.

That’s why on today’s episode of Personal Development Without The Fluff, we are discussing the challenges, the importance, and the characteristics of a journey towards understanding and listening to your intuition more frequently. It’s an invaluable skill that we’ve constantly been indirectly taught to ignore by society. Tune in to this conversation to learn about possible challenges you’ll face as well as tools to help you further fine-tune your ear for your inner-intuition’s voice.

“Just because we can’t verify something today scientifically, doesn’t mean it’s outside of the realm of reality.” - Guy & Ilan Ferdman

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The Cliff Notes:

Personal development and intuition work is largely about reawakening your child-like inner-self.Listening to your intuition will seem like it doesn't make any sense to your logical brain at first.When things don't go right, it's often when we aren't operating from a relaxed state.Most beautiful things in life happen “over the edge.”The mind’s job is to keep you alive so it will naturally go against your risky intuition.Growth is rarely comfortable.When we're dealing with difficulty and discomfort, the mind is often the one producing that.

“The irony is that when you actually quiet yourself down is when the world gets loudest for you.” - Guy & Ilan Ferdman

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“What I learned is that if you feed your largest organ food, it heals.” - Trina Felber

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 Do you love your skin? Do you take care of it? Most of us are probably pretty comfortable with saying they take decent care of their skin. The problem is that we are sold mainstream products that aren’t actually that healthy for our skin and riddled with dangerous ingredients. So even if we have a good regimen, it can be even better!

That’s why on today’s episode of Personal Development Without The Fluff, we are joined by Trina Felber, the founder and Creator of Primal Life Organics. She’s a dental health and natural skincare expert, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and a mother of three.  Tune in to this conversation to learn about Trina’s company Primal Life Organics to learn about treating your skin with the food it needs.

You can learn more about Trina and her company here: https://www.primallifeorganics.com/

“Everything comes down to cellular activity.” - Trina Felber

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The Cliff Notes:

You may think you are stuck in your career, but look at it as a stepping stone.Commercial skincare products are harsh on your cells.When water evaporates from your skin it also dries out the natural oils your skin needs.Skincare and hygiene projects should improve the health of your body, not just make it appear healthier.Brushing your teeth with mineral based products such as Trina’s product “Dirty Mouth Tooth Powder” rather than fluoride helps your teeth revitalize.Dehydrated skin will expedite the wrinkling process.Think “skin-food” instead of “skincare.”

“When I create products, I look at what I want the product to do in terms of healing the body.” - Trina Felber

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“I understood that what I am inside is not what I showed to the world… because that’s the weird thing about delusion. You do not know that aren’t seeing the right picture.”

- Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani

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Have you ever felt like you’re constantly chasing something more? You checked off your boxes, you’ve crossed off your list and you’ve reached your financial goals. Yet, for some reason you still feel a void. What is that about?

It’s normal for us to put our self-worth and value in milestones and tangible accomplishments. It’s what the world tells us to do. But once we reach those goals and still feel unfulfilled, why doesn’t the world tell us what to do then? Suddenly we don’t know what to do. Yet, the people around us think we’ve got it all figured out. Surely something is wrong with us...Right?

Well, believe it or not, life is about more than success stories. Therefore, maybe there’s some inner work for each of us to do. That’s why on today’s episode of Personal Development Without The Fluff, we are joined by Life Philosopher and Co-Founder of Mindvalley, Kristina Mänd Lakhiani to discuss authenticity and the way it affects us and others around us.

Tune in to this conversation to learn what we might encounter in life as we begin stripping away layers of our facades and coming to know our true selves.

You can learn more about Kristina in the links below.

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

Instagram: @kristinamand  

Website: www.kristinamand.com

“I was just trying to understand who I am. And when I did, the beautiful facade of my life completely crumbled and fell into pieces.”

- Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani

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The Cliff Notes:

Even people who have “made it” can be teachable. Many incredibly “successful” people tend to be driven by a feeling of “not enough-ness.”Achieving careers or wealth are only bandaids to the real personal development that gets to be done.Looking at only your faults that need to be fixed is an unhealthy habit.Masks are appropriate and necessary sometimes. The problem comes when we start to rely on them. Sometimes we have to admit hard things to ourselves that might go against society’s tradition.It’s inevitable that being your authentic self might hurt people you love.  

“There will be the moment when you’ll have to communicate, to the world and to the people you love the most, something which might hurt them. And you will still have to be true to that.”

- Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani

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“To me, an artist is someone who translates their creative energy into tangible form.”

 - Adam Roa

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So many of us are often told “you have potential.” We’re given platitudes of our “could-be” future but not all of us are given personal development tools to help us reach that potential. It can be frustrating to always feel like you aren’t where you could be. Well, what if there was a way we could take more of the driver-seat approach to life? What if we could stop letting life happen to us and allow us to happen to life?

On today’s episode of Personal Development Without The Fluff, we are joined by the multi-talented, touring spoken-word artist, author, motivational speaker, filmmaker and life coach Adam Roa. Adam tours the world opening the minds of many by artistically sharing his message to resonate with people at the core.

The result? Many changed lives.

Tune in to this conversation to hear how Adam is using his art and life experiences to help people change their own reality. Also, stay tuned to grasp knowledge and wisdom that will lead you down the path of changing your own life too!

You can learn more about Adam at his website https://www.adamroa.com/

The Cliff Notes:

There’s a difference between understanding art on a logical level versus feeling the experience emotionally. Art allows us to glorify and admire the things we see as mundane.Our fear to embrace our uniqueness is a biological result of our ancestors’ survival instincts.People often act in patterned behavior rather than conscious intention.Everyone is essentially loving themselves in the best way they know how. Forgiveness is an act of self-love, but not an act of condoning.Seeing our enemies with compassion is an act of self-love.Generational genetic trauma can be broken by the work of healing. When you make changes in your own life, you give others access to new possibilities.Growth is not linear. Growth is an upward spiral.

“Anything that you can imagine for your life right now is a limitation.”

 - Adam Roa

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“It's about realizing who one is without the mask that one has negotiated a reality through.” - Paul Selig

(click to tweet)  Purpose is ultimately the goal that most of use live our lives for. We want to find out why we're here and we want to find our meaning. We search everywhere for purpose, but sometimes we are unaware that it’s already being fulfilled. That’s why on today’s episode of Personal Development Without The Fluff, we are joined by Paul Selig, an incredibly wise and well respected author of spiritual guidance literature. Paul Selig is considered to be one of the foremost spiritual channels working today. In his breakthrough works of channeled literature, I Am the Word, The Book of Love and Creation, The Book of Knowing and Worth, The Book of Mastery, The Book of Truth and The Book of Freedom, author and medium Paul Selig has recorded an extraordinary program for personal and planetary evolution as humankind awakens to its own divine nature.

Paul was born in New York City and received his master’s degree from Yale. A spiritual experience in 1987 left him clairvoyant. As a way to gain a context for what he was beginning to experience he studied a form of energy healing and began to “hear” for his clients. Described as “a medium for the living,” Paul has the unique ability to step-into and “become” the people his clients ask about, often taking on their personalities and physical characteristics as he “hears” them telepathically. Paul’s work has been featured on ABC News Nightline, Fox News, the Biography Channel series The UneXplained, Gaim TV’s Beyond Belief and the documentary film PGS: Your Personal Guidance System. He has appeared on numerous radio shows and podcasts including Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and Bob Olson’s Afterlife TV.

Paul offers channeled workshops internationally and serves on the faculty of The Omega Institute, The Kripalu Center and the Esalen Institute. Also a noted educator, he served on the faculty of NYU for over 25 years. He directed the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College for many years, and he now serves on the college’s Board of Trustees. He lives in New York City where he maintains a private practice as an intuitive and conducts frequent live-stream seminars.

Tune in to this conversation to journey into the vividly profound and eye-opening experience that we had the pleasure of interviewing him about.

You can learn more about Paul at his website www.paulselig.com

“The guides say the action of fear is to claim more fear and every choice you make in fear gets you more of the same.” - Paul Selig

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The Cliff Notes:

"Guides" are there to help us navigate our journey and life.Self-realization allows you to be without fear.We are constantly fulfilling a purpose even when we're completely oblivious to it.You are not defined by your career. Your purpose does not rely on your occupation.If we are looking for what could be called God, we need not look anywhere but in front of us because God is in all things.When we view all things and people as interconnected by a source, we experience life more vividly.Sometimes what we think we want has the potential to derail us from a better journey.

“I don't know what there is to aspire to once we understand that all we really have is right now anyway.” - Paul Selig

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“I find it to be of paramount importance that you first have to lead.” - Guy and Ilan Ferdman

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We’ve previously discussed aspects of parenting in our podcast on episode titled “Don’t Make Parenting Harder Than It Needs To Be,” but we all know parenting is forever a learning process. There is so much to take into account when we are dealing with the changes in culture from our generation to theirs. 

Although we all have our own styles of parenting, there are some tools that can help any parent begin the process of building healthy or healthier relationships with our children. 

That’s why on today’s episode of Personal Development Without The Fluff, we’ll be diving into practices that could potentially change your entire experience of raising a family. Tune in to this episode as well as episode 174 to begin either developing a better relationship with your child or preparing yourself if you plan to have children in the future!

“At the end of the day, I don’t care how amazing of a household you create and how good you are as parents… They’re receiving reality through their own filters and constructs.” - Guy & Ilan Ferdman

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The Cliff Notes:

Unconscious parenting is when you try to get your children to live the life you wish you lived.Conscious parenting is about nourishing your child to flourish in whatever direction they’re gravitated to.Your children are constantly watching and imitating the way you act and react to life.Competition is a culture that the new generations are seemingly detaching from.When we get frustrated at our children, it’s important to ask ourselves why we responded that way.To ask your child for forgiveness when you make mistakes is to show them that you are just as human as they are.Instead of being a parent to only tell your children what to do, consider being a parent that grows with your children. When children see that you’re unwilling to grow, they will imitate that behavior.

“I think the new generation is seeking cooperation over competition.” - Guy & Ilan Ferdman

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“If the internal voice is calm and consistent, it’s much more likely your intuition.” - David Solomon

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One of the most valuable things to possess is purpose. Decisions, relationships, career choices, and much more usually tend to become much more meaningful and beneficial when we can attribute them to a purpose in our lives.

Although many of us know that having purpose is valuable and beneficial, it can be difficult to discern whether our actions and decisions are guided by purposeful intuition, or just emotional reaction to a circumstance. The ability to trust your intuition is not something that is automatic. It takes practice, experimentation and time.

That’s why on today’s episode of Personal Development Without The Fluff, we are joined by David Solomon, a seasoned Shaman, coach, healer and researcher, to discuss the invaluable skill of intuition. In this episode you will gain tools that you can practice to learn how to discern which of your inner voices to listen to in your life journey. Tune in to this conversation to take yet another invaluable step towards becoming more and more aligned with yourself and your journey.

You can learn more about and connect with David through the links below:www.magicalgoldenage.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmagicsolomon/https://www.facebook.com/DavidMagicSolomon

“If we honor our intuition, it usually gets louder and if we don’t, it becomes more silent.” - David Solomon

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The Cliff Notes:

Intuition is your calm consistent internal voice, not your frantic, emotional and impulsive voice.Experiment with your internal dialogue to learn how to discern your intuition.Often the frantic voice is the defensive one that tries to protect you from vulnerability.When trying to discern you internal dialogue, journal the two voices and start to look for patterns over time.A useful follow-up tool to this discernment is giving these voices distinct names and identities.All of your internal voices involved have a unique purpose.Trusting your intuition is a skill that takes time and practice.

“When a voice tells you to do something and you’re wondering if it’s your intuition, if you just keep asking why, you can often get to the core root of it.” - David Solomon

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“The perfect combination of chaos and stability creates growth.” - Dr. Allen Bittaker

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Physical pain is one of the main forms of communication that we listen to in our bodies. It grabs our attention immediately and sometimes we can’t manage to take our attention away from it once it’s there. It communicates that something is going on that the body is not used to and that you need to be made aware of it. And although pain is what we are most familiar with in terms of our body telling us something, it’s not the only thing our bodies tell us.

Our body communicates with us in numerous ways that take time and mindfulness to become aware of. Thankfully there are practices that help us do just that: listen to our own body language. That’s why on today’s episode of Personal Development Without The Fluff, we are joined by Allen Bittaker, a skilled chiropractor who practices a nontraditional technique called Network Spinal technique which integrates both mind and body to release tense energies that the body might have deposited. Tune in to this conversation to grasp concepts of becoming more in-tune with practices that help you listen to your body and release energy that needs to be relinquished.  

You can learn more about Allen Bittaker here:https://www.facebook.com/pg/Dr.allen.bittaker/services/

“This world is made up of language whether it’s spoken or not.” - Dr. Allen Bittaker

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The Cliff Notes:

Chiropractic is a practice of physical and spiritual merging.A crucial part of growth and release is less forcing and more allowing of the self to grow.Rolfing is a practice that reorganizes and restructure the fascia in the body.The philosophy of pain being crucial to growth isn’t necessarily valid. Growth can be effortless.The human body contains far more microbes than it does cells.A big part of our anxiety is that we run from it too often rather than sit with it.Talking out the things that come up for you are crucially therapeutic.Human beings make decisions but rarely make choices.

“A rule for me is to listen to what I say because when I say things, that’s my truth.” - Dr. Allen Bittaker

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