In this episodes Nicoleta chats about suicide and happiness with Mark Henick, TED Talk speaker, author and mental health advocate from Torronto, Canada.

When early trauma shows up in adolescence.

Are parents aware of our pain?

It is hard for children to make sense of their depression and anxiety.

How does it feel to be suicidal at 12 and feel like that is the only choice?

When you spend your adolescence in hospitals.

The despair that leads to numerous suicide attempts. 

When a stranger pulls you off the edge of a bridge one night.

How you realise you need to build the life that you want and not discover the life that you don’t have.

When you understand that trauma is not your fault, but your recovery is your responsibility.

How do you conceptualise your suicide attempt  from a psychological-philosophical perspective? 

Turning your pain into meaning and purpose in life.

Exploring the “so called normal” through the eyes of the fake world around us.  

And connecting with happiness right within.

Ultimately, how we make sense of our trauma and use it to shape our lives the way we want. 

 Find more about Mark here:

Mark’s TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1QoyTmeAYw

Mark’s book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/So-Called-Normal-Memoir-Depression-Resilience/dp/1443455032/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mark+henick&qid=1607959517&sr=8-1

Mark’s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/so-called-normal/id1450391477

Mark’s website: https://markhenick.com/

In this solo episode Nicoleta starts exploring the transgenerational truama cycle of pain.

This is a difficult converastion that we as a sociaty seem to avoid or postpone, but until when?

Our ancestors' trauma shows up uninvited in our lives through our childhood trauma, and if we do not raise conscious awareness around this reality of our lives this will continue to hurt the next generations.

In every family someone is born with this purpose: to awaken and to start healing the family's trauma. Let that person be you!

In this episodes Nicoleta chats about commitment and happiness with Samuel Morgan, business manager and first time author from Brighton, UK.

From sustainability to psychology and personal development.

When a book stays unpublished for 8 years.

How sharing through writing is therapeutic and helps in the relationship repair process.  

Why do men struggle to commit?

Are our attitudes towards relationships being shaped by our early years of life?

When we fear to trust the other.

What is love and why are we afraid of it?

When we push away or reject others that love us.

Why do British men have the tendency to bottle things up inside?

How to learn to engage with commitment and relationships in a healthy way.

Find Samuel’s book here:

https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Samuel-Morgan-ebook/dp/B093N919KG

In this solo episode Nicoleta explores The 3 Entangled Minds Blueprint, the ultimate guide to understanding your mind(s).

Are you in charge of your mind or it's your mind running your life?

Is there one mind or more than one mind?

What are your 3 minds?

How do your 3 minds work together?

Why consciousness is not in the mind.

How can you expand your brain?


Download your own pdf blueprint here:
https://crafty-originator-2530.ck.page/920a79c5ec

Check out the 8 weeks one to one programe Escape the Prison of your Mind here:
https://nicoletaporojanu.com/escape-the-prison-of-your-mind/

In this episode Nicoleta talks about parenting and happiness with Melissa Vera, a teacher turned full time blogger from North Carolina, USA.

Seeing the world falling apart when your child is diagnosed with epilepsy, your father is put in a hospice and you have a car accident.

When we turn our trauma and early experiences in positive parenting for our children. 

How do we raise children that are strong and in touch with their feelings?

Is parenting easier or harder when you are a professional teacher?

How do you grow a relationship with your children where you communicate freely?

When secrets have the potential to destroy the family unity.

Why it is important to allow our grown up children to become adults and figure things out for themselves. 

Coping when your children go through mental health challenges and why you should love them as they are despite their issues.

When we learn from our children.

What is parental guilt and how we make sense of it.

Why parents need to understand the multidimensional cause of suffering.

Best 3 learnings from being a parent. 

What you risk when you compare your children.

How do you balance your internal and external life as a parent?

When you ask your children what they learned from you in life.

Why parenting is the hardest job we will ever have, yet the most rewarding.

Fell the happiness when your children become your greatest achievement in life. 

And learn about The 4 Relationship Circles Roadmap – get your free pdf guide (https://crafty-originator-2530.ck.page/7edde86acd). 

Find more about Melissa’s work here:

adventuresfrugalmoms.com

And her podcast: “Chat From the Blog Cabin”, on all podcast directories. 

In this episodes Nicoleta chats about life passion and happiness with Paul Harvey, podcaster and mid-life coach, from Highlands, Scotland.

Do you follow your life passion?

What triggers a mid-life crisis?

Why would someone change their career after 3 decades. 

How to get out of a career that you don’t love.

The transition from marketing to podcasting.

How the pandemic benefited our lives. 

About the pursuit for happiness. 

When happiness can be found within.

Happiness and the conscious awareness.

What makes the difference between someone that is awakening and someone that doesn’t?

Living aligned with your own values. 

Quick 7 day habit reset to discover your life passion.

Find more about Paul Harvey’s work here:
https://lifepassionandbusiness.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/life-passion-and-business/id1338518936

In this episodes Nicoleta chats about human brain and happiness with Dawson Church, an award-winning science writer and researcher from California, USA.

What is the connection between consciousness, emotion, and gene expression?

How deep meditation release bliss neurochemicals in our brains.

Enter a state of awareness and change your brain functioning by paying attention, relaxation and meditation.

Why positive emotions such as altruism and compassion lead to happiness.

Understand neural plasticity, how the brain is capable of rewiring itself.

Remodel your brain by mediating 12 minutes a day for eight weeks. 

How meditation boosts serotonin and dopamine hormones.

There is potential in each of us to rewire our brains for happiness.

Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/bvD5TztPzAI

Get your copy of The 3 Entangled Minds Blueprint

Find out more about Dawson Church here:
blissbrain.com
tappinggift.com

In this episode Nicoleta explores the relationship between our modern society and happiness with Dr Pamela Gurley, retired USA Federal Government veteran, these days professional speaker, author and social activist from Washington DC, USA.

Meet a woman of many talents, a foodie that loves wine and has many hobbies, who is self-thought in many things, and loves to step out of her comfort zone. 

Find how a woman military moves through all 15 ranks in the US government in 14 years.

When life is happy on the surface. 

How do you remove the blinders from your eyes?

The internal story of a woman of colour in today’s America.

How do you get to know yourself and love each part of you?

Why you should never be afraid to be yourself.

How uncommunicated expectations block your happiness. 

When there is not enough support for business women of colour.

How inequality and lack of equity is experienced in 2021.

Why diversity in the absence of equitable opportunity values nothing.

What makes social justice such a slow process.

Why laws that should protect people from discrimination and inequality are not being passed.

What keeps the misogynistic culture alive.

How people form marginalised communities are failed by their local governments.

Why youngsters go to the military as a way out of poverty.

How is the society going to look like in 2050.

In this episode Nicoleta explores the relationship between digital technology and happiness with Sug Sahadevan, entrepreneur and CEO at Testhouse, London.

What does an electronic engineer and past employee at the UK government communication headquarters thinks about technology?

How can a software developer for national gas suppliers and international banks start his own tech business and build it to the level of a global organisation of over 500 employees, present not just in Europe, but also in the Middle East and America.

What are the pro and cons of digital technology?

Why has it taken the mankind so long to develop technology and why is it advancing so quickly?

When greed is at the core of our economy and money drive the tech industry led by Google, Amazon and Facebook.

Have we lost control of how the information circulates?

Is our privacy being taken away?

When we are only consumers for the new business leaders.

Is the technology making us happier?

Why the attitude of wanting more makes you unhappy.

Meet a very successful tech entrepreneur who thinks he has enough and does not need any more. Furthermore, find out why a successful entrepreneur feels that having more wealth and power could ruin him as a human.

Why contentment in what you have is happiness.

Where is the digital technology heading to?

Can matrix become a reality?

Can we stop the artificial intelligence?

Why it is important to be choosy with the digital technology.

In this episode Nicoleta explores the relationship between fitness and happiness with Zack Rutledge, personal trainer and nutrition specialist from New Jersey, USA.

When you find it hard to go through breakups in adolescence.

The experience of having your best friend killed at 18.

Why moving and fitness helps with low mood and depression.

How depression can be healed through forgiveness.   

When a man’s relationship with his father leads to self-imposed pressure on performance, to chasing titles and validation from the outside world. 

Why we resist therapy and how important it is to keep searching until you find the right therapist for you.

What happens when you integrate the gifts of Eastern tradition like yoga, martial arts and meditation with the western gifts of psychology and medication.

Why openness is essential for personal growth and development.

How the progressive psychotherapy is moving out of the conventional paradigms and involves now fitness, dance and moving therapy interventions.

How to create a real life transformation.

Check out Zack's book here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08K3R6ZV5/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0