Pause To Go Podcast: What You Need to Know About Menopause and Midlife Transitions

There are studies that show that more than 58% of Americans feel that they do not have enough time in the day to do the things that they want to do. 

And what's interesting about that is that the researchers who conducted this study said that actually, they felt that that number was underrepresenting how people truly felt because it only represented the people who took the time to fill out the study. 

I know that when I check in with my clients or my community on social media or I hear back from you all, the questions that I hear the most are about time management. And I got to tell you, I hate the words, "time management."

And we're going to look at it practically because I know that we all want practical tools. To help us harness time in a way that serves us best. So that's what this upcoming season is going to be. And for the most part. The episodes will be shorter than you may be used to. And that's really because. Well, Time is of the essence. 

So thank you for pausing to go with me. 

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Matthew Reynolds discusses learning from the past, cultivating unconditional belonging in (and beyond) our classrooms, crafting our equity lens, and the nerve-wracking excitement of publishing his new book, "BIGGEST, FULLEST, BRIGHTEST: Shifting the Consciousness of Humanity". 

• Why the past is our education, and how we can learn from our past selves

About Matthew:

Matthew Reynolds has over 35 years of experience as a performer and instructor in the Theater Arts and Dance. Matthew helped create the Crater Renaissance Academy of Arts and Sciences in Southern Oregon right out of his Masters of Arts Teaching program. He spent 12 years in the classroom where he built equity in his program, with his students, guided by the mission of "Creating Community through the Arts." Matthew now finds himself advocating for equity within the arts and education spaces. He looks forward to helping others craft their equity lens so that they may live their biggest, fullest, and brightest lives. 

About Matthew Reynolds Consulting, LLC

Matthew Reynolds Consulting, LLC offers a range of services designed to enhance community relations, improve intra-organizational communications and awareness, and enrich lives through engagement, education, workshops, and presentations. Previous partnerships include Culturally Responsive Teaching with Professors at Southern Oregon University, Equity Building with Live Arts theater, and Building Equity through Community with Southern Oregon Education Support District. 

Crafting Your Equity Lens is a tool that, when utilized consistently, grows into being a person's “truth vision.” It has integrity, accountability, authenticity, vulnerability, self-worth, and unconditional love at its core. It is Building Belonging. It is a Call to Action. 

As people continue to heed the call to action and begin to build belonging, equity and justice will lead us into the new normal. A world that has our own ideas of community and belonging in it - helping each other to grow, experience joy, celebrate each other's humanity - and allows each person to know for themselves what living their biggest, fullest, and brightest means. 

Contact Matthew: https://www.mrrconsulting.org/contact

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Gina Ostarly (This is 50)  is a long time fitness trainer, writer, model, health coach, mother of three, and now, in a major turn of events, she's started a new career as an insurance agent.  In this interview, Gina discusses:

• How getting laid off from her previous position led to her new career path

You can find Gina on Instagram, Facebook, or at her website: https://ginaostarly.com/

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Neuroscientist Barbara Lipska shares her powerful story of learning about schizophrenia, the very condition she studied, not only from a scientific perspective, but from her first hand experience with the disease. Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal lobe. As the cancer progressed and throughout treatment , she experienced behavioral and cognitive symptoms connected to a range of mental disorders, including schizophrenia and mania. 

 Miraculously, Lipska returned to normal functioning and wrote a book “The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery” about the experience.

 In this episode, we discuss:

* What it means to lose your mind

* Barbara Lipska's story of mental illness

* The stigma around mental illness and mental health

* Why  Lipska asserts that mental illness a physical issue

*What we can learn from brushes with insanity

* Lipska's advice for people who are experiencing mental illness -- or the loved ones who care for them

 If you are experiencing mental illness, visit  https://www.samhsa.gov/ to find facilities and programs in the United States or U.S. Territories for mental and substance use disorders.

Learn more about Barbara Lipska: https://www.barbaralipska.com/bio

Read the book, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind! 

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Dr. Orlena Kerek shares how a move to Spain and a wee identity crisis paved the way for a new career,  explains her four pillars of health, and offers useful steps for cultivating a healthier life on your own terms. 

Dr. Orlena is a health coach who helps ambitious mums have bucket loads of energy and overcome the frustration of not losing weight by teaching them to eat and be healthy, to look after themselves and feel fit and fabulous.

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How can we use our astrological charts to engage in social justice? What does the second half of 2022 look like for Politics? Climate? Covid? And how do we find the courage to keep moving forward when the outlook is grim? Astrologer, psychic medium, and animal communicator Jessica Lanyadoo shares astrological things with Bree. 

Topics include:

• Why Podcasting is an excellent platform for sharing an authentic voice

Important links:

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In this conversation with Nancy McCarthy, co-owner of Dr. Ho's restaurant in North Garden, Virginia, we talk about creating a loving and respectful culture in and beyond the workplace and look at the seven paths to cultivating change through Nancy's eyes. 

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In part 2 of this conversation with Erica Arvold (casting director, director, producer, educator, and CEO of Arvold. Productions), we talked about cultivating a creative entrepreneur career. Also, we have a rapid-fire exploration of the seven paths to manifesting change in our lives. Erica offers her insights about how we can use the Emotional, Analytical, Intuitive, Physical, Creative, Spiritual, and Social paths to enrich our lives.

 I think everyone's creative.  I don't think you can be human without being creative. I think it's a muscle and sometimes people don't use it a lot and sometimes people use it, so, so, so much. But creativity  is a part of the world. I mean, it literally is, is why we exist today… creativity doesn't mean necessarily art, but creative thinking, creative solutions. Creative doodling!

I am such a believer that the universe has your back that I don't know how to operate other than that. And when I don't believe that, when there's the day or the weeks that I go through and I'm like, it just doesn't seem like it. It's just like, it's like digging a hole. And as soon as I just go back to that core belief, it's all going to be fine. It's a grand experiment and the universe has my back and everyone in my life too. And  it doesn't just apply to me. The universe has OUR backs.

It takes an entire group of sometimes hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of people to create one project. And I just think that it's incredible and people at the top of their game, in their very specific focus of their art and they're contributing… that's why it's movie magic to me. That's movie magic. It's not because they're falsifying a fake background and you believe it. The magic is that all these creatives come together full of unbelievable talent and joy and craft and all commit to one specific creative idea and then create. That's crazy. It's like building pyramids.

IG, twitter, Facebook: @arvoldofficial 

Arvold. Website:

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What does it take to build a creative company from the ground up? Erica Arvold shares her experiences of building Arvold. (Production, Casting, and Education) --  From Harnessing The Power of No to Sharing your Voice Authentically.

What the heck is Work/life balance?

Preventing Burnout

The Power of No and the Power of Yes

The Journey of the Creative

How Erica built her casting, education, and production company, Arvold.

The importance of mentorship: How Ron Howard showed Erica how to make a movie 

We discuss building the skill of starting over.

Building credibility with your professional community

Why it is important for experienced people to BE mentors

Identifying Core Values

Then awesomeness of failing big (and learning from it)

Having an entrepreneurial and creative voice.

Important Links

IG, twitter, Facebook: @arvoldofficial 

Arvold. Website: www.arvold.com

Quotes:

“I mean, we're sailors really. We have a goal at the end and all we have to do is sail, which means we have to go to the left to the right, to the left, to the right. And then there's wins and then there's this, and then the boat might tip over and then this, and people are like, oh, you made it to your place.

And you're like, yeah. And they're like, was it hard? And I'm like, are you kidding? We just went through a harrowing journey. Did you not see it? “

“Everyone is worthy of seeing the world in a certain way. And it’s just about how one is communicating it — and not TRYING to communicate it like someone else. So even if you are founding a company, even if you have an idea or a vision for something, the way YOU do it and the way I do it are unique to us…”

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Human Design doesn't have to be complicated - and Human Design Chart Alchemist & writer Jaclyn Michelle (Interiorcreature.com) demystifies the basics and shares her thoughts on the seven ways to manifest change.

1. Bree talked about creating her Book of Woo, including Astrology, Human Design, Enneagram, Sparketype, and Myers-Briggs Personality Assessments

Important links:

Website: https://www.interiorcreature.com/

Instagram: @interiorcreature

Human Design YOUniversity on Teachable: https://interior-creature.teachable.com/

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