Peace and Possibilities

Want a salve for Coronavirus?

Our final guest in this four part series on lessons learned from the Corona Virus, is Dr. Wayne Pernell.  He's many things: a coach, a TEDX speaker, a leader, a podcaster, and a best selling author.

And he's an awesome person!

This episode is full of great insights and positive messages to focus on during this persisting, stressful time.

Wayne reminds us that this pandemic is not personal. 

Our perspective around all of this uncertainty counts, more than you know.  Really, we can control so many things.

We still have choices.

More about Wayne:

www.WaynePernell.com

www.StuckAtTheTop.com

www.RelationshipRecharge.com

http://bit.ly/OneSharpSword  

Our third guest in this four part series on lessons learned from the Corona Virus, is me.

As we close in on the end of the year, I wanted to offer my insights on the lessons I've learned in 2020.

It's hard to believe we are still going through all of the same stuff that started in March. 
 

What is it with this never-ending saga? 

On one hand, I wish I had a magic wand to put everything back to normal, but on the other hand, I'm glad some things are not normal anymore.

1. I'm relieved I don't have to worry about catching a cold in an elevator because everyone is wearing a mask.
2. I'm glad hand sanitizer is at every store and restaurant so we can all get the germs off our hands before we interact with each other.
3. I'm happy the streets are lined with people who still want to experience fun but want to keep their health in tact.

So, no.  Normal will probably never be what it was in February of 2020.

But I'm embracing what's been good about 2020.  And looking forward to staying grateful about any little progress we're making. And any extra experiences I get to have (with or without a mask).

Stay strong and positive, people!  The world needs you to conquer this!

And if you want a few more ways to feel better about your life and career, my book will be out in early 2021! 

Peace, Possibilities, and Perspective will be making its way into the world. 

I can't wait to share it with you!

Peace.

I'm launching a four part series on lessons learned from the Corona virus in 2020.

Our second guest in this series, on this episode, is Food Network designer, Taniya Nayak, and as usual, she has many uplifting messages to share.

More light and love than you're used to is a good thing. Especially in 2020 when there is still a lot of uncertainty and the new normal is setting in.

Want to hear some positive things that have come out of this crazy pandemic?

Well, you're in luck.  Listen in and you'll be smiling all the way through.

She has this effect on people, and it's something we should never get tired of!

Taniya Nayak has been regularly featured as host and interior designer on HGTV and as well as Food Network's Restaurant Impossible and ABC’s The Great Christmas Light Fight.  A native of India, this Boston-based designer is known for creating hot new restaurants and high end residential projects all over the US.  Her latest design projects include Yellow Door Taqueria, Lion’s Tail, and several new Ruth’s Chris Steak House restaurants across the country.  She has designed for celebrities Ayesha Curry, Robert Irvine, Cam Neely and more. 

You may also recognize Taniya for her appearances on Today, Good Morning America, The Ellen Degeneres Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Talk, and The Rachael Ray Show, as well as featured in Architectural Digest India, Design New England, People magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Real Simple, Entertainment Weekly, Redbook, and Cosmopolitan.  Taniya supports the Room to Dream Foundation, Smile Train, No Kid Hungry, and Aksaya Patra Organization. Taniya was selected personally by Ellen Degeneres as a brand spokesperson for her home product line, “E.D. On Air,” featured on QVC.  

Taniya successfully owns her design firm Taniya Nayak Design, Inc based in Boston and is co-owner to several restaurants in the Boston area with her husband Brian O’Donnell.

www.taniyanayak.com

www.instagram.com/taniyanayak

www.facebook.com/taniyanayak

I'm launching a four part series on lessons learned from the Corona virus in 2020.  We will have a college student, a famous designer, a winery founder, and a TEDx speaker. 

Our first guest is Sam Bruns, and he urges us not to let one little thing ruin our day.

He gives a great example: If you had $10,000 and you dropped a dollar, you wouldn't let the loss of that $1 ruin your day.  You'd still have $9,999 to enjoy!

What If someone ruins 10 seconds or 10 minutes of your day? Why would you let that ruin your entire day, considering you have almost 1000 more minutes or 60,000 more seconds to be grateful for?

Why give someone or anything that power?

Happier people have love, good friendships, a good family life, and they make the most of what they have.  Corona virus has taught him to appreciate all of this more.

And finally, Sam would like to underscore: if you're looking for a sign, consider 2020 your sign to try something. You never know what's around the corner.  Just go do it!

Lately, maybe you've been wishing for something new…

Maybe you've been asking for it or writing about it…

Maybe you've been telling other people what you want…

Either way, you were putting it out there.  You were deciding you wanted it.  You were believing it could happen.

And then guess what?  If you're like my guest on this week's Peace and Possibilities Podcast, Daisy, you "coincidentally" were offered it, or it was delivered to you from the most surprising occurrence. 

Voila! Daisy was asked to be a guest on a podcast, from a perfect stranger (me).

Coincidence, NO WAY!  Happenstance, nope.

Manifestation, you bet!

Daisy started an awesome business because she was miserable in her day job and wanted to make a change. It turns out making money wasn't fulfilling her and she began having health issues.

After attending one creative class, she figured it out.  And eventually, she made the leap from full time finance to business owner. 

And now she's making an impact every day, in a positive way. (And she's not getting sick anymore. What a relief!)

This is the power of following your passion.  This is the power of taking the leap and figuring it out. 

What will you try before 2020 is over? 

The time will pass either way. What will you do with it?

Little Buddha Bio:

Little Buddha was created & founded in 2018 by Daisy Betance. It is a holistic based woman owned company that based its mission on feeding the mind, body & soul. After researching all the horrible & toxic chemicals found in our day to day products, our founder Daisy decided to start making her own clean products. They are all infused with reiki energy and made with a lot of love & care. Daisy uses her intuitive energy work while creating & making all the handcrafted natural & organic products. Each product is handmade in her home studio in Berwyn, IL.

Daisy is a Reiki Master & Intuitive healer, as well as 200 RYT Hatha yoga certified teacher. She uses a combination of reiki, crystal, sound healing, healing yoga & aromatherapy with her energy work sessions as well. In person or long distance Reiki sessions are now available.

https://www.littlebuddhabydaisy.com/

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I just love when I interview someone and we share experiences that are very similar, but we didn't even know each other at all!

When I talked about meditation and mindfulness this week on the Peace and Possibilities Podcast with Dr. Asha Pai Bohannon, she shared her own daily practice and how she figured out what she needed to change to begin her own healing.

We don't always see new problems as opportunities to teach us, but when we can ask ourselves this question, we're so much more open to figuring it out.

Asha knew she needed to make a change so she could be healthier and then she turned her pain into purpose by helping others do the same!  What a way to turn your problem into an opportunity. 

Imagine if we could all do that! 

Next time something doesn't go your way, ask yourself: What is this here to teach me?  It's a simple question that will yield amazing results.  (No, really, "amazing" is needed here.)

Dr. Asha Pai Bohannon is a Holistic Pharmacist (aka the "Rebel Pharmacist") with a holistic wellness practice, Patient Advocacy Initiative (PAI) Wellness Group, in Raleigh, NC where she lives with her husband and two sons. She is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. She believes that your personal journey can bring you Health, Hope and Harmony in everyday life with the right tools and guide! 

Links: 

www.ashapaibohannon.com

instagram.com/dr.ashapaibohannon.com

facebook.com/drashapaibohannon

https://bit.ly/ToMedicateOrNotBook

Have you ever met someone who is just sparkly when they talk?

I hope so.

If not, then you're in luck this week!

Beatrice Adenodi is a shiny bowl of energy and has a unique perspective on business and integrating mindless behaviors into our everyday lives.

On this week's podcast, we talk about reflecting on our own behaviors, questioning our biases, and how awareness is just the beginning.

Trying to find where you fit in is difficult at any age, but when you can create your own schedule, have flexibility, and as a result have more choices, fitting in becomes something we can all attain more easily.

Listen in and you'll see what I mean…

More on Beatrice below:

Beatrice Adenodi is a marketing guru, awareness advocate, and founder/CEO of Mirror Ink, a full-service business consulting firm based in Minneapolis. As a first-generation Nigerian-American immigrant, Beatrice had to figure everything out on her own. Over the years she built her own set of tools to overcome the challenges of life. Through her unique perspective, she has been able to help many people get out of unfortunate situations by guiding them from being reactive to reflective in their setting. A sought-after speaker, she was invited to speak on stage at Unveiled Beauty 2019 and has also been a featured guest on podcasts such as Humanship, The Eulogy, and Wild Ones.

She was driven to create her social experiential platform Mindless Behaviors in 2014 after a tough transitional phase led her to reflect on her relationships, faith, and career. Feeling powerless and invisible, she discovered she had been ignoring her own voice and reacting without thinking in difficult situations. Beatrice set out to reclaim her power. As she grew into her voice, she realized she wasn’t alone. She recognized the impact her newly reflective mindset could make on society, and developed an innovative new approach to guide others to find their own voices. 

With the completion of her book about these experiences, Mindless Behaviors: Breaking Through Unseen Barriers, her platform is now poised to help create generations of hopeful people.

Links 

Mindless Behaviors- www.mindless-behaviors.com/the-book 

Mirror Ink- www.mirrorink360.com 

Join me in this touching podcast as Cliff Jones shares about the unconditional love and unity of a family, with a partnership soaked in mutual respect and friendship.

In life, mastering the inner game is so important as we figure out our purpose and what will make our time on this planet meaningful.

As he was rolling through trauma earlier in his life, he found acceptance, courage, and wisdom on the other side.

We talk about neuroscience, what's it's like when your energy is in all the right places, and the books that have been so helpful in solving some of life's biggest challenges.

There are so many good tips in this podcast, but mostly you're going to be inspired about a life well lived, and be reminded what it takes to finally live peacefully and contently.

https://cliffordjones.com/

Books we referenced:

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Book by Susan Cain

Think and Grow Rich

Book by Napoleon Hill

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

Book by Joe Dispenza

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles

Book by Bruce Lipton

Whether you're looking for the right job, the right person, the right city, the right (fill in the blank), finding something that sticks is paramount. 

Something that sticks to what?

Well, that depends.  If you're searching for a meaningful life, one with purpose, with value, with lasting impact, then that something is the "thing" that gets you up in the morning.  That "thing" is the reason you're excited to work or live each day.  That "thing" becomes the basis for all you do as you take up space on our planet.

My guest on this week's episode of The Peace & Possibilities Podcast is Brian Gomez, a recent college graduate who's passionate about working to do something about our climate crisis.  He encourages people to try a bunch of different things that interest them.  Don't be afraid to mix it up.  The more you try, the more likely you are to find that thing that sticks.

And if that thing that sticks is the most basic thing or something that may just change the planet, if it gets you up in the morning and excited to live life, than good for you. 

Better yet, good for all of us!

More about Brian's work here:

https://www.sunrisemovement.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/briangomez2/

My guest on this week's episode of the Peace & Possibilities podcast has so much wisdom to share.

Cliff Jones is quite the inspiration, if you ask me.  And he married a very special lady, if you ask me (as he mentions). And now he's leveraging a lifetime of experience to bring business owners tons of value so they can live their purpose.

Listen in to discover the many life lessons Cliff is willing to share, and the impactful moments that shaped his life then, and now.

Our conversation turned to family and struggling to raise children and keep going for your dreams, for which I will be having a second conversation with him.

Tune in today - you're bound to learn something whether you're just starting off in your career, are a parent raising our youth, or just want to learn a little something from someone who's been there and is willing to share his helpful perspective.

Cliff Jones is the founder and managing partner of Clarity Strategic Advisors, LLC, a strategic business advisory company providing freelance creative and managerial talent for content marketing, demand generation, sales enablement, brand building, list growth, and SMB success. 

As a third-generation entrepreneur with more than 35 years of leadership, sales, marketing, and small business ownership experience, Cliff is passionate about serving others. 

Cliff and his team of elite freelance talent deliver unrivaled strategic insight, planning, creative sales copy, storytelling & automated sales campaigns that attract, engage, convert, and retain more customers and cash flow.

Cliff has co-authored four books with world-famous leaders like Deepak Chopra, Ken Blanchard, among others. You can find his work on Amazon, The Business Journals, Huff Post, Medium, and LinkedIn.  

More about Cliff here: www.CliffordJones.com