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Dani de Castro was 27 years old when she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and felt how being put in a psych ward for some days was a humbling experience for her. Today, six years later, she shares with us her experience from finally naming what “it” was that was “wrong” with her to being able to live a more balanced life now, and even finding love during the pandemic and with a partner who understands and supports her. It is admirable how she approached this time in her life with so much love and courage, also seeing it as a curious challenge rather than a pure setback. She has been very open about her disorder and she finds that this is her way of helping others to seek out for help, too. In this episode, we also hear about how it is best to deal with it as someone who may be going through mental illness, or as a loved one or close circle who may know someone who is: They just need to feel supported, understood, seen, and heard.

We often hear about the attitude of gratitude - perhaps you’re already well on your way in this practice, or you have yet to open up to it. Nonetheless, this episode gives a fresh take to it!

Julie Boyer, host of the podcast Wake Up with Gratitude, a three-time Amazon Best-Selling Author, four-time entrepreneur and three-time Ironman finisher, joins us and shares more about the story behind the podcast, her books and brand. She shares with us the practice, and even teaches us the secret sauce of having gratitude with intention.

We learn from her that we can be grateful for things that are also not working, and that gratitude and grief can live at the same time. It’s far from toxic positivity, but one can go through grief during a challenging time and still find something that one can be grateful for. Her advice is to start practicing TODAY, when things are going great or not great, and build the practice over time. Her own traumatic experiences and how she coped with them truly show the power of being grateful, everyday, even or more so when it hurts.

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When they say we all have a purpose, it is quite true, and Brandy Montague’s story is no exception. In her particular case, she found it earlier (at the age of three!) and stayed on this path where she continues to strive to make a difference. She says that having grown up in a rural farm community definitely had “a huge influence on her to help animals for the rest of her life.” In this episode, she shares the different points in her life that have led to founding For Animals. For Earth., a platform for animal and environmental activism. Animal lovers are also in for a treat as Brandy shares a technique of Animal Reiki for communicating with animals! Not only that, we thought this could be helpful for anyone who’s just started or in the middle or finding a new purpose, to hear from someone like Brandy who encourages us to “take a tiny step, one little thing at a time” and we’ll see how everything snowballs from there.

Phaiy Supersuntorn is a Sustainability and Climate Change consultant and passion worker. On her day to day for over a decade now, she helps companies big and small alike on how they can lessen their carbon footprint. She says that she’s seen changes in the way big corporations think or consider these issues, but of course there is still much more to be done. Through Phaiy we learn about the importance of localizing an issue and not always settling for “what works in one place” would work or be what’s prioritized in another. All in all what’s important is how each one of us is doing something, even just a little thing, to make our planet a better place. As always, our own little actions can and will go a long way. Her podcasts dedicated to Thai people have now more than a year’s worth of episodes, putting out educational content or anything she’s learned or picked up with her job. She trusts that one day, it would be a good source of information for them.

Reiki or the Universal Life Force energy is something that could help increase our vibrations or frequency. This is a short meditation guided by Reiki Master Celine Veloso that can be listened to whenever you would want to receive Reiki.

“By being generous, compassionate, kind, - [it] is the highest form of frequency that we can give to the Universe. If we want to resonate with the highest levels of frequencies, we start with Love.” Reiki Master Celine Veloso shares on this episode the Five Reiki Principles - spiritual ideals that can help us cope with difficult times or even have as a very good daily meditative practice:

“JUST FOR TODAY” is also where we can be more forgiving of ourselves, where we can focus on the next 24 hours. If for some reason we were not able to do any or all, tomorrow is another day and we can try again.

Stay tuned til the end for a wonderful Reiki meditation from Celine.

Valerie Fischer shares with us how she lost her dream job during the pandemic, but believing that “rejection is a redirection,” it’s also what led her to finding her life purpose: “inspire courage to create change.” As a Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner, she combines this tool in helping her clients have a growth mindset and to apply what she has coined the Brain Science Selling. In this path she is able to combine the techniques of NLP, her 20 years of advertising and marketing, and background in ecommerce, to bring value to her clients and their customers.

In finding her path, she touches on how she’s picked up books and also looked inward. What helped her was knowing her own skills and strengths and that it’s something we all can do and evaluate. “There’s always something in you that you’d just have to sit still and listen and it goes back to what you really wanted as a child.” We invite you to listen in on this conversation that could bring you to listen to your inner child as well! Valerie reminds us that [our] story is our best strategy, it’s the only way we’ll be able to stand out in the crowd. So use that heartbreak, that rejection, and of course the triumphs to bounce back - it’s all part of the story.

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At Sage Conversations, we’re always curious about how people land on their chosen paths and modalities. Oftentimes, we find that it’s really the path finding us. For Nick Daez, it is Kundalini Yoga. He has had an enriching experience with it as he immersed in it as a practice years ago, and found it as his purpose to also share with other people what he has found. He feels that while it is difficult, it is also where he reaps the most benefit, physically and mentally. “There’s a palpable shift of energy,” and how it has helped him get through tough times.

In this episode, we learn from Nick that Kundalini as a “househoulder’s practice” -  one that’s “not meant to be recluse.” It’s meant to get through the day-to-day things, to be able to face stress, with the main goal being to align you with one’s life’s purpose. Nick shares how for him, he feels that there’s always something bigger and beyond himself.

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We’ve heard about the first two Pillars of Manifestation in our 15th episode: Feelings and Actions. In this second part with Mindset and Manifestation Coach and The White Walls Podcaster Jamie Ong, we talk about the other two: Releasing, and Resting and Having Gratitude. When we manifest, it’s not about holding on to “what we want,” but a huge part is actually about letting it go, “releasing the attachment” and trusting that what will happen is for the highest and best. Jamie says not to be too “tunnel-visioned” because it could come in another form that we had initially thought it would.

Resting and gratitude are often most missed when we manifest, especially coming from a place of lack. Jamie points out that “Our energy does what our actions cannot, and our energy can help us amplify what actions we’ve already taken.” It actually often happens when we’re resting! It is when we can create space for our desires to just come. The key thing to help create that energy of being a magnet or space to attract is instead of thinking of the worst case scenario, we could instead ask “what might be the best case scenario for me at this moment.”

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Mindset and Manifestation Coach and The White Walls Podcaster Jamie Ong graces us in this episode, joining from Singapore. She shares about her shift from realizing that she had a limiting belief of “not being good enough,” that prompted her to start her inner work journey and shift to where she is today: helping other clients also find their path and helping them how to use manifestation as a tool.

And what IS manifestation? Rediscover it here in this episode and know more about it - it’s not as “woo” as we perceive it as - it’s actually a lot more about mindset and perception! In this first part, we tackle a lot of real stories or examples around negative/limiting beliefs around money, worthiness issues, that would block what we really want in life.

We then dive into the four pillars of manifestation 1) Feelings 2) Actions 3) Releasing and 4) Resting and Having Gratitude. Jamie shares a lot of digestible examples that could get us going into our own manifestation practice.

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