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Bonus guided meditation from our guest and author of Wake Up to the Joy of You, Agapi Stassinopoulos. Read by the author.

About Wake Up To The Joy of You: This is your year of self-discovery, a journey to create a life filled with grace, meaning, zest, peace, and joy. With warmth and wisdom from a lifetime of spiritual seeking, inspirational force Agapi Stassinopoulos guides you through fifty-two weeks of letting go of what doesn't work for you and finding what does. You'll cultivate the building blocks of self-care (meditation, health, making time for yourself) and confront the common roadblocks we all face, like pouring your energy into other people or living in denial. You'll explore your "conflict" areas, such as relationships, money, self-esteem, anxiety, and your childhood. And you'll learn to trust your creativity, keep your heart open, and connect to the bigger spirit that lives inside you.

Keep this book by your bedside. It is your loving companion. Be creative and have fun with it. Use it as a tool to unlock your goodness, and wake up to the joy of you!

From the Hardcover edition. - See more at: www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/5406…9PFh.dpuf

To listen to our podcast with Agapi visit: Www.schoolyoursoulpodcast.com

Agapi Stassinopoulos is a best-selling author and speaker who inspires audiences around the world.

In her book Wake Up to the Joy of You: 52 Meditations and Practices for a Calmer, Happier Life, which we talk about a lot in this episode, she takes readers on a journey to let go of what doesn't work and instead create the lives they really want. I highly recommend this book! It's a beautiful manual of how you can incorporate spirituality and self growth into your daily life by taking small, manageable steps. It's laid out in 52 short chapters so you can read a chapter a week throughout the year.

Agapi has spoken and conducted meditations all over the world and is currently conducting workshops for Thrive Global, a company founded by her sister, Arianna Huffington, to help change the way we work and live.

She divides her time between New York and Los Angeles and was born and raised in Athens, Greece.

We did the interview at Agapi's home in Los Angeles so I had the good fortune of getting to meet her face to face. And what a joy it was. She was filled with so much light and love – it was such beautiful way to spend an evening.

I know you guys are going to love her! Enjoy the show!

In Today's Episode We Explore:

• Her journey in finding her purpose and path
• How we develop our limiting beliefs or that feeling that "we're not enough"
• Why we shouldn't side step our emotions
• What to do when our expectations in life don't match our reality
• Her daily practice of self-love
• And much much more!

Resources From The Episode:

For free meditations or to connect with Agapi email - [email protected]

Agapi's BOOK: Wake Up To The Joy Of You

Agapi's BOOK: Unbinding The Heart

MEDITATIONS: Wake Up To the Joy Of You Meditations on Audible

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Today we have a friend of mine on the show – the very talented and creative Matt Del Negro.

As an actor Matt has built an impressive career playing a wide range of roles in features, television and theater, including shows like "Scandal," "The Sopranos," "The West Wing," "Teen Wolf," "Goliath" with Billy Bob Thornton and most recently "Huge in France" on Netflix which my husband and I binge-watched- and you must check out!

Despite his impressive resume, Matt describes his career as being told "No" for a living and in July of 2017, he launched his podcast, 10,000 "No"s, where he sits down with successful people from all walks of life and discusses the rejections and struggles they've had to overcome on their journey to where they are today. Also, something I recommend you check out - It's available on iTunes, Spotify and at 10000nos.com.

In today's episode we discuss:

• How Matt became an actor
• What his experience working as an actor has taught him about rejection
• How certain failures led him to his greatest successes
• And much much more!

We actually recorded this episode while I was in Paris last spring! So this is a delayed release. But there wasn't anything particularly time sensitive in our convo and I think it's just as valuable as it was then. Hope you guys enjoy the show!

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Debra Poneman is the founder and President of Yes to Success, Inc, an international seminar company dedicated to giving people the tools they need to live lives of profound happiness, unlimited success and prosperity, and deep and lasting fulfillment. Sounds amazing, right?!

Debra's story began in the 70's when she spent years studying at the feet of the greatest spiritual masters of the east — often in deep meditation for 10 – 12 hours a day and complete silence for weeks at a time. She then went on to teach meditation to thousands.

Since founding her company in the early 80's, Debra has been the catalyst for hundreds of thousands of people to wake up and recognize who they really are, why they were put here on earth - and how to fearlessly turn their dreams and visions into exciting and lasting realities.

In addition to delivering hundreds of keynotes and workshops for businesses, associations and professional organizations and appearing on media around the world, some of today's most renowned transformational leaders call Debra their mentor.

In 1988, with her Yes to Success book in the hands of a major New York publisher and about to launch her own daytime talk-show, Debra walked away from her career and disappeared from the public eye for over two decades when she realized she had a greater passion – to be a stay-at-home mom.

Now a best-selling author and award-winning keynote speaker, Debra is back to share how to create a life that is not only successful but is, in fact, miraculous.

In today's show we discuss:

• How to bring more prosperity into your life
• How to create deep human connections
• Why Debra decided to take a break at the peak of her career
• What a near death experience revealed to her
• And she even shares a couple great parenting tips at the end!
• Plus much much more

You guys are going to love Debra. She has tons of wisdom to share. I highly recommend everyone goes to Debra's website www.yestosuccess.com/ to get a copy of her FREE ebook entitled The 5 Secrets to Living a Life of True Success.

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Brandy Gillmore, Ph.D., is a motivational speaker, author, and Mind/Body &Energy Expert.

Her expertise in self-healing originated from a devastating injury, where she found herself disabled, and in excruciating pain. She had to use a wheelchair, cane, or walker to get around and was on various forms of medications and morphine and yet still in extreme pain.

One doctor after another said there was nothing they could do for her and eventually Brandy became determined to find a solution on her own. After years of studying and looking for answers, her research eventually led to the power of the mind.

The answers she found were profound and life-changing and allowed Brandy to heal herself. Now she is out of her wheelchair, free of pain and physically stronger than ever!

Through this experience she came to the eye-opening awareness that we all have much more influence over our health than we realize. And she believes every single ailment has a link to the subconscious mind.

While going through her recovery, Brandy developed the ability to feel the emotions and energy that others are experiencing, which has allowed her to help others achieve their own healing results at record-breaking speeds.

Brandy says "It's been proven that the subconscious mind is the biggest factor in human behavior. Therefore, when we make changes to the mind for purposes of healing, the results are life-changing!" She states: "When we rewire our thoughts, we transform our health and our lives."

Brandy has developed quick and effective ways for changes to occur, including "G.E.T. Health" the "Gillmore Empowerment Technique" and "The 4 Mind-Body- Soul Keys For Transformation."

She speaks all over the world and works with celebrities, politicians, professional athletes and others worldwide.

In today's show we discuss:

• Brandy's personal journey of self-healing
• How our emotions and our subconscious directly affect our health and body
• Why Brandi believes there is more illness than ever before
• How to program more happiness and positivity into your subconscious
• And much much more…

I got to experience Brandy's expertise first hand when was kind enough to do a session for me a few weeks after our interview and it was profound the information she could gather …Her insights were so specific and on point and this was all over the phone! I'm a believer in what she does and I'm so excited to share her with you guys today. Enjoy the show!

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Our guest today is Bruce Lipton! Guys, I'm such a big fan of his… and was super excited to get to talk to him… I actually did this interview the day after I found out I was pregnant back in November so I snuck some pregnancy and parenting related questions in here…

First off – I have a question for you - have you ever read a self-help book - had all sorts of Ah-ha moments, gotten a ton out of it - only to actually apply very little of it into your life? It's happened to me a million times.

Well did you know that your Subconscious mind – which cannot be taught in the same way as your conscious mind - dictates 95% of your behavior!

And sometimes the reason it's difficult to make changes in your life is because the thing you are trying to change contradicts the subconscious programming that you received very early on. We talk a lot about this today and it's profound…

But first more on Bruce…

Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national and international conferences.

He's best known for promoting the idea that gene expression can be influenced by environmental factors, in other words people have a greater impact on their health than genetic research has previously determined.

His discoveries have shown that a person's perception, not genetic programming, is what spurs all action in the body: It's actually our beliefs that select our genes, that then select our behavior.

Bruce says "Our consciousness is creating our life experiences. He says "That's not a suggestion - this is the law of science. If you change your consciousness you change your life experiences."

So the question becomes – how do we change our consciousness?? Well we cover that in today's episode.

We also discuss:

• How all the cells of your body are affected by your thoughts.
• The difference between the conscious and subconscious mind
• how most of your subconscious programming was created in the first 7 years of your life
• what we can do to create better programming for our children
• How we can reprogram our subconscious mind
• How you can change a belief you've had your whole life in 10 minutes!

ENJOY!

www.brucelipton.com

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Today our guest is a really special and beloved friend of mine – Sandi Stuart.

I met Sandi while I was studying IBP – or Integrative Body Psychotherapy – which I've talked about a variety of times on the show. Sandi was one of the teaching assistants for my class. So over the 3 years going through this program she was an incredible teacher and support system to me and I got to know her in such an intimate way. (Sadly this particular class is no longer offered- but there are many other resources I will provide in the show notes if you want to learn more about IBP)

Sandi has been a trailblazer for women. She was one of the first female sales executives in the men's clothing business. She started her career as an outsider and worked her way up the ladder becoming the executive vice president at Bugle Boy Industries. During her 25-year career at Bugle Boy, she helped the company grow from $0 to $500 million annually. Now she is the co-founder of Agency Licensing and also works as a life coach and leads workshops. In addition to consulting on issues important to women in business, Sandi focuses on providing and sharing practical consciousness for women entrepreneurs.

Sandi is such a wise soul and someone who I deeply respect. She has so much insight to share. She has a thriving marriage, a great relationship with her daughter, a fulfilling and successful career and most importantly – a deep connection with herself.

Today we talk about Sandi's personal journey of self-discovery and healing.

She shares:

• How her trauma as a child manifested in her body as an adult
• The connection between the body and our emotions
• How she reconnected with her authenticity
• Why she wore a baby carrier w no baby in it!
• Her experience working in a male dominant industry
• And much much more!

We recorded this interview at Sandi's beautiful home in Malibu, overlooking the mountains and the ocean. It was such an intimate chat. I hope you enjoy!

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Today we have the lovely Sonia Doubell on the show. Sonia is a master yogi and fellow seeker. She is the Founder of Moving Energy Yoga & Creator of TOTAL BODY YOGA AM/PM.

As a Yoga Alliance Senior Teacher, NLP practitioner, Hypnobirthing teacher and Life Coach Sonia is passionate about sharing the potential of self-realization through yoga.

Sonia began her working career as a model. She had what many would consider to be a glamorous lifestyle but even after checking all the boxes "to be happy" Sonia found herself dissatisfied and empty. Yoga became the key to unlocking a much richer, more fulfilling, inner life.

Now, her yoga method has taken her all over the world, from teaching actors in Hollywood to Richard Branson on Necker Island.

Sonia is known for her unique style of Moving Energy Yoga. She believes yoga has the ability to transform difficult emotions, unlock deeply held tension in the body and open the heart.

I've always been active and into sports and exercise but nothing has transformed me, mentally, physically and spiritually like yoga has. We cover a lot of ground today and speak about many things besides yoga. However, I definitely wanted to touch on the power of yoga as it's played such a huge role in my journey of self-discovery and I realized we haven't spoken about it nearly enough on the show.

In this episode we discuss:

• Sonia's personal journey of self-discovery
• How the breath effects our emotions
• Why yoga is so transformational
• The importance of practicing relaxation
• How being a mother has healed her
• How she brings mindfulness into parenting
• And much much more!

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Resources from the Episode:

Sonia website - http://www.soniadoubell.com/

Sonia's hypnobirthing classes

Sonia's pregnancy yoga series

Sonia's Instagram - @sonia_doubell_yogi

Hoffman process

Byron Katie's - "The Work"

BOOK: The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters

BOOK: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

BOOK: The Lost Teaching of Yoga by Georg Feuerstein

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Dr. Dan Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA.

With a medical degree from Harvard University and postgrad medical education at UCLA, Dan is an award-winning educator and a pioneer in a field called interpersonal neurobiology. He has lectured for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person seminars that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes.

As an internationally-renowned neuropsychiatrist and author, Dr. Siegel's books have been translated into over forty languages.

His New York Times bestseller Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence , which we talk about today, provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness.

The Wheel of Awareness is a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus, presence, and peace in one's day-to-day life. Every must try this- it's free and you can download it online at the link below. This practice can benefit anyone, Dans says even children as young as Kindergarten can benefit.

Dr. Siegel says - Integration IS the basis for health.

So in today's show we discuss:

• What is integration and how do we cultivate more of it in our lives?
• The value and importance in mind training
• The bridge between science and spirituality
• Why we sometimes make the same wrong choices for ourselves even when we know they're not good for us
• How can we cultivate our minds to give ourselves more resilience?
• and much much more!

https://www.drdansiegel.com

Wheel of Awareness

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Suzi Lula, M.A., A.L.S.P., is a much-sought-after Spiritual Counselor, Teacher and Inspirational Speaker who is an expert in the field of human transformation.

Combining her innovative teachings over her 18 years in private practice, along with her master's degree in spiritual psychology, suzi has mentored some of the most successful ministers, coaches and evolutionary leaders influencing our culture today and has been described as a '"teachers teacher" by the nationally renowned, spiritual leader Michael Bernard Beckwith (who is one of Oprah's top 100 Spiritual Teachers of our time). You know I always have to get an Oprah reference in here if possible.

Suzi serves on the faculty of the University at The Agape International Center of Truth in Los Angeles, one of the fastest growing spiritual centers in the country with over a 10,000 person membership.

SIDENOTE: You guys I love Agape. It's SUCH a special place. There's an amazing sense of community and kinship. It feels like a spiritual safe haven. The founder Michael Bernard Beckwith is one of the most powerful speakers and leaders I have ever encountered. There's great diversity amongst the members and as an added bonus they have amazing musical guests that come in (Van Morrison just showed up one night I was there to perform, nbd)

Back to Suzi… Known as a visionary leader, Suzi is also redefining motherhood. She challenges conventional thinking that says mothers must sacrifice and martyr themselves to be good mothers and instead, guides them to the realization that when they thrive, their children will flourish as well. She has an amazing book on this called The Motherhood Evolution.

Suzi is also a composer and an award-winning pianist just to add to her many accolades.

Thank you to Barnet Bain for connecting us!!

On today's show we talk about, amongst other things, self care.

• What is self care?
• What it means to take care of ourselves
• how we can take better care of ourselves - Spiritually, emotionally and physically.
• how that has such a huge impact on those around us.

We also discuss..

• How Suzi discovered her purpose
• How we can learn to love the parts of ourselves that we deem the least attractive?
• The importance of finding a balance between doing and being
• And much much more.

Suzi is such a special human. I felt instantly connected to her and I know you will too. ENJOY!

Suzi's website suzilula.com

Suzi's Online Course: Learning the love of self compassion

Suzi's Online Course - Self care as a Spiritual Practice

Suzi's Book: Motherhood evolution

Suzi's Piano Music

Suzi Speaking at Agape

• Unleash Your Real Destiny
• In Celebration of the Devine Feminine
• Set Yourself Free

Michael Bernard Beckwith

Agape International Spiritual Center

I would love to hear your feedback and get to know you guys so if you have topic requests or guest suggestions or just want to say hi – you can reach me at [email protected] or on social media below

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