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It is never too late to unlock your creativity and invite more joy and playfulness into your life. This episode is a great reminder of the importance of connecting with your creative side.

Shannon Grissom is an award-winning artist, television producer/host, author, and songwriter, and she just launched an online creativity school called Painterly. Learn more about her work with sock monkeys at sockmonkeyoracle.com.

Shannon didn't discover painting until she was 33, but once she discovered this hidden passion, she was hooked and driven. By 1999, Shannon was able to leave her day job and began to create art as a full-time business. At 46, Shannon self-published her children's book Monkey Made of Sockies, along with a line of licensed merchandise, including a coloring book and the popular Monkey Made of Sockies golf club headcovers that have been carried on tour by several LPGA pros.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How the sock monkey got started, and how Shannon's career in painting didn't start until her 30s.
• The common thread in all of Shannon's creative work
• The oracle cards Shannon makes and how to use them as daily reminders
• The affirmations and how Shannon's affirmation cards are unique
• The importance of play in daily life
• How Shannon's oracle cards have helped people overcome obstacles
• How the creative process has been helpful for Shannon in releasing her limiting beliefs

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Genevieve Piturro is the founder the non-profit, Pajama Program, which this year celebrates its 21st anniversary, having delivered more than 7 MILLION magical gifts of new pajamas and new books to children through their 63 chapters across the U.S.

Genevieve is a professional speaker and purpose consultant. She shares life and leadership lessons from her award-winning bestseller, Purpose, Passion and Pajamas: How to Transform Your Life, Embrace the Human Connection and Lead with Meaning. The book debuted during the Covid shutdown to rave reviews as its message dovetails perfectly with our Nation's growing interest in finding purpose.

Her TEDx talk: "1 Idea + The Human Connection = 7 million Pajamas" debuted at the same time. Her book awards include the NIEA 2021 Award, the 2021 NYC Big book Awards, a bronze medal winner in the Anthem Awards, and Distinguished Favorite in the Independent Press Awards.

With a deep understanding of how vital purpose and the human connection is in leadership, team building, and the bottom line, Piturro created the Purpose ACER business training program. The program helps leaders create a shared culture by aligning the goals of the company and management with the goals of its employees.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How a conversation with a six year old girl transformed the direction of Genevieve's life
• How Genevieve's passion to help turned into a non-profit organization and support for businesses
• The steps to finding your true purpose
• How to reconnect after the disconnection of the pandemic
• What she hopes readers will learn from her book

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This episode changes the conversation about change and transformation. Navigating change is always difficult, but with the world going through so much collective change in the last two years, this conversation is even more important.

Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino is the Chief Executive Officer of Compliance4, as well as the founder of The Best Ever You Network. Through these companies, she has helped individuals and organizations around the world be their best and achieve world-class excellence with gratitude-based behavior and belief systems. She is one of America's foremost personal and corporate development consultants specializing in mindset, gratitude, change management, strategy, leadership, and taking action.

Guarino is the author of eight books including the award-winning book Percolate – Let Your Best Self Filter Through (Hay House, April 4, 2014). The Change Guidebook – How to Align Your Heart, Truths, and Energy to Find Success in All Areas of Your Life (March 8, 2022) is published by Health Communications and distributed by Simon & Schuster. The Change Guidebook ends the search for self-help that works, serving as a life-long companion guide and resource to compliment your life. It is a guide for anyone who is seeking change and wants to align to their highest purpose.

As a trusted leader, consultant, trainer, speaker, and best-selling author, Elizabeth provides development and training to individuals and organizations around the world. Elizabeth serves as a Leadership Advisor for the Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute and is a member of the Forbes Business Council. She is a Certified Master Coach.

Elizabeth lives her daily life with multiple, life-threatening food allergies. Elizabeth and Sally Huss co-authored three best-selling children's books: A Lesson For Every Child: Learning About Food Allergies, Self-Confident Sandy and Best Ever You.

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What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Elizabeth's father's stroke and how that sparked transformation in her life
• How her new book helps people to navigate change on a relatable level
• The ten points of change that are discussed in the book
• How gratitude drives her approach to everything
• Elizabeth's daily struggle with life-threatening food allergies and her book for children who suffer from them
• How to align your heart with your energy and be your authentic you

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So many people grow up with limiting beliefs and feeling like they aren't enough. Today's episode will inspire you that it is never too late to find healing.

Judy Jewett is a healer, intuitive reader, medium and a Holistic breakthrough coach who has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs who are not having the results that they want in their lives to build confidence, reclaim their inner truth and make more money doing what they love.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Judy worked through a learning disability and limiting beliefs growing up
• We can change the course of our learning at any time
• The spiritual journey to healing we are all on, and the energy blocks that must be removed
• The exercises Judy works on with clients to help them overcome obstacles
• Judy's self-discovery journey and transition to becoming a healer
• How to live as your authentic self and live by your truth
• Learning to listen to your intuition

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There is often mixed messaging when it comes to female sexuality. Rediscovering sexual desire during major life transitions can be difficult. This episode empowers women to embrace their feminine fire at any life stage.

Amanda Testa, Southern Belle turned Sex Coach, is a soulful, heart-centered expert when it comes to sex and relationships. She helps overwhelmed professional women and couples reconnect to themselves, their libidos, and their partners.

Her unique proven process, The Feminine Fire Method™ combines neuroscience and nervous system regulation, with ancient practices to help women heal their relationship to their sexuality so they can eliminate shame and guilt, own their confidence, feel like a Goddess in their skin, and have the deeply connected relationships they desire.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Amanda's personal transition and how she rediscovered her feminine fire after the birth of her daughter
• How sexual energy is a reflection of your health and vitality
• How Amanda developed her coaching program to be effective at connecting women to their feminine fire
• The importance of slowing down and being present and taking a deep breath
• How cultural conditioning plays a role in how you show up sexually in your relationship
• How to have a sensual wellness practice to connect to your own body
• How to work with your partner to deepen your physical connection
• How to move past unnecessary shame that holds you back

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In the challenging times we live in today, there is an ominous sense that the world is breaking apart. Long-held comfortable beliefs are being shattered, and we face unprecedented questions and challenges. Radical Loving: One God, One World, One People, by Rabbi Wayne Dosick, PhD, DD, is a compelling appraisal of the state of our present-day world and a bold, visionary, spirit-filled blueprint for its transformation and evolution through Radical Loving and Awesome Holiness.

Rabbi Wayne Dosick teaches and counsels about faith, ethical values, life transformations, and evolving human consciousness. Well-known for his quality scholarship and sacred spirit, he is the rabbi of The Elijah Minyan, a retired visiting professor at the University of San Diego, and the host of the monthly Internet radio program, "SpiritTalk Live!" heard on HealthyLife.net.

The bestselling, award-winning author of nine critically acclaimed books, including the now-classic Living Judaism, and the more recent The Real Name of God: Embracing the Full Essence of the Divine, Rabbi Wayne is the author of more than 400 articles of religious, political, and social commentary.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Why we need Radical Loving more than ever
• How to connect and listen to God
• What Radical Loving means
• Rabbi Wayne's spiritual practice of gratitude
• How awesome holiness is the twin of radical loving and how it helps us connect to each other
• Where to get started to love better
• How to model this loving behavior to our children
• How to live out the greatest good for the highest society

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We all experience setbacks, but how can we use those setbacks to create growth? In this conversation with Michaela Renee Johnson, she inspires us all to soar past our setbacks in order to achieve inner happiness!

Michaela Renee Johnson is a best-selling author, licensed psychotherapist, and host of the top iTunes podcast, Be You Find Happy which encourages people to speak their truth with grace and live a courageous life of authenticity. Her initiative, Be You Find Happy, holds workshops and conversations on finding happiness in spite of life's setbacks and has landed her speaking opportunities across the nation.

She is an avid adventurer and aviator, having traveled to over 20 countries. She always has a book and a journal within arm's reach and has a soft spot for inspiring quotes. She is an endless horizon lover who lives in Northern California where she hikes, kayaks, and spends time in her garden while continuing to work toward a sustainable life with her family and farm full of animals.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How learning to fly an airplane was a defining moment for Michaela
• How fear turns into learning and growth
• How to be mindful of our reactions and give ourselves grace
• How the company you keep promotes your mindset
• What keeps us from living an authentic life and how to embrace who we are
• Her workshops and how she inspires others to grow in happiness

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Dr. Joe Gallenberger is a clinical psychologist with 30 years of experience as a therapist. In 1992, he began to investigate psychokinesis (PK), the ability to influence matter using the energy of directed consciousness. This unique energy is useful in healing and manifestation.

Gallenberger scientifically confirmed PK in university laboratories and has taught PK in over 150 workshops such as his Inner Vegas Adventure where students achieve dramatic healing, strong influence over dice and slot machines, and many powerful manifestations at home.

Gallenberger, a trainer for the past 30 years at The Monroe Institute, created its popular MC2 program to teach PK, energy healing, and manifestation. He developed SyncCreation®, a home study course in manifestation. Using the casino as classroom, his book Inner Vegas: Creating Miracles, Abundance, and Health reveals how mind energized by heart influences our reality. He offers 7 meditation exercises on CD and as downloads.

With the Liquid Luck meditation exercise, people immediately reported receiving money from unexpected sources, winning lottos, selling houses in a hour, having businesses take off, solving intractable problems, and receiving brilliant ideas for inventions.

His book Liquid Luck: The Good Fortune Handbook shares these extraordinary stories. He covers how happiness, gratitude compassion, praise, love and feeling fortunate are essential to powerful abundance creation. He shows us that we can indeed be miracle workers in our own lives.

Gallenberger's book, Heaven is for Healing: A Soul's Journey After Suicide shows that all death leads to light. A dynamic heart driven speaker, Joe is in demand internationally as a workshop presenter. He has been a guest on more than a hundred shows, including nine appearances on Coast to Coast AM and five on New Thinking Allowed. He is featured in many episodes of the docuseries, SuperPowerFilm.com.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Dr. Joe's work with manifesting and psychokinesis
• Why Dr. Joe's believes that fear is expensive and distracting
• The "ocean heart" exercise that opens us up to more love and compassion
• How to know if fear is clouding out love in your life
• Psychokinesis and how it helps us manifest what we want

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We have the ability to make the stories of our lives one that is triumphant and inspiring. Though April Tribe Giauque has faced many adversities at various stages of her life, she still managed to create her happily ever after in her story that continues to be written. She describes the steps she took to free herself and her children from her abusive marriage which included rejecting the victim label and mentality.

April Tribe Giauque is a published author, ghostwriter, coach, and podcaster. She is an Amplifier. She is a lens/mirror/prism to your light so that it can stretch your message to thousands more. April has a passion for authors' stories and how they connect humanity. Speaking from her heart, April's transformational story and power captivate her audience about thriving and forgiveness.

Her published work, Pinpoints of Light: Escaping the Abyss of Abuse, gives real hope to anyone in domestic violence to know there is a way out of emotional, spiritual, physical, mental, and financial abuse. She has created a national campaign called Pinpoints Across America. People all over America receive a free copy of the book (only pay a small shipping and handling fee) and then deliver it to a local shelter to offer the people there hope and light!

What You'll Learn from This Episode:

• The 3 poisons that people searching to be loved and accepted tend to take on
• Why we should adjust the concept of living "happily ever after"
• How April Tribe Giauque was able to create an exit plan and gain financial independence
• Where she found her value after being challenged so many times in her marriage
• The role faith played throughout April's life
• What a comfort cage is and how we play a part in creating our own
• The inspiring story of April Tribe Giauque's 4th great grandmother and how it motivated her to change her own life

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Creativity doesn't have to mean art, writing or music. In this episode, Dr. Minette Riordan explains that all of us are inherently creative beings and that it is essential to our health and wellbeing that we access this part of ourselves. She shares some of her own powerful experiences of moving through challenging transitions and how creativity plays a role in the healing process.

Dr. Minette Riordan is a modern-day Renaissance woman: artist, writer, award-winning entrepreneur and advocate for creativity as essential to the well-being of all people and our planet. She has built several successful businesses, worked with thousands of business owners and published three books, including her bestseller The Artful Marketer. Minette is the founder of the Confident Creative Framework, a simple and effective transformational process for helping others to own their artistry. She believes that when we are all working in our highest and best creative genius, we can solve all the world's problems.

• We are a creative species and why it is essential for our health and wellbeing
• The many faces of "creativity"; it's not always what you might think
• Some of the reasons we stifle our natural creativity
• What the Zentangle movement is and how it can help you
• Why coloring, in particular, is so helpful to our overall health and happiness
• Death isn't the only experience that causes grief
• Why it's important to properly heal grief and other difficult emotions
• The importance of being connected to other women
• Three of Minette's favorite suggestions for creative play
• Some fascinating ways to use junk paper and old books
• Information on Minette's five-part video series gift for listeners
• Why it is essential to put self-care at the top of your list of priorities
• Why words can be restrictive in certain kinds of creativity

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