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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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Effortless Happiness: How to Find Your Voice and Finally Ask For What You Really Want Paperback or Kindle copy.

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.

What You'll Learn from This Episode:

• 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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Dating after divorce, while raising children, can be challenging. This episode tackles these tough topics in a way that offers practical tools and hope. Rosalind Sedacca, CDC is recognized as The Voice of Child-Centered Divorce. She is a Divorce & Co-Parenting Coach and founder of the Child-Centered Divorce Network which provides advice, programs, coaching and other valuable resources for parents who are facing, moving through or transitioning after a divorce. She is the author of How Do I Tell the Kids About The Divorce? A Create-a-Storybook Guide To Preparing Your Children – With Love! -- an internationally acclaimed ebook designed to help parents get through the tough divorce talk with the best possible outcome for themselves and their children. Rosalind has also created several ebooks and e-courses on co-parenting success strategies including an 8-hr Anger Management Program for Co-Parents. She also hosts the Divorce, Dating & Empowered Living Radio Show & Podcast. In addition, Rosalind is a Dating After Divorce Coach and co-author of 99 Things Women Wish They Knew Before Dating After 40, 50 & Yes, 60! as well as the DatingRescue eCourse and Create Your Ideal Relationship Kit for women and Mastering the Challenges of Dating: A Success Formula for Men. She is a national contributor to Divorce Magazine as well as numerous dating, relationships and parenting websites and blogs. Rosalind is the 2008 First Place Winner of the Victorious Woman Award as well as the 2011 International Women's Day Outstanding Service Award winner for her work with divorce and parenting issues.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• The challenges parents face when going through the decision to divorce
• How children can learn conflict communication skills from their parents
• Entering the world of dating as a divorced parent
• Success strategies for dating after divorce
• How to prepare children for your dating journey
• How to find the right person
• Warning signs to look out for

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Everyone experiences stress, though some seasons are more stressful than others. It's important to be able to have the tools and coping strategies before the difficulties hit; then we can grow from them!

Judy Davis is on a mission to help you stress less and improve your mental wellness. She is a motivational speaker, published author and mental wellness specialist with information, products and books that are go to resources to help people reduce stress and find balance in their lives.

Judy is no stranger to turning tragedy into triumph. In fact, in April 2019 everything about her life changed when her husband of 30 years was in an explosive blast while serving in the US Army. The amputation of his left leg, as well as other injuries and an ongoing recovery process, gave Judy an inside look at the challenges caregivers navigate every day.

An entrepreneur and business owner for over 25 years, Judy is someone who believes that stories change lives. She is transparent about their experience and how she has had to pivot both personally and professionally.

Now Judy not only provides support to her husband, but she empowers others in a positive way helping them stress less and feel better emotionally, physically and financially.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Judy learned about the explosion her husband was in, and how that transformed her life
• The grieving process involved in major life trajedies
• The importance of allowing yourself to feel
• How any challenge can be an opportunity for transformation
• Judy's strategy to stress less
• How to have the energy, capacity, and focus to navigate difficult times

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Many people reach a point in their lives when they feel ready to step away from their current situation and enter a journey to spiritual enlightenment, but not everyone experiences it. Today's episode features someone who did.

Kevin Krenitsky is a medical doctor and author of The Still Point. Despite leading a life deemed outwardly "successful," he lived with a deep background of anxiety, fear, and stress that waxed and waned since early childhood. At the age of forty, in the midst of decades of suppressing tremendous inner and outer conflict, he reasoned there must be another way.

This "willingness" led to a decade of studying non-duality by way of A Course in Miracles. In 2015, at the height of a successful business career as Chief Commercial Officer at Foundation Medicine (FMI), Kevin turned away into relative isolation, and found the direct path to recognizing one's true nature. He wrote The Still Point to help others find their eternal nature, which is happiness itself.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Why Kevin experienced a major career transition after not feeling fulfilled by all his successes
• The sense of fear and separation he felt for a long time until his transformation
• Kevin's defining moment in his life transition
• The background of his book, The Still Point
• The importance of creating self-awareness
• How to live life "in the now" without reactivity

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As issues related to mental health continue to rise, we need tools to support a healthy brain. In the last 15 years, much of the neuroscience research has shown that we have the ability to change our brains...with the right tools.

Leigh Richardson has studied human behavior for over 30 years. Her initial focus was on organizational behavior then shifted to human behavior in 2003 after her son had a traumatic brain injury. Leigh has been in the ICU twice with brain injury and all of this fueled her need to understand how the brain works or why it doesn't work. She can relate to brain dysregulation on a very personal level and she visualized what could be done for many others like her.

Leigh is the founder and clinical director of The Brain Performance Center, utilizing her MBA, MS, Counseling, and board certifications to offer state-of-the-art solutions for "brain problems." She is currently taking her PhD in Psychology.

As a brain health expert, she regularly contributes to radio and television stations across the nation. Whether it is anxiety, ADHD, depression, insomnia, or brain injury, Leigh's understanding of the brain and the different methodologies that can be used to organically change the brain is immense. And more importantly, they will provide the right solution for the problem.

Leigh is the author of Turn Your Brain On – To Get Your Game On, an international speaker, and a popular syndicated radio host. Leigh enjoys educating the general public on how the lifestyle choices and environmental factors impact brain health and the physiology and psychology of your mental state. She has a unique ability to connect with people, understand their situation, and win their trust.

Leigh gets inspiration from her friends, family, and clients. It is the positive change that she sees in others that motivates her to continue to learn. She just recently converted her upstairs office to an in-home art studio where she paints as a way to explore her creativity.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Leigh's personal history with brain injuries, both in her son who was struck by a car and in herself
• Leigh's training in neurofeedback and mapping the brain support healing
• How the stigma of mental health in the workplace is changing
• The psychological impact of the pandemic
• What puts a brain in a dysregulated state

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Nobody is immune to chronic stress and burnout. Thankfully, there are many tools to support healing and recovery and resilience against future stressors.

Erica Cuni, known as "The Burnout Professor," is a stress and burnout expert, integrative performance coach, professional speaker, #SameHere PsychAlliance Expert, social media creator & fellow survivor. She teaches individuals & businesses how to consciously thrive through a holistic approach.

Erica is the founder of "The C.U.N.I. Method," which stands for Create Undeniable Natural Impact. She is a former Trauma Psychotherapist, Clinical Director, and Adjunct Lecturer and Clinical Professor at Central Connecticut State University. Her mission is to help make the mental health field more effective, accessible, decolonized, and non-stigmatizing.

Erica found her mission in 2014 after being hit by a Mack Dump Truck (literally) while driving to work and having her life fall completely apart over the following two years. This is what she had on her recovery journey - a roadmap that didn't pathologize her for doing her job, life events, her culture and the intergenerational trauma she was carrying around with her.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Erica's major life transition after being hit by a mack truck
• Erica's prior lifestyle of stress and overcommitment and how her car accident completely changed her health and life
• How Erica realized she needed something more than traditional talk therapy to help her heal
• How stress manifests in the physical body
• Erica's integrative approach to mental health

Find your inner peace. Get a free 25-minute Guided Meditation in Erica's Linktree here.

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As family members age, transitions are inevitable. It's difficult to know the best care for our older family members. We live in a time where many options are available. Leighton Boyce is the owner of Synergy Home Care in Longmont, Colorado, where she provides in-home care for the aging population.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Leighton cares for the elderly with Synergy Home Care
• The most frequently asked questions family members ask
• Finding the right caregiver for your family member
• Individualizing care for those with dementia
• Next steps for family members when they see signs of aging in their elderly family members

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