SecondWind with Joyce

Isn't it fun to EXPRESS your truest self outwardly... to SHINE brilliantly... and LIVE unapologetically?

Gina Vincent is a Life Artist & the creator of Exquisitely Aligned, a movement designed to shatter mundane thoughts & mediocrity, one that champions the voice of your soul to be expressed fully, your deepest desires to be embraced, and your gifts to be divinely expressed.

In 2009, while her husband lay fighting for his life with kidney and liver disease, Gina was fighting the collective conformity of their local hospital, the doctors, and their rules. Gina turned inward & took an unwavering stand. She stood 100% for Mark's unlived, amazing future life. Here, she discovered her 3-step strategic solution to live Exquisitely Aligned. Her goal is for you to make YOUR unique difference in the world. Gina believes the world is missing what ONLY YOU have to give.

Gina shares hacks to help elite, professional, & ambitious women find their missing piece in life, allowing them to escape the one-size-fits-all paradigm, and freeing them from the judgment that comes with up-leveling their life. She shares practical tools to remove the guesswork in finding their true destination with shortcuts along the journey. She's known for her relentless positivity, creating safe spaces, & moving others to action. She took adversity and transformed it into discovery and creativity.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Gina's husband's battle for his life was the turning point in her own
• The journey to health that led Gina to her program, Exquisitely Aligned
• Gina's program and how she incorporates unique gifting of the individual
• Gina's three keys to living exquisitely aligned
• The growth process as part of the journey to alignment

Gift for Listeners: Journey into what's possible for you - Guided Visualization & Meditation

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Our busy, modern lifestyles often leave very little room for the natural world. Sometimes, all it takes is a little creativity and a personal awakening to bring the outdoors to our modern life.

Melinda Salisbury is the four-time Carnegie-nominated and bestselling author of multiple young adult novels, including the Sin Eater's Daughter series, the State of Sorrow duology, Hold Back the Tide, and Her Dark Wings, a Guardian Children's Book of the Year 2022 and a The Reading Agency Book of the Year 2022 pick.

Her first novel, The Sin Eater's Daughter, was the bestselling UK YA debut novel of 2015, and collectively her books have been nominated and shortlisted for numerous national and international awards and accolades, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the YA Book Prize, the Branford Boase, the Edgar Awards, the 2016 and 2019 and 2021 Carnegie medals, YALSA Best YA 2022, Eason's YA Book of the Month, and more. Her books have been published in fifteen countries, to date.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Her journey as an author
• How her love for nature allowed her to get back in touch with it as an adult
• How Melinda started growing food right where she was, on her windowsill
• The types of books Melinda writes as a way to offer hope for young people
• What is coming up next for Melinda and her writing

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Life often brings multiple forks in the road. What unravels is due to expectation and choice and planning to deal with risk and change. Today's episode focuses on one woman's journey to choose to soar through life.

A sassy South African native transitioned to a proud citizen of New Zealand and now happily domiciled in Australia, Kelly Markey's life and knowledge has touched and conveyed remediable to souls globally. Kelly is passionate about making a difference in the lives of others and see herself as a channel - a conduit for insights, lessons gleaned and inspiration. Markey has over 30 years of professional experience in health IT, including working internationally in 5 different countries for major world gorillas.

Kelly has inspired and supported thousands of people to navigate their own pivotal life moments. Kelly champions awareness towards making an excellent brand by transforming your mindset. Kelly consciously works to reduce the trauma and ignorance that surrounds racism and discrimination by prompting healthy conversations that matter.

As an international bestselling author Kelly has been tagged a Renaissance woman and appeared on several international radio stations and newspapers including three magazine cover futures. Kelly Markey has been inundated with request from a global reader cohort to write another book - countless people from around the globe have awoken to a vibrantly alive and restored life after reading Kelly's debut book "Don't just fly, soar." She has an advantage of speaking five languages and fellowship being with a broad spectrum of demographics from around the world. Kelly is a paragon that is confident and exhibits solid boundaries both in her professional and personal portfolio.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• The life changes and choices that led Kelly to who she is today
• How the Covid pandemic led Kelly to writing her memoir and sharing her experience with others
• The global impact of her best-selling novel and how readers have responded
• The importance of learning from those who came before us

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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We only have so many heartbeats in this life, and women can design the life they desire one heartbeat at a time. That is exactly what this episode will share.

As a two-time breast cancer and toxic relationship survivor, Stacey Aaron Domanico has a purpose and passion to help women personally and professionally to overcome obstacles in their lives and become the best versions of themselves BEFORE a catastrophe. She has over 25 years of leadership experience in corporate America for a Fortune 500 company where she learned that her passion was coaching and mentoring women. She left her safe corporate job to coach and mentor full time while writing her new book Where Do You Spend Your Heartbeats?

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Stacey's concept of spending your heartbeats and what it means
• Stacey's defining moment of a second diagnosis of breast cancer and how that moved her to make changes
• The choices we make daily that create our lives
• What to do with overwhelming fear and anxiety
• How to make the hard decisions and tune into your body
• How to get rid of negative thoughts

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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We often live tangled up with our past experiences, our limiting beliefs, and our states of stress. In order to bring freedom and healing, we need to untangle the knots that limit us. This episode features a new modality and inspirational story to do just that.

For the last twenty years, Angela McKinney has been helping people transform their lives - including her own. As a somatic guide and expert in addiction recovery, Angela created a unique approach to healing from life challenges called The Untangle Method. She is the author of a new book, Untangle: How to Create BIG Possibilities through SMALL changes, was released in October and can be ordered now on Amazon.

Angela was born in Tennessee. At age thirteen, Angela was disowned by her father and sent to live in Los Angeles, where she and her mother survived feeling lost without a home. At fifteen, after winning Star Search, it all became too much for her, engulfing her in a life of chaos and addiction. Her early adulthood recovery efforts have paved the path to help implement hundreds of complex recovery cases across the country. Angela uses humor as a tool to capture the insanity of survival states and highlights "the terror of success" not often spoken of.

Angela says, "I use evidence-based strategies to empower disenfranchised addicts, CEO's, professional athletes, and stay-at-home parents to emerge from hiding and embark on successful living. Untangling builds creative resilience to realize your best life, even if there is a part of you that says you can't."

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Angela's background and the reason she decided to write her book about untangling the knots in your life to bring freedom
• Why survival states are difficult to untangle and the three step process of untangling
• The defining moment that changed Angela's life
• The steps people should take when they want to dig into what's underneath the survival state
• Tools to transform trauma or "stuckness" and redefine it
• How the healing journey is ongoing

Bonus for listeners: Learn How to Untangle the Noise and Find Your Pathway to Freedom: A free audio from Angela to learn the 3 steps that will change your life fast. Download here.

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Blessed at a very early age with the Gift of the Holy Spirit, Kathleen Bright found she had the gift of wisdom, faith, word of knowledge, healing, prophecy and discerning of spirits. Within these gifts she was also given the gifts of being intuitive, a medium, psychic, clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient and has the ability to see auras, to channel and astral travel.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Kathleen cultivated her gift of intuition and prophesy from a young age
• How she bridges the gap for those who are unsure that gifts of sight can be used in the religious community
• Defining moments that helped her realize her gift
• How to lean into a healing spiritual journey
• A guided meditation to help decrease stress and anxiety

Hormonal imbalances can wreak so much havoc on mental well-being. Being able to advocate for yourself and find treatment that is right for you is more than half the battle. Today's episode with Andrea Jones digs into how to get to the root of hormone symptoms and find whole body balance.

Andrea Jones is an RN, BSN and Functional Hormone Coach. She works with women all over the world to get rid of their painful periods, mood swings, irritability, fatigue, insomnia and perimenopausal symptoms...naturally!

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Andrea's struggle with hormonal imbalances and why she's on a mission to help other women who struggle
• The importance of advocating for your own body and finding what is normal for you
• Andrea's unique program that supports women
• What the liver has to do with hormone health, plus other contributors to hormone balance
• How menopause and perimenopause influence mental health and what you can do about it
• Why birth control and hormone replacement therapy don't work for many women
• What are the biggest contributors to hormone imbalances

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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Parenting can often create a strain and added stress to relationships. It's important to be able to co-parent in a healthy way, while also maintaining self-care practices.

Eli Weinstein is a Social Work Therapist (LCSW) who has worked in a psychiatric hospital and intense outpatient clinic, and currently runs his own private practice in New York and Nevada. He is married to his wife Ariella and has two beautiful children, Rikki and Max, and lives in the sunny Las Vegas.

He created ELIvation, The Dude Therapist Podcast, and became a therapist to fill a need and create a modern outlook on mental health by creating a more digestible and relatable view on mental health to help those in struggling times, and add some extra inspiration and motivation into everyday life.

Eli has been featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Trauma Therapist, Mimosas With Moms, Holding Space, Breaking Taboo, Therapy Thoughts w/ Tiffany Roe and on multiple podcasts ranging from parenting, relationships, mental health and infertility. His main goal is to help people on their journey to add support, care, empathy, expertise, and insight. He runs events, seminars and individual coaching on topics from mental health awareness, public speaking, coaching, relationship coaching and confidence boosting.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Eli's work with couples and how to address relationship stress that is based on past hurts
• Parenting in the modern age and how it is different from past parenting philosophies
• How to co-parent in a healthy way
• How to keep relationships healthy while being a parent
• How to care for yourself daily
• Parenting with joy and fun

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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The loss of a child is unimagineable, devastating pain. Today's episode focuses on overcoming loss and moving forward to live a full life.

Cathleen Elle is a #1 International Bestselling Author, Transformational Speaker, Suicide Loss Expert, Master Certified Success Coach and Healer, and Podcaster. Cathleen shares powerful healing techniques for parents who have been shattered by suicide to redesign their life and connect to their inner joy and redefine their experience.

She has coped with multiple traumas, but the death of her 19-year-old son from suicide was the catalyst that changed her life forever. Today, she assists in changing the trajectory of parents' lives by providing the tools that aid them in moving through the emotions accompanied by complicated loss and challenging experiences.

After 25 years of political service and extensive experience as a suicide awareness advocate, Cathleen is now a global speaker and healer who has been featured on national media outlets including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, as well as ModernMom, Authority Mag, and Pop Culture. Top podcasts and radio shows within the emotional wellness space has featured her as the expert in suicide loss.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• The devastating loss of Cathleen's son to suicide and the defining moment that occurred after.
• The healing journey Cathleen stepped into after her son's transition.
• The journey of grieving and the step by step process
• The importance of self-forgiveness after tragic loss

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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Andrew Hahn, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and second-time guest on the show. He comes back on the show to discuss relationships, what goes wrong, and what we can do to create healthier ones.

Dr. Hahn received his A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Social Studies/Psychology from Harvard University and his Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Hahnemann University. He is certified by Helen Palmer to teach the Enneagram and has also been a faculty member in the graduate Counselling Programs at Lesley University and Northeastern University.

While Dr. Hahn's strong foundation and significant experience in traditional psychology has served his clients well, he has been untiring in his effort to better understand what is going on for people so that he could better help them live more contented and healthier lives. He is the founder of Life Centered Therapy.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How our relationships are shaped by our family of origin
• How to talk about talking in a healthy way
• How to have a better understanding of our partner
• The problem with "marrying the potential"
• Handling reactivity in healthy ways
• How to understand each other's individual personalities beyond our own interpretations

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