She Rises (The Original)

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In Diction Tip #22, Bernhard Hansky discusses the concept of Auslautverhärtung (hardening of the final consonant) in German Diction.

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Jodi Flynn is the Founder of Women Taking the Lead, a podcast and community of ambitious entrepreneurial women who want to go BIG. She works with Type-A women who are already successful but have not yet achieved the level of success they want to achieve. Jodi helps her clients to see how extraordinary they are and then set priorities, get organized, in action so they can achieve their biggest goals with ease. She became an Amazon bestselling author with the release of her book, Accomplished: How to Go from Dreaming to doing. https://womentakingthelead.com

Every woman has two sides: the side that she is proud to show to the world and the side that she tends to hide. The part of us that we hide is made up of our insecurities, our struggles, our fears. They are the feelings that arise when we feel what we are offering to the world is just not good enough. Today’s She Rises guest, Jodi Flynn, tackles the insecurities in women that drive them to push harder in their careers and personal life. She helps women develop their confidence and see that they are already amazing—regardless of how much they strive in life. Tune-in as Jodi and Giovanna take us into their own inner struggles of self-confidence, what they describe to be their superpowers and kryptonite, and how all women can be the best version of themselves.

For free resources, go to GiovannaCapozza.com

Today’s guest, Jodi Flynn, helps women develop their confidence and help them realize that they’re already amazing

Jodi, as a child, was full of insecurities outside of the house

She even trained herself to breath silently so she wouldn’t attract attention

Growing up, Jodi used her friends as a security blankets

These friends left her and it devastated her at the start, but it also encouraged her to reach out to others and form new friendships

The women who hire Jodi for coaching are already successful people

They may not feel successful though

They also can doubt their personal relationships

Some tend to struggle with perfectionism

Jodi helps them to understand they can delegate their work so they can focus on more important things

Jodi shares about one of her clients

Her client had to either sell her business or work with a partner

She had a lot of options and Jodi told her that they will work their through the options

The client had an “aha” moment where she realized her team worked better when she took a break

The client didn’t have to sell the business or take on a partner after all

The leader, or the owner, can become a “barrier” to the business experiencing success

The common factor between all of Jodi’s clients is perfectionism which causes them to hide their problems

They don’t want to ask for help; they try their best to do things their own way

Hiding keeps people trapped

Jodi was trapped at one time herself

In business, things will go wrong

It should be taken as an experiment where failures are a learning experience

The people who are successful are the ones who didn’t hold themselves back

“Strive for some excellence, not for perfection”

Perfectionism only reinforces “not good enough” ideas and beliefs

Jodi believes that every quality has two sides of a coin, the “good enough” and “not good enough” side

Jodi wrote her book for the women who believe things are “not good enough”

In all things, be aligned with your mission and work at your own personal development

There’s work involved when it comes to aligning with your mission and purpose; it requires you to engage in a heart-to-heart with yourself

The mission for women is to be the best version of yourself

“Be the change you would like to see in the world”

If you follow your interests, you’re already in your mission and purpose

Women can make a difference and have tremendous power

You don’t have to be the next Oprah, you can start with your own community or circle

As Roosevelt once said, “Do what you can with what you have, where you are”

Doing one small action can create the greatest ripple

What to do wit

In Episode 101, Dr. François Germain and I talk about the text to "En fermant les yeux", the tenor aria from Massenet's Manon, focusing on nasal vowels and some normal spellings that may look complicated. This is the audio version of the podcast.For all of The Diction Police's resources, come to dictionpolice.com!

In Episode 101, Dr. François Germain and I talk about the text to "En fermant les yeux", the tenor aria from Massenet's Manon, focusing on nasal vowels and some normal spellings that may look complicated. For all of The Diction Police's resources, come to dictionpolice.com!

Barry Price is a Dating Mentor and Coachville-Trained Life Coach who used to help his single, successful Mom analyze her dates. He now supports heart-centered, six-figure female entrepreneurs to attract, date and maintain a relationship with the man of their dreams.

Though empowering for women, the feminist movement has taken a toll on men. Women stepping up and no longer hiding their power has unfortunately left men questioning where they stand—specifically in the realm of romantic relationships. So how does a woman find a man that they deem a proper fit? How does a woman maintain her femininity WITHOUT giving up her power to a man? These are the questions that will be addressed in today’s She Rises episode with guest, Barry Paul Price. Tune-in to gain a better understanding of the masculine and feminine energies that lie within all of us and how to achieve balance in ourselves before we can even dare to find our match.

For free resources, go to GiovannaCapozza.com

Each person has BOTH masculine and feminine energies

Today’s guest, Barry Price, helps powerful women date men, NOT boys

His message—you can have the love that you deserve

He helps powerful women reconnect with their feminine energy

Both masculine and feminine energies are powerful – you just have to use the right energy that serves you at the right time

Since the age of feminism, women have been able to freely express the power they already have

In the 70’s and 80’s, men didn’t know how to respond to powerful women

In the 20th century, boys are being brought up by female elders; this is very different from ancient times where they spent their days with male elders

The definition of a male role model changed with the industrial revolution

In the last 10 years, many have been questioning “Where are the men?”

Barry refers to the book, The End of Men, which was written because of the rise of women

Some men are having a difficult time coping with women stepping up

Barry believes women should feel free to change in ways that allow them to fully connect with their feminine energy WITHOUT sacrificing their power

Giovanna states that all people have a deep sense of power within themselves

Typical characteristics of boys (not men) can include emotional immaturity, financial instability, being emotionally unavailable, etc.

Focus on what you’re looking for as a woman (the kind of man you desire); don’t fixate on the kind of man you’d like to avoid

Five “M’s” to differentiate a boy from a man:

#1 Maturity

#2 Mission

#3 Masculine

#4 Myself

#5 Making you feel safe

Barry iterates the importance of starting with YOURSELF

If you’re still single, it’s because you haven’t met your ideal match

Be authentic and be the BEST version of yourself

Having the “I can do it on my own” attitude is effective for feeling safe and secure, but it can also drain your energy

Powerful women tend to want control in a relationship; know the times when you need to release that control

“There’s nothing less attractive than people with unmet needs, wanting their needs met by you”

Don’t be attached to the possible outcomes of a relationship

Cultivate your relationship with yourself FIRST

“Nobody is here to fill all your needs”

What matters is being aligned in every part of you before a man comes into the picture; don’t look for a person to fill in your gaps

Being feminine is part of an evolving, organic sense of yourself

“The feminine side of understanding a soulmate is really, feeling your way into what that will feel like being around that person”

Dancing without any inhibitions or self-judgment can help you tap into your feminine side

Beware of The Miss Independent Syndrome, or the “Screw you, I don’t need you” attitude

Your identity can make you feel safe, but it can also blind you of your problems

Vulnerability is a gift that you give to yourself and to your significant other

Barry has immense respect for people who can search within themselves and admit there was something wrong

Begin your jou

Since the podcast comes out every two weeks, on the off-weeks we post Diction Tips--very short tutorials focusing on a specific topic in Lyric Diction.

In Diction Tip #21, vocal coach Matteo Pais talks about final vowels in Italian Lyric Diction.

For more Diction Tips visit the videos section of our Facebook page or you can find all of our Diction Lessons, Diction Tips and Tongue Twisters for Singers at www.dictionpolice.com!

Intimacy Expert Allana Pratt inspires open hearted courageous living, with delicious sass. Featured on CBS, TLC, FOX and weekly on the Good Men Project, this cum laude graduate of Columbia University is the author of 3 books, with one in the oven. She’s a coach to celebrities and the Host of the sexy empowering show IntimateConversationsLIVE.com.

Allana’s passionate devotion to helping men and women reclaim their joy, freedom and personal power dating and in relationships is rooted in her own experience. Allana endured a brutal custody battle that threatened to compromise her joy, softness and feminine power. Yet Allana sat in the fire, embracing the experience as a spiritual teacher, emerging more courageously vulnerable and radiantly loving than ever before.

Now she inspires women to embrace their sacred erotic nature and find strength in their softness to attract all the love and attention they desire. She heals men’s emasculated hearts, cures their ‘nice guy’, and awakens their ‘noble badass’ to create hot, healthy intimate relationships. She pole dances for pleasure, has ridiculous amounts of joy as a mother and inspires reverence for our exquisite sexual nature.

With two failed marriages and a lifetime riddled with insecurities, no one person would think today’s guest, Allana Pratt, would rise to where she is now – an intimacy expert who helps both men and women become “radiant sexy women” or “noble badasses. Listen as Allana, with authentic vulnerability, lets us into her life and story. She shares candidly about all of her life’s twists and turns and discusses what it takes to live openly and honestly. Tune-in the learn the value of vulnerability, humility and why others cannot love us right UNTIL we learn how to love ourselves.

Today’s episode guest is Allana Pratt

Allana is from Canada

She hopped into her uncle’s 18-wheeler truck to go to Hollywood

She was good enough to dance, but she didn’t have the visa so she took a dancing job in Japan instead

That job helped her understand the sacredness and sensual divinity within her body

After 4 years of dancing, she met a guy who became her first husband

They moved to New York City and Allana went to Columbia University where she graduated Cum Laude

Everyone she spoke to in America was skeptical about the dancing career she had in Japan; Allana was so ashamed about it that she had to lie at times

They moved to Los Angeles where she didn’t feel out-of-place

Her marriage didn’t work out, even after counselling

She married her second husband when her mom was passing away

To fill the void of her mother, she rushed the process of getting married again

Unfortunately, she and her second husband divorced within the year; there was a 12-year custody battle for their son

The custody battle opened up a feminine power Allana never thought she had

She found her centered place of truth

Her ex-husband won 70% custody, but his son didn’t want to live with him

Her son spent 3 months with her and said he wanted to stay with her primarily

Allana wanted her son to make up with his father; since then, there have been issues with the father that have caused her son to block communication with Allana

Allan met a guy a month ago that she is now seeing; she deems him a ‘noble badass’

Allana’s clients hire her because she’s real and she does not judge

Vulnerability is one of Giovanna’s issues that she deals with

Giovanna is in a place now where she is considering getting into a relationship again

If you derive your worth from the outside-in, you’re screwed

Derive 100% of your worth from the inside-out

People tend to be cruel to themselves

Allowance is the first step to vulnerability

You can resist to a point where you break

When people get into relationships with little parts of themselves, they accept themselves as a whole and they accept themselves unconditionally

Because we judge ourselves, we lock parts of our real self down

Nobody is going to love the real you if you don’t love yourself

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For our 100th episode we wanted to do something really special, and here it is! In "IPA Revealed: an audio-guide" we work our way through the phonetic alphabet, with examples of native speakers in each of the four main languages that we sing in, English, Italian, German, and French.  Both Ellen and François host the episode, with guests Christoph Pohl, Daniela Pellegrino, and Grace Durham. There is no audio version of the podcast this week.

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Maria Felipe is the author of Live Your Happy. A Cuban-American born in Miami, she is 5’9” with a towering personality to match.  After experiencing success as a model and actress, including hosting World Wrestling Federation TV shows, she felt called inward and studied to become a reverend at Pathways of Light, an accredited religious school inspired by A Course in Miracles. She leads monthly services in both Spanish and English at Unity Church in Burbank, CA. 

All of us seek true happiness in our lives; but, it is the rare few that manage to find it. Maria Felipe, our guest on today’s show, guides us into how one can do just that. Maria believes that cultivating self-love and a feeling of abundance are KEY to finding true happiness. She delves into her life struggle of people pleasing and her general lack of self-love—factors that have contributed to her becoming intrinsically unhappy. Today, she discusses just how she managed to let go of her grievances, cultivate that self-love, and ultimately find that true sense of happiness. Tune-in to learn how your willingness to connect to the Holy Spirit and to your spirit within can help you live your happy.

Today’s guest is Maria Felipe

Her book Live Your Happy: Get Out of Your Own Way and Find the Love Within is based on A Course in Miracles

The books urges readers to live at MAX capacity; be responsible by not being a victim of the world that you see

Being FORGIVING, even when and if you do not want to, WILL make you feel better

Maria was suffering because she was dissatisfied with the state of her relationships and her career

In this world of duality, we are constantly looking for outside validation to be “complete”

Was even attending the Course of Miracles in a bid to find happiness

Her personal life went through major upheaval in 2009 when she went through a divorce; resorted to drinking and partying to cope up

Started to recognize that if she did not mend her ways, she was doomed to die

Decided to go to The Pathways of Light, a ministerial program to further her study on the Course of Miracles

Opted to go there not to become a teacher, speaker or instructor but to HEAL her mind

The Course of Miracles says, “All you need is a little bit of willingness for miracles to happen”; inherently willing, she finally warmed up to the program

Tried reading books and listening to CD’s in her self-help and desperation phase, but to no avail

Need to EMBODY the teachings and live them in your relationships with yourself and others

Realized the futility of looking for love outside of oneself

Tranced with the world and caught up in our egos, we have gotten comfortable with being unhappy

Being EASY and being HAPPY is the true normal; happiness, our function and inheritance is the true reality

BIG DEALS rob us off our inheritance, our happiness—in other words, when we make a big fuss over small issues or catastrophize certain events in our life that end up stealing our peace

Cultivate a mindset where you are happy regardless of the outcome; your happiness is not dependent on things outside of you

Remember, outside stuff does not define you; GOD does

Avoid falling in the ego trap where you think, “You could have, you should have or would have done it better”

Avoid being obsessed with your looks and being skinny just to people please or get something else from the outside world

Maria’s body is just a reflection of her thoughts

Your bank account and your job do not define you; you will not find abundance in your life via monetary gains

Your life is inherently abundant since you are God’s creation; you have everything and lack nothing

Our ego pushes us to achieve more and more in this consumption driven society

Maria beat 500 girls to land a job at World Wrestling Federation; while this job had all the trappings of success, Maria was the saddest she had been all her life

The only thing that you want to truly MANIFEST is what the holy spirit guides you to do; look to manifest more internal thi

Since the podcast comes out every two weeks, on the off-weeks we post Diction Tips--very short tutorials focusing on a specific topic in Lyric Diction.

In Diction Tip #20, Ellen Rissinger talks about shadow vowels in English Lyric Diction.

For more Diction Tips visit the videos section of our Facebook page or you can find all of our Diction Lessons, Diction Tips and Tongue Twisters for Singers at www.dictionpolice.com!