She Rises (The Original)

Brandilyn Tebo is an acclaimed transformational coach, writer and speaker. Once a type-A perfectionist who struggled with anorexia, she knows firsthand how destructive attachment to external validation can be. Through years of inner work and deep meditation, coach trainings, and the study of eastern and western transformational philosophies, she learned how amazing life can be once you let go of fear, limiting beliefs and false identification with achievements. She has traveled the world to teach empowering workshops in high schools, prisons, Fortune 500 companies and colleges. Today, she coaches clients on how to remove internal barriers to following their hearts and be the fullest expression of themselves!

There are many reasons why we do the things we do. Perhaps we’re in a job that we don’t actually feel passionate about, but we excel at and are validated day-in, day-out. This validation fuels our perception of ourselves. We feel needed, important; perhaps, even loved because of the things that we do. But, the question is: are we making decisions from a place of our insecurities or are we motivated from a place of passion and inspiration?

Today’s guest, Brandilyn Tebo began as a model who found herself chasing the validation of others to the point she was not even present in life. She decided to take a turn, find help for the damage she caused her body and mind, and became a transformational coach. Tune-in as she shares about her journey and how she encourages her clients to find their “should” and live and breathe from a place of inspiration.

Today’s episode guest is Brandilyn Tebo

Brandilyn is a transformational coach and she hosts workshops and retreats

Brandilyn is also writer and is in the process of writing a journal

Brandilyn approaches transformation in different ways

Prior to being a transformational coach, Brandilyn was constantly doing things just to feel better about herself

It manifested on Brandilyn’s previous job as a model where she became anorexic

One day, Brandilyn realized that she wasn’t present in life and was only thinking of other people’s perception of her

Brandilyn had therapy for her eating disorder and her therapist encouraged her to explore spirituality

Brandilyn started coaching to share what she’s learned and wanted to help in changing people’s lives; she was doing it for free for a while

Brandilyn realized that coaching and transforming lives was what she wanted to do

Brandilyn left the corporate world to become an entrepreneur

Brandilyn developed her program and workshops and started coaching online

Brandilyn was at a point where she doesn’t want to go back to school because she was an overachiever

Brandilyn’s mission is to help people find their “should”

Brandilyn now has a client who’s doing something because of the validation she gets from it

The client is doing really good at her job

The client’s dream is actually to make a difference in someone’s life

The client turned down her promotion, quit her job and went to just trusting what she really wanted

What’s in front of us now constrains us from what we really want

Brandilyn told her client that her understanding of herself will change drastically if she turns down the promotion

Brandilyn and her client talked about the possibilities for her client now that she quit her job

In just 4 days, the client received an offer of a job that she really wanted

Don’t be afraid if your coach tells you to quit your job

We are scared to admit that we’re afraid of letting go of something that is our sense of security

When we’re attached to what we think we’re supposed to be or do; we think that if we let go of that, we lose love

The fear keeps us in a prison

When we identify ourselves to the title, the money and other things, we think that these are the reasons why people love us

When we let go of that identity that we think we should have, we realize that those aren’t the reasons why we are loved

People love us not because of what we have

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From life as a homeless teen to coaching A-List celebrities, from developing abs of steel and competing in the Miss Galaxy pageant to weighing 220 pounds after becoming a mother, Emotional Age and communication expert and women’s advocate Crystal Andrus Morissette is now a worldwide leader in the field of self-discovery and personal transformation. A media darling, she has been called upon by Oprah, CBS, FOX, the Daily Mail and more. Crystal is the founder of the S.W.A.T. Institute (Simply Woman Accredited Trainer), an empowerment coach certification exclusively for women that she created with fellow female visionaries such as Louise Hay, Marianne Williamson and Dr. Christiane Northrup. She is the author of four best-selling books, including her latest release, “The Emotional Edge.” She is also certified in nutrition and sports medicine.

A woman’s past does not determine her future – today’s guest is proof of this very truth. Crystal Andrus came from a very difficult past—after her parents’ divorce, she experienced many trials including sexual abuse and blows to her physical health. She had a choice of whether she would remain as a victim or rise up to who she has become now—a leading voice in self-discovery and personal transformation. In this episode, Giovanna welcomes Crystal Andrus. Tune-in as Crystal shares about her journey of forgiveness and surrender. She also discusses key lessons that have changed her life including the concept of the Holy Spirit in our lives, mindfulness, and self-love.

Today’s episode guest is Crystal Andrus

Crystal is the author of the books, Simply… Empowered!: Discover How to Create and Sustain Success in Every Area of Your Life, ..Woman!: The 12-Week Body/Mind/Soul Total Transformation Program and Transcendent Beauty: It Begins with a Single Choice…to Be!

She is a worldwide leader in the field of self-discovery and personal transformation

She is the CEO and founder of Crystal Andrus Production and the W.A.T. Institute

Crystal believes it’s important to learn the lesson from a story

For Crystal, being introduced to the concept of the Holy Spirit made her feel important and loved

Grace comes from a higher level of consciousness

Crystal’s parents divorced when she was 12 years old

Being a wounded woman herself, her mom put Crystal and her siblings in harm’s way many times

Crystal experienced a lot of sexual abuse and rape because of her mom’s choices

Her mom kicked her out of the house at 15 and so she lived alone

“I went through way too many years of being a victim”

At 17, something clicked, and Crystal believed it was the Holy Spirit telling her to make a change

She went to have herself checked and found out she had an STD and early signs of cervical cancer

She went through a couple of years of dealing with cervical cancer alone as a teenager

At 21, Crystal had a traumatic head injury

She made a change in her 20s

She had kids at age 25 and it opened her heart to love and experience more love

Having kids was an epiphany for Crystal

She left her marriage later on

Crystal is now the happiest she has ever been

“Talking about your past all the time doesn’t mean you’ll know yourself better”

Have the courage to stop getting caught up in the blame

Make peace with your past

Allow yourself to be guided

People misunderstand the true meaning of surrendering – it’s seeking truth over compliance

Let go and follow the signs, they’re there

Take advantage of the circumstances

Don’t mistake signs for fear

The first lesson in the book, A Course in Miracles, is “Nothing I See Means Anything”

Our purpose here on Earth is to expand our lives

If you desire is powerful enough, it won’t contract

Giovanna feels empowered because she can trust herself and her higher self

“We have a long way to go for the empowerment of women”

Dalai Lama said, “The western woman would heal the world”

Women have the ability to expand their consciousness

Crystal told her husband she wanted to be his equal

Don’t be power-hungry

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A true Corporate Mentalist, Author Jivi Saran uses insightful business strategy, her highly developed observational skills, and mental perception of thought processes for discerning the truth about an organizational team to gain powerful creativity, focus and productivity. She has an extraordinary mind for improving conditions across an organization and has developed some of the most sophisticated and powerful models of Leadership, Organizational Strategy and Mindset Improvement through her Corporate Soul program.  Jivi Saran and her unique set of skills and offerings is changing the game for organizations around the world and is revolutionizing the way organizations create business strategy.

In this episode, Giovanna interviews Jivi Saran. Jivi describes herself as a corporate mentalist. She uses insightful business strategy, highly developed observational skills, and the mental perception of thought processes for discerning the truth about an organizational team. The aim in this is to gain powerful creativity, focus, and productivity. Listen as Jivi shares what a corporate mentalist is, what a corporate mentalist can offer your workplace, and why it’s important for leaders in the workplace to understand the whole person when it comes to their employees.

Today’s episode guest is Jivi Saran

Jivi is a corporate mentalist

Her background is in healthcare and she spent 3 decades in strategic leadership roles

She had the luxury of experimenting with a particular team to ensure they were performing at their highest

While she was experimenting, Jivi was also in a spiritual journey herself

Jivi got intrigued by who she was in the workplace

She found out that people were not leaving their problems at home

In her last decade of work, she experimented with what it would look like if people accepted the whole person in the workplace

It started a 6-year project where Jivi started a mindfulness program

As they nurtured the individual, the individual started to nurture the business strategy

Their program allowed people to be authentic and creative

2 years ago, Jivi left her role in healthcare to be a corporate mentalist

The idea of leaving your problems at home is unrealistic

“We are human beings…it’s very difficult to compartmentalize”

Jivi’s Corporate Soul Program

The soul is an immortal legacy

It is what is left behind after your leadership

The greatest challenge around Jivi’s work is people’s perception that her programs are luxury items

“This is not luxury”

What you see in the workplace as poor performance is a symptom of people’s personal problems and the issues that they’re bringing to work

If you don’t get to the root, you’ll end up hiring consultant after consultant

Jivi educates leaders; it is not a luxury to have a mindfulness program for your employees

“This is a necessity in the organization”

People usually relate soul to something religious

We nurture people as the physical being in the employee benefit program, but how do we nurture them as energy beings?

Not everyone can be entrepreneurs, but there’s no reason we shouldn’t be happy where we are

Accept where you’re at in that moment of time

People use “I’m busy” as a fashion statement

As human beings, we are all here to take part in project Earth

This isn’t about you or me – it’s about something so much greater

Jivi responds to stress by having nausea

When you’re working with a leader who is in tune, soul becomes a part of their leadership strategy

Realistically, managers are not really trained to help their employees in that regard

It’s important to recognize that heart-centered conversations are not off-the-table in leadership

“If you do what you do, you get what you get”

Speak from the heart and start from kindness in every conversation

What you will say if you have 5 minutes to live is probably different from what your ego is telling you

Take a step back and pause before speaking

Our worklife is no different than our personal life – both comes down to choice

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Catherine Garceau is an Olympic medalist from Sydney 2000 and the author of Swimming Out of Water. After her career as a synchronized swimmer, which lead her to perform in aquatic shows in Las Vegas, her journey of dealing with disordered eating, hypersensitivities and autoimmune conditions lead her to discover powerful tools and a new purpose – How can top performers and elite achievers be their best WHILE building health and long-term well-being.

Since, she’s helped hundreds of women struggling with similar issues, and is now taking this comprehensive coach/healer model to elite individuals like top athletes who have won Stanley cups, majors in the LPGA, and competed in 2+ Olympic games, and entrepreneurs who are building million dollar companies. Catherine uses EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and other tools including bodywork, to investigate this ‘shadow of achievement’, release limiting patterns, and discover new leverage for growth. Exploring this emotional landscape while activating more presence and proper sequencing in the body is what makes Catherine’s Catalyst Performance System very unique…

In this episode, Giovanna shares the mic with Catherine Garceau, an olympic medalist from Sydney 2000 and the author of Swimming Out of Water. When Catherine retired as a synchronized swimmer, her eating disorder became even more out of control and she knew it was time to focus on her healing. Catherine takes us into her journey of finding the root cause of her eating disorder, hypersensitivities, and autoimmune conditions and how she began to find hope in the power of tapping. Listen in as Catherine shares firsthand knowledge and advice about what it looks like to take ahold of your healing and personal health. You’ll learn what it means to replace negative drivers with positive ones and how finding the root cause of our trauma is the gateway to real change.

Today’s guest is Catherine Garceau

Catherine ended her swimming career with an olympic medal

She was team captain for the following 2 years

She hit a wall because of her eating disorder

She sought help and was put on Prozac

While going through the routine, she heard a voice from above that said, “This is your last swim”

Catherine retired that day and called for their sports psychologist to come to the hotel

She never had regrets retiring because she thought retirement would help her get better

Catherine became more out of control with food and gained more weight

Dating a chiropractor led Catherine to start reading healing books and explore what caused her system to overload

Going back, she thinks her binge eating problems came from her anxiety; this was a result of her experiencing sexual abuse which she only remembered 4 years ago

Catherine wanted sugar all the time, so she went through that cycle of gaining and losing weight

Through an investigation of her systems, she found problems in her liver

The more she investigated, the more Catherine realized how sensitive she was to chlorine and its by-products

She became the champion for bringing healthier filtration systems for pools

Unfortunately, a lot of pools cannot afford to change their systems

Giovanna shares about how she would test off-gassing for allergies when she had a clinical practice

“I really believe that our soul has lessons to lessons”

Catherine went to OA (Overeaters Anonymous) for a while

Catherine acknowledges “the addict” inside her, but it’s just not what she believes she is

Along her journey, she found out about tapping – an energy psychology

Tapping is getting a thought or the Big T (trauma)

When you tap, you steal negative things and shift the energy

Tapping helps people acknowledge the Big T and brings in love and compassion to themselves

It helped Catherine on her emotional landscape

She felt better after every tapping, but went back to binge-eating again

A friend told her to investigate tapping further and that she needed to do it in a certain way; she needed to go back to the original cause

In this episode, Giovanna welcomes Emily Bennington to the show. Emily is a bestselling author and a student/teacher of contemplative practices for both secular and spiritual audiences. She has led training programs on mindfulness and composure for numerous Fortune 500 companies and has been featured by CNN, ABC, and Fox, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Marie Claire, and Cosmopolitan. Emily is the author of three books, including Miracles at Work: Turning Inner Guidance into Outer Influence. Emily is skilled at presenting complex mindfulness and spiritual topics with logical reasoning, professionalism, and inclusiveness. Emily's website was recently listed, by Forbes, as one of the 100 Best Websites for Women and her blog touches thousands of readers.

Today’s guest is Emily Bennington

Emily was fortunate to have a boss who became a mentor

She learned so much from her as a mentor that they wrote the book, Effective Immediately

They toured college campuses to talk about transitioning from school to career

When Emily started dealing with management, she noticed people would come to her for help

Life problems were always present in every person asking for help so Emily would bring in the spiritual aspect as part of her advice

She wrote Miracles at Work: Turning Inner Guidance into Outer Influence

Her book is about how we dismantle our thought system based on fear and on love

Looking at another person and seeing through your differences unfolds the harmonious connections that you have

Take your biases out to make your life more peaceful

An Internal Miracle is the shift in perception in love

A miracle is expression of love to you

Giovanna used to compartmentalize spirituality to the point that she felt unfulfilled

Like Giovanna, Emily was in the “God Closet”

Mindfulness alone is secular

Emily felt she was inauthentic teaching spiritual tools when she calls it secular mindfulness

Our spiritual life creates a certain reaction to people and we don’t want to offend anyone

The wrong is, we tend to conflate spirituality with religion – it’s not the same thing

We use competition in our career that yields to what Emily calls, “Snow-Globe Thinking”

A true spiritual practice is what clears out the snow

Great leaders don’t have to crawl to the top – they’re carried there

Magnitude is the idea of seeing yourself created by God and in a state of spiritual perfection

Knowing magnitude creates confidence

Emily shares an example of magnitude:

Emily had a client who was preparing for a big job interview

Her client approached the interview with a tremendous amount of nervousness, anger, and resentment

Emily encouraged her client saying that if she doesn’t get the job, that it is NOT a reflection or measurement of her worth

Her client had an internal shift in perception from fear to love and she got the job

Emily has come to a place where she is far less apologetic in her practice of spirituality

Giovanna is not fully out of her “God Closet”

It was a disservice for Giovanna when she held back

Giovanna has seen the transformations and the relationships that have healed

“We’re dealing with a practice a lot of people don’t know about”

What helped Emily in the course was creating a container

Giovanna was introduced to the course from her mentor

15 years ago Giovanna resisted learning from the course

The funny thing was, Giovanna kept attending the course and miracles study groups without opening the book

She credits her spiritual mentor for recommending her to read the book, The Disappearance of the Universe

It wasn’t until about 4 years ago when Giovanna opened the book

The Jesus of the course is different from the Biblical Jesus

The Biblical Jesus is in alignment with what the course says

As Emily was writing her book, she was aware it could kill her speaking career on mindful leadership

What’s interesting was Emily got more engagement after her book was written

Emily is NOT a scholar of all religions, but all these things are pointing to LOVE

In this episode, Giovanna invites us to take a look deeper into ourselves to find out what is causing dis-ease or in disharmony. Dis-ease is when your life is not at ease—meaning a disharmony or dysfunction between your internal and external self. Why You’re Not Healing is an episode dedicated to addressing the internal world of our lives and how to self-assess whether we are, in fact, sick or diseased. Tune in as Giovanna explores the true meaning of health and healing and how we can achieve this by looking inwards.

Today’s episode is about why you’re not healing

For Giovanna, it goes back to illness – not just physically, but dis-ease overall

Healing has always been Giovanna’s calling

There is a “victim consciousness” in our way of thinking

What fascinates Giovanna is why she cannot get over certain things

She researched functional nutrition, botanical medicine and homeopathic medicine to try and understand this

At the core of everything, all we are is energy

Energy became Giovanna’s primary focus and fascination

Your world is 100% governed by what is in your internal world

Everybody has their own reality

You are the center of your universe

Our perceptions are governed by our belief systems

We are not healing because we are not fully understanding the nature of dis-ease

Health is the ability to go in and out of dis-ease with ease

Is your life force healthy enough to help you go in and out of dis-ease with ease?

You can have no physical symptoms, and never become sick, but can still be “sick”

Disharmony could be in relationships or in your business

“True health is the level of vitality or aliveness you feel in your daily life”

Take a look at the symptoms in your life

Do you get triggered and you can’t let things go?

Don’t look from a place of judgement, but from a place of curiosity

Most illness started from a mental/emotional area of stuckness or dis-ease that wasn’t addressed

This is NOT about self-blame

Health and healing are not just about the physical body

We are not taught about EQ so that we can pick up those signs and symptoms

Healing of a non-physical kind is potentially going to prevent you from manifesting something in your body

Give yourself a health assessment

“I’m scared to change it”

If you change the external side without doing anything internally, it will just manifest again

Giovanna lost 70 lbs, but got back into a situation that retriggered tough areas

She put on another 15-20 lbs despite how she first lost the weight

It’s important to fix the problem internally – get to the ROOT cause

Giovanna recommends the book, A New Earth

You are a spiritual being having a human experience

You’re not healing because you may not be looking at the true dysfunction

Life is about polarities

There’s always room to assess yourself

Stop blaming the external

Take 100% responsibility for everything that you created in your world

Think about where you want to focus in and make a shift in your life

Giovanna has an upcoming program for you! Send an email to [email protected]

Check out She Rises website

End of today’s podcast

3 Key Points:

Your world, your universe, your life is governed by your internal world.

Even if you may not have any physical symptoms of sickness and disease, you can still be “sick” and experience disharmony in your life.

Take responsibility for what you have created in your world and do NOT be afraid to change what is causing dysfunction in your life.

Resources Mentioned:

A New Earth – Book that Giovanna recommends to know more about internal healing

In Episode 96, Dr. François Germain works through the text to Debussy’s "Nuit d’étoiles" with us, talking about the French schwa and when it’s not pronounced, the various combinations of 'ie', and a little on liaisons and elision. There are two versions of this episode—the full video tutorial or the audio version for people prefer to listen to podcasts while they’re out and about. This is the last episode before summer break--we'll be back with all new episodes on Aug 26, 2017! 

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In Episode 96, Dr. François Germain works through the text to Debussy’s "Nuit d’étoiles" with us, talking about the French schwa and when it’s not pronounced, the various combinations of 'ie', and a little on liaisons and elision. This is the last episode before summer break--we'll be back with all new episodes on Aug 26, 2017! 

In the meantime, for all of The Diction Police podcasts, Text Readings, and PDFs with phonetic transcriptions as well as translations into several languages, please visit us at www.dictionpolice.com . You can also follow The Diction Police on Facebook and Twitter.

My story begins in October 2007, I had a tragic event occur in my life.  My parents disowned me because of my interracial relationship with my now husband Keith Hughes. My parents had never met him or even knew his name. The fact that I was so disposable to the two people I love the most, destroyed me. Not knowing how to deal with this heartbreak, I began to consume myself with work to ignore the thoughts and began to feed my emotions with food. In December of 2011, I looked in the mirror and did not recognize the woman starting back at me. I weighed in at over 300 pounds! I was severely depressed, frustrated, stressed, unhealthy, filled with sadness, pain, felt completely defeated, hopeless and had a very bad relationship with food.

I knew something needed to change, and I needed to be that change!

In January of 2012, I embarked on a journey to lose 100 pounds in one year and regain my life back. My journey wasn’t always easy as I was faced with many challenges and obstacles in my path. My biggest challenge was my career!  I was a corporate professional working as a Senior Software Consultant and my career was extremely demanding, stressful and required me to travel out of state on a weekly basis. I traveled 4-5 days per week throughout the United States and sometimes internationally. I was living out of a suitcase, in and out of hotels and airports, working 12-15 hour days which left me with limited time to focus on myself, my health, my fitness, family and friends.

I am so GRATEFUL that I was introduced to Beachbody!  Their programs were perfect, easy to incorporate into my busy schedule, simple to follow and I could do them anywhere! They gave me the structure and knowledge I needed to transform my health and body.

I literally transformed my body in a hotel room and learned how to build a healthy lifestyle while traveling!

Today, I am proud to say that I have lost over 140 pounds using Beachbody products and have transformed my whole life. Most importantly, I love the woman that I have become in this journey! In 2015, I was chosen and recognized on stage as one of the top 8 finalists of the Beachbody Grand Prize Challenge for best transformation of the year.

Needless to say, I am firm believer in Beachbody products and naturally I wanted learn more about the company and become more involved so I joined the Company as an Independent Beachbody Coach so that I could continue to learn and grow in my own journey but more so help other people reach their health and fitness goals.  It has been the most rewarding and purpose filled career choice I have ever made.  Since then, I have decided to continue my education and I am currently pursuing my Health Coach Certification with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and have co-founded Fithughes.com

In this episode, Giovanna Capozza interviews Diane Hughes, a holistic health and fitness coach with Beachbody and co-founder of Fithughes.com. She lost 140 pounds in her own journey and was selected as one of the top 8 finalists of the Beachbody Grand Prize Challenge for Best Transformation of the Year, in 2015. Today, Diane and her husband have dedicated themselves to working with individuals struggling with weight loss. This powerhouse couple helps them reach their goals and create an improved lifestyle filled with happiness, health, fitness and balance. Tune in as Diane shares her weight loss story, how forgiveness played a part in her journey, and the importance of making YOURSELF a priority.

Giovanna introduces Diane Hughes

Giovanna met Diane and her husband, in Mexico, at a party

In 2007, Diane experienced a tragic event in her life:

Her parents disowned her

She never had something so traumatic happen to her like that

She dove into her work and fed her emotions with food

It was not until Dec. 2011 that she looked into the mirror

Looking at her reflection in the mirror was the biggest “Ah-ha moment” for Diane because she didn’t recognize herself

She was too consumed with life and

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In Diction Tip #17, Bernhard Hansky discusses the pronunciation of the "er-" prefix (which also includes "ver-", "zer-"), and how to handle the letter 'r' in this prefix.

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