Soul Focused Group Podcast

Hank Azaria and Cyndi Carnaghi-Collins continue their discussion on healing the wounded inner child in this new podcast. Our Chief Operations Officer, Dustin Washington, opens this episode by asking our guests to share their experiences with their inner child while working in social justice. Social justice work is important to our future, but it also create spaces where we are trying to create change without healing. Cyndi found herself exhausted in the social justice movement after she realized how much work she had put in and it still didn’t feel like a lot of change. This exhaustion and frustration can lead to us acting as wounded children in our everyday work. Cyndi shares how she felt the most love and success when she was able to enter spaces with a healed inner child. In the second segment of this episode Cyndi and Hank explore the internal pain many of us have from our childhoods. If we do not learn to identify and accept our internal pain we cannot help heal this world. Hank and Cyndi have both found that identifying their childhood triggers has helped them heal their wounded inner child. Their end goal was to understand their feelings to find better reactions that worked for them and the important people in their lives.

Show Notes:

• 1:35 Healing Our Wounded Inner Child In Social Work
• 8:21 Inner Child Versus Inner Teen
• 14:49 Addressing Your Internal Pain
• 19:37 Identifying Triggers and Accepting Your Feelings
• 24:08 Outro With Martin Friedman

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Our Chief Operations Officer, Dustin Washington, leads our new podcast on healing our wounded inner child. He is joined by Hank Azaria and Cyndi Carnaghi-Collins to discuss their journey in healing their inner child, and how they created a new mind that works for them. The wounded inner child is an unhealed part of us that was formed by our survival strategies that help us ignore our trauma. Hank and Cyndi begin this episode with their definitions of the inner child, and what healing tools have helped them in their journey. Hank believes that no trauma outweighs the other, and that we are all walking around with a wounded inner child as a result from our socialization. Cyndi describes the inner child as a piece of her that she never got to fully express. She goes on to explain how our childhood experiences can cause us to form habits as adults. Cyndi had to look deeply inside of herself to find the cause of her anxiety, and she found that her instability during her childhood was the root. Dustin asks Hank to share his thoughts on the dysfunctions and costs the wounded inner child has on us as adults. Hank has found that a lot of the roles and survival strategies we form do not fully serve us. Hank found himself self medicating and forming a persona at a young age to cope with the dysfunction he was experiencing at home. These survival strategies served him well as an actor, but they did not serve him well when building important relationships in adulthood. This episode closes out with Hank and Cyndi discussing how they identify and react to their childhood triggers. We all are walking around as adults with childhood trauma that can be triggered at any moment. Cindy and Hank remind us that we are not our reactions. Healing our wounded inner child is a process that will take time to achieve and understand.

Show Notes: 

• 1:36 Hank and Cyndi Introduction
• 2:34 What Is The Inner Child?
• 15:18 How Our Childhoods Shape Us As Adults
• 23:28 The Cost Of A Wounded Inner Child
• 32:12 The Inner Child Creating Workaholics  
• 35:11 Identifying Childhood Triggers
• 43:20 Reacting To Childhood Triggers As Adults 

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Anuar Velazquez and Jerry Elster sat down with our host, Martin Friedman, to share their thoughts on restorative justice in the American prison system. Anuar is a former police officer and Jerry was formerly incarcerated. Jerry begins by sharing that restorative justice started within himself and progressed into building, maintaining, establishing, and mending relationships. Jerry realized that he brought harm to his community when he committed his crime, and that was a relationship he needed to mend to heal. Anuar also thinks relationships are crucial to restore justice in America’s criminal justice system. When Anuar was a police officer he felt like he was participating in restorative justice the most when he was building relationships in the communities he grew up in. The three men go on to discuss how restorative justice is reconnecting with humanity. We are socialized to believe that our titles are more important than our vulnerability and honesty. Jerry shares how he judged everyone in the justice system by their title and this caused him to realize he didn’t have the ability to see the humanity in others. To build and maintain relationships within our communities we must learn to look beyond labels, titles, and identities.

Show Notes 

• 2:14 Jerry Elster shares his experience in the criminal justice system
• 5:19 Jerry shares how looking within himself changed his view on restorative justice
• 8:37 Anuar talks about his relationship with restorative justice as a former police officer
• 11:19 Martin shares his thoughts on restorative justice as a racial equity worker
• 15:08 Jerry reacts to Anuar and Martin’s definitions of restorative justice
• 17:50 Anuar talks about how restorative justice also restores humanity 
• 19:12 Martin asks Anuar and Jerry to share how to be accountable when restoring justice
• 29:44 Martin talks about how society has to take accountability in restorative justice
• 33:35 Jerry talks about taking accountability in patriarchy
• 37:30 Anuar explores how accountability can be weaponized in restorative justice
• 41:19 Martin and Anuar explore how we shape our own reality 
• 42:39 Jerry talks about how we avoid responsibility in restorative justice work
• 46:29 Anuar explains how we can all find a place of connection

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Our CEO, Berwick Mahdi Davenport,  joins our Soul Focused Radio hosts to continue talking about innerwareness. Innerwareness is a Soul Focused Group term that we define as the way our first mind communicates with and directs our second mind. In this podcast M begins by exploring why he and a lot of other racial equity workers felt defeated. M spent years being a racial equity trainer and after all his hard work he felt like there was something missing from organizations and movements. He believes that the side effect to being social conscious is only being able to see the world’s problems, and losing sight of our own self work. A big portion of this podcast consists of our hosts and M explaining how self work is not selfish. We are often socialized to believe that focusing on ourselves is a selfish act. We learn from our peers that taking the time to focus on ourselves makes us self centered, selfish, greedy, and egotistical. We want all of our listeners to know that putting yourself first is not selfish. Christin shares how she followed her innerwareness, and found herself lonely after doing all the work. Becoming spiritual conscious can feel lonely when you are the only one doing the work. However, we can demonstrate how integrating our social and spiritual consciousness can improve our way of life.

Show Notes:

• 2:08 Mahdi questions why social and spiritual consciousness are becoming so important
• 6:06 M explains how becoming spiritual conscious can benefit all aspects of your life
• 8:55  M and Christin explain how self work is not selfish
• 14:26 M explores the idea of how we are socialized to be used
• 18:54 Martin asks Christin and M to elaborate on being stuck in suffering
• 25:38 M explains how negative thinking can impact our mind
• 28:15 Our hosts and M discuss how the world tricks us into doubting ourselves
• 34:16 Christin asks M to explain how we rid ourselves of conflict 
• 38:34 Martin talks about how we can shift our focus to ourselves
• 42:37 The podcast closes out with a discussion about the power of our imaginations

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Berwick Mahdi Davenport sat down with our hosts Martin Friedman and Christin Farmer to discuss how he got in touch with his innerwareness during his spiritual journey. M explains how innerwareness is our ability to listen to our intuition and our intelligence. We come into this world and ask for guidance in things we should learn about ourselves. Christin and M discuss how the world gets us to listen to other voices instead of our own intelligence. As children we are discouraged to ask questions and be curious. M believes that we learn the most abut our authentic selves through fun and play. We learn the best parts of ourselves when we are having fun. Many people were deprived of play as children because they had to focus on survival. As adults we can take the time to have fun and learn more about ourselves to understand our souls better. Our souls are asking us to let go of our egos and have confidence in ourselves. M closes out this podcast by explaining how we can learn to let go. We can reconnect with our egos and let go of all of the doubt we have about being ourselves. We can use our egos to help us confidence in ourselves to be whoever we want.

Show Notes:

• 1:48 Our CEO, Berwick Mahdi Davenport, shares his spiritual journey
• 7:00 M explains how we develop spiritual amnesia
• 12:56 Christin asks M to elaborate on innerwareness 
• 17:45 Our hosts and M share their experiences with children asking questions
• 21:37 Christin and M explore the restrictions around fun
• 26:52 Martin asks M how innerwarenesss is demonstrating self care
• 32:16 M explores the meaning of home and how sharing can heal us 
• 41:28 Martin and M explain how to give ourselves permission to heal
• 43:48 Christin asks M to explains how we let go of our egos and subconscious thoughts

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Martin Friedman and Dustin Washington sat down with Gabriel Lugo to learn more non-duality and spiritual leadership. Gabriel was a former atheist that became skeptical and curious about his consciousness. He began to investigate what the nature of reality is, and he found many teachings that brought him closer to understanding his own mind. Gabriel started with The Law of One, but he was really interested in non-duality. From spirituality, mysticism, and psychology, to quantum science and cosmic evolution. Non-duality is at the core of its mystical teachings. Gabriel takes an hour of his morning to meditate and understand his mind better. He has found that finding time to himself has brought him closer to seeing everyone and everything as one. Gabriel also explains how non-duality is very independent but also holistic. Meditation is very independent, but he takes his mindset into the world viewing the whole world. Gabriel believes that our reality and power flow from within us. Our mind is the portal to our true selves, and by implementing everyday spiritual practices we learn more about ourselves.

Listen to Gabriel Lugo’s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-law-of-one-non-duality-w-gabriel-lugo/id1618689018

Show Notes:

• 1:39 Gabriel Lugo shares his spiritual journey and curiosity about science
• 6:10 Martin asks Gabriel about how he was raised spiritually
• 9:49 Gabriel defines non duality 
• 13:10 Dustin asks Gabriel to share some of his daily spiritual practices
• 17:20 Gabriel explains how reality and power come from within us
• 24:48 Martin and Gabriel explore non-duality and how close it is to non-attachment 
• 30:40 Dustin asks Gabriel to share his view on everything having love
• 36:01 Gabriel expands on how the mind is a portal to our true self
• 42:59 Martin and Gabriel close out the podcast discussing how holistic non-duality is

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We invited Jim McCarty back as our special guest to continue his discussion on The Law of One. In this episode Jim dives deeper into how The Law of One will show up in our lives, and he also share some tools to help us see the creator in everyone. Jim shares his amazing mediation breathing technique that has helped him find balance in his life. This technique can be used to feel closer to humanity by reflecting on an experience at the end of your day. He also uses mediation that focuses on recreation and imagination to help heal his inner child. Jim explains that our perspective on trauma is holding us back, and we have to see every experience as a learning opportunity. Jim shares a beautiful story about his anger coming out when he was frustrated, and this would cause him to break something. He recalls the last time he broke something out of anger because that night he cried to himself as he accepted himself.  Jim believes that reoccurring patterns in our lives are opportunities for us to learn and grow. We hope that by sharing this podcast we can encourage everyone to treat the world and ourselves with love. We are ready to be one with ourselves and we are all one. Thank you for listening, and visit llresearch.org to learn more about The Law of One.

Show Notes:

• 2:28 Martin asks Jim McCarty to share how the The Law of One has impacted his life
• 4:46 Jim shares how he uses balances exercises to be closer to humanity
• 7:39 Dustin asks Jim how he has found ways to keep his heart open
• 13:35 Jim shares how he has integrated love into his intimate relationships
• 18:36 Martin and Jim explore how we can heal our inner child through meditation
• 24:41 Jim explains how preincarnation fits into The Law of One
• 27:11 Jim shares a beautiful story about learning to accept his anger
• 33:18 Martin and Jim explore how difficult it can be to accept every part of yourself
• 37:27 Jim shares his thoughts on what true human nature is
• 40:25 Dustin and Jim explore the idea of wanderers 
• 44:09 Jim explains how we can collectively heal

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Martin Friedman and Dustin Washington will be collaborating on our new podcast series A New Mind. The first episode of the series features Jim McCarty. Jim started as a teacher in the inner city of Jacksonville, FL after his involvement in the hippie revolution. After Jim found his spiritual consciousness through dreams and journaling he moved to Kentucky where he spent 6 years living a self-sufficient lifestyle. While there he he founded the Rock Creek Research and Development Laboratories in 1977. Two year later he met Don Elkins and Carla Rueckert to begin their work with The Ra Material. 

Jim discusses The Law of One, and how important it is to understand The Law of One to create human solidarity. Jim defines The Law of One as seeing everyone as one regardless of their religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and physical abilities. When we see everyone as one we see their humanity and we see them for who they are. This allows us to adjust our spiritual journey to be in service to others and to find how we can become one with ourselves. Jim explains how we all have the ability to travel a positive path even with negative entities in our world. He has found that through meditation he can make spiritual connections with himself and the creator. Thoughts and concepts can come to us during meditation that are beyond words. Meditation can bring us thoughts and feelings from our creator that can bring us closer to ourselves. Jim’s biggest piece of advice that he has learned from studying Ra is to show more love. He has found that going out into the world showing everyone love has helped him love himself. We are excited to share Jim’s beautiful wisdom with the world and we can’t wait to have him back on Soul Focused Radio.

Show Notes:

• 2:20 Jim McCarty introduces himself and his spiritual upbringing
• 6:59 Jim explains The Law of One 
• 11:52 Martin has Jim explore the purpose of the veil of forgetting
• 16:43 Dustin and Jim explore positive and negative polarity in our lives
• 20:52 Martin questions Jim on how difficult it can be to stay on the positive path
• 24:56 Jim shares his experience witnessing the downloading of Ra material
• 29:34 Jim explains why mediation is essential for The Law of One
• 36:14 Jim discusses how negative polarity is causing political conflict and street violence
• 43:08 Martin and Jim talk about the power of love and light

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Martin Friedman, Martina Tam, and Christin Farmer are back to continue their beautiful discussion on cultural appreciation. In their last podcast together they defined cultural appreciation as having a  understanding, transactional, and empathetic relationship with a different culture . Martin begins this podcast by sharing his thoughts on cultural appropriation. He believes that appropriation involves someone in a position of power stealing something spiritual without consent. Martina goes on to point out that taking something spiritual for monetary gain is also considered cultural appropriation. Our hosts have had to honor and collaborate with other cultures in the past. Christin shares a beautiful story on how she honored indigenous and tribal baby wrapping by inviting traditional women to teach a class. She understood that she was not an expert and found a respectful way to offer baby wrapping to her mothers. We want everyone to feel comfortable exploring other cultures without the fear of being accused, criticized, and cancelled. Our hosts agree that doing the work to understand ourselves is the most important step. When we understand our own culture and purpose we accept different cultures in a more loving way. We hope that this podcast can help others understand how to approach  cultures in a respectful way so we can begin building human solidarity together.

Show Notes:

• 4:11 Christin and Martin discuss how we move from appropriation to appreciation
• 8:13 Martina shares her thoughts on what cultural appropriation looks like
• 11:55 Our hosts explore the idea of asking for cultural permission and approaching appropriation in a healthy way
• 16:41 Christin shares a story about the time she asked for help from indigenous and tribal people to help teach her clients how to wrap their babies
• 19:47 Our hosts share their thoughts on the different feelings with white people appropriating versus another race/ethnicity appropriating
• 25:09 Christin shares with Martina how she has had to build a better relationship with her own culture to feel secure in exploring different cultures
• 29:35 Martin shares his own thoughts on how he has to hold himself accountable as a white man to be respectful when learning about new cultures and how weaponized accountability is a part of cancel culture.
• 32:19 Christin talks about how learning collective cultural appreciation can help build human solidarity

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In this podcast Martin Friedman sits down to discuss becoming powerful with Berwick Mahdi Davenport and Dustin Washington. Together the three men explore how individual power can create collective power. They have all found that when we are in our internal power we create healthy collective power. We have to see and acknowledge that we came into this world to participate with our power. Mahdi and Dustin also explore how we are programmed to believe and celebrate collective power over our own. Mahdi explains that many of us don’t see our power because we don’t discuss power until we are adults. Many of us grew up in households that did not discuss power and self empowerment. Dustin shares that as a child he felt shame and guilt when he would celebrate how powerful he felt. We have to move beyond this idea that we cannot be a powerful individual.  In the second portion of this podcast our guests introduce The Soul Focused Power Summit. This summit was developed to help leaders recognize what is in their subconscious programming and  reprogram their mind to believe in their power. We hope to see amazing leaders at the power summit to begin building human solidarity with us. Visit our website for more information!

Show Notes 

• 2:16 Martin asks Dustin and M what they think becoming powerful means
• 4:38 M explains how different authority and power are
• 6:07 Dustin discusses how important it is to teach young people to be powerful
• 7:48 Mahdi shares his childhood experience with power
• 9:43 Dustin shares how he became powerful through his life coaching process
• 14:22 Mahdi discusses how he coaches people to change their own reality
• 17:57 The three men explore how powerful our imaginations can be
• 24:04 Martin and Mahdi explore how fear can create power
• 27:29 Mahdi and Dustin introduce the upcoming Soul Focused Power Summit
• 32:13 Mahdi talks about how we have to be ready to accept power
• 36:41 Martin asks Dustin about hearing concerns and discomfort with power in workshops
• 39:01 Mahdi shares his thoughts on showing up out of power
• 41:39 Dustin explores the idea of being able to create whatever we want
• 46:24 Martin explains how we are programmed to believe and accept negative comments about ourselves

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