SoundBalming with Dr. LaMarr Darnell Shields

Mary Welp is a CranioSacral and Hypnotherapist living in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband Jim.  She has been in private practice doing bodywork and hypnosis for 20 years. Since the pandemic she has begun teaching RISE Hypnotic Meditation to help bring meaningful change to people’s lives.

She has worked with a nonprofit involving returning soldiers from Iraq andAfghanistan as well as served on the board of LinkUp, offering assistance to those who have dealt with clergy abuse and related trauma.

She stopped by SoundBalming to share her strategies for moving your energy and self-healing.  

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With today’s increased focus on diversity and inclusion, executives, chief diversity officers, and human resources leaders love to extol the value of bringing our authentic selves to the workplace. Still, for many African American women in corporate America, that platitude falls on deaf ears.

So, in this episode, we talk to Shayna Renee Hammond about the state of African American Women in the public and private sector.

Shayna Renee Hammond is a leadership and life coach who has coached and developed thousands of school and senior leaders within the education and non-profit sectors for 20 years. She is the Founder and CEO of Lead For Liberation (formerly known as Teach To Lead), a leadership development organization dedicated to guiding organizations, school districts, foundations, and communities to demystify and operationalize liberatory cultures. Through Lead For Liberation’s (L4L) support, schools and organizations across America have experienced unprecedented school growth and achievement outcomes, inclusive school and organizational cultures, and strengthened teacher, principal, and senior leader retention.

Inspired by the success of L4L and her calling to raise global consciousness, Shayna recently founded IndigoWomen, a coaching and consulting practice dedicated to creating spaces, methods, and conditions for Black women in leadership to thrive. In this capacity, Shayna coaches individuals and groups of Black women leaders from around the globe in a spiritually-inspired and research-based coaching methodology created by and for Black women.

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In this episode of SoundBalming, I interview Walker Brandt and discuss her life and how she has found a way to connect with nature to discover herself.  In addition, she shares her long and difficult journey to her current inner peace and self-discovery.

Walker Brandt is a professional actor, model, spokesperson, and new author, she has worked internationally in the entertainment industry for over 25 years on blockbuster films, TV shows, and over 2000 advertising campaigns and commercials for global brands. What most didn’t know about her until March 2020 when Walker's first book AWAKEN - Discovering Yourself Through the Light of Your Innocence was released, was what she overcame while on her path to success and how in her personal time she has been dedicated to helping youth who've also been through struggles thrive.

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We all have a negative voice that lives inside our heads, and it’s very challenging to perform at our best when we’re not kind and supportive of ourselves. 

So I decided to reach out to Kristin Taylor,  one of the leading experts on self-compassion, to discuss the nature of self-compassion, including why it’s such an essential skill for personal growth.

As a Life and Executive Coach, Kristin helps entrepreneurs and executives successfully manage anxiety, self-doubt, and imposter syndrome so that they can more confidently achieve the success they desire.

www.kristintaylorconsulting.com

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If you’re feeling stuck, stressed, or stagnant, you’re not alone. Large numbers of people feel burned out or feel a loss of control in their professional and personal lives. But now is a perfect time to take stock—closing one chapter and opening another. Nira Lull shares strategies to help you get unstuck and set your course to begin moving forward.

www.niralall.com

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Words are a powerful thing. Words can build and lift, comfort and calm, teach and inspire.  To the opposite, words can destroy and demolish, incite and enrage, berate and criticize, embarrass and demean.  It has been said that in an average day a person will speak somewhere between 10 and 20,000 words. Which means we have that tons of chances every day to say something positive or to say something negative, the choice is totally up to us.

There is an old saying that “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Whoever came up with that saying had it completely wrong…what they saying needed to say is “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but unkind words will always hurt me…and a broken bone can heal with time, but the damage done by unkind words might never heal.”  

My next guest understands the power of words, and is passionate about helping people to unlearn the negative things they’ve said to themselves or were said about them. Through his work over the past 40 years, he has taught countless thousands of people how to improve various aspects of their lives.

His latest book, 'How to Be Bulletproof From Criticism' has attracted rave reviews from health professionals, business owners and world class entrepreneurs. 

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Leaders of today are facing a multitude of challenges. They need to create a triple bottom line, finding economical, environmental, and socially sustainable solutions. Moreover,  leaders are not only expected to see a strategy through; they also need to reimagine and re-examine the workplace for their employees. 

In this episode, Dr. Kweisi Ausar discusses the relationship between workplace spirituality, organizational justice, and mental health.

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A global pandemic, Depression-level unemployment, civil and political unrest – from Minnesota to Venezuela to China, it feels as if the world as we know it is faltering. Economies are unwinding; jobs are disappearing. Through it all, our spirit is being tested. Now more than ever, it's imperative for leaders to demonstrate compassion.

Adam Baruh, Chief Executive Officer at SuiteCentric, has studied and talked about the importance of compassion in leadership for years. Even more important, he is on a mission to educate the CEOs and leaders of global organizations on implementing compassionate leadership. 

As host of "The Change," Adam shares stories from business leaders and individuals making positive work/life changes.  He is also interested in de-stigmatizing m's wellbeing.

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Ruby Taylor, the Owner, and Ceo of Financial Joy School, gives Black Families the tools and resources to build generational wealth through long-term investing, free of charge. The platform uses the power of financial knowledge to bring connections, applications, and education to communities. Free resources include educational, seminars; investment calculators; access to financial portfolios and marketplaces; giveaways and prizes; and dedicated articles on different financial topics. Ruby Taylor, M.S.W, a double HBCU alumna (Howard University and Virginia Union University) founded Financial Joy School in 2021 to make investing joyful for Black Families and our allies Financial Joy School is a Black Owned Business.

www.financialjoyschool.com

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When news of the college admissions scandal broke in the spring of 2019, it was the perfect scammer story for the media to latch on to. Detail after detail emerged about wealthy parents who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy their kids’ way into upper-tier colleges, as the FBI pursued indictments for mail and wire fraud; more than 50 people were charged.
The investigation into the conspiracy was code named Operation Varsity Blues. 

Dr. Shemmassian is the Founder of Shemmassian Academic Consulting and one of the world's foremost experts on medical school admissions, college admissions, and graduate school admissions.  He joined me today to share how he and his team have helped thousands of students get into medical school and top colleges using his systematic and proprietary approach.

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