In today's quick solo episode, I share a story of how my biggest client taught me to work with my intuition. It's the story of how I came to work with a client who I helped take from $0 to $3 million and how I learned to distinguish my intuition from my fear, and then identify past triggers I was bringing to the current situation that were keeping me playing small.

Working with this multi-million dollar client helped me learn about my own intuition and how it can be harnessed to make better decisions in both my personal and professional life. It helped me better understand the space "where the woo meets the work".

We explore the importance of translating intuition into action and creating structures that support intuitive decision-making.

Takeaways

Chapters

00:00 Introduction: The Woo Meets the Work

01:40 Understanding Intuition

04:06 Listening to Intuition: A Personal Story

09:44 Deep Contemplation and Meditation

12:14 Translating Intuition into Action

19:43 Developing Intuition for Better Decision-Making

21:10 Practices for Connecting with Intuition

23:06 Protecting and Honoring Yourself

24:06 The Magic of Combining Woo and Work

Emily Lane is a futurist and founder of the Evolutionary Intelligence Academy. With a professional background in business, a near-death experience catapulted her into a 20-year quest for deeper meaning and purpose. Her journey led her to distill, explore, and apply some of the most leading-edge inner technologies of our world today. Emily works multi-dimensionally and she shares practical tools of evolutionary intelligence so that leaders and pioneers can solidify their clarity, purpose, and of course, their creative power.

Emily consults on the birth and direction of evolutionary projects, and she shared the stage with luminaries from academia, the World Bank, the United Nations, and World Economic Forum, among many others.

She's spoken in front of royalty, in front of governments, Silicon Valley executives, and thousands of pioneers around the world. She's been published by Mindful Leader and taught at the Omega Institute in New York. She was a founding partner of the groundbreaking Conscious Business World Summit and former host of the world's largest Mindfulness in Business Conference, Wisdom 2.0 in San Francisco.

All of her work is infused with uplifting activation energy and of course, her Irish sense of humor. This comes through quite a bit in the podcast. Our conversation focused on the intersection of creativity, entrepreneurship, leadership and personal development.

As woo or esoteric, as some of these ideas can feel at first, Emily is the master at making these concepts accessible, understandable, and actionable. In this conversation, she guides us through a step-by-step process to help us identify and connect with our inner guidance. This is part of what she calls connecting to evolutionary intelligence.

We do this so that we can access that power to make practical decisions in our life and our work. Stay tuned to the end where Emily introduces her six week program for evolutionary leaders, which I very much look forward to participating in myself starting January, 2024.

For more information about Emily, follow along here:

To sign up for her Evolutionary Intelligence Academy, click here:

https://www.evolutionaryintelligenceacademy.com/evolutionaryprofessional

Today, we welcome a creative powerhouse and true soul sister: Joanne "Jo" Garcia.

As a first-generation all-American girl raised by Filipino immigrants in the US, Jo is one of those rare breeds of creatives who's equal parts creative thinker and master executor. She's a creative who gets shit done.

While meeting Jo was a blessing, the circumstances of our meeting were heartbreaking. My dear friend Elaine battled breast cancer for four years before it took her life this time last year. During this time, Jo stepped into the most demanding role of her life - being the caretaker of our dying friend.

In this episode, we speak about Jo's creative journey, the love, loss, and redemption she has experienced, and how her creativity has been an essential part of her burnout recovery that she's used to reclaim her life in the wake of extreme loss.

This week's mini-episode is a dive into how I'm managing to counter the dip in energy and spirits that often occur during the fall-winter seasons.

For the next 21 days, I am committing to random acts of kindness as a way to cultivate my intentions of bringing in more love, abundance and freedom into my life. I share some of my own reflections on not meeting my own expectations and the disappointment that followed and why seeking perspective and recalibrating is essential during those lower moments.

In setting the intention to manifest more love, abundance, and freedom, I've decided to challenge myself to align my inner world with the tangible external world.

Takeaways

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

00:37 The Decision to Do 21 Days of Random Acts of Kindness

03:00 Reflecting on Expectations and Disappointment

04:26 Seeking Perspective and Recalibrating

05:26 Setting Intentions for Love, Abundance, and Freedom

08:47 The 21-Day Kindness Challenge

10:14 Aligning Actions with Internal Cultivation

13:17 Opening Doors for Love, Abundance, and Freedom

14:37 Being Opportunistic with Acts of Kindness

15:35 Cultivating Energy of Love, Abundance, and Freedom

17:02 Commitment to 21 Days of Acts of Service

18:29 Invitation to Join the Challenge

Today, I’m diving into website templates and how to confidently choose and customize one so you feel clear and confident moving forward. 

Be sure to stay all the way through the end where I’ll share my favorite website template partners and a 15-20% off your website.  And if you listen to this before Black Friday, then you’ll be able to get up to 40% off. 

Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting your business journey, this podcast will equip you with the knowledge and tools to create a website that reflects your unique brand and effectively serves your target audience.

Find all your website templates (and discount links) here:

https://brookeestin.com/websites

In today’s episode, I continue my conversation with Rudy Hexter. Rudy is a man of many talents. He’s a builder of homes that are designed to facilitate thriving as well as a teacher of Qigong and the Life Mandala Training.

In our last episode, we talked about finding stability and community in the face of isolation and how inner exploration and spiritual practices provide the spark and fuel for daily life. Today, we explore how this is expressed in the tangible world.

After a near-death experience from a motorcycle accident, Rudy had to radically alter his day-to-day life and set aside his self-reliance in order to accept the love and generosity his community offered. With fresh insights and a strong calling, he joined us my signature program, Aligned x Design, where he called in the support he needed, right when he needed it, to intentionally shape his path forward.

Join us as we explore resilience and hope in the face of adversity.

You can learn more about Rudy here:

https://www.facebook.com/artofasha

As we continue the theme of showcasing Aligned x Design alumni, I'm thrilled to welcome Rudy Hexter to today’s episode.

Rudy is a man of many talents. He’s a builder of homes that are designed to facilitate thriving as well as a teacher of Qigong and the Life Mandala Training.

While navigating a chaotic upbringing full of instability where love felt conditional and fragile, Rudy found himself drawn to embodied practices as a way of grounding himself.

On the podcast, he shares how building community and engaging in circle work has helped him explore many limiting beliefs about his relationships to others and to himself that were preventing him from feeling a sense of acceptance and home.

Join us in the first of this two-part interview as we explore how community and deep inner reflection can help us learn to nurture ourselves and, in turn, teach and support others.

Today I’m continuing a conversation with Safiya Carroll Labelle, who was featured in our previous episode.

Safiya is a multi-passionate artist, musician, web designer and founder of Wildlight Creative, who I had the pleasure of getting to know during the beta launch of my 12-week program, Aligned x Design. 

In this episode, we talk about how Safiya learned to create structure around her artistry during Aligned x Design to allow for greater creative expansion. From feeling lost in a swamp to being exhausted by screen time, Safiya shares about career challenges she’s faced and how she uses art as a healing balm to bring herself back into feeling and community.

Join us in this second half of our conversation as we explore how we can create the conditions we need to thrive creatively.

To Join Aligned x Design, head over to:

http://alignedxdesign.com/

More info about Safiya can be found here:

https://linktr.ee/Softfirearts

IG: @softfirearts

IG: @wildlight.creative

Welcome Safiya Carol Labelle to the Art of Lost and Found Podcast!

Safiya is a multi-passionate artist, musician, web designer and founder of Wildlight Creative, who I had the pleasure of getting to know during the beta launch of my 12-week program, Aligned x Design. 

She grew up on a small island in BC, Canada, in the loving embrace of a vibrant artists’ community. She shares what it was like to grow up in such a free-spirited place and how a traumatic parental divorce and uprooting move with her mother caused her to lose her sense of belonging at the tender age of six.

From finding community to fighting traditional constraints as an artist, our conversation was so rich and nourishing that we’re splitting it into two episodes. Join us in this first half as we dive into trusting yourself in the midst of the unknown.

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My conversation with Safiya doesn’t end here–tune in to our next episode for the second half of our conversation where we’ll talk about strategies for building the structure that allows for creative expansion in your life and business.

To learn more about Aligned x Design, head over to: http://alignedxdesign.com/

Journey of Creative Healing: From Loss to Authenticity

Today we welcome Veronica Lichter to the podcast. Veronica was one of the original students in my signature 12-week Aligned x Design Program, and had a profound transformation that resulted in her quitting her full-time teaching job and making the leap into being a full-time artist.

Reflecting on the emotional and nostalgic aspects of the creative process, Veronica shares about importance of gratitude in letting go of things that no longer serve her, including past traumas, limiting beliefs and restrictive identities. She shared her experiences of feeling disconnected from her creativity and intuition, but through self-awareness and cultivating stillness, she was able to reconnect with her true self and activate her creativity in a whole new way. 

"There is so much power in trusting in the creative process and surrendering to the magic of life."

We explored the concept of trauma and the importance of meeting one's own needs as part of the process of maturing and growing as adults.  By acknowledging and processing our own traumas in order to break the cycle and create a different experience for our children, in particular, Veronica's 6-year-old-daughter, Mazzy.

The main takeaway from this episode around the importance of self-awareness, resilience, and bravery in personal growth. These qualities can help us navigate challenges, connect with our true selves, and create a meaningful vision for our lives and work.

To learn more about Aligned x Design, head over to: http://alignedxdesign.com/

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