The Ashley Rivard Podcast

Steve Leder is the senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. After receiving his degree in writing and graduating cum laude from Northwestern University, and spending time studying at Trinity College, Oxford University, Leder received a master’s degree in Hebrew letters in 1986 and rabbinical ordination in 1987 from Hebrew Union College. He is the author of five books: The Extraordinary Nature of Ordinary Things, More Money Than God: Living a Rich Life Without Losing your Soul, the bestsellers More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us, and The Beauty of What Remains, and his latest For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story.

In this episode we discuss:

• 12 essential questions to ask self for your life story
• What is an ethical will and why it’s imperative we all have one for our loved ones at any age
• Why we need to know if we are living our truth or are we just professing to
• Why these 12 questions are vital to open up a person’s life story and help you get to the truth of your life
• Why most people regret what they don’t do verse what they do do
• Why it’s never too soon to examine your life and align it with your truth
• Why life would have no meaning if there was no death
• Why excepting dualities as dualities is healing and can lessen anxiety
• Why the power of truth and vulnerability is an unburdening of self

Connect with Steve:
Instagram: @steve_leder
Website: www.steveleder.com
Buy his book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09FNZMPFJ/ref=d…

Connect with Ashley:
Instagram: @intothedawnpodcast
Personal: @ashleydrivard
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com

Aurélie Galois is a painter and a writer.

While studying literature (at Sorbonne University) and history of art (at the
School of the Louvre), she learned every traditional technique of painting,
drawing, and engraving in a private studio in Paris. As a young editor in chief for
several magazines and freelance writer, she started to paint the portraits of
those she was interviewing. Faces and bodies become her favorite landscape,
and erotism has also been a frequent inspiration.

Christian Lima, is of Portuguese origin and was born in Paris and lived his entire life.
As an entrepreneur, he owns two cheese shops called “Fromages et ramage”
and is passionate about gastronomy and wines. He plays piano and pétanque
for many years and is renowned for being loud. He’s a lover of music, cinema, and human beings.

In this episode we discuss:

•What are the culture codes in France

•Why pleasure is the driving force behind their choices

•How the French view love/ romance/ sensuality and why the stereotype is
outdated

•Why it’s important or true that the French like to show off with nice clothes
and nice cars

•Why French have a different kind of openness than the American opens

•Love is friendship with sex

•Why men are just as vulnerable as women in France

•What sex means to the them

•France is deep in culture- but is it deep in self-awareness

•Why real artists are full of doubt and knowingness simultaneously

•What other countries could learn from the French culture

•Why a good conversation must have good food and good wine

•Why French think they are the best and why the men have huge egos

Connect with Aurelie:
Instagram: @aureliegalois
Website: www.aureliegalois.com

Connect with Ashley:
Instagram: @intothedawnpodcast/ @ashleydrivard
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com

Janae Marie “Kroc” Kroczaleski is a transgender woman who also identifies as gender fluid and non-binary. Prior to transition, she was a world champion and a record-holding powerlifter, and a national-level bodybuilder. Also, she is a United States Marine, who was selected to work in presidential security under President Clinton, a cancer survivor, a published author, a licensed pharmacist, a public speaker, and a proud parent of three sons. Janae was the subject of the award-winning documentary, Transformer, which is currently available on Netflix and many other streaming services. She hopes that by openly sharing her experiences, she will inspire those who can relate and help educate those who don’t understand.

In this episode we discuss:

• When Janae realized she didn’t identify as her gender and why she identifies as fluid, non-binary
• What the biggest misconceptions are around pronouns and the gender binary system
• What Janae thinks about transgender women competing in sports competitions
• Why labels can cause misunderstandings and yet, labeling is inherent in all of our nature
• Why it is a detriment to resist who you are
• How culture is progressing to embrace androgynous individuals
• What Janae wants most as a transgender woman

Connect with Janae
Instagram: @janaemariekroc
Website: www.janaekroc.com

Connect with Ashley
Instagram: @ashleydrivard
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com

Dr. Meredith Broderick is a triple board-certified sleep physician and founder of Sound Sleep Guru, a telehealth sleep clinic serving WA, CA, and AK.  

She attended medical school at The Ohio State University, completed a neurology residency at Case Western Reserve University, and a sleep medicine and behavioral sleep medicine fellowship at Stanford Medical Center. 

She is board certified in neurology, sleep medicine, and behavioral sleep medicine.  She is one of the only physicians in the country to hold this combination of board certifications. 

Dr. Broderick practices the full scope of sleep medicine treating conditions such as insomnia, narcolepsy, circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders, restless legs syndrome, and sleep-disordered breathing, including all forms of sleep apnea.  She has a special interest in treating insomnia without medications utilizing a state-of-the-art treatment also known as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I).

In this episode we discuss:

• What is a medical-grade sleep disorder 
• Common sleep disorders: insomnia, circadian sleep disorders, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome
• Why men have a higher risk of developing sleep apnea
• What are some solutions to solve the problem of snoring
• The factors that perpetuate insomnia
• How cognitive behavior therapy helps cure insomnia
• Why sleep aids don’t give you the sleep your body actually needs
• Why not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep
• What is lucid dreaming and how it works
• Why most doctors don’t know how to treat insomnia

Connect with Meredith:
Website: www.soundsleepguru.com
Instagram: @soundsleepguru

Connect with Ashley:
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com
Instagram: @intothedawnpodcast

Pam Oslie is the Founder of www.AuraColors.com a site designed to help you create success, joy, and fulfillment in EVERY area of your life. She also developed www.LoveColors.com, this site is designed to help you find love and friendships by matching you with people who have compatible aura colors.

Pam has written four successful and popular books, Life Colors, Love Colors, Infinite You, and Make Your Dreams Come True. Pam has spoken at the TEDx Talks, the International Forum on New Science, Fortune 500 companies, and many seminars for professionals in the psychology, education, health fields, and more.

Pam has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, The View, The Ricki Lake Show, and many other television and radio shows.

In this episode we discuss:

• What are aura colors, how they work, and what they teach us about our purpose and relationships
• How knowing your colors and loved ones can help you understand and grow deeper with the other
• How quantum physics match where we are going as a species
• What COVID is here to teach us and how something bigger is coming in the near future
• Why getting quiet and going within will quicken this process we are all going through and the importance of not feeding into fear
• Why the ego has limited perception and why we need to go inside to know truth and connect with our knowing 
• What are parallel universes and how to use them to manifest what you want
• How Pam used a parallel universe to attract the man she desired
• How parents can empower their children

Connect with Pam:
www.auracolors.com

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Alli Waddell stands for radical honesty, self-awareness, and self-love and believes that "Only when we heal ourselves can we heal the world." She has been recognized as an expert in the wellness industry for nearly two decades, empowering people to create and maintain healthy and happy lives. As a coach, speaker, and co-founder at Illumma, Austin's premier ketamine infusion clinic, Waddell is a lifeline of healing and holistic wellbeing.

“Everyone is put on this earth with a purpose and a mission, to express your light. But many times trauma and life circumstances can cause that light to dim, to be blocked out by fear, depression, and anxiety.”  At Illumma, Waddell helps people shine bright again. Patients rediscover, remember and reconnect with the amazing spirit that was previously just beyond their reach. Illumma provides tools for lifelong personal transformation.

In this episode we discuss:

• Science behind ketamine therapy
• How ketamine affects the brain/neuroplasticity
• How Ketamine can help PTSD, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, OCD, and bipolar disorder
• Ketamine and its uses for chronic pain
• What are the negative side effects of ketamine
• The importance of integration of other therapies and how we support people along that path
• What led Alli to open a ketamine clinic

Connect with Illumma:
Instagram: @illummaclinic/ @alliwaddell
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/illumma
Website: www.illuma.com

Connect with Ashley:
Instagram: @ashleydrivard
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com

Alli Waddell stands for radical honesty, self-awareness, and self-love and believes that "Only when we heal ourselves can we heal the world." She has been recognized as an expert in the wellness industry for nearly two decades, empowering people to create and maintain healthy and happy lives. As a coach, speaker, and co-founder at Illumma, Austin's premier ketamine infusion clinic, Waddell is a lifeline of healing and holistic wellbeing.

“Everyone is put on this earth with a purpose and a mission, to express your light. But many times trauma and life circumstances can cause that light to dim, to be blocked out by fear, depression, and anxiety.”  At Illumma, Waddell helps people shine bright again. Patients rediscover, remember and reconnect with the amazing spirit that was previously just beyond their reach. Illumma provides tools for lifelong personal transformation.

In this episode we discuss:

• Science behind ketamine therapy
• How ketamine affects the brain/neuroplasticity
• How Ketamine can help PTSD, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, OCD, and bipolar disorder
• Ketamine and its uses for chronic pain
• What are the negative side effects of ketamine
• The importance of integration of other therapies and how we support people along that path
• What led Alli to open a ketamine clinic

Connect with Illumma:
Instagram: @illummaclinic/ @alliwaddell
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/illumma
Website: www.illuma.com

Connect with Ashley:
Instagram: @ashleydrivard
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com

John Gray is the author of the most well-known and trusted relationship book of all time, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. USA Today listed his book as one of the top 10 most influential books of the last quarter-century. In hardcover, it was the #1 bestselling book of the 1990s. Dr. Gray’s books are translated into approximately 45 languages in more than 100 countries and continues to be a bestseller. Dr. Gray has written over 20 books. His most recent book is Beyond Mars and Venus.

John helps men and women better understand and respect their differences in both personal and professional relationships. His approach combines specific communication techniques with healthy, nutritional choices that create the brain and body chemistry for lasting health, happiness, and romance.

In this episode we discuss:

• Why and how your behavior affects your hormones
• How men who get angry have too much estrogen and what to do to correct that
• How a woman can teach a man to listen to her feelings
• Why blaming others is a way to not deal with your disturbed feelings inside
• What a conscious woman who has sex looks like
• Why estrogen is so important for women who want great sex
• How strong emotions in women should be handled with your partner
• How to feel deep painful emotions and the tools to heal for moving forward
• How to communicate with your partner so you can keep a deeply loving relationship
• Why it's imperative to be happy independently of your partner
• Why men should not watch porn

Connect with John:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mars.Venus.John.Gray
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/marsvenus
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johngraymarsvenus_offici…

Connect with Ashley:
Instagram: @ashleydrivard
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com

John Gray is the author of the most well-known and trusted relationship book of all time, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. USA Today listed his book as one of the top 10 most influential books of the last quarter-century. In hardcover, it was the #1 bestselling book of the 1990s. Dr. Gray’s books are translated into approximately 45 languages in more than 100 countries and continues to be a bestseller. Dr. Gray has written over 20 books. His most recent book is Beyond Mars and Venus.

John helps men and women better understand and respect their differences in both personal and professional relationships. His approach combines specific communication techniques with healthy, nutritional choices that create the brain and body chemistry for lasting health, happiness, and romance.

In this episode we discuss:

• Why and how your behavior affects your hormones
• How men who get angry have too much estrogen and what to do to correct that
• How a woman can teach a man to listen to her feelings
• Why blaming others is a way to not deal with your disturbed feelings inside
• What a conscious woman who has sex looks like
• Why estrogen is so important for women who want great sex
• How strong emotions in women should be handled with your partner
• How to feel deep painful emotions and the tools to heal for moving forward
• How to communicate with your partner so you can keep a deeply loving relationship
• Why it's imperative to be happy independently of your partner
• Why men should not watch porn

Connect with John:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mars.Venus.John.Gray
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/marsvenus
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johngraymarsvenus_official/

Connect with Ashley:
Instagram: @ashleydrivard
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com

John Gray is the author of the most well-known and trusted relationship book of all time, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. USA Today listed his book as one of the top 10 most influential books of the last quarter-century. In hardcover, it was the #1 bestselling book of the 1990s. Dr. Gray’s books are translated into approximately 45 languages in more than 100 countries and continues to be a bestseller. Dr. Gray has written over 20 books. His most recent book is Beyond Mars and Venus.

John helps men and women better understand and respect their differences in both personal and professional relationships. His approach combines specific communication techniques with healthy, nutritional choices that create the brain and body chemistry for lasting health, happiness, and romance.

In this episode we discuss:

• Taboos around male and female relationships
• Why monogamy is the way to have true happiness
• How to have a deep connection with the opposite sex
• How a man releases negativity
• Why marriages fall apart
• What the cave concept is and how the rubber band effect works
• Why testosterone is produced in cave time for men and how women should view it
• How a woman can grow into her sensuality
• What biologically is needed for a man to feel desire and what is needed for a woman
• When and how testosterone goes up and down
• John’s time as a monk and what celibacy has taught him
• What men don’t know about great sex and successful relationships
• What is a soul mate versus a role mate

Connect with John:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mars.Venus.John.Gray
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/marsvenus
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johngraymarsvenus_offici…

Connect with Ashley:
Instagram: @ashleydrivard
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com