This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D., channel, Oneness Trainer, and longtime student of the awakening path.

In the early 2010s, Peter made four month-long journeys to Oneness University in India, founded by the avatar Sri Bhagavan, where he was trained as a Oneness Trainer and received what he calls the gift of Awakening. Over the years that followed, he taught dozens of Oneness classes and organized meditations that passed the awakening energies along to thousands of New Mexicans. Together with his beloved, Tracy Juechter, Peter has hosted a weekly meditation circle since 2011, one that continues to this day and in 2019 formed itself into a Group Consciousness.

Peter's path has been shaped by an unusual series of encounters at some of the world's most powerful sites. On the 11.11.11 Crystal Skulls World Mysteries Tour in Colorado, he touched a five-thousand-year-old crystal skull and dropped to the ground, receiving what he was told was a download that would unfold in time. In 2013, on a tour of Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca with Lee Carroll, he made contact with a group of Pleiadians near the Sunken Temple at Tiwanaku in Bolivia.

He was later initiated to transmit the Wholeness Blessing sourced from Archangel Michael, and studied for years with GW Hardin on the science and math behind Inherent Thriving, Info-Looping, and the Gatekeeper Effect. A 2021 Quantum Healing Hypnosis Therapy session connected him more deeply with a Pleiadian being called Mira, part of a team working with humans upgrading their psychic and spiritual gifts. It was on a month-long tour of sacred sites in Egypt with Lee Carroll in 2022 that his channeling abilities truly opened. Offering sessions to fellow travelers on the Nile, he tested his gift with people accustomed to hearing from world-renowned channels, and returned home to Santa Fe called to bring this work into the world through becomingawesome.one.

Together, Sam and Peter explore what it means to become a genuine bridge between the seen and the unseen, and how the awakening path continues to unfold long after the initial opening. They discuss the years of preparation that shaped Peter's channeling, the wisdom of the Sacred Higher Self as the true source he now works with in sessions, and the way sacred sites, group consciousness, and daily meditation weave together into a living practice. This episode is an invitation for anyone who has quietly sensed their own psychic and spiritual gifts to trust what they know, and to remember that the guidance we most need is often waiting on the other side of our own listening.

Tune in and share your own questions and comments about connecting to your own higher self our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.

https://app.becomingawesome.one?fpr=sam99&fp_sid=tcc

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Graham Skidmore, former Rocket Mortgage executive turned entrepreneur, activist, and mystic.

For two decades, Graham helped design and scale one of corporate America's most influential client acquisition and marketing operations engines, checking every box the culture told him mattered: the C-suite title at a twenty-thousand-person company, the six-figure income, the house, the car, the country club. What he discovered at the top was that the height of his success was also the height of his misery. Stepping away from what looked like a life well-built began as what he thought was burnout, and revealed itself over time as a spiritual initiation that redirected the whole arc of his life.

The eight-year journey that followed took Graham through healing, awakening, and a full re-examination of the systems he had spent decades helping to build. What emerged was a body of work that sits at an unusual crossroads: executive credibility, systems architecture, spiritual depth, and a fierce commitment to human sovereignty.

Through his teaching series I Didn't Come With an Owner's Manual, and through the ventures EnGen, SATH Solutions, and Harmony Health, Graham is designing what he calls a blueprint for life beyond broken systems. His core conviction is simple and radical: the power was always meant to reside with the people, and one-size-fits-all systems, whether corporate, cultural, or technological, quietly cost us our gifts, our sovereignty, and our sense of what we are actually here to do. He also believes AI, used with wisdom, can enrich human intelligence and agency rather than replace them.

Together, Sam and Graham explore what happens when someone with an insider's understanding of the machine decides to build something more human instead. They discuss burnout as a signal of misalignment rather than personal failure, the reframe that says it is often the system and not the person that is broken, and the intersection where consciousness, ethical AI, and regenerative systems meet. Graham brings the rare voice of someone who has lived in both worlds, and who speaks fluently to executives and mystics alike. This episode is an invitation to consider what might be asking to be walked away from in your own life, and to trust that what looks like collapse may in fact be the doorway to a more authentic, empowered, and purposeful way of being.

Tune in and share your own questions and comments about finding fulfillment in life on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Dr. Gina Goldfeder, psychotherapist, author, and teacher, whose nearly thirty years of clinical work bridge the worlds of depth psychology and shamanic healing.

Her practice draws on Jungian orientation, dream interpretation, psychodrama, sacred geometry, ThetaHealing, and Progoff's Intensive Journal method, integrated with the wisdom of teachers including Joe Dispenza, Brené Brown, Byron Katie, and Geneen Roth.

Her new book, Releasing the Emotional Wound: Shamanic and Psychological Tools to Transcend Trauma and Rebuild Your Life, brings this integration to the page.

At the heart of Gina's work is a reframing that changes everything. Emotional wounds are more than scars from the past. Left unattended, they leave unconscious imprints on the soul and quietly become the excuses we use for why we cannot live a fulfilling life. Over time, we can begin to identify with the wound itself, mistaking it for who we are.

Yet these same wounds, met with awareness and honored properly, can become catalysts for a new personal identity. In her book, Gina shares the mantras, emotional ceremonies, rituals, amulets, and journaling practices she has refined across three decades of clinical practice, offering readers concrete tools for turning the very places we were most broken into the ground where a new self can grow.

Together, Sam and Gina explore what it takes to release an old identity built on pain and step into one grounded in wholeness. They discuss the meaning and origins of primal emotional wounds, the shamanic and psychological practices that support real transformation, and the ongoing work of encounters with yourself, the body-soul connection, and forgiveness as a gift you offer yourself.

This episode is an invitation to consider that the wound you have carried may not be the story of who you are, but the doorway into who you are becoming.

Tune in and share your own questions about emotional healing on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.

https://amzn.to/4rWLpGj

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes back Jill Lublin, a twenty-five-year veteran of the publicity world, international speaker, and four-time bestselling author widely regarded as a media magnet.

Jill has shared thousands of stages alongside voices like Tony Robbins, Barbara Corcoran, and Jack Canfield, and has worked with more than one hundred thousand clients, teaching them her signature formula for getting media attention, creating next-level visibility in the marketplace, and turning that visibility into real growth. Her work now reaches conscious entrepreneurs and mission-driven leaders through her Media Mastery Intensive and her monthly Kindness Circles.

What makes Jill's approach distinct is not simply the strategy but the spirit behind it. She was recently honored with a Humanitarian Award, a recognition that speaks to something she has quietly built her career around: the conviction that visibility and kindness belong in the same sentence. In a marketplace often driven by hype, self-promotion, and manufactured urgency, Jill teaches a different way of being seen, one rooted in clarity of message, generosity of connection, and a willingness to lead with service. Her Kindness Circles have become a gathering ground for entrepreneurs who want their work to matter and their success to lift others along the way.

Together, Sam and Jill explore how to be seen without losing yourself in the noise and how conscious entrepreneurs can build genuine visibility while staying rooted in their values. They discuss the art of crafting a message that lands, the meaning of true expertise, and the return on investment that comes from publicity done with integrity. They also look at the deeper thread woven through all of Jill's work: the idea that kindness is not soft but strategic in the truest sense, and that the leaders who thrive in this next chapter of business will be the ones who understand that being of service and being seen are not opposites. This episode is an invitation for anyone with a message worth sharing to step forward with both courage and heart.

Tune in and share your own questions and comments how you feel about kindness on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.

http://PublicityCrashCourse.com

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Jeff Abraham, CEO of Promescent, a sexual wellness company he has led for more than a decade.

But Jeff's story is not really a product story. It is the story of what happens when someone chooses to run a business by a different set of rules, where loyalty, integrity, and honoring the people who came before are treated as non-negotiable, not optional.

After discovering a groundbreaking treatment developed by urologist Dr. Ronald Gilbert, Jeff invested in the product, became the majority owner, and launched what became the company's flagship offering. Since 2013, he has built it into a full-spectrum wellness company with more than five million bottles sold and over four thousand healthcare professionals recommending the brand.

What makes Jeff's journey worth telling is not the growth of the company, but how he has grown it. Along the way, there have been moments where he could have taken the easier or more profitable path, and instead chose to honor his friend and business partner in ways he was under no obligation to do. He simply believed it was the right thing. That kind of decision-making is quiet, unglamorous, and increasingly rare in a business culture that often rewards the opposite. It is also, in Jeff's experience, the very thing that has allowed the company to endure and thrive over the long arc.

Together, Sam and Jeff explore what it actually looks like to build an ethical business in a world that too often treats ethics as a marketing message rather than a lived practice. They discuss the difference between running a company for profits and running a company for people, the moments that reveal a leader's real values, and why the way we treat our partners, our employees, and our customers is ultimately the truest measure of any business. This episode is an invitation for entrepreneurs to consider that success and integrity are not opposing forces, and that doing right by the people around us is, in the long run, the most sustainable business strategy there is.

Tune in and share your own questions and comments about integrity in the business world on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.

https://www.promescent.com/saml15

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Nikolai Blinow, licensed mental health counselor, coach, and the creator of The Calm Hustle Method.

Nikolai works with neurodivergent women in leadership, helping them navigate burnout, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and the quieter, often unnamed traumas of growing up neurodivergent in a neurotypical world. Her clinical training in dialectical-behavioral therapy and EMDR, combined with years as a yoga teacher, gives her a rare vantage point at the meeting place of nervous system science and embodied practice.

Her TEDx talk, Yoga and Its Connection to Mental Health, has been viewed over 300,000 times, and stands as clear evidence of her long-held belief that holistic and scientific principles belong in the same conversation.

At the heart of Nikolai's work is a reframe that changes everything. Motivation, procrastination, burnout, and the relentless inner critic are not character flaws or discipline problems. They are nervous system responses, often shaped by childhood experience, financial insecurity, trauma, perfectionism, and the way neurodivergent brains process stress, motivation, and reward. Traditional productivity advice largely misses this, which is why so many capable, ambitious women find themselves working harder and feeling worse. Through The Calm Hustle Method, Nikolai helps women break out of survival mode without dismantling the careers and businesses they have worked hard to build, guiding them from the exhausted state of force into the sustainable rhythm of flow.

Together, Sam and Nikolai explore what it really takes to move from chronic urgency into regulated, intentional living. They discuss why productivity has become a modern identity, why rest is not the opposite of meaningful work but the very ground of it, and how understanding the inner critic as an outdated survival strategy creates more lasting change than trying to silence it. They also look at what it means to redefine success, not by how much we accomplish, but by whether we are creating a life we do not need to recover from. This episode is an invitation to slow down without falling behind, to work with the nervous system rather than against it, and to remember that the way we get where we are going matters as much as arriving.

Tune in and share your own questions and comments about the balance of working hard and having a life on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.

www.ompowermentpsych.com

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes James Woeber, best-selling author, international consultant, speaker, and Co-Founder and President of The Art of Heartful Living Institute.

For more than three decades, James has worked with inspired leaders and organizations to help them unlock their brilliance, manifest their greatest visions, and become genuine agents of positive change. His unique path integrates over thirty years as an energy healing master trainer with twenty-two years as a family and systemic constellations facilitator and trainer, alongside a distinguished career as a multi-award-winning producer, director, and writer whose work spans socially conscious nonprofits and Fortune 1000 companies.

What sets James's approach apart is the way he weaves these threads together into a single body of work aimed at wholeness. His encounter with Family and Systemic Constellations changed the way he understood healing itself. He discovered that many of the struggles we assume are ours alone are often carried down through family and ancestral lines, and that when those hidden dynamics are brought into the light, profound shifts can happen with surprising grace.

His work is not about fixing or discarding parts of ourselves we do not like, but about expanding our capacity to hold every part with strength and love. When we hold ourselves differently, he says, we begin to transform, and from that place we become people who can create real change in the world.

Together, Sam and James explore what it means to soften the old patterns that were designed to protect us, and to reconnect with the authentic power and gifts each of us came here to share. They discuss the wisdom of constellation work, the systemic dimensions of healing that individual approaches often miss, and the kind of heart-centered leadership our moment is calling for.

Drawing on more than two decades of facilitation, James speaks to the remarkable breakthroughs he has witnessed in people who did not become someone different, but were finally free to become more fully themselves. This episode is an invitation to remember who you are beneath the conditioning and inherited patterns you have carried, and to bring that authentic self into the world in service of something greater.

Tune in and share your own questions and comments about Family Constellations on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.

JamesWoeber.com

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Dr. Richard Louis Miller, clinical psychologist for more than 65 years, bestselling author, and host of the internet radio broadcast Mind, Body, Health & Politics.

Dr. Miller is the founder of the internationally acclaimed Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program and the creator and chief clinician of the Health Sanctuary at Wilbur Hot Springs, California. He has served on the faculty of the University of Michigan and Stanford University, as an advisor on the President's Commission on Mental Health, as a founding board member of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco, and on the national board of directors of the Marijuana Policy Project.

His new book, The Adverse Effects and Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelic Medicines, arrives in a moment when the psychedelic conversation urgently needs the full story rather than the sanitized one.

What makes Dr. Miller's new work distinct is his willingness to look at both sides of the medicine. Drawing together insights from world experts in psychiatry, neuroscience, and psychedelic research, the book goes where most others do not: into side effects, integration challenges, and the cases where psychedelic use has caused real harm. It also offers evidence-based guidance on how these substances can still be used safely and effectively in a therapeutic context. Coming from one of the earliest advocates for psychedelic research, this is not the voice of caution from the outside. It is the voice of someone who has spent decades inside the conversation, watching what works, what does not, and what happens when reverence gives way to hype.

Together, Sam and Dr. Miller explore what an honest, mature relationship with psychedelic medicine looks like in this moment. They discuss the ground where science, spirituality, and public policy meet, the conditions that support genuine healing and the ones that quietly increase risk, and the responsibility of practitioners and participants alike as these medicines return to public life. Dr. Miller brings the perspective of an elder who has walked with these substances since long before the current renaissance and who is unafraid to name both their promise and their shadow.

Tune in and share your own questions and comments about the challenges around psychedelics on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.

https://amzn.to/4vMPfDZ

https://www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Rachel S. Heslin, author, speaker, and student of the psychology of identity and human experience for more than four decades.

Rachel is the author of Navigating Life: 8 Different Strategies to Guide Your Way and Rituals of Release: How to Make Room for Your New Life, both available in multiple languages. Her TEDx talk, "A Defense of Victim Mentality," turns condemnation into compassion in just six minutes, and hints at the kind of thinking she brings to territory most of us prefer to avoid. This month brings the release of her newest work, Hearts Are Meant to Be Broken: A New Approach to Grief, a book that could not be arriving at a more needed moment.

Rachel's exploration of grief did not come from theory. It came from paying close attention to what happens in a life when loss, of any kind, is not given room to move through us. In her new book, she pushes back on the tidy stages and cultural timelines we have inherited, and offers instead an approach that honors grief as something we are meant to feel deeply rather than manage efficiently. Her title carries the whole thesis: hearts are meant to be broken, not as damage, but as opening. Loss, when met rather than avoided, can crack us into a wider, more honest, more tender version of ourselves.

Together, Sam and Rachel explore why our current cultural approach to grief has left so many people quietly disconnected from their own hearts, and what becomes possible when we let loss teach us instead of trying to move past it. They discuss why this conversation matters more now than perhaps ever, in a world carrying so much collective and personal loss, and how a different relationship with grief can shift not only our healing but our capacity to love. This episode is an invitation to soften around what has broken you, to trust that the heart knows how to grieve when we finally let it, and to consider that what breaks us open may be what allows us to become whole.

Tune in and share your own questions and comments about grief on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.

https://amzn.to/4vdu2C0

https://amzn.to/3T2Bsum

https://amzn.to/4eNt8r6

www.thefullnessofyourpower.com

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Robert Weisz, Ph.D., retired clinical psychologist, consultant, and trainer whose fifty years of practice have moved fluidly across the worlds of Ericksonian hypnosis, shamanic healing, mindfulness, and nondual wisdom.

Robert is co-author of the newly released Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing: A Guide for Patients and Therapists. He has taught through Southwestern College, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Webster University, the University of Wyoming, and New Mexico Highlands University, and served as co-founder and director of the Milton Erickson Institute for Clinical Hypnosis and Behavioral Sciences of New Mexico for forty years.

Robert's path into this work began well before his career did. Born in Lima, Peru, in 1944 to German-Jewish parents who had fled the Holocaust, he spent his early years moving through Peru, Bolivia, and Chile before immigrating to the United States at thirteen. That early experience of exile and adaptation seeded a lifelong curiosity about the human mind and the resilience of the spirit. His doctoral research in sleep and dreams gave way to decades of clinical practice, community mental health work, and a deep involvement with Ericksonian hypnotherapy. Alongside all of this, drawn by the healing potential of altered states, he spent thirty years studying with shamans and healers in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, and the United States, letting that ancient knowledge shape and inform his clinical understanding.

Together, Sam and Robert explore what it means to help people heal at the meeting place of body, mind, and spirit. They discuss the somatic wisdom the body carries long after the thinking mind has moved on, the emotional patterns that live beneath cognition, and the mindful presence that allows what is held to finally be released. Drawing on Robert's new book, they look at how mindfulness-based somatic emotional processing offers patients and therapists a grounded, integrative path into deep healing. This episode is an invitation to trust the intelligence of the body, to soften into what wants to be known, and to remember that healing rarely happens through the mind alone.

Tune in and share your own questions and comments about somatic healing on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.

https://amzn.to/4eSchBY

www.MBSEP.com

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy