The Courageous Path

Sometimes we come across people in our lives who we find incredibly inspiring, who persevere through significant difficulty for a greater cause. When it comes to our children, as parents we can be sometimes unstoppable. This is the case with Bo Bigelow, who exemplifies someone walking a courageous path through his advocacy for his daughter, tirelessly seeking answers on the rare disease that has rendered her non-verbal, and also in through political activism that is having a direct impact in our country today. I hope you enjoy this inspiring conversation with Bo.

Bo Bigelow is a father, writer, attorney, and rare-disease advocate. He and his wife made national news when they used social media to find a diagnosis for the genetic disorder his daughter faces. Those same efforts led him to a researcher who is now investigating the disorder. Bo hosts the podcast “Stronger Every Day” (http://www.portlandrootsmedia.com/and has written a book of the same name. He co-founded Disorder: The Rare Disease Film Festival, slated for October 2017 in Boston. He lives in Falmouth with his wife and two children. Learn more about Bo's life and work at facebook.com/bigelowbooks.

I hope you enjoyed this interview. To learn more about me, Rachel Horton White, and my work as an intuitive counselor with individuals and in groups, please visit www.soulfulworkconsulting.com

There are sources of Divine wisdom out there waiting to assist us in our everyday lives. We often just don’t ask them for help! In this meditation, you have the chance to experience the pure love of your guardian angel.

It can be a powerful experience of the high-vibration light and love from the highest realm. I hope you enjoy.

To learn more about me (Rachel Horton White), please visit www.soulfulworkconsulting.com. Thanks for listening!

This guided meditation on envisioning your future self will help you create a vision for your potential future. Did you know we are much more powerful than we have ever been taught? Yes, we have soul lessons to learn, but when we learn to work with our personal vibration and with the resonance of all things, and work through any self-limiting beliefs, we can manifesting our ideal lives, or the way of being that our soul knows is possible for us. It’s about the law of attraction, which is one of many Divine laws that govern our existence. We are essentially creating a vibration as we envision our potential future self, and then it’s just up to us to trust, take action and align our current reality (and vibration) to make that vision come into fruition!

Use your feelings to guide you (your intuition)! You can then write about what you saw/felt/experienced in a writing reflection (learn more about that at www.soulfulworkconsulting.com).

So many of us are longing to just make something with our hands, to get back in touch with the basic human desires of years past to plant, make and create. Kimberly Coburn has created an initiative that does just that, but with intention: connecting people with ways to learn sustainable, back-to-Earth skills through Homestead Atlanta. Join us for this conversation on her role in the movement away from consumerism, globalism and materialism back to human-scaled living and self-reliance. This work is a key component of our massive shift in consciousness to an age of unity, shared understanding and coming from a place of love for each other and for the Earth. May this inspire us all to share food with a neighbor, grow some veggies in our yards or just learn how to knit. It will fuel our souls and our hearts in more ways than we know.

Kimberly Coburn is an Atlanta-born, Atlanta-based writer, organizer, and educator. She has spearheaded several grassroots initiatives connecting individuals with the local food movement as well as serving on the board of local and national sustainability nonprofits. In 2013, Kimberly founded The Homestead Atlanta, an education initiative dedicated to fostering resilient communities through self-reliance and sustainability education. She was honored in 2015 as a National Arts Strategies Creative Community fellow and has undertaken personal studies with internationally renowned leaders including Joanna Macy.

You can find out more about The Homestead Atlanta and check out upcoming workshops at www.TheHomesteadATL.com

I hope you enjoyed this interview. To learn more about me, Rachel Horton White, and my work as an intuitive counselor with individuals and in groups, please visit www.soulfulworkconsulting.com

Sometimes it is just about reaching out to other people, taking action in small moments that can lead to magical, synchronistic moments. Join me for this interview with my friend Lynda Adams, in which she shares how she continues to grow each day - in big ways - by noticing the serendipitous occurrences in her life and by taking small actions every day to bring her closer to what the universe is nudging her towards. From running for (and winning) public office, singing in a rock band, hosting her own radio show, to being involved in several spiritual, wellness-based businesses, Lynda offers us a glimpse into her creating a meaningful, and exciting life.

Lynda Adams is the Marketing Director for Essential Living Maine magazine; the host for the talk radio program, Successful Balanced Living, on WMPG; and a City Councilor for the City of Westbrook, Maine. She considers herself a “connector” and utilizes that skill to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses and her media followers make positive changes in their lives.

For more on Lynda please check out:

Essential Living Magazine - www.essentiallivingmaine.com

Successful Balanced Living -www.successfulbalancedlivingmaine.com

To learn more about me (Rachel Horton White), please visit www.soulfulworkconsulting.com. Thanks for listening!

As a visionary, a leader and someone with a passionate heart to make the world a better, and fairer, place, Jonah Fertig has used his energy, ideas, and motivation to make lasting change in the new, sharing economy in Maine and in New England. In our conversation here, Jonah discusses his work in activism around the country, in standing up for what he believes in (people over profit), and his creating cooperative structures in food and land to help us move to a new paradigm based on an equitable, communal system. Jonah’s efforts have already changed the economy of Maine for the better and improved the lives of hardworking people that live there.

Check out Jonah’s words about his activism roots at 8:45 in combatting globalization, and how this inspires his role in holistic approaches for social change that support local communities, respect the planet, empower people and celebrate one another.

Jonah Fertig is the Director of Cooperative Food Systems at the Cooperative Development Institute (www.cdi.coop). He works with farmers, food producers, cooks, distributors, and community members to develop democratic businesses. He is a co-founder and board member of the Maine Farm and Sea Cooperative and has served as a development coordinator for the nation's first farm & sea-to-institution cooperative. He also works with New American farmers, assisting them in developing cooperatives and helped Somali Bantu Farmers in Lewiston form New Roots Cooperative, the first New American owned cooperative and farm in Maine. He currently sits on the board of the Cooperative Fund of New England and the steering committee of the Maine Food Strategy.

Previously, he co-founded Local Sprouts Cooperative in Portland, Maine and helped develop it into a successful worker-owned cafe. He has been involved in community gardening organizing in Portland and New York City and has taught gardening and cooking in schools and afterschool programs in the Portland area since 2003. He also co-founded the Greater Portland Community Land Trust, the Mayor’s Initiative for a Healthy and Sustainable Food System, and the Cooperative Design Lab. He is a speaker at statewide, regional and national conferences about cooperatives in the food system. He was a 2016 Democracy at Work Institute Worker Cooperative Developer Fellow, a current USFWC/DAWI Chapter Network Fellow, a member of the Democracy at Work Network and a graduate of the Sustainable Food Systems Leadership Institute. He lives with his partner and two kids at Celebration Tree Farm in Durham, Maine.

When I first heard about Ryan Espjerg and Flex Your Face, I found the excitement, positivity and magnetism around Ryan and his engaging presence captivating. Ryan sat down with me one day and explained what this movement around smiling was all about - it is a brilliant way to spread happiness, gratitude and just help people to uplift their own lives and the lives of others. It is my hope that more of us now have the inspiration and courage to do what Ryan has done to bring light and joy to the world.

Be sure to listen at 26:50 about the shift in our world that’s happening to help youth grow up with the belief that they are capable of creating anything they wish, with entrepreneurial skills developed from birth, in spite of standardized testing in schools that doesn’t encourage this.

Ryan Espjerg is the founder of Flex Your Face, a movement to IGNITE people's lives through the celebration of small moments in their day. They sell super comfortable affordable apparel and use the proceeds to empower people that have purchased our apparel to pursue a dream or goal they've always had. Flex Your Face was born in Portland Maine and has grown to include people from all over the United States and out into 8 different countries worldwide. 

Ryan also speaks around the world to youth and communities with inspiring stories about his overcoming adversity to share his light with the world.

Learn more about Flex Your Face at http://www.flexyourface.com/ or at www.facebook.com/FlexYourFace/.

I am always inspired when I come across people sharing their full, creative selves with the world. Ann Lawton is one of those people, not only making beautiful things and putting them out there, but also supporting people struggling in some way with expressing their soul through creating something with their hands as an art therapist.

Join us for a conversation on how art can be used to express our innermost selves when words fail us, how we can overcome our fear of rejection/not being good enough to just start playing with color or even Dollar Store toys, to re-discover our creative nature and express what's deep within us longing to come out. Be sure to check out at 17:00 our conversation around what happens to squelch children's creativity, increasing our self-doubt, at a young age and how our traditional educational system needs to change to support our self-expression.

Ann E. Lawton believes that art has the potential to heal, transform and empower individuals and communities. As a Registered Art Therapist, she has worked with inmates, domestic abuse survivors, young adults with depression and anxiety, addicts and individuals with cognitive impairments.

As an artist, Lawton investigates the essences of everyday experiences and circumstances. Visual expression and the process of art making allows her the perspective to transform random, seemingly meaningless events into meaningful and contemplated moments of significance. The splices of paper and washes of paint in her work try to blend the balance between spontaneity and structure visually, yet also serve as the symbolic mirror of the constant swell and swale of finding that balance in her personal and professional life.

Lawton received her Bachelors of Science in Broad Area Art with a minor in psychology from the University of Wisconsin—River Falls and her Masters in Science in Art Therapy from Mount Mary University in Milwaukee. She teaches full-time in the art department at UWRF and conducts adult and child art enrichment classes at various local institutions in Western Wisconsin.

Instagram: @ae_lawton

Website: www.aelawton.com

TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPszGBfjuOY&t=357s

I am thrilled to share this interview on fear, courage, taking risks and experiencing both failure and success with Thomas McPherson. Many of us have heard about how you can co-create a life that you might only be dreaming of right now. It is rare to meet someone who has successfully done just that. In this interview with Thomas (our second interview since his first was so popular), listen to how Thomas decided to bring about financial freedom in his life, how he tried different approaches, failed, learned, experimented and most importantly, believed in himself. Listening to this interview may just change your life.

A real estate entrepreneur, base-jumper, and a veteran of the U.S. Navy who served in Iraq, Thomas is a visionary seeking to help heal the planet through sustainable development powered by 100% renewable energy. He is currently working on one of the first electric vehicle ride-sharing programs in the US, as well as a hydroponic edible landscape on a development project in Phoeniz, Arizona.

Thomas is Co-Founder and Director of Acquisitions and the overall investment strategy for Fenix Private Capital Group. He began his real estate career as a broker with Sperry Van Ness. After winning the National Sperry Van Ness Rookie of the Year award, Thomas was quickly recruited by Hendricks & Partners. While a broker, Thomas focused on the acquisition and disposition of distressed multifamily properties and non-performing loans in the Phoenix area.

During the recent economic downturn, Thomas formed several key partnerships to help capitalize on the numerous opportunities in the marketplace. Since 2009, Thomas has been an active principal in the purchase, repositioning, and sale of over 20 assets in Maricopa County. Prior to his real estate career, Thomas spent 5 years serving our country in the United State Navy, including multiple overseas deployments. Thomas is an outdoor enthusiast, spending his time rock climbing, skydiving, or hiking. He has been involved with numerous charities and volunteer work including Wounded Warriors, Boys Hope Girls Hope Arizona, and Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department. Thomas currently lives in Costa Rica where he is working on biodiversity projects with his wife, Joanna.

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To learn more about me, Rachel Horton White, please visit www.soulfulworkconsulting.com.

How can we learn to trust our intuition to guide us in life? Why is it that our manifestation efforts don’t seem to “work” sometimes? In this interview, Graham Connolly, a psychic/medium (and former engineer), explores these ideas based on his own life experience of bridging the analytical with the intuitive, with coming to embrace his psychic gifts, and with his work now in shamanic healing and teaching about mediumship. Learn about why we experience trauma in our lives (part of our soul contract with another about a lesson to learn), how to make friends with the negative Ego trying to hold us back, and how you can begin to do intuitive work yourself by becoming “comfortable with the uncomfortable.”

Graham Connolly is a professional psychic/medium, Life record facilitator (Current, Past, Akashic), Reiki Master, shamanic practitioner, healer, author (Mediumship and All Things Metaphysical), mentor and Certified Trainer for Mike Dooley's award winning Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams program. Graham has the unique ability, being a microchip designer for 31 years, of bridging the analytical and metaphysical minds in way that brings balance for an individual wrestling with corporate and personal development illusions of conflict. Both realities are interconnected and valuable for your soul's journey.

To learn more about Graham Connolly please visit: www.tarrassaholistics.com or www.grahamconnolly.com

Thank you for listening. For more information on me, Rachel Horton White, please visit www.soulfulworkconsulting.com