The Edge of Everyday with Sandra Bargman

Between Worlds: Who Gets to Decide Who We Become?

What happens when you grow up with one culture at home and another one outside the front door? Who do you know yourself to be?

Today we are #LiveInTheHive with author and poet Parul L. Bhandari, a first-generation American, raised by Hindi-speaking Indian immigrant parents, and her story lives in that fascinating space between heritage and identity, expectation and possibility, belonging and becoming.

Her newest book is Good Brown Girls, poetry that opens up the intimate, sometimes tender and sometimes uncomfortable spaces where culture, family, womanhood, race, identity, desire, and belonging intersect.

Because what does it mean to be “Indian” when you were raised American? And what happens when the values, traditions, stories, and expectations you inherit from your family don’t always line up with the person you’re becoming?

We talk about what we inherit from our families—and what we choose to keep. We dig into the labels we carry, the identities we construct, and the sometimes uncomfortable process of figuring out which parts of ourselves are genuinely ours.

How do we honor where we come from without allowing it to dictate where we’re going?

Parul brings a perspective shaped by both her Indian heritage and her American upbringing, offering a nuanced look at what it means to navigate multiple cultural worlds—and ultimately, to become more fully yourself.

We talk about:

• Growing up “between” Indian and American cultures,
• What it means to be a first-generation American?
• The tension between cultural expectations and personal identity – how do you hold onto traditions from your culture of origin whilst also embracing the culture and customs of your new home.
• The duality of being both “modern” and “traditional,” which she witnessed her own parents grapple with.
• The edges of guilt – how is informed her biases.
• The preservation vs evolution of traditions.
• Living from our own values vs carrying the expectations of our ancestors.
• I read a couple of her poems – Parul shares her desire to help women to move forward, understanding that it it’s time to break some rules.
• What is Diwali? Parul’s Diwali children’s book is Shine a Light on Diwali: An American-Born, Indian-Heritage Family Celebrates the Festival of Lights, illustrated by Ali Cardenas. The story follows 2 brothers as they share how their U.S.-based Indian-American family celebrates Diwali—at home, at school, and in their community. A central idea is that they’ve developed their own family traditions, combining their Indian heritage with their American upbringing
• All this and much more.

About Parul L. Bhandari

Parul L. Bhandari is a Chicago-based author, tech entrepreneur, podcast host, and speaker who has never believed in doing just one thing. She is the founder of CustomerXSuccess, a fractional customer success consultancy for B2B SaaS companies, and the author of six books spanning children's literature, poetry, and business — including the Amazon bestselling Good Brown Girls and The Customer Success Talent Playbook.

Full bio, order books, and connect HERE.

@parul_bhandari_author

About Sandra Bargman

I help people find and express a more truthful presence through voice, storytelling, and deep listening.

My work draws on decades as a professinal actor, singer, director, coach, and as a spiritual counselor, bringing together vocal technique with emotional intelligence, mindfulness, breath and body awareness, and the transformative power of story.

My signature B.I.G. Approach explores Breath and Body, Intention, and Genuineness—because powerful communication isn't simply about what we say. It's about how fully we inhabit ourselves when we say it.

Whether I'm working one-on-one or with a group, my goal is not to teach people how to sound like someone else.

It's to help them hear themselves more clearly—and have the courage to let that voice be heard.

SandraBargman.com

MagicThreadMedia.com

@SandraBargman

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What if dreaming is one of the oldest technologies we have for accessing consciousness?

What do we do when the usual ways of making sense of our lives stop working?

And what might we discover at the edge between what we know and what we don't?

Today we are #LIVEINTHEHIVE with Lynda Samphire, an Intuitive and transformational Guide who explores that very territory through dreamwork, plant medicine, embodiment, breath, and nervous system regulation.

So today, we're stepping to the edge—and asking:

How do we learn to trust ourselves in the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming, between certainty and mystery, and between the Self we think we are and the one we are becoming?

Moments to Ponder…

• The power of labeling vs. the contemplation of identity.
• The conditioning of “Find a career and stick with it” vs. the evolution of “what I do” into “who I am.”
• Humans craving 3D life adventures in order to experience consciousness.
• Lynda shares how discovering her underlying grief revealed itself through functioning anxiety and depression—and became the doorway into her work with nervous system intelligence.
• What is the Sovereign Edge?
• Dreamwork as a spiritual technology: sleep is medicine, and dreams are the original journey.
• Where do dreams, nervous system intelligence, and plant medicine intersect?
• Lynda’s Dream Decoder app, which provides dream readings as if you were sitting with her in person.
• Lynda shares an easy dreamwork practice.
• Lynda shares her relationship with plant medicine and how she guides her clients in their use of plant medicine.
• SoulRoot Earth—her newly created online plant medicine store and retreat center.
• In our Off the Edge questions, Lynda shares something she has never shared in an interview EVER. And she’ll be back on the show to share more deeply about it.

·All this and so much more…

About Lynda Samphire

At the heart of Lynda’s work lies a deep respect for each thought, emotion, and experience.

She honors them as sacred invitations to grow and evolve.

Her purpose is to guide others with compassion and presence as they travel inward, cultivating awareness and connection with their true selves. She holds a safe and nurturing space for these sacred processes so stress can release, creativity can blossom, and a unique path to wholeness can unfold.

Her offerings are for those who feel called to open their hearts and minds, to evolve, and to welcome a higher vibrational way of living. They are an invitation to explore the depths of the soul, gain clarity amid life’s complexities, and tune into the wisdom within each experience.

Lynda provides intentional pathways for transformation and growth through microdosing, breathwork, sleep and dreamwork, guided meditations, light language, and more—in one-on-one and group settings, immersive retreats, and through online courses.

Connect with Lynda HERE.

@lynda.weavercarrougher

@lyndasamphire

@lyndawsamphire

About Sandra Bargman

I help people find and express a more truthful presence through voice, storytelling, and deep listening.

My work draws on decades as a professinal actor, singer, director, coach, and as a spiritual counselor, bringing together vocal technique with emotional intelligence, mindfulness, breath and body awareness, and the transformative power of story.

My signature B.I.G. Approach explores Breath and Body, Intention, and Genuineness—because powerful communication isn't simply about what we say. It's about how fully we inhabit ourselves when we say it.

Whether I'm working one-on-one or with a group, my goal is not to teach people how to sound like someone else.

It's to help them hear themselves more clearly—and have the courage to let that voice be heard.

Continue the Conversation

If this episode resonates with you, I'd love to hear from you.

Connect with Sandra HERE.

@SandraBargman

@SandraAmazon

www.MagicThreadMedia.com

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What happens when the advice meant to help us succeed slowly teaches us to distrust our own voice?

This episode is a replay of a fantastic conversation I had with Amy Lynn Durham, founder of Create Magic At Work and Magic Thread Media. The conversation aired on HER hit podcast Create Magic at Work back in June. And I’ll tell you, this one really hit a nerve with her listeners so I knew I had to share it on The Edge of Everyday.

For years, women have been given advice about how to sound more confident, more authoritative, more professional, more “executive.” We’re told to eliminate filler words, avoid vocal fry, speak with more certainty, temper our emotions, stop saying “Does that make sense?” and learn how to project power.

But who decided what powerful sounds like?

And what happens when the qualities that make someone thoughtful, collaborative, emotionally intelligent, relational, or genuinely curious are interpreted as signs of weakness rather than strength?

In this conversation, we unpack the hidden assumptions behind executive presence and the double standards that can shape how credibility and authority are perceived. We explore the subtle ways we learn to soften, edit, second-guess, or even abandon parts of ourselves in order to be heard.

We also look at what can happen when we stop treating presence as a performance.

Because authentic presence isn't simply about speaking louder or taking up more space. Sometimes it lives in a breath. A pause. A story. A moment of silence. The willingness to let yourself be seen before you have perfectly rehearsed what you're going to say.

And sometimes the most powerful thing we can do isn't learn to sound more powerful.

It's trust our own voice enough to use it.

Moments That Create Momentum

1. Fixing Women—or Fixing the Room?

Why does communication advice so often focus on changing women rather than examining the environments in which women are being evaluated?

2. When Authenticity Gets Mistaken for Weakness

What happens when collaboration, emotional intelligence, vulnerability, and relational language are interpreted differently depending on who is speaking?

3. The Hidden Cost of Second-Guessing Yourself

From “Does that make sense?” to carefully editing our words, tone, and emotions, we explore the subtle ways self-doubt can become part of our communication.

4. Silence Is Part of the Voice

Presence isn't always about speaking faster, louder, or more often. Sometimes confidence sounds like a thoughtful pause—and the willingness not to fill every silence.

5. The Stories We’re Afraid to Tell

The experiences we minimize, hide, or dismiss can sometimes contain the very stories that help us understand who we are and what we have to say.

6. Presence Beyond Performance

Breath, body, intention, mindfulness, storytelling, and genuine connection can create trust and influence without requiring us to become someone we're not.

About Amy Lynn Durham

Amy Lynn Durham, known to her clients as the Corporate Mystic, is the founder of Create Magic At Work®, an executive coaching firm helping leaders build workplaces rooted in creativity, collaboration, and fulfillment.

A former corporate executive turned Executive Coach, Amy blends practical leadership strategies with spiritual intelligence to unlock human potential at work. She is certified through UC Berkeley and the International Coaching Federation (ICF), with additional certifications in Spiritual Intelligence (SQ21), the Edgewalker Profile, and Archetypes of Change.

Amy is also the host of the Create Magic At Work® podcast, author of Create Magic At Work® and Creating Career Magic: A Daily Prompt Journal, and founder of Magic Thread Media™.

Through her work, Amy inspires intentional leadership—and helps people create thriving workplaces and lives where “magic” becomes reality.

Connect with Amy:

https://createmagicatwork.net/

LinkedIn: Create Magic At Work

Facebook: Create Magic At Work

Instagram: @createmagicatwork

YouTube: @createmagicatwork

About Sandra Bargman

I help people find and express a more truthful presence through voice, storytelling, and deep listening.

My work draws on decades as a professinal actor, singer, director, coach, and as a spiritual counselor, bringing together vocal technique with emotional intelligence, mindfulness, breath and body awareness, and the transformative power of story.

My signature B.I.G. Approach explores Breath and Body, Intention, and Genuineness—because powerful communication isn't simply about what we say. It's about how fully we inhabit ourselves when we say it.

Whether I'm working one-on-one or with a group, my goal is not to teach people how to sound like someone else.

It's to help them hear themselves more clearly—and have the courage to let that voice be heard.

Continue the Conversation

If this episode resonates with you, I'd love to hear from you.

What have you been told about the way you should speak, lead, or show up?

And what might change if, instead of asking “How can I sound more powerful?”, you began asking:

“What would it sound like to trust myself?”

Listen to more conversations about voice, identity, story, presence, and the questions that live at the edge of everyday life on The Edge of Everyday.

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This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

What if marketing—something so many of us resist—isn't really about selling at all, but about helping people recognize themselves in a story that speaks to their hopes, to their fears, and to their longings?

Today, we're talking about Story—story with a capital "S." Not simply storytelling as a communication skill, but Story as the invisible thread that shapes our identities, our relationships, our businesses, and the way we move through the world.

We are #LiveInTheHive with Paul Furiga, founder of Capital S Story. For decades, Paul has helped leaders, organizations, and entrepreneurs discover that beneath every successful message is something far more profound: a story that reveals not only what we do, but why it matters.

In this episode…

• Since the beginning of time, storytelling is encoded in the human experience. “The Storyteller” held a revered position in tribal society, entrusted with recording the experiences and lessons of life. What then is the relationship between Storytelling and Identity?
• What is the importance of telling an authentic story in business, both individually and organizationally?
• The word authentic gets thrown around a LOT. Paul weighs in with his experiential definition.
• How has marketing evolved, and what has the role of storytelling played in this evolution?
• What is the capital S story? And what fundamental questions does it answer?
• Archetypal stories. What are they and how can they be used to engage an audience?
• How do companies lose VS evolve their stories?
• How can we move from hiding behind a polished narrative into sharing a dynamic, real story?
• Paul shares some very unexpected FUN FACTS from his storytelling legacy.
• What is the ONE word – for YOU – that describes Leadership? Paul and I shares ours.
• So many stories! So much more...

Find Paul HERE.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulfuriga/

Come see me, Sandra Bargman, at Magic Thread Media for a conversation about how we might work together.

And please, don’t forget to leave a review at Apple Podcasts!

My website HERE.

#AuthenticStorytelling #CapitalSStory #LeadershipStorytelling #BusinessStorytelling #MarketingThroughStorytelling #StoryDrivenMarketing #TheEdgeofEverydayPodcast #MagicThreadMedia

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Today, we are #LiveInTheHive with Dr Pavini Moray to explore the powerful intersections of embodiment, ancestry, ritual, and belonging.

In a culture that teaches us to think our way through life, Pavini invites us to listen to something older, something wiser—the intelligence of the body. Their work bridges somatic psychology, trauma healing, consent, leadership, and ancestral practice, reminding us that healing isn't simply an individual journey. It ripples backward through our lineage and forward to those who will come after us.

Their newest book, Tending the Bones, offers a thirteen-month journey through ritual, embodiment, and ancestral connection, asking not only how we heal ourselves, but how we become good ancestors.

So today we'll explore questions like: What do our bodies remember that our minds have forgotten? Can ritual become a language of healing? And what does it mean to belong—not just to ourselves, but to generations past and generations yet to come?

In this episode….

• “My identities are shortcuts for other people.”
• Their former podcast, Bespoken Bones, is now on Magic Thread Media. https://bespoken-bones-podcast.captivate.fm/episodes
• Pavini shares the story behind the choice of the title, Tending The Bones, for their latest book?
• How do we remember who we are? The Body - What have we forgotten? The Ancestors -What have we inherited? The Ritual - How do we remember? The Future - What legacy are we creating?
• What is Somatic Psychology and how is it woven into their work?
• What is the relationship of Memory + Embodiment? How do memories live in the body?
• How does Pavini utilize ritual alongside ancestral work with their clients?
• Resource: Daniel Foors, PhD. https://ancestralmedicine.org/bio/
• Is ritual another form of STORYTELLING?
• Resource: Wellbriaty - https://wellbrietymovement.com/
• Does healing take place in isolation?
• Pavini shares a simple step towards conscious embodiment.

Find Pavini HERE.

LinkedIn.

Dr. Pavini Moray is a somatic couples coach and Relational Life Therapy practitioner with a PhD in Somatic Psychology and 15+ years guiding couples through crisis, betrayal, and reconnection. They are the author of How to Hold Power (Penguin Random House) and Tending the Bones (North Atlantic Books). Rooted in the belief that our bodies hold profound wisdom, Pavini's work invites us to reconnect with ourselves, our lineages, and the possibility of collective healing.

They are the host of Salty Sweet, a documentary-style podcast following real couples through the work of staying together. Their approach blends somatic psychology, relational science, and a spiritual sensibility, delivered with warmth, precision, and zero wellness-speak.

Find Sandra HERE.

Magic Thread Media

#TheEdgeofEverydayPodcast #MagicThreadMedia #TendingTheBones #Embodiment #AncestralWisdom #Ritual #Storytelling #MythandMeaning #EmbodiedWisdom #DepthPsychology #SomaticPsychology

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What if compassion isn't soft at all, but one of the bravest choices we can make?

What if the thing most missing from our workplaces, relationships, and communities isn't more productivity or better communication—but a deeper capacity to care?

And what if true compassion sometimes asks us to set boundaries, speak difficult truths, and lead with courage rather than comfort?

Today, we are #LiveInTheHive with Amy Quesenberry, organizational coach, best-selling author and the creator of Start With Compassion, her signature framework. Amy works with leaders and organizations to create cultures where people can thrive, bringing compassion out of the realm of theory and into the daily practice of leadership, accountability, and human connection.

In a world that often celebrates speed, achievement, and constant doing, Amy invites us to consider a different starting point: compassion. But as we'll explore today, compassion is far more than being nice. It can be courageous, challenging, and even—dare I say—FEROCIOUS.

In this episode, we explore…

• What compassion actually is – and – how do we find it?
• What do you do when you feel helpless in the presence of suffering? Whether your own or someone else’s, how can you move into action to address the suffering?
• Amy’s burnout story and how it led her to compassion.
• Amy’s top 3 method examples of her work with clients.
• “Shit rolls down the hill”. - Organizational change starts at the top.
• Her new book: It Starts with Compassion: Meaningful Change Begins Within.
• Transforming self-betrayal.
• What is the difference between compassionate leadership and leadership that seeks to avoid confrontation?
• What is your personal relationship with confrontation?
• All this + much more!

Full bio + resources: www.StartWithCompassion.com

Infuse Compassion Podcast

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-quesenberry/

Find her latest book HERE

Find Sandra:

www.SandraBargman.com

Ferocious Compassion HERE

@SandraBargman

@SandraAmazon

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This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

Race is a HUMAN CONSTRUCT.

Racism is REAL. And it's a whiter person problem.

What truths are hiding in plain sight because we've been taught not to see them?

Today we're diving into a conversation that asks us to look closely at the stories we've been taught about history, race, identity, and ourselves.

We are #LIVEINTHEHIVE with Kimberly Palermo, author of Indoctri-NATION 365, a book that challenges us to examine the ways we have been shaped by cultural narratives and omissions of historical facts - AND - to consider what it means to take responsibility for creating a more truthful future.

In this episode we discuss…

• Kim’s childhood awakening to racism – a story most white people can relate to – the intuitive tug that all was not right or fair, but witnessing no one speaking out.
• At 17, Kim discovered Jane Elliot, the American diversity educator who debunks “the rightness of whiteness”, famous for her Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes experiment, created to teach students about discrimination and racial stereotyping.
• Denial + racism as identity.
• “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." – Lyndon B. Johnson
• Kim lays out examples of unexamined systemic racism ex: redlining, Jim Crow laws, Mass incarceration as modern enslavement, slave patrols as the origin story of our present day police force.
• What is the difference between indoctrination and education?
• The remembrance we’ve inherited a racist culture.
• Resource: [email protected] with Regina Jackson + Saira Rao
• Resource: Ote Benga – a Congolese human who became an attraction in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.
• The most powerful myth Americans have been taught about race.
• Kim shares the story of adopting a child from Ethopia.
• How to respond to the statement: “I don’t see color”.
• All this and so much more.

Kimberly Palermo holds an undergraduate degree in Applied Behavioral Sciences from UC Davis, with a focus on multiculturalism, and a master’s degree in special education, with extensive training in group behavior and learning.

Kim began her teaching career as an elementary school teacher in Compton Unified School District during the Rodney King civil unrest, where she witnessed firsthand how historical erasure, systemic inequality, and trauma shape communities, and how education can either reinforce myths or interrupt them. That experience profoundly shaped her approach to teaching truth with clarity, empathy, and accountability.

For over twenty years, Kim has worked with people at the earliest stages of learning, including those who have received incomplete or oversimplified versions of history, helping guide them from uncertainty toward deeper understanding and personal responsibility.

She is the author of Indoctri-NATION 365 which reflects Kim's lifelong work at the intersection of education, behavioral science, and history, designed not to shame readers, but to give them the tools they were never taught.

Find Kim:

https://indoctrination365.com/about

https://www.linkedin.com/in/synergyunlimited/

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This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

Asherah, Anat, and the Recovery of Goddess Traditions with Trista Hendren of Girl God Books | June 16, 2026

Who – and what – is The Goddess?

"The Great Goddess Asherah, the sacred tree, Mother-Goddess of all of the gods..."

— Miriam Robbins Dexter, Preface to Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree

We can all agree that we are living through a time of immense grief, polarization, and moral exhaustion.

And beneath our political events we find deeper stories about power, sacredness, domination, and what we believe about human life.

Today’s conversation explores one of those forgotten stories through the figure of Asherah and the recovery of goddess traditions.

Today we are #LiveintheHIve with Trista Hendren, author, speaker, visionary founder of Girl God Books and ONE POWERFUL voice and leader in the dismantling of the patriarchal mindset and the remembrance and return to the wisdom and mystery of the Divine feminine, and to the ancient truth of kinship, reciprocity, and inter-being. I’ve had Trista on before for the episode What Will It Take to Know The Girl God – listen HERE for that episode.

I wanted to have her back to speak about her anthology, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree, to expand on reclaiming the Goddess traditions, and share what is alive in her work today.

We touch on…

• I met Trista at The Goddess Conference: The Crone (2023) in Glastonbury. The information got a bit lost in some technical glitches in our conversation. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI6PGa6n4Gg6l77LkruIJGXwpoT8LzQHi
• Spoiler alert: We talk about Dr Lynne Sedgemore and her upcoming book, "The Goddess Enneagram", endorsed by Trista, and to be published by ChangeMakers Books. Dr Lynne will be guesting in the fall.
• Whether a novice or a well-seasoned Goddess lover, this book, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree is for you, with academic research, creative writing, poetry and art.
• Trista shares who – and what – is the goddess, and how she discovered the goddess coming from a very devout Christian upbringing.
• Resource: author Burleigh Muten and her well-known book about the divine feminine, The Return of The Great Goddess.
• The story behind the creation of Girl God Books.
• Trista converted to Islam – the extraordinary story as to why?
• The power of art! Trista has a HUGE statue of the Venus of Willendorf on her property: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
• Girl God Books has produced over 50 books and anthologies, primarily by female authors.
• Spirituality and politics? Trista weighs in on abortion, female sensuality and Female RAGE (and who is the Goddess Anat).
• Resources: Women Who Run with The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes and The Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo, Barbara Mor.
• Resource: Wizard Bisan | https://www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan1/?hl=en
• The call to The Mother from the Palestinians.
• The Goddess Anat: The primal rage of the Mother. An upcoming anthology on ANAT, stay tuned.
• I LOVE THIS! Trista asks: Before Patriarchy did we NEED warrior goddesses?
• Trista is a PRO-Palestine activist. Her family is in Lebanon. The failings of our news.
• In honor of Father’s Day, Trista weighs in on Sacred Masculinity.
• Resource: Upcoming Girl God Book on Healing Spells and Rituals : https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/

Perhaps Asherah's greatest gift is not simply that she was remembered, but that her roots remained alive beneath the surface all along waiting for us to remember that we, too, belong to the Mother Tree.

Enjoy this episode.

#TheEdgeofEverydayPodcast #TheEdgeofEveryday #ThePowerofStorytelling #Solstice #Juneteenth #FathersDay #TheGoddessMovesMe #Asherah

Find Trista:

ww.TheGirlGod.com

Find Sandra:

www.SandraBargman.com

@SandraBargman

Review us in Apple Podcasts@ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-edge-of-everyday-with-sandra-bargman/id1740861679

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The Edge Between Performative Positivity and Genuine Happiness with Michele Phillips

When was the last time you actually felt energized by your life—not just getting through it?

What if real happiness isn’t about eliminating darkness — but learning how to integrate it?

Real happiness may begin where performance, perfection, and people-pleasing end.

In this episode, we’re pushing right up against that edge.

Today we are #LiveintheHive with Michele Phillips, author of Energize Your Happiness, and we’re getting into what it really takes to break patterns, reclaim your energy, and stop living on autopilot. Michele models and inspires the courage necessary to OWN your happiness and optimism, in a world committed to pessimism, outrage, and, at times, blatant cruelty.

Michele is a globally recognized leadership coach, speaker, and author who helps individuals and organizations harness personal energy to create extraordinary outcomes.

She is the author of Happiness Is a Habit: Simple Daily Rituals That Increase Energy, Improve Well-Being, and Add Joy to Every Day (Cedar Fort Publishing, 2013) and Energize Your Happiness: Tap into Personal Energy and Shape Your Destiny

Michele is the host of the Write Your Outcome podcast, where she interviews leaders, changemakers, and visionaries about the inner work behind meaningful success—exploring how energy, intention, and conscious choice shape both leadership and life.

In this episode we explore…

• The Happiness Habits that are so simple and yet so life changing.
• What is the concept of “positive psychology”? https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/our-mission
• Emotion is ENERGY. What are the 20 energy rules that Michele teaches for clients to learn and master?
• In our patriarchal, left brain dominated society, we are not taught how to deal and work with our emotions. Is this why we’re in a crisis of consciousness?
• Some call it “creative flow”, others “in the zone.” Michele calls it Personal Energy Alignment. What is it? What are the steps you can take to increase your personal energy alignment?
• The “Ladder Up Technique” – what is it and the small, yet powerful choices you can make to energize your optimism, while completely acknowledging trauma, depression, and other challenging situations.
• What is the truth about happiness that people don’t want to hear?

“It’s Your Game and Your Rules”! – Michele Phillips

Find Michele and order her books:

www.EnergizeYourHappiness.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-phillips-9409707/

Find Sandra:

www.SandraBargman.com

www.MagicThreadMedia.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrabargman/

@SandraBargman

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This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

Learning to Listen: Sex, Surrender and Letting Go with Dominatrix and Author, Dana Pharant

Today we are #LIVEintheHIVE with Mistress Dana Pharant, professional dominatrix. author and Surrender expert for those who “need to get their head out of their ass and back to loving life.” Dana is no stranger to The Edge of Everyday podcast– I’ve had her on the show, not once, but twice. You MUST check out those episodes:

The Inner Dominatrix: Part I https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inner-dominatrix-the-edge-of-power-pain/id1740861679?i=1000667470555

The Dominatrix: Part II https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dominatrix-a-special-part-2-conversation-on/id1740861679?i=1000680436830

Much like the Witch Archetype, the Dominatrix Archetype is misunderstood and maligned in our Patriarchal world. In a system that fears women’s power, and vilifies women’s sexuality, both the witch and the dominatrix understand that Sexual Energy = Life Force energy, and that Sexual Consciousness is imperative for human consciousness evolution. Sexuality, in our current times, becomes most interesting not when it is purely physical, but when it collides with power, identity, shame, freedom, ritual, vulnerability, and transformation.

In this episode, Dana regals us with stories and wisdom from her year-long globe-trotting as a courageous and compassionate nomad, all told in her newly released SIXTH book, Go Ask The Dolphins: A Journey of Sex, Surrender and Letting Go.

• The spiritual wisdom of dolphins.
• Is “surrender” the same as “letting go” or is it different?
• Control as a trauma response. The upside of Control vs Contol being as armor. How does Control serve? How is it transformed into Surrender?
• What was Dana’s inspiration in writing this book?
• What were the steps Dana took to change her life and step into her nomadic journey?
• We explore the theme of Obligation and what Dana discovered about this theme in the many stops in her travels.
• What is Surrender? How did her understanding of what Surrender is change and evolve on this journey?
• What are the many ways Dana works with clients in their understanding of SURRENDER? In the dungeon, through healing modalities including plant medicine, and business coaching.
• All this and so much more.

Dana Pharant is a Woo Woo master with the power to see people's core issues. She has a strong penchant for personal development, is a borderline crazy cat lady and she helps Alpha men and women face their shit so they can feel more alive, have more sex and make more money.

Dana is a Dominatrix, Sexual High Priestess, a 7 figure CEO, AND a 5x best-selling Author, with her newly released 6th book, which has been described as EAT PRAY LOVE meets 50 Shades being well on it’s way to becoming her next best seller.

Find Dana:

www.DanaPharant.com

https://danapharant.substack.com/p/chapter-1-go-ask-the-dolphins

https://www.youtube.com/@wholebodyhealing1

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danapharant/

Her book:

https://www.amazon.com/Go-Ask-Dolphins-Journey-Surrender/dp/B0GV3B116H

Find Sandra:

www.SandraBargman.com

@SandraBargman

https://www.youtube.com/@sandraamazon

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrabargman/

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