Thank you for tuning in to this two part episode with your host, Elizabeth Cunningham, Dr. Justin Blaney, as we discuss the Justin's personal journey in discovering happiness and some of the science behind human mindset and happiness. 

Justin is a professor at the University of Washington, the bestselling author of 15 books including two being released in the next year, the Creator of a free app on Android and Apple that translates for the modern reader 2500 years of wisdom on living your best life and he reaches more than 1 million followers through the app, book, speaking and social media.

We inquire into: What are we doing right now to build the best life possible for yourself? That includes what are you doing in these current times? It means making hard choices and not just turning on your TV and maintaining the status quo. What are the actions that you would take in your life because you enjoy it?  What does it mean to live a happy life? Not the default or status quo but what authentically makes you happy?  What decisions are going to lead to more happiness in your life?

Taking action and making decisions, not because of prestige or money but purely because it leads you to a happy life, even if those actions are not the "easiest" actions to take. How do we create our mindset down to the foundational level in order to express how and who we really want to be as an authentic expression. We being our conversation about the science behind our mindset and self-love.

Some Golden Nuggets from Justin:

"I know what it's like to be at the end of my rope... and I also know what it's like to have hope... which is why I want to share this with people" 

"We are the primary limiting forces in our life." 

"We say no to ourselves far more than other people say no to us."

"It's more magnetic to have self-love"

"In the end, if you really want to maximize happiness, The lesson is take the biggest risk you have available to you."

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Why am I talking about racism and white privilege on a podcast about love? Because love is not just a conversation for the individual. If we have real palpable love in our lives, yet our neighbors are suffering, how deep can our love actually be? A coach of mine once said in response to, why keep learning about personal development, "Great, you've figured out how to get your shit together, now what about every body else?"

If we are concerned with a world where EVERYONE experiences real, deep and palpable love, we must concern ourselves with what we can do to make that possible. As caring, compassionate and loving humans, we must respond to the call to stand alongside our black and brown neighbors to lift their voices and enable them to be heard. 

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In this episode, I talk with Marisa Etzell the host of Heart to Heart about creating businesses with a mission to spread love in the world.

Heart to heart is a show she created several years ago. It started as an idea for a mentorship program for kids needing heart surgeries in the hospital to a radio show and now to a FaceBook live-streaming show!

I invited Marisa on my podcast to turn the tables around on her and put her in the hot seat and highlight who she is as an entrepreneur, the host of a show, what her mission is in the world.

In this episode you will hear about: two women being real with what it takes to build businesses based off of love, who you have to be for yourself and others and some challenges we face. Why it is so important to consider love, compassion and empathy in business?

We'll also talk about how heart to heart got started and the diagnosis that changed Marisa's life, the difficulties and the growing experiences that come with medical diagnosis and all the spaces that you go through in creating projects and businesses in the world, from vision, to taking action to having it be real and then letting it take shape.

And of course you can't escape my podcast without getting some love coaching, how impactful our words are, asking for what you want and receiving it authentically, getting out of your head and following your heart.

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Hello my darling Love Nerds! Welcome to Droplets of Love! 

Listen into the new segment with your host, Elizabeth Cunningham. In this segment Elizabeth delves into the topic of fairness, a different way of looking at fairness.

In this Droplet of Love I examine what "fair" means to the individual versus what is "fair" for everyone involved in a situation. I leave it open-ended to be discovered by you, using an example from your life. 

"Not sacrificing, but growing into the human that can have things work instead of staying stuck."

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Body acceptance is a form of self-love. When we love and accept ourselves, we gain the ability to love and accept others.

In part two of my conversation with Cordelia Storm we talk about what is the emotion or feeling that you are choosing, not the emotions that are just happening to you? What is the difference between pretending to feel a certain way and actually generating real emotions and how you want to feel? 

We continue to cover, moving from body acceptance to body appreciation, What if we could have the mindset of acceptance and appreciation from the get go?

We turn to the conversation of movement as a human right. How do you balance wanting to achieve a goal and appreciating where you are at right now? How do you not fixate on all of the small things and let go of things you don't have control over? Which then brings us to how your mindset can set your body free.

"When you stop obsessing if it's good enough, you just have space to be wowed." - Cordelia Storm

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Parkour Visions - Nonprofit organization that teaches parkour and movement in Seattle and now online.

Body acceptance is a form of self-love. When we love and accept ourselves, we gain the ability to love and accept others.

In my conversation with Cordelia we chat about Body acceptance vs body love or body positivity, choosing your body for exactly how it is so you can choose how you want to interact with your body

We also talk about dealing with eating disorders. How did her eating disorder start? What was her mindset then vs. her mindset now. Even though she doesn't deal with symptoms now, does she still deal with those thoughts? And ultimately, what did she do to overcome her eating disorder?

We continue our conversation with not identifying yourself a certain way based on your body. When she coaches people in nutrition she really has people look at their goals and identify finding their why.

Other topics we cover are the good, the bad and the ugly of body image conversations on social media. Cordelia's wonderful life lessons using parkour and movement as a tool: #choice #balance What's possible when you consider there isn't a right or wrong way that your body has to be?

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Listen into the new segment with your host, Elizabeth Cunningham. In this segment Elizabeth delves into the topic of toxic monogamy culture. What the heck is that? What is monogamy? What is ethical non-monogamy? Let's have a conversation. Like for real though, let's have a conversation where we consider other people's happiness and look at what works for people versus the biases we have about people.

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Hello fellow Love Nerds! Welcome to Droplets of Love! 

Listen into the new segment with your host, Elizabeth Cunningham. In this segment Elizabeth delves into the topic of compassion fatigue during COVID-19. What is compassion fatigue? How do you deal with it? How do you not only deal with compassion fatigue but are able to continually regenerate your compassion and vitality?

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Hello fellow Love Nerds! Welcome to Droplets of Love! 

Listen into the new segment with your host, Elizabeth Cunningham. In this segment Elizabeth delves into the topic of jealousy. What causes feelings of jealousy? How can you resolve a situation with a partner involving jealousy? And, what can you do to resolve jealousy once and for all. 

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