The Ellie Aaron Hour

I am back my friends! It has been 5 years since I have recorded an episode, but the time has been used wisely in so many ways! Today I share what I have learned, what has changed in my life, and what drew me back to the podcast world.

Additionally, you will learn more about the importance of staying committed to your vision vs. the circumstances you are in the midst of.

- How to choose to step into who you HAVE to be to create the results you want

- The importance of looking at different ways of being and then taking the actions to create different results

- How to be a creator of your life and not a reactor

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Jackie Knechtel is a pioneer in the area of Flow Consciousness. She guides mission-driven entrepreneurs to effortlessly create exponential success in life and business and awaken them to their limitless potential. She is the co-founder of the Flow Consciousness Institute and leads retreats, workshops and delivers transformational experiences worldwide. Jackie is also the co-author of the forthcoming book Flow: The Art of Effortless Living and is actively shifting consciousness on a global scale through her speaking, coaching practice and by blending science and spirituality into practical tools for living an enlightened life. We talk:

• Synchronicity as a guidepost we're on the right track towards flow
• ​The incredible story of how Jackie met her business partner
• Why being in your zone of genius (in business) is so important
• What flow consciousness is
• Why following your excitement is key to flow consciousness — and taking inspired action
• Intuition when making life decisions and how to find it
• Emotional Trauma as clouding intuition (and how to clear it)
• Tapping into your senses as a doorway into Flow
• Following what feels light (as a yes in your body)
• Sweet spot of what feels like a hell yes and scares the shit out of you is how to know you're on the right path
• How to begin to create our own maps of what's possible
• Shifting limiting beliefs

Have you experienced flow consciousness? would love to hear!

With 15 years of martial arts and personal training experience, Garnett Strother brings a unique and refreshing approach to these two distinct yet intertwined disciplines that are rarely seen on either platform. Holding a Black belt in Sho-ku-jitsu Ryu Karate under 10th degree Shidoshi Nathan Ingram in 2007. Garnett is also proficient in boxing and Muay Thai and has studied under Kru Brandon Levi and Ajarn Phil Nurse and has been competing in the full contact and muay thai circuit since 2008. His personal training education was fine tuned under the watchful eye of 1986 Mister America and veteran celebrity trainer Rich Barretta since 2009. We talk:

• Why having Mentors is crucial if you wanna excel in a particular area in life
• Why being completely honest with where you're really at key - to moving forward in anything
• Progress as motivation, seeing even the small changes as celebrations
• Being uncomfortable as a main element of transformation (and expecting that as part of the process)
• Through discomfort there is strength
• Garnett being very sick when he grew up, and how physical activity and martial arts was a saving grace for him
• Jackie Chan movies as inspiration for martial arts
• Garnett's daughter and how she taught him to step up in life
• Leaving college, and making his own rules
• His very successful Personal Training business and how we grew it ​​

If you're interested in trying simple beginners yoga that'll calm you down and give you a super easy stretch go here.

Adrienne Glasser is an IFS life coach, Psychotherapist, founder and director of services at Present Moment, a mindfulness-integrated psychotherapy practice. She specializes in working with clients and helping professionals to uncover their true or authentic self-leading to a greater sense of freedom. She does this by compassionately, yet directly assisting clients in uncovering and befriending inner shadows that need understanding in order to achieve true integration and wholeness. Through her directness, compassion and playfulness she is able to collaboratively work with clients to clear blocks, allowing clients to live life from an authentic place. We talk:

• How being spontaneous helps us get out of our own head - and healing can emerge
• Dancing as medicine
• Becoming your own witness through Meditation and mindfulness (and how helpful that is)
• Bringing light to the shadows we have within us
• How levity can help our nervous system relax and connect with others more fully
• Why cracking a joke in the middle of an argument can be so helpful
• Why having a dog in her therapy sessions made all the difference with certain clients
• Taking the therapy world and making it full of play

How do YOU practice play with the challenging parts of yourself?

If you'd like a free yoga or sensual movement video go here.

Jeanine Cerundolo M.A. is a workshop facilitator, yoga instructor, writer, and personal development coach. She dedicates herself to the arenas of personal transformation, healing modalities, and community building.

She supports others in growing personally in the realms of radical self-acceptance and self-expression, since she believes that much lasting change begins from the inside out. We talk:

• Jeanine's background in personal development and coaching
• How the different parts of ourselves play a big role in our life
• Getting to know our various "parts" and what they may reveal
• Spiritual Psychology and what that is
• Ellie's inner voices (we actually do an exercise surrounding this)
• Why it's helpful to meet your inner archetypes, so they don't hold you back unconsciously
• ​​Why being KIND to ourselves is always helpful
• How Parts work can support YOU

Have you identified your inner voices before? Which one needs the most love?

If you'd like a free yoga and Sensual Movement Video go here.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! How are you doing? I've missed you. This episode is me solo talking about Life Updates and how I'm doing, some thoughts on gratitude, and I read a poem by Mary Oliver. I'd love to connect, please drop me a line if you'd like. Also, what are three things YOU are grateful for right now in your life?​ Please include something that's challenging too- and what it's teaching you.

If you'd like a free Yoga or Sensual Movement Video visit here for more info!

Monika Nataraj leads tantra retreats and women's transformational teacher trainings in 22 countries worldwide. ​She weaves a holistic model of sacred empowerment, incorporating wisdom practices of dance, yoga, philosophy, meditation, ritual and inner work. In 1999, Monika left her life in New York City, as corporate executive by day and professional dancer by night, to follow the call of her soul - she's been studying and practicing with masters of Indian Tantra, Tibetan Buddhism, and Sufism for the past 18 years. We talk:

• Being a corporate executive by day and a belly dancer by night
• ​Following the inner voice that told her to quit her job and travel
• ​Mystical Dance as experiencing spirit
• Finding her root Tantric Teacher
• Dance movement as a path of awakening
• The Feminine principal of Surrender and why it can be so helpful
• Spiritual Path as a personal path (no right and every person is different)
• Bringing dance and movement practices to nuns ​​

Monika has several retreats and teacher trainings coming up! Check them all out here. http://www.monikanataraj.net/

Michelle Akin is a Professional Certified Coach in private practice, as well as a Program Leader in the Accomplishment Coaching Life Coach and Leadership Training Program. With a background in video production, improv and sketch comedy, and music, she works primarily with clients in creative industries. She is also a new Mom with a gorgeous baby girl, and plans for more on the way! We talk:

• Her comedy youtube channel
• How Michelle learned how to cry
• ​Why getting a really good life coach can change everything
• Her history of video editing and working with Marie Forleo
• The application of using humor during coaching
• The importance of Fart Jokes
• Comedy as spiritual practice
• Power as bringing people into the energy you want them to embody
• Finding our voice in every situation
• ​Money in her marriage and why it brings them back to Love
• Michelle's money breakdown and the clarity it brought

What's one insight you got from the show? I'd love to hear!

Diego Perez is a meditator, writer, and speaker who is most widely known on Instagram and various social media networks through his pen name Yung Pueblo. We talk:

• Yung Pueblo's Ecuadorian Roots
• Vipassana Meditation technique
• ​Meditation and being okay with all of who we are
• The connection between Meditation and Writing
• Happiness being something we support in one another, but can't give to one another
• The energetic highways that connect all human beings
• His new book "Inward"

Laura Beth Moss is a teacher and writer as well as Certified Integrative Life Coach through the International Association of Counselors and Therapists. She's also a Certified Anger Management Specialist-IV as an Authorized Supervisor and Diplomate for the National Anger Management Association (NAMA). She specializes in helping people understand their personal narratives as well as integrate and explore emotional states. More recently, she developed and co-wrote the Certified Crisis Intervention Handbook for First Responders. It is an empathy based, trauma informed approach to handling crisis. We talk:

• Laura's background and how she got into this work
• The Various ways anger shows up (hint: It's not just anger, can come up as Frustration, annoyance, etc)
• Why Unprocessed Anger is so harmful and how to process it
• How to Harness Anger for our own power and use it for good
• How culture and societal circumstances effect Anger
• What to do with Anger when it shows up
• How to transform Anger into information and wisdom about ourselves
• Why Admitting you're angry about Something is Healthy
• How to spot an angry outburst a mile away (so you don't lash out on your loved ones)
• Why Anger is a spiritual emotion

Find out more about Laura's work and to work with her go here: www.growthcentral.com

To find my guided beginners yoga and Senmo Practice go here: http://www.ellieaaron.com/