The Glo Podcast

Best-selling author and founder, Byron Katie, wrote Loving What Is and A Mind at Home with Itself: Finding Freedom in a World of Suffering with co-author Stephen Mitchell. She is the founder of Byron Katie International, an organization that includes the School for the Work and Turnaround House in Ojai, California, and she is the host of “At Home With Byron Katie,” a podcast and weekly Zoom session. 

Byron Katie teaches a method of self-examination called “The Work” which grew out of her own spiritual journey and experience with depression. In this introspective conversation with Lisa Brooks Mills, Byron shares her personal journey that inspired “The Work” and the power of simply witnessing, instead of reacting, as a way to build compassion. She also shares the critical questions that make her method so successful in healing trauma of all kinds. 

Trigger warning for this episode: Byron discusses topics about individuals who experienced sexual abuse.

Byron Katie’s Website: The Work

Instructions on how to do The Work from Byron Katie’s website

Join Byron Katie’s at home zoom sessions

Byron Katie’s Podcast 

Bryon Katie - Twitter

Byron Katie - Instagram

The Work of BK - YouTube

From Grieving to Surrender - Meditation 

Energy Clearing Yoga Nidra

Release & Let Go - Hatha Flow

Slow Flow for Compassion - Vinyasa Flow

Heart-Opening Vinyasa Flow

For over two decades Heather White, the founder and author of One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet, has led organizations to transform environmental overwhelm into consistent, personalized, and positive action. She is an environmental lawyer, writer, consultant, motivational speaker, nonprofit executive, and former Senate staffer.  

Heather chats with Lisa Brooks Mills on The Glo Podcast about the current state of the crisis, its impact on mental health, and how you can create real, meaningful change using her Superpower Assessment.

One Green Thing

Heather’s consulting website 

350.org 

COP26 Follow #COP26

The Paris Agreement 

EWG.org 

Al Gore’s book ‘Earth in the Balance’ 

Yellowstone National Park 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 

Green Climate Fund 

National Wildlife Federation - Certify your Habitat 

David Quammen‘s book ‘Spillover’ 

Earthing Meditation  Meditation  

Meditation for Healing the Planet  Meditation

Breathing With the Earth  Meditation 

Your Body is Your Earth

Earth Element Flow

Walking Meditation

Living a Green Lifestyle

Earth, Water, Fire in the Yogavasistha Lecture

Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is the University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, as the Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior. She is also the author of How Emotions Are Made and, more recently, Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain, an accessible book about science that she considers “the first neuroscience ‘beach read.’” 

Today’s episode invites you to explore the origin of your emotional intelligence. Consider that most of our life is lived inside of our head. Our brain creates our mind which controls our actions, which determines the kind of person that we are. Dr. Barrett’s research reveals that we actually have more control over that process than we think or feel we do.

 Dr. Barrett’s books

Yoga Nidra for Emotional Balance

Heartful Flow

Mind Heart Soul Flow

Flow With Your Feelings

Our Connection to Compassion Meditation 

Continuing our series of interviews with first responders, Derik Mills chats with Amber Miskovich, a former medic, firefighter, and paramedic turned yoga teacher and studio owner. We met Amber through the photographer Robert Sturman, who has photographed first responders doing yoga. 

In our interview, Amber shares that “first responders, on average, only live five years past retirement.” After leaving her career as a firefighter, Amber experienced this steep psychological and physical price firsthand. It was then that she turned to Save A Warrior or (SAW), an innovative "war detox" program for Warriors suffering from Post Traumatic Stress. She shares how this helped her find a new passion in service through wellness, massage, yoga, and meditation. She went on to open a yoga studio in her home state of Ohio, where she teaches yoga and breathwork as a practice for current and former first responders to deal with the demands and PTSD of their demanding careers.

Amber’s studio

Amber carrying Robert Sturman

6 photo carousel

Amber in side plank holding an axe

Robert Sturman Photography

Massage for shoulders and hips with Amber 1

Massage for shoulders and hips with Amber 2

iREST 1

iREST 2

45 min power flow with Amber Miskovich

Slow and Simple 

Mindful Stretch Hatha 

Flow & Breathwork 

Breathing to Release Stress 

Powerful Breathwork & Meditation 

Meditation Mini-Retreat 

Do you talk to yourself? Don’t worry, we all do. In today’s episode, Lisa speaks with Dr. Ethan Kross, an award-winning professor at the University of Michigan and author of the bestselling, Chatter: The Voice in Your Head and How to Harness It. Dr. Kross shares his research in the world of inner chatter and the ways it can be harmful to our relationships, our confidence, and even our creativity when it becomes part of an ongoing stress response to the outside world. As Dr. Kross says in the interview, “The stress response was not designed for long engagements, only short-term deployments.” 

Dr. Kross shares tools from his recent book for successfully navigating the inner world of your thoughts and harnessing your inner voice to your advantage.

Links:

Ethan Kross website: https://www.ethankross.com/

Chatter Quiz - How well do you know your inner voice?

GLO classes:

Calm the Mind Through Flow

Settle the Mind Flow

Mental Reset Flow

Meditation for Focus and Clarity

Tonal Meditation

Koya Webb is a Glo teacher, Wellness Visionary, Educator, & Founder of Get Loved Up. She has over 15 years of experience in holistic health studies and dedicates herself to supporting those who suffer from chronic disease through building sustainable, daily self-care, plant-based nutrition, and eco-friendly practices. In this episode, Koya chats with Derik about how she discovered yoga in college as an Olympic Track & Field hopeful after sustaining a debilitating injury. She spent a year in recovery practicing yoga and breathwork and went on to win her conference title and was ranked 13th in the nation.

Today, Koya is the founder of Get Loved Up, an international lifestyle community and Yoga School that inspires mental, spiritual and physical health through an app, online courses, retreats, in-person yoga teacher training events, and the Get Loved Up Podcast. Koya shares the ways she prioritizes wellness for herself and her team, her forgiveness rituals, and the ups and the downs of publishing her latest book How to Turn Common Obstacles into Seeds for Growth.” 

Trigger warning for this episode: Koya brings up the topics of sexual assault and rape culture.

Koya’s book Let Your Fears Make You Fierce is relaunching with a redesign. https://koya-webb.mykajabi.com/koya-webb-let-your-fears-make-you-fierce

Her website: https://koyawebb.com/

Her podcast is called Get Loved Up

https://koyawebb.com/podcast/

https://www.instagram.com/koyawebb/

Gentle Morning Vinyasa https://www.glo.com/class/10758

Flow for Fluidity https://www.glo.com/class/10748

Mindful Movement https://www.glo.com/class/10293

Empowered Vinyasa Flow https://www.glo.com/class/10362

Go Within Yin Fusion https://www.glo.com/class/10370

We met U.S. Army veteran Charley Jordan through photographer, and fellow Glo podcast guest, Robert Sturman (episode #14). Sturman photographed Charley and other military veterans who use yoga as a healing practice for PTSD as well as mental, emotional, and physical effects due to their careers. 

Charley is now a college adjunct professor, flower farmer, and owner of Jordan Farms in Tennessee. Charley and Derik discuss his 28 years of service and how he discovered yoga and horticulture as a way of safely dealing with and healing from the intense emotion and trauma of a demanding career. He shares about a veterans organization called Connected Warriors, and how his commitment to his yoga practice and connection with the earth changed his life. 

Links:

Jordan Farms

https://www.jordanfarmstn.com

Suicide Prevention Lifeline

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Veterans Crisis Line

https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/about/what-is-vcl

Connected Warriors

https://connectedwarriors.org

Robert Sturman Studio

https://www.robertsturmanstudio.com

Robert Sturman’s interview on The Glo Podcast 

https://podcast.glo.com/podcast/how-dedication-to-our-practice-can-enhance-our-life-and-fuel-creativity-with-robert-sturman-internationally-celebrated-photographer/

Charley featured in Robert Sturman’s photography:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BzY-PheAC7W/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKRNhI9hhsb/

GLO classes:

Practice Presence Outdoors https://www.glo.com/class/10913

Beginning Ashtanga Flow https://www.glo.com/class/9978

Grounding for A Difficult Day https://www.glo.com/class/5914

Shift Your Mental Landscape https://www.glo.com/class/7058

Mental Clarity Flow https://www.glo.com/class/1901

Derik Mills speaks with Drybar’s co-founder, Alli Webb, about starting new ventures, approaching difficult conversations, and the positive impact that professional and personal coaching has had on her leadership. Alli says her inner and outer journeys have been crucial to her success in business and personal relationships. It’s what’s supported her in developing confidence in her creativity, conquering imposter syndrome, and ultimately contributing to additional ventures like Becket and Quill, Squeeze, and Okay Humans. This episode covers her real-life experiences, mistakes, and victories in business and in life and may even help you discover the business genius inside of you.

Links:

Alli Webb on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alliwebb/

Drybar: https://www.drybar.com

Becket + Quill:  https://www.becketandquill.com

Squeeze:  https://www.instagram.com/squeeze/

Okay Humans: https://www.okayhumans.com

GLO classes:

Visualization Into Actualization https://www.glo.com/class/4488

Empowering Your Morning https://www.glo.com/class/9687

Flow for Motivation https://www.glo.com/class/11184

Center Your Midline https://www.glo.com/class/10493

All Around Flow to Inspire https://www.glo.com/class/10018

We all have moments that inspire us to change or dedicate ourselves to something we would have never guessed or expected. Glo teacher Annie Carpenter, shares the importance of presence and how our yoga practice can support us in cultivating presence. Annie shares about the early days of YogaGlo, the teachers who impacted her life, the Katha Upanishad, and how her practice (as a teacher and student) has evolved. They also discuss her teacher training program, SmartFLOW, and the ways her passion for birding is another exercise in presence. 

Links:

https://www.smartflowyoga.com/

GLO classes:

Radical Acceptance https://www.glo.com/class/5399

Here and Now https://www.glo.com/class/9245

Mindfulness Meditation https://www.glo.com/class/10910

Steady Breath Flow https://www.glo.com/class/11070

Strong Supported Hatha https://www.glo.com/class/10909

Most people say, “I want to get rid of all the stress in my life” or “I don’t want any anxiety in my life.” But, as Dr. Wendy A. Suzuki explains, we all need good anxiety. Anxiety is the fire that drives us forward. 

As the Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at the Center for Neural Science at New York University, Dr. Suzuki is known for her research on our ability to form and retain new long-term memories, but after experiencing her own issues around anxiety and weight gain, she changed course. Now she studies the connection between anxiety and aerobic exercise and its positive impact on our memory and cognitive abilities. The tools she shares from her books, “Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion” and “Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain & Do Everything Better,” are incredibly impactful and easy to implement. 

Links:

https://www.wendysuzuki.com

GLO classes:

Kundalini to Release Anxiety https://www.glo.com/class/10836

Manage Anxiety https://www.glo.com/class/10891

Focus on the Breath and Body to Bring Calm to Our Lives  https://www.glo.com/class/2043

Welcoming Peace https://www.glo.com/class/10035

Find Shelter Within https://www.glo.com/class/9317