The Joyful Intuitive Podcast

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At the top of the hour Marie interviewed writer, performer and educator, Ann Randolph. For the second half of the show Marie continued her conversation from last week on fear.

Ann Randolph is an Ovation Award® winning playwright and performer. Her multi-character solo show Squeeze Box was originally produced by Mel Brooks and the late Anne Bancroft and went on to become a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway hit.

Her current solo show, LOVELAND, is currently playing every weekend in San Francisco where Randolph was recently awarded, “Best Solo Performer in San Francisco” by the San Francisco Examiner. In 2011, Randolph was awarded “Best Solo Performer” by the LA Weekly for LOVELAND.

A resident of Los Angeles, Randolph’s previous solo shows and plays have garnered many awards. She is a former member of the Groundlings and Unsafe Sketch receiving LA Weekly’s, “Best Female Comedy Performer.” Her solo show, Miss America, was awarded “Best Solo Show,” by the LA Weekly and as an actress she has appeared in numerous plays, including the long running cult classic, Bob’s Office Party, for which she created the roles of Brandy and Carol. An LA Times critic wrote of Randolph’s performance, “In a pair of wickedly hysterical roles, Randolph steals the show.”

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At the top of the hour Marie interviewed Kelly McNelis Senegor, founder of Women for One. For the second half of the show she talked about fear.

Kelly McNelis Senegor is the founder of Women For One, a global movement of authenticity and inspiration for women throughout the world. The website currently has reached over 4 million people from over 50 countries in only its 2nd year of existence.

She lives near Seattle with her husband and six children.

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Dr. Eben Alexander III has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last 25 years, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women's and the Children's Hospitals and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Over his academic career he authored or co-authored over 150 chapters and papers in peer reviewed journals, and made over 200 presentations at conferences and medical centers around the world. He thought he had a very good idea of how the brain generates consciousness, mind and spirit.

In the predawn hours of November 10, 2008, he was driven into coma by a rare and mysterious bacterial meningitis-encephalitis of unknown cause. He spent a week in coma on a ventilator, his prospects for survival diminishing rapidly. On the seventh day, to the surprise of everyone, he started to awaken. Memories of his life had been completely deleted inside of coma, yet he awoke with memories of a fantastic odyssey deep into another realm - more real than this earthly one! His older son advised him to write down everything he could remember about his journey, before he read anything about near-death experiences, physics or cosmology. Six weeks later, he completed his initial recording of his remarkable journey, totaling over 20,000 words in length. Then he started reading, and was astonished by the insights his journey brought to the world's literature on near-death experiences, and to all phenomena of extended consciousness. His experience clearly revealed that we are conscious in spite of our brain - that, in fact, consciousness is at the root of all existence.

His story offers a crucial key to the understanding of reality and human consciousness. It will have a major effect on how we view spirituality, soul and the non-material realm. In analyzing his experience, including the scientific possibilities and grand implications, he envisions a more complete reconciliation of modern science and spirituality as a natural product.

He has been blessed with a complete recovery and shares his most powerful, life-changing story in his book, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife, which debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list.

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Rulingplanets.com is Christopher Renstrom’s vision of an on-line, subscription-based, interactive Astrology Magazine. It is based on his book Ruling Planets, which was published by HarperCollins in 2002 and has sold out its print run.

Renstrom has been a practicing astrologer since 1985. He currently writes the daily horoscopes for the San Francisco Chronicle (replacing Jeanne Dixon in 1995) and SFGate.com. Now the exclusive astrologer for Patti Stanger (the Millionaire Matchmaker) his popular forecasts appear weekly on SheKnows.com. His weekly forecasts cover all areas of your life including Weekly, Love, and Career horoscopes. Recently Christopher was voted Best Astrologer by City Weekly’s Best of Utah for 2013 and previously for 2012.

Renstrom regularly appears on radio and television. He also lectures about the history of Astrology in America, which is his specialty, and runs Ruling Planet workshops around the country.

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Karla McLaren is an award-winning author and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions has taken her through the healing of her own childhood trauma into an empathic healing career, and now into the study of sociology, neurology, and cognitive and social psychology. She is the author of The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You (Sounds True, May 2010), the online course Emotional Flow:Becoming Fluent in the Language of Emotions (Sounds True, 2012) and the upcoming book and audio learning set The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill (October, 2013).

Karla has taught at such venues as the University of San Francisco, Omega Institute, Naropa University, Kripalu, and the Association for Humanistic Psychology. Additionally, as a prison arts educator with the William James Foundation, she has utilized singing, drumming, and drama to help men in maximum security prisons explore and heal long-held emotional traumas. Karla lives in Sonoma County, California with her husband, Tino Plank, a Master's level nurse working in hospice and end-of-life care.

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