The Lonely Edges

By Christina Frei

Creating something new can be devastatingly lonely—and it should be. The choice to disconnect from the pack and follow our own creative truth can ultimately bring us closer to the people around us. T... more

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The podcast currently has 48 episodes available.

The Lonely Edges episodes:

November 14, 2022Alison Held Anderson: The Lonely Edges of Magical Energy Work
Topics:
Leaving a successful nutrition practice behind
Working on a body level vs. the soul level
Transitioning from nutrition to energy work
The role of higher consciousness in well, everything
The importance of consciousness tools
What we mean by darkness and light
Loving the darkness
Loving the dirty work of consciousness
How to deal with things falling apart
Bio:
Alison Held Anderson wholeheartedly believes that each person can be their own healer. She helps spiritually driven people demystify the unseen world so they can release what is keeping them stuck in their lives and learn how to create inner peace and wellbeing. A skilled intuitive, Alison knows how to guide her clients through their obstacles and empower them to discover their soul’s deepest wisdom. Her work has helped countless people throughout the world transform their lives.

Links:
Alison's Facebook Page
Alison's Instagram Feed
Alison's Website
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Christina shares a secret to your beautiful lonely edges.
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42min
November 07, 2022Karin Rozell: The Lonely Edges of a Happy Little Practice
Topics:
How to go counter to American culture of “more” in business and in life
Minimalism and success – defining success on your own terms
How constraints create freedom
The origin of Happy Little Practice, and what that means
Civil rights and business
Staying inspired through menopause
Bio:
Karin Rozell is an author of two business books and creator of the Happy Little Practice Method for women in business. With 20+ years of online education and business coaching experience, she specializes in creating minimalist businesses that are simple to run, in about 25-hours per week. She's on a mission to share the small is the new big philosophy and how less can truly be more through her classes, coaching and books. You can learn more about Karin and watch her free intro class on the Happy Little Practice Method at KarinRozell.com

Links
Karin Rozell's Website
Karin Rozell's Twitter Feed
Karin Rozell's LinkedIn Page

Your Beautiful Lonely Edges - Christina Shares a Secret about Moving Towards Them
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1h 3min
October 31, 2022Beth Blaney: The Lonely Edges of a Badass Bookkeeper
Topics:
What it’s like being the weird kid
Finding your people as the weirdo
The role of structure for a creative soul
How to build a unique bookkeeping business
How to create a healthy culture in your business
Distinguishing the pressure that’s real and the pressure that’s self-imposed
When to charge more
How to build a team and grow
Bio:
Beth is the CEO and mastermind behind BBA Bookkeeping.
Her mission is to serve as the backbone of her clients’ business. She offers solutions and ideas fueled by decades of experience in bookkeeping and small business administration, and has a passion for helping her clients and team realize their full potential. When not working, she can be found floating in her pool (during the summer) or hiding from the snow with her nose in a new business book during the chillier New Hampshire winters. She’s an organizing junkie, human mom to Miles, and dog mom to Mario Speedwagon. Beth’s excited to be engaged to the love of her life. They’re saying “I do” in the Summer of 2023.

Links:
Beth Blaney's website
Beth Blaney's IG Feed
Beth Blaney's Facebook Page
Beth Blaney's LinkedIn Profile

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October 24, 2022Shawn Cook: The Lonely Edges of Jumping Off a Cliff
Topics:
How to jump off a cliff
What happens when an office grows toxic
How to manage power plays and unhealthy control
What makes an Enneagram 8 cry
How to handle a career brick wall
How to take tough moments and turn them around for the benefit of others
Who you can become in the face of all of the above
Bio:
Shawn has dedicated his life to helping others. He began is career in higher education at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. There he worked on staff in student development, fund raising, and as an adjunct business professor. Shawn was also the co-founder of the nonprofit business, Feed the Need, serving the underprivileged areas of Lakeland through donations and outreach events. He then transitioned into the wealth management field working with an independent group within Raymond James as a Wealth Advisor. There he honed his craft for building comprehensive financial plans and investment portfolios. He is now the principal of Advocate Wealth Management.

Links:
Shawn's Website
Shawn's Instagram Feed
Shawn's LinkedIn Profile

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56min
October 17, 2022Jamie Chapman: The Lonely Edges of Starting a Business
Topics:
Do I run other people’s businesses or my own?
The decision to start her own business
When you’re not paid what your worth
The trials of leaving a marriage and new financial obligations
Modeling strong women for her sons
The loneliness of being an entrepreneur, role of community
Raising good partners in her sons
Bio:
The owner and founder of Chickbook Creative, Jamie Chapman, consults with small and medium-sized women-owned companies. Over the course of her career, she has gained experience in systems, processes, accountability, leadership, and project management. Jamie's multifaceted approach to problem-solving stems from her extensive knowledge of executive functioning, habit formation, and the entrepreneur's mind.

Links:
Jamie Chapman's Website
Jamie Chapman's Instagram Feed
Jamie Chapman's Facebook Group
Upcoming Workshop with Kim Dawson

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42min
October 10, 2022Lisa Ann Schraffa Santin: The Lonely Edges of Authentic Fashion
Topics:
How to dress well without bending to fashion
How to empower yourself with your clothes
Your relationship to your clothes
Ways to shop sustainably
How authenticity influences fashion decisions
How working with a fashion coach will help you in ways you hadn’t considered
Bio:
After working at Eileen Fisher for 15 years, dressing thousands of women, and working in fast-paced environments, Lisa Ann Schraffa Santin understands the difficulty that many women have when it comes to maintaining the right kind of wardrobe. Oftentimes feeling professional and feeling like oneself don’t go hand in hand. Even if they should!
Lisa wanted to create a holistic process where women could discover a wardrobe that was effortless, worked with their lifestyles, and still felt true to their personalities. Thus, LASS Wardrobe LLC was born.
Her experience in fashion and business has given her a world of perspective, which she hopes to share with you. She helps women feel great every day by owning a sustainable, empowering wardrobe that works for their lifestyle.
Lisa's Instagram Feed
Lisa's Website
Lisa's LinkedIn page

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1h 5min
October 03, 2022Andy Cahill: The Lonely Edges of Loving Humanity
Topics:
How to trust the call to move towards a lonely edge
When to trust yourself in general
“We create each other” – how that works
How we are individual yet connected
The challenge of being vulnerable
The importance of boundaries
The power of acknowledgment
Metta meditation and sociopaths
Links :
Andy Cahill's Facebook Page
Andy Cahill's Wonderdome Instagram Account
Andy Cahill's Website
Andy Cahill's Twitter Feed
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Bio:
Andy Cahill is a transformative coach who excels at inspiring leaders and entrepreneurs to dig deep, dream big and do their greatest work. He’s spent almost twenty years working in education, public service, and human development. The programs he’s led and consulted on have reached thousands of people, from urban schools to corporate boardrooms, helping them build resilience, deepen mindfulness, and activate their full potential. He earned his master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he studied Adaptive Leadership under Professor Ron Heifetz and he is pursuing master-level coaching certification with Integral Coaching Canada, one of the premier coach training schools in the world. He has been practicing meditation and mindful movement since 2007, and he is a certified yoga teacher, studying under the tutelage of Jacqui Bonwell, Jason Magness, and Stephen Cope. His coaching emphasizes patience, self-compassion, and a commitment to personal growth and discovery. He is also a talented songwriter and the author of the critically-acclaimed science-fiction novel Gradient, which brings to life the themes of leadership, cultural adaptation, and personal discovery.
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1h 3min
September 26, 2022Jane Pollak: The Lonely Edges of an Art Business
Topics:
Standing up for yourself when there’s no net
How to start something with community support
Starting a high-end art business
How the universe works its magic
The importance of taking it one step at a time
How to not do art or business alone
How to just roll with it when things fall apart
Bio:
JANE POLLAK New York was born out of the onset of the 2020 pandemic. Jane sewed her first pillow design during a workshop on Penny Rugs at the Guilford Art Center the weekend before the shutdown. With enough material to craft a second pillow and a locked-down New York City, Jane began creating these cushions for her own home, family and friends. Soon after, she was encouraged to create an Etsy shop. The demand grew from there.
Pollak is well-known in the art world for her highly sought-after business, An Egg by Jane, for 30 years, which she founded and operated from 1973 – 2003. Featured on The Today Show and The New York Times, her work is part of the collection of the Smithsonian, and she was a popular guest on HGTV and CBS News.

Links:
Jane Pollak New York
Jane Pollak on Instagram
Jane Pollak on Facebook

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46min
September 19, 2022Cynthia Quintanal: The Lonely Edges of Being a Wood Elf
Topics:
Being different in a large Catholic family
Inner journeying as an 8-year old
Nature’s beauty vs. nature’s ferocity
How to be with hopelessness
What will really change the world (it’s not demonstrations)
Our relationship with grief
The challenges in creating new music
Bio:
Cynthia Quintanal leads healing concerts with her husband Rick in the Crystal Cymbalogy project which engages people in a direct experience of communion with nature. She is also writing music and chants for the Be Loved Now community based. As a Licensed Massage Therapist for 30 years, Cynthia has studied Deep Tissue Cellular Memory, Reiki energy, Craniosacral and SER (somato emotional release), Awakening the Light Body Live,Theta Healing, Arvigo Techniques of Abdominal Massage and Heart Centered Therapy with the Chikly Institute. She’s also studied Sound Healing with Jill Purce, Gaudry Normand, the originator of the healing crystal bowls, Tom Kenyon and Zacciah Blackburn.

Links:
Crystal Cymbalogy Website
Cynthia's Instagram Feed
Cynthia's Facebook Page
Cynthia Jadwiga Website

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1h 2min
September 12, 2022Laura Hansen: The Lonely Edges of Spirituality in Business
Topics:
How spiritual tools help corporations get healthy
What it’s like to see the solutions and not be able to communicate them well
How learning spiritual mechanics changed everything
How to make esoteric principles accessible to the general public and corporate
Navigating a company where employees are disgruntled
The power of knowing your own perspective
The power of simply witnessing
Do you focus on the problem or a person’s ability to choose?
Laura Hansen's Bio;
Laura’s 30 years as a meditation and mindfulness teacher informs her life’s work to create healthy, safe and creative communities. She developed the Life Mechanics Method and the Divine Spark Method to help others understand and master their inner and outer worlds. She is a social entrepreneur, best-selling author, patent-holding product designer, strategic business advisor and change management consultant. Founder and Board President, Chill Sacramento, a 501(c)3 educational organization. She is the founder of Compassionate Capital Region, a Chill Sacramento social impact project for the seven county region in and around Sacramento, California’s capital. She is team lead for the Compassionate Sacramento project, a collaboration between the Mayor’s office of Civic Engagement and over 50 community organizations and businesses. She is also a Strategic Advisor for Compassionate California, which is a member of the global organization, Charter for Compassion, in partnership with the office of the Dalai Lama.

Links
Chill Sacramento's Website
Laura Hanson's Facebook Community
Chill Sacramento on Instagram
Laura Hansen's YouTube Channel
Laura Hansen's LinkTree
Laura Hansen's LinkedIn Account

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FAQs about The Lonely Edges:

How many episodes does The Lonely Edges have?

The podcast currently has 48 episodes available.