The Luminous Mind Podcast | A show about you becoming your best self through unconventional thinking

Stacey is first and foremost a wife and mother of 3. Although being a mother has been more challenging than she ever imagined, she finds far more reward, beauty and joy through it than she ever thought possible. She is grateful for the experience and opportunity to rise to the challenge and become the mother her children need her to be; to teach them, guide them and instill in them the confidence they need to successfully fulfill their missions and purposes. She is passionate about freedom and as she's discovered that passion, she's been led to many seemingly unrelated areas of focus - homeschooling, specifically leadership education, a traditional, real food diet, energy healing work, entrepreneurship, agriculture, abundance and empowerment mindsets - which all have the underlying theme of personal accountability and freedom.

To learn more about Stacey, go to theluminousmind.net

In this month's audioblog, host Rebecca Bohman discusses how the importance of asking the question "why" can help you in your life's mission to create greatness. This "Spark" reviews the book, Start with Why by Simon Sinek. She also discusses the differences between "why", "how", and "what" to help you be a better leader, teacher or person of influence. To get a written PDF of this and other audioblog, as well as to get information on joining us for our monthly "Spark" mastermind group, go to theluminousmind.net

Kevin Clayson, the Chief Officer of Awesome, is known for dancing and rapping his way into the hearts of audiences all across North America as a highly requested, and highly rated professional youth, and corporate speaker.  Kevin’s new book, FLIPping The Gratitude Switch, while receiving universal praise, is already being heralded in the personal development and business communities as one of the most important life success books EVER To learn more about Kevin, go to theluminousmind.net

Podcast Quotes: 

FLIP - Find the frustration

          Look for what is AWESOME

          Initiate gratitude

          Powering up with Gratitufuel 

"It was through that process that I created what became the formula for the book, what became some of the terms that I coin in the book, and what became the biggest single life changing trajectory thing ever. Which is that gratitude is something that you DO, not something you feel."

"By feeling active gratitude inside life's frustration, your entire life can change."

"When I had to realize that the only way I could heal, and the only way I could become someone and something new was to take accountability for what it was that I'd done that led me to that moment in time."

"If there is already stuff that is going well in our life and we are thankful for it, that is good. But how much more powerful is it when we can become thankful for the things that are frustrating or bad. The only way that works, is that we have to become active to the process." 

"There is just so many things that you can just shift your mind into acknowledge that life looks completely different."

"Mentorship is vital for all of us and that we don't have to focus on who the mentor is, we simply have to focus on what we need to be mentored on."

Michelle and Jeff run Humble Hands Farm while homeschooling their oldest girls, and wrangling 3 year old Marigold and her 6 month old twin brothers, Cedar and Forrest. Michelle handles the farm marketing and social media. She's currently organizing a Kids Homeschool Craft Fair for the local community. Jeff takes care of the livestock, farm drops, and farm markets. He has also tutored and mentored autistic children since 2002. They chose homeschooling for their little ones because there are too many opportunities to excell and enhance education with technology.

To learn more about Michelle and Jeff, go to theluminousmind.net

Justin Jepsen is a marketer, entrepreneur, investor and best-selling author. He is the founder of the Wise Men Institute where he mentors individuals in wisdom and wealth so they can regain their personal power to follow their star.  He and his wife homeschool their four children.

To learn more about Justin, go to theluminousmind.net

We invited Diana Zaheer to join us again to discuss "The Critical Voice" We spent a majority of our time talking about her favorite healing room - Critical Voice. We felt that maybe homeschooling parents in particular MAY struggle with this more due to social pressures we feel in addition to family upbringing. We ask questions like  - What is a Critical voice and how do we recognize it? Who has a critical voice? Is a critical voice necessary? How do I quiet my critical voice? Diana gives us tools and resources to acknowledge and hopefully see the positive in the critical voice and then speak more loving to ourselves and each other.

To learn more about Diana, go to theluminousmind.net

Quotes: "If you or I were to go down to the mall near our house and we had a little machine that could listen inside people's heads, pretty much every single person in that mall could be heard giving themselves a hard time."

"This voice comes up in all of us when we are afraid, or we don't know what to do, or we are confused, or we are overwhelmed because the other parts of us aren't responding as quickly as the critical voice."

"Often the critical voice will come in and judge even our decision to be a homeschooling parent because people in conventional schooling environments or our own family may not understand. So I may even have a judgement that there is something wrong with me for even wanting to homeschool my kids."

"I may hear external judgement from people which triggers my own internalized judgment of doubt." 

"What if that thing they are saying to themselves or that comment that is swirling around their head. What if we pause and consider that's not true."

"There is so much love from generation to generation, that does get obscured because we are humans, on a journey, on a planet where we are learning. It is not a perfect planet. There is a lot of wacky things that happens here, but there is also a lot of love."

"I love how Maya Angelou always talked about, "if we knew better, we'd do better" because that is what humans do. We learn and then we apply it, we grow and everybody gets blessed."

"Even though it feels absolutely real and we believe it down to our toes. Any judgement we have about ourselves or another person is not the deepest truth." 

Joanne Miller is the Author of “Creating a Haven of Peace” and wife of Dan Miller of 48 Days To the Work You Love, Joanne believes that laying a foundation of respect and strong relationship is the key to creating a sanctuary in the home.  Joanne gives simple steps in how to intentionally create the home atmosphere you desire.

To learn more about Joanne, go to theluminousmind.net

Theresa Lode has worn many hats through the years but her favorite as been that of a home educator. Her kids now grown, she loves encouraging young moms that Free Range Education not only works - it's imperative if we're going to raise the creative problem solvers we so desperately need in today's world.

To learn more about Theresa, go to theluminousmind.net
Quotes: "Even when I worked in the school and I saw these kids with learning differences and realizing, the kids are fine. It is this mandatory box that we have to fit them in, that is what is messed up!"

"We need creative problem-solvers, we do not people that can follow blindly and be obedient. We need people that move beyond a dualistic thinking of this is right or this is wrong...We need thinkers that are able to look at something and see new connections that wasn't there before."

"A TEDtalk entitled, "Schools Kill Creativity" and that gets right at the heart of a my conviction that we need free range education. Kids need to understand that schooling is much more comprehensive than going to a government building and sitting their butt in a chair for eight hours a day."

Connor Boyack is founder and president of Libertas Institute, a free market think tank in Utah. Connor is also the author of ten books, including the popular Tuttle Twins children's series that teaches young kids about the principles of liberty. We also discuss his new book, Passion-Driven Education: How to Use Your Child's Interests to Ignite a Lifelong Love of Learning as well as what the future may hold for education.

To learn more about Connor, go to theluminousmind.net

Marlo Payne Thurman is a private practice school psychologist and special education consultant with two Master's degrees (in Educational Psychology and School Psychology) and a Ph.D. in special education.  She owns 2e Consulting services, directs the US College Autism Project, and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Northern Colorado.  She believes that a major revolution in education is imperative!

To learn more about Marlo Payne Thurman, go to theluminousmind.net

Quotes:

"We got really good at measuring and putting standards around what it is that kids are learning and how to prove that are learning. What we are finding is that they are learning but it didn't make them any more prepared to be an adult."

"Kids are actually solving problems that are real! They are not imagined or created for the classroom, they are not this idea that childhood is the blessed place where children aren't part of the adult life. Children have the ability to contribute and sometimes OUT THINK adults in their ability to solve authentic problems."

"Education should be teaching children to grow up and solve the world's problems."

"It is not about modifying what we are doing, it is about revolutionizing what we are doing. It is changing completely the "WHAT" we teach to prepare children to be valuable contributors to today's world." 

"To say that every child born on planet earth should be compared to every other child for the normal verses abnormal child. It is the whole developmental paradigm that is part of the problem."

"With choice and opportunity in the learning environment, kids tinker on the things they are interested in and that becomes your strength."

"Education was always supposed to raise children to happy, healthy, functioning adults."