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

Alex de Chambure was born and raised in Paris, France, and is a linguist at heart. After obtaining a Masters degree in French and English, he set sail for California to teach at UC Irvine. In 2004, he was asked to teach English to the daughter and grandson of French President Chirac in Paris. This is when he started putting together a one-of-a-kind language method that he has been sharing with the homeschooling community for the past six years. Alex de Chambure is now at the head of Language City Academy, an online language school for homeschoolers. 

To learn more about Alex, go to our show notes pages: http://www.theluminousmind.net/#!Episode-133-Alex-de-Chambure-Language-City-Academy/cu6k/56ba72bf0cf2fb0f6ff7293c

Jennifer is an avid Energy & Real Food coach, helping moms (& a few brave men) re-connect the dis-connect, so they can create their IDEALife.  She is creator of the ‘Real Food Pantry Makeover’ & the ‘IDEALife INNERgy Healing Method’.  She has also certified in the SimplyHealed™ Method.  

As a best selling author & speaker, she regularly presents at various holistic living, preparedness, & homeschooling conferences as well as local organizations & church groups. To learn more about Jennifer, go to theluminousmind.net

We discuss connecting the disconnect through wholistic living and learning.  Quotes heard on this podcast: " When the physical, mental and spirit dots are disconnected from each other, chaos happens. Chaos takes place when your body, mind and spirit are not being fully nourished."

Fear is:
False
Evidence
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Real

Blake Boles builds exciting alternatives to traditional school for self-directed young people. He directs the company Unschool Adventures and is the author of The Art of Self-Directed Learning, Better Than College, and College Without High School. To learn more about Blake, go to theluminousmind.net

Podcast Quotes:

“When I read Gatto, it just dawned on me that is so much human potential and human capital that is being wasted as by-product of the school system.”

“Really the focus should be on learning and helping people becoming learners, and to me that means becoming self-directed learners because we largely do all of our learning on our own, through our own means and gathering our own resources.”

“We don’t talk enough about learning, we talk about teaching, we talk about testing because those are familiar concepts, that are measurable but they are not what matters most.” 

“That is one of the stories that is closest to my heart that illustrates this sort of ethic of self-directed learning, where there is a lot of taking initiative, there is a lot of following your curiosity and interests because that is what naturally motives you the most. 

Self-directed learning is really about being a more connected person and more connected learner.”

Dr. Holly is a Board Certified Doctor of natural health, a Certified Natural Health Practitioner, a tai chi instructor and a Footzoner practitioner. She loves to mix the knowledge of her Native American background and Traditional Chinese teachings for natural healing and true wellness.  Her goal is to expand the minds of people to know that they are not just a body but a mind and a soul as well and for true healing to take place all of these areas need to be taken care of!
To learn more about Dr. Holly, go to theluminousmind.net

Quotes:

“All things physical, start with an emotion, somehow, somewhere. A lot of our emotions that we deal with in adulthood actually started when we were really, really young.”

“If you have something that you can share, if you have something that you’re passionate about, if you have something that can lift other and help them grow, you are a mentor already.” 

In this month's audioblog, host Rebecca Bohman discusses spring

Andrew is a Founder and Education Director at Outwiz.com
He is a pioneer in applying technology to improve education. In addition to Outwhiz, he founded Edore, an open, online education platform to help students connect learning with their real lives and interests. To learn more about Andrew, go to theluminousmind.net
Quotes to be heard:

“So maybe if we can just increase your chance, of being proficiency we think sort of building a basic level of proficiency helps you connect the dots to that passion later on.”

“Our mission, our grand mission, is to make education more personalized, not just to what your typical edtech company says, “hey personalize to your level,” we want to make it personalized to your interests, to your personalities, to your character.”

In this episode we talk with Maija-Liisa N. Adams who is a personal public speaking coach and professional presentations consultant who has worked with people in many Fortune 500 companies and major universities. She discusses first, finding your life's mission and then articulately delivering that message. To learn more about Maija-Liisa, go to theluminousmind.net

Quotes Heard:
“If we still have butterflies than our real concern is that our message is for us and not for the audience.”

“That only comes when they go deep enough and then as they begin to solve the problem they get that, ‘Awe-haw’ and that becomes the new twist on that problem a new solution for that or a slight change on the solution and that makes it an idea worth spreading.”

“If you don’t ask questions and ask the right questions then you won’t get to that solution which would really be the best solution.” 

This episode featured "firestarter" is the Bestselling author, Anthony Metivier. He is the founder of the Magnetic Memory Method, a systematic, 21st Century approach to memorizing foreign language vocabulary, dreams, names, music, poetry and much more in ways that are easy, elegant, effective and fun. To get more information on Anthony, go to theluminousmind.net. We are also affiliates of his cutting edge Magnetic Memory Method Masterclass, so check it out!

Quotes in this episode:

“Anytime that I say to myself, ‘oh that is too hard or oh, that is boring’. There are no excuses cause it isn’t too hard and it isn’t boring. It can be made exciting and it can be made, if not easy, it can be made a lot easier and the fun component and the challenge is just part of the adventure.”

“One is the most dangerous number you will ever know when it comes to knowledge. You can’t just go on one technic or one teaching.” 

“Remember that the more you know, the more you can know. and so, if you like knowing stuff, figure out how know as much as you can.”

In this week's episode, we chat with Amy House who is focused on building her ecommerce business, supporting her business team and giving to the business community by hosting motivational/ networking events.  Amy’s entire career has been about helping others and she sees her current business initiative as just another tool to make a difference in her community and world. We discuss listening to what lights you up and moving in that direction regardless of the popularity of your unique choices. To learn more about Amy House, go to her show notes at theluminousmind.net

Quotes you will hear on this podcast:

“I think that as you kind of progress along your journey, questions start happening to you, that you have to answer, that you have to take time to answer.”

“As you travel through your journey, what really lights you up, becomes obvious even if it is not cultural the norm, maybe you need to listen to it.”

“Cause ultimately I think, people are on their own journey and they can get where they need to go but maybe you need to make them aware of where they are at on their journey, what they are saying to themselves and they’ll redirect.”

“I want people to understand that impacting others isn’t about glory, its about making a difference, and that it is about how you feel about the difference you are making.”

“If it is in your head you need to listen to it, if it is a vision you have for your life and it has been kind of that, you have played about with it in your mind. Really take a look at that, I don’t believe that we are given visions that we don’t have the skills to achieve or that we can't achieve. And just because your vision does not fit in with the society’s traditional view of business or life’s journey, you still need to pay attention to that vision.”

In this month's audioblog, host Rebecca Bohman reviews things she has learned about achieving more "balance in life." She discusses  the power of implementing dailies, essentialism and constructive life scheduling. To get a written PDF of this and other audioblog, as well as joining our monthly "Spark" mastermind group, go to theluminousmind.net