For this week’s Power House I’m featuring repeat guests—David Dachinger and Tamara Green, an absolute power couple behind Loving Meditations: a program that helps cancer patients and caregivers reduce stress, anxiety, and discomfort through their cancer journey. David is an author and Grammy-nominated composer (over 1 million people have heard his music!) while his wife, Tamara, is an author, speaker and trainer. Loving Mediations now has an app as well that I personally use and love, and we’ll be diving into making space for yourself to find out what it is you need.

Creating Space of Quiet (Together and Alone)

 For Tamara, when there is a lot running through her head she uses a simple breath technique to remove that noise and connect back to the earth. In fact, she practices this live on the show and encourages you to follow along and plant yourself and become more stable.

Together as a couple, David find that lightening up by dancing, doing yoga together, or just looking each other in the eyes was a way to connect and synch up their bodies and thoughts.

Maintaining Connectedness

 One major key to maintaining connectedness is owning up and taking personal responsibility for our feelings and knowing when to take a step back and evaluate ourselves. Tamara calls this “deplugging” and she would practice this when getting overwhelmed by caregiving. When she found herself frustrated she would stop and ask “What do I need?” When you ask yourself that question it allows you to get present and really see where you are at and what path you need to walk to get where you want to go, not only for yourself, but for those you love as well.

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Welcome to 2019 and new episodes of The Power House podcast—starting off the new year I have Eric Thomas on the show. Eric is a highly influential entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience as a life and business coach. In addition, he is a fervent pastor with over 25 years of ministerial experience and has also served as a faith branding evangelist. His life assignment is to empower and impact people with messages of hope that inspire them to dream. He’s also the President and founder of the Impacting Your World Network—an incubator for church plants and faith-based business startups.

Eric is all about activating faith. While hope is important, it can also be a spiritual waiting room—waiting for God to show up in your life. But Eric knows God is already there on the inside, we don’t need to go looking outward. The key to activating your faith once you understand this is to know why you want to do something. Just wanting money isn’t enough. Money will come in time, but without meaning the venture ends up hollow and pointless.

Eric likes to say there are so many flattened squirrels in the road because they were afraid to make a decision. This applies to activating your faith as well—it’s easy to get bogged down by choices, the idea of failing, of messing up and letting that get in the way of taking a chance or a risk. But the truth is you never know what will happen until you actually do something and take that leap.

And if you are feeling stuck, unable to make those choices you can’t be afraid to ask questions. After all, questions qualify you for answers. God was always asking questions in the bible, it’s a necessary part of healing and growth. But answers only come after you ask the question—ask, seek, knock: ask.

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Julie Rosenberg, M.D. is a pharmaceutical executive and global healthcare leader. Dr. Rosenberg is also an executive coach who helps successful leaders get even better by developing themselves, their people and by embracing more conscious living. Julie has devoted the last 16 years to the in-depth study and practice of yoga and meditation. Her work demonstrates that the millennia-old physical, mental, and spiritual discipline of yoga not only supports good health and wellbeing, but also helps to strengthen one’s personal and professional leadership skills. In 2017, Julie was selected from among 16,000 applicants by Number 1 Executive Coach and Leadership Thinker, Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, as one of the MG 100, a group of over 100 leading coaches, thinkers and senior business leaders, each of whom is committed to paying it forward. Her first book, Beyond the Mat: Achieve Focus, Presence and Enlightened Leadership Through the Principles and Practice of Yoga is nothing short of transformative—teaching you how to destroy the noise, reflect, and focus.

Julie knows that yoga is more than just running to the studio with your mat. She has been an avid practitioner of the art and has seen firsthand the lessons it has to teach. The practice is one that makes an observer out of you. It can teach you to drown out background noise (like my dog you may hear in the episode) and focus. The practice of yoga is one that enables you to make choices, to lose your ego, look on the inside, and move forward despite the nose that is there.

But change doesn’t have to involve the whole yoga routine. Breath work can get you to change in two minutes, there is no excuse to say you don’t have time to work on yourself. Pausing to breath gives us a moment to make choices. It stops the automatic, harmful reactions we may have to stressful situations. A breath is the space to make a choice to be present and limit the noise in your life.

Wellbeing is a term that Julie is setting out the redefine. It is a term that encompasses being integrated, stable, and happy. It’s a practice that includes meditation, mindfulness, becoming less sedentary, and engaging with your community and exploring gratitude practices. Change starts with you, you’re the genesis of it—and guess what? That change radiates outwards, which is how you integrate with your community and live in the present to open up more opportunity for you and those you love.

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Leslie Juvin-Acker is President and Chief Happiness Officer at Nestle and an emotional intelligence expert who has worked for Adidas, IBM, and Facebook. She’s committed to the long term career and personal development of her clients and aims to build trusting, intimate relationships to get to the source of their challenges. With her book “The Money Formula: Change Your Relationship with Money in 7 Steps & 15 Minutes or Less” she sets out to redefine our relationship with money by creating positive emotional associations with our wallets.

Leslie’s technique for reshaping our relationship with money stems with detaching the feelings we have about money from the thought of money itself. You may think this process would take weeks, months, or even years. However, in about 15 minutes you can begin to rewire your brain to divorce the negative connotations with money. You start with one word, and then move on to the next one. Money is inherently indifferent, and it is up to us to give it meaning—it is a choice you get to make, whether you are conscious of it or not. Leslie’s goal is to increase your awareness and give you the power to define money, not the other way around.

Leslie’s big imagine if is thinking about all the families that can be helped through her book, freeing them from the stress, anxiety, and even anger that we can associate with money.

Make sure to pick up a copy of The Money Formula to really dive in and gain that intimate understanding of your finances.

If you’re interested in working with Leslie you can find her Informative Employee Coaching Program Brochure here.

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Kelly Kaelin is a life spiritual and energetic coach who lives for helping people turn back towards their hearts so they can live their best most authentic life. She encourages purposeful living and supports the process of learning to love oneself again. Kaelyn helps people open back up to life and powerfully reignite their truth and purpose to find fulfillment and ongoing happiness. She's a firm believer in positive messaging, spending time in gardens, and sleeping late whenever possible (she is certainly my soul sister. Kelly now resides in the beautiful state of Oregon with an MS from the University of Texas at Arlington and a BS from the Texas Tech University.

Kelly lost a parent at a young age to suicide—back when talking about suicide was almost a societal taboo. People told her that her mother would go to hell, or didn’t say anything at all. She didn’t have a choice but to turn inward and gaze upon her own heart for answers and support. The message that came back from God and from inside her was “Don’t worry about others” – your heart is the bible.

How do you find the space to look inside and see what’s there? There are two types of fear that impeded this. There's the fear that we feel when we're not being ourselves and were out in the world and were pretending. It’s a chronic fear. And that's kind of the doorway we have to go through a little bit to get to the point where we start looking inside our heart.

The fear of going inside and looking at your heart is huge. It’s scary, almost universally to everyone. It's a scary place to turn around and start looking inside ourselves. We think we're going to find some wretch inside. Kelly’s mission is to turn people inward and help them navigate through those levels of fear so that they can see they are not wretches inside. All that is there is the truth.

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Dr. Wini Curley is a resilience expert, consultant, and speaker. She shows leaders and their teams how to stay connected to their goals through mutual respect while overcoming challenges. Dr. Curley combined her professional development expertise and inner science geek to create the appreciation experiment—an innovative approach to building team trust, performance, and resilience. Her first book “The Good Vibes Handbook” explores personal stress and energy management tools for business professionals and is coming out late this year.

Resilience is about how you deal with bumps in the road—changing client needs and other business challenges that cross boundaries into home life as well. So, how do you teach resilience? It comes down to awareness. Being aware of the choices you have to make—which is always the choice in how you respond, not just react to situations.

Engagement is a cornerstone of resilience as well, but what does that mean? There is the behavioral element to engagement, but the deeper level deals with your connection to the big picture of your work. Taking ownership of you and your team and seeing how all the pieces stick together—and then expressing your appreciation for everyone and how they fit together in the team.

Appreciation works differently for everyone, both on the giving and receiving end. Dr. Curley would challenge you to reach out to your team and ask them how they want to be appreciated—is it verbal praise, something physical, a one on one conversation as opposed to something announced to the whole team. And once you understand how to appreciate others, you can take a step back and see how you yourself are receiving appreciation so that the entire cycle can continue.

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Ben Gioia is a two-time best-selling author and international speaker whose positioned million-dollar thought leaders, created a mindfulness video game, and inspires leadership that serves humanity. As president of Influence with a Heart his teachings are used by more than 20,000 people worldwide. He launched one of the biggest magazines on Earth and trains Global Business Leaders at Stanford. After a trip where he almost died in the mountains of South India (several times), Ben received a gift: the fire inside to serve. Now he partners with entrepreneurs, thought leaders, consultants, and coaches to bring their vision mission and impact to the world.

On his trip to India Ben came close to disaster several times, encountering forest fires, deadly snakes, mountain lions, and vehicles almost careening off cliff sides. Without any mindfulness or meditation practice, Ben found himself using an affirmation for the first time: I’m not going to die. This opened a door to some bigger perspectives and awareness about being present.

The first and foremost thing Ben does is focus on breathing—on all that stuff below the neck. When you focus on your breath you are in the current moment, you are present. Finding time throughout the day to be present instead of saving it up for the weekend is crucial to finding happiness and awareness in your day to day life.

Being present and loving yourself radiates outward—the best way to take care of others is to take of yourself first, so that energy is shared and you’re in a better space to be aware of the needs of others. Have empathy for yourself, don’t take everything so seriously, and let your heart lead your influence.

If you would like to know more about what Ben is doing you can find his work at InfluencewithaHeart.com where he invites you to schedule a talk to see how he can best serve you.

In 27 years of nursing, Yvonne Heath witnessed our society’s death phobia and our reluctance to talk about, plan, and prepare for grief cause excessive suffering. For some reason our culture is afraid of that conversation. Yvonne wasn’t having it though—she left her career has set out to empower compassionate communities and professionals to live life to the fullest, learn to grieve and support others, and have the talk about the end of life long before it arrives. She shares her message with heart and humor and is an inspirational speaker, a T.V. and radio show host, and author of Love Your Life To Death.

What does it mean to show up during someone’s grief? People are compassionate and care, but often times are afraid to show up for someone. Maybe they will make things worse. It is inherently awkward. But Yvonne believes we have to be secure in our humanness, in not being perfect. The magic answer is just show up—and everyone is capable of doing this. Hug. Text. Email. Sit quietly with someone. Cut their grass. Even kids can do some these things—not every way of helping needs to be a grand gesture that makes the front cover of the news.

Yvonne’s goal with Love Your Life to Death is to get these ideas in every modality and area so children and adults can learn to face the end of life. If you want to be clued in on the 7 Takeaways on Loving Your Life to Death you can email Yvonne at [email protected]  

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Terry Wildemann works with socially conscious CEOs, small business owners, and leaders to take their businesses to the next level with speed, ease, and flow. She has over 40 years of business and leadership experience—including owning a manufacturing company and image consulting company. Her clients include entrepreneurs, banks, government agencies, the chamber of commerce, and the US Military—talk about a complete and total power house, right? We’ll be diving into her business, Intuitive Leadership, and why those two words don’t always go hand in hand in practice.

Terry would implore you to find a space to go to when anxiety draws close or stress begins to pile up—and that space if your heart. Heart energy can be measured 6 to 10 feet away from the body and in a 360-degree circumference. It is powerful. When we shift into the heart space it puts in a place to truly listen. It’s where we can really take in feedback and grow. When we learn to utilize this heart space in tandem with our intuition we can use our heart and mind together, letting you determine whether the feedback is valid, just where it is actually coming from.

Shifting into your heart place is a choice—a choice to take negative energy and turn it into positive energy. It places you in a position to be a conduit, to take in what the world is giving you, and if you pay attention closely, you will see exactly what kind of impact you are having, and the impact the world is having on you.

If you are interested in learning more about Terry’s work and even bringing her on for a 1-1 coaching session you can find her at IntuitiveLeadership.com and you can find her on Facebook and LinkedIn as well - [email protected]

Charmaine Hammond has been in the business of changing lives for more than 25 years. She is a former Corporate Dispute Resolution Expert that now travels the world teaching the principles of leadership, business success, and collaboration. In business 21 years, she has owned several businesses in Canada and the US. She is a co-founder of the Evolutionary Business Council whose collective reach exceeds 140 million. She is also co-founder and co-host of the Global Influence Summit. As a bestselling author and Certified Speaking Professional she has had tremendous success in finding corporate sponsors to fund her printing, graphic design, venues, travel, media, technology, hotels, even her pet food and dog poop bags! Her recent speaking and book tour, Million Acts of Kindness, involved a 14,000 KM tour in a 32-foot sponsored motor home, hotels sponsored for the team, and more than 40 businesses and retail chains raising funds in their stores/businesses to support this movement: A Million Acts of Kindness.

One of the things Charmaine appreciates about conflict is that it allows people to see situations from other perspectives. It’s part of the challenge when people come together to collaborate on projects and ideas—they all have their own agendas and interests. Seeing the same problem from all those angles helps you to open up and accept different ways of thinking, which are often the right solutions to problems you couldn’t solve on your own.

Charmaine talks about being vulnerable when it comes to achieving your big dreams. Often times we hold our dreams close to our chest. We believe we have sole responsibility when it comes to making them a reality, and let me tell you, that’s a one way ticket to burnout. You really have to open yourself up—let your colleagues, partners, and loved ones know what you are working one. When you do that you give them the opportunity to help you, and to not do that is selfish on your part.

With the Million Acts of Kindness tour Charmaine met people who resisted her idea. But she was grateful for those conversations, as they helped her find out how to engage others in different ways, how to broaden her audience. And that is exactly what you need to do to build community, help yourself and others, and make your dreams and the dreams of those around you come true.

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RaiseADream.com

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