Robert Clancy is a creative visionary and a number one best selling author—let me tell you, his books are truly amazing. He’s also a spiritual teacher and co-founder of Spiral Designs Studio. At the age of 19, Robert had a divine spiritual experience that altered his life in profound ways, leading up to 2012 when he created the Robert Clancy Guide to the Soul Facebook page where he shares his divine thoughts with over 670,000 people worldwide. This makes him a highly sought-after speaker and a weekly guest on LA’s KABC Radio’s late night health radio show. He also just recorded an episode of the Emmy award-winning Doctor and Andy Show which reaches over 300 million people over its broadcast. He is brilliant, heart-centered, and here to share with us.

Divinity Moment

Around Robert’s second year in college, his life completely started falling apart. Several of his friends committed suicide, died in car accidents, and his family was disengaging while his girlfriend of several years left him all alone. He ended up mixing substances to escape and feels that he is lucky that he didn’t end up dying himself. It wasn’t until a waitress at work pulled him aside, noticing his behaviors, and gave him a brochure on how to meditate that saved his life.  It was during this meditation that a light came to Robert and showed him his life path and touched him in a way that has let him share that divine love with the world.

He shares the messages that he continues to receive—they come to him not only as words, but pictograms, emotions, and he can decipher the meaning behind them in order to share their truth.

www.Guidetothesoul.com

Rob Lowe is the host of the Giving Back Podcast, which I have had the privilege of being a guest on. I highly recommend you listen to his show as it is a wonderful place where people and organizations are highlighted that are focused on others. He makes it easy for people to do good—connecting non profits with their next generations of donors, and helping business to give and grow rich. Rob’s tombstone will read: “He built people’s capacity to serve their community.”

If you liked the idea of Rob’s tombstone you can actually do an exercise he calls “Build it Backwards” to figure out what your core goal is. Start at the end, and then build your path to you. Think of what your sole purpose is—what you would want strangers to read on your tombstone, and then look at your life to see how it is you can end up there, fulfilling that goal.

When Rob reflects on starting up the Giving Back Podcast, he thinks of the axiom that you are a mix of the five people you spend the most time with. Starting the podcast was a way for him to surround himself around great people that he could both give, and grow from. He didn’t know what impact it would have, he just focused and growing and helping and it’s taken him in directions he’d never been before. Through the podcast he’s had to open up, become more vulnerable (which he admits is not a part of his background). It’s helped him learn how to read people and feel there energy—then using that to address his audience.

A major change came for Rob when he realized that while he was giving openly, his heart was closed off to receiving help. He had to have others point out that it didn’t make sense for him to give so freely, but be afraid of taking on help from those that truly cared about him. He had to accept that help in order to grow, and so should you. You can’t give to your fullest potential without also receiving.

Links

GivingBackPodcast.com (in contact form, enter Give and Grow Rich as the subject line)

Debbie Lynn Grace knows that it is the obstacles, challenges, and unexpected opportunities that truly lead to discovering your higher calling. For Debbie, the road to her purpose felt like a completely unconventional path that she never envisioned herself undertaking. Now each step down that path makes perfect sense to her. She’s a recovering 30 year marketing expert, author of Outrageous Business Growth, and an international speaker, energy worker, and intuitive. Over the last 30 years her programs have impacted hundreds of thousands of people and continues to do so through live events where she shows highly sensitive people and empaths how to dissolve energy blocks that stop them from leading a life of purpose, authenticity, and prosperity.

Origins

As a kid, Debbie was told that she was different—that she was too sensitive. And as a child she felt compelled to change that about herself, but had no idea how to. So she learned to suffer in silence. This held true even as she grew older and started her career in marketing at a bank, soaking in the toxic environment there that was truly killing her inside. After leaving the job, city, and going through starting up a business and a divorce at the same time, Debbie’s sister changed her life. As a gifted healer, she told Debbie, “It’s time you learn what I do because it will help you heal.”  

She began to learn a kind of energy work called Flow Alignment and Connection; the ability to track energy flow in a person or situation to see where there is an energy block, and how to dissolve it.

Now

Debbie merged her healing practices with her consulting business to help her clients see what traumas and insecurities were leading to their business, and life blocks. She has been able to highlight pitfalls for highly sensitive empaths as well, who may fear their connection to energy or withdraw, or become fixated on overachieving, too self-sufficient, or even too giving until you have no energy left for yourself. If you are looking to be a leader, you have to avoid those energy blocks and take care of yourself.

When you wake up, your first mission is to be of service to yourself—not others. You have to honor and respect your own gifts before being able to share them properly.

Links

DebbieLynnGrace.com

Maria Rea is a marketing and relationship expert and the CEO and Founder of My Media and Publishing Group. She’s also the creator and publisher of My Authentic Life Magazine. As a transformational keynote speaker, Maria wants to create a universe that models integrity, cultivates creativity and embraces uniqueness. She teaches upcoming entrepreneurs how to build their own publishing company while harnessing their creative vision. As if that wasn’t enough, she also works with organizations and non-profits, teaching them how to create their own magazines to create more awareness and revenue for their goals and purposes.

Maria never would have thought that she would be where she is today. She gets to wake up every day and think about how to inspire and help more people. She basically helps people help other people, and it’s all about making the world a better place. Her own magazine is just about that—empowering people to utilize their vision to help others. It is what feeds her soul everyday.

Judgment

Judgment starts with yourself—so many of us immediately jump on ourselves before anyone else. We think we’re not good enough, we don’t like the way we look, and then we project that onto others. Once you understand that you can make such huge, rippling waves in the world by stopping all that judgment at the source. Maria invites you to look at yourself in the mirror, really hold your own gaze, and tell yourself that you’re loved. Come up with true, meaningful affirmations and say them to yourself. That you are worthy, or a good person, and implant that in yourself every day—especially on the days when you’re beat, tired, and don’t want to do it. These should be your “I am” statements and you should be exposed to them every day.

Links

Myauthenticlifemagazine.com

Swami Tirtha (the Orange Cowboy) is the host of the T.V. show Daily Miracles: Healing with Our Angels, as well as a best selling author. His speaking clients include the White House, the Alternative Medicine Commission, and John Hopkins University. Swami began having divine experiences at the age of 10 and at 17 survived a devastating tragedy. By seeking spiritual pathways he was able to discover his mission of spreading joy.

Play

For Swami, Angel is a placeholder word that can mean a lot of things to different people. It is a word that encapsulates words like intuition, God, spirit, wisdom, anything that starts to drive at the heart of the soul and inspiration. Swami finds that Angels are playful and invite us to live in a way that doesn’t focus on hardship and struggle. This was highlighted when he went to a third world country and saw tons of children, initially feeling bad about their living conditions. That notion was turned on its head when he saw how the children played with one another, truly embracing a joy he hadn’t seen in American children in years.

Finding Openings

As adults we have a tendency to think we have to make massive shifts in our life to change. That’s not true though. We all can make tweaks in our day to begin down a path of change. It can just start with consciously petting your dog, or cat (or llama) and take a few minutes to step out into nature. The same goes for meditation—you don’t have to wait until you have a whole 30 minutes to an hours to center yourself and take a few deep breaths.

Authenticity

One thing that myself, Swami, and any other coach or guru will bring up is that you need to be authentic to yourself. But what does that really mean? Authenticity gets used so much nowadays that it can seem like a buzzword—just a little hollow and devoid of any practical meaning. But that’s not the case at all. Take for instance that some research shows that people are sometimes afraid to be happy—with women especially feeling guilt or shame when they achieve some amount of happiness. Swami has vey simple, effective meditations that you can do along with us in the episode to help remove any of that negativity and get closer to your authentic happiness.

OrangeCowboy.com

Dr. Nekeshia Hammond is the TV show host of “Parenting Explained with Dr. Hammond” and the author of “ADHD Explained: What Every Parent Needs to Know”. On top of that, she’s a speaker, psychologist, and business owner of Hammond Psychology and Associates (which has been featured on NBC, ABC, and CBS). She is a total wealth of information around parenting strategies—especially with children who have been diagnosed with ADHD.

Road to Here

Dr. Hammond had a dream of opening a practice while she was in graduate school and help children and families. However, she noticed a couple of years in that while she loved what she did in her office—there was a whole world of other people she would never be able to reach. So, she entered the media world where she was able to reach a much larger population of families that have children with ADHD.

Clinical Diagnosis

The term ADHD has been thrown around as a buzz word and blanket diagnosis by the general public, and even some doctors, for years. A child may have bad grades, have trouble focusing at times, and have bouts of hyperactivity—but that doesn’t necessarily mean the child has ADHD. Dr. Hammond looks at the whole picture, the child’s health, issues at home, to see if the detriment in their life is truly caused by those symptoms. Many people have these symptoms but it doesn’t affect their academic or social life.

Challenges

Self-diagnosing and misdiagnoses can have really negative effects on children as they grow up. They think that they aren’t normal, and may blame issues in their life on a condition that they don’t even have. It can affect how children socialize and put large dents in their self-esteem—and not child needs to feel like they are in a box because of a diagnosis.

Moving Forward

The first step in moving the conversation about mental health forward is for everyone to realize that each individual person has mental health—it’s not some term that only applies to people who are suffering from depression or other clinical disorders. Also take time to educate yourself on disorders that affect your family members and other coworkers—it’s insulting to say things like “Oh, he’s so bipolar” or “she’s always so depressed”. Learn what symptoms manifest in those around you so you can better understand them, not group them into categories to ostracize them.

Links

DrNekeshiaHammond.com

James Williams

After leaving a 12 year career that was no longer fulfilling him or showcasing all he knew, James Williams started his Chapter 2.  He got back in touch with his passion for people and human potential and impacting the lives of others. In following his passion and striving for mastery, he aims to be the catalyst in the lives he serves. He is a high-performance coach that works with entrepreneurs to reach their highest levels of performance and potential.  Now his focus rests on working with female entrepreneurs through programs he runs with his wife, Emily Williams.

Chapter Two

Working in television, James discovered he was trying to reinvent himself all the time in the space. He was learning new skill sets, working in different departments—but it was all motivated externally to impress others or just earn more money. It wasn’t until he met his wife, Emily, that the catalyst caught on and took him into his Chapter 2. This was equal parts exhilarating and scary for James. He was awed by a whole world of opportunity and possibility, but he was still in the midst of finding what passion light him up completely on the inside. He would soon find that passion was people.

The biggest turning point in leaving television was realizing that the environment wasn’t toxic in itself per se, but that James found that he was just being toxic in that environment—in that confined space.

Getting Over the Growth Edge

In his first year of Chapter Two, James entered what he calls a “messy middle”. This was a time where he floundered a bit in understanding himself and his new path. He found himself blaming others and everything around him instead of taking responsibility. When he stopped, thought, and accepted that he was responsible for his choices—he realized something. He couldn’t control his base reactions to things, but he could change how he felt and acted after reacting. Narrowing the gap between reaction and choice was key in James growing as a person and entrepreneur. He found that if it took him a long time to crawl out of a ditch, it was because he wasn’t putting in the work himself to get out.

Links

Iheartmylife.com

Gary Stuart is a master constellation facilitator, author, and speaker who has been documenting his healing experiences over the last several decades. As a young student of primal therapy and shamanism, his insightful writings provide a unique perspective on the correlation between the micro and macro cosmos between our inner and outer worlds. He speaks and leads healing workshops and trainings around the world and resides in Rancho Mirage, California. His latest book is Master Your Universe: How to Direct and Star in Your Own Life.

Constellations

When Gary is talking about constellations he’s not exactly talking about the Big Dipper and Orion. Everything alive has movement and takes up space. Families and relationships included. Gary looks at these bonds as constellations and the subconscious forces that shape, intertwine, or tear apart our most important relationships and family dynamics. You don’t see them every day, just like gravity, and these systems have just as much hidden as you can see of them.

Empowerment

Especially when it comes to women, there is a deep storied history of oppression that shows up in the overarching constellations of history. You can trace back struggles for women’s suffrage and other rights and see how they have impacted society and individuals today. But it doesn’t just have to be large scale events that affect our constellations—an issue between your grandmother and mother can shape your constellation in hidden ways as well. Reflecting on your constellation can help you find out what has been holding you back and who has been holding you up. It can help you find your voice, passion, and drive to do more, do better, and realign your own destiny.

This may be easier said than done. A common barrier to shucking the old way of doing things is guilt. A feeling that you don’t deserve to give something up and seek a better alignment. But guilt is there to keep you in your cage. That feeling of guilt and entitlement will disappear once you do it and empower yourself.  

Links

Gary Stuart Healing

Lisa Dadd is a career and lifestyle strategist, experiential learning facilitator, transformation speaker—and the author of Finding Fabulous. After obtaining her master’s degree in sport’s medicine, she entered the corporate world of health care where she spent 15 years in sales and management roles. (Lisa and I have a lot in common here). 5 years ago she shrugged off the corporate life to find more meaning, purpose, and fun. She shared her story at a TedX talk titled “The Two Most Liberating Words You’ll Ever Say”. She blurs the line between work and play using fun and unique learning principles to help individuals redefine success on their own terms.

Play

How many times have you heard people talk about “work – life balance”? It doesn’t exist, right? The two aren’t separate from each other, we only have one life and work is a part of it. Lisa approaches the uneven keel of life from a center of play. But what does that mean? For Lisa, play is a way of showing up, a way of being—a spirit if you will. She finds play a powerful way to move ourselves forward. We can all play ourselves to greatness. So say you’re a leader in a corporate, serious environment. Play can help make discoveries, view problems from new angles, and transcend our current state of knowledge.

Transformation

Lisa says she is a recovering perfectionist. Stepping into a more entrepreneurial lifestyle later in life forced her to shift away from perfectionism, and embrace the mess. If you can’t do that then you suffer really quickly. Learning to play in the ambiguity and unknown of being a leader, whether it is in the corporate world or your personal one, was the key to transforming for Lisa. There are tough moments ahead, moments where you won’t know all the answers and be perfect. Giving yourself permission to play at these times helps eliminate stress, anxiety, and fear. You can always play differently next time.

Links

LisaDadd.com

Dr. Minette Riordan has successfully built a multimedia publishing company, turning a small quarterly newspaper into a monthly magazine with a circulation of 50,000 copies distributed in over 300 locations. She is an award-winning entrepreneur and bestselling author. After selling her publishing company she moved her family to Santa Barbara and now runs a thriving coaching and training company from their home.

Two words come to mind instantly when Dr. Minette thinks of what leadership means today: integrity and vulnerability. She believes you have to align your internal integrity with how you are showing up in the world on the outside, first and foremost. The vulnerability comes from looking at where she has been hiding in her own life and finding the courage to expose those places to enter a space where she can lead more efficiently and heart felt.

Vulnerability

Many people find it hard to believe that thought leaders and coaches don’t have everything figured out. While they may have 8/10ths of their life figured out, those 2 left over may really be holding them back and be the hardest to get to the root of. For Dr. Minette, she wanted to know what was stopping her from going faster with her business and getting more visibility. She realized that she was hiding in plain sight and noticed that people can pick up on that. In bringing out more of her interior mess into the external world she found that others were able to relate to her better. Not only that, but putting her vulnerabilities out there garnered her an audience—one that helped hold her accountable to making the changes in her life where she needed them.

Community

Looking for help and community to help hold you accountable as well? Head to MinetteRiordan.com/lovenotes to continue the conversation with Minette and also find her Facebook community.