The Query

"It's hard to regret anything that's taught, shown, or revealed something to you - especially relationships." ~ Robert Pruitt. In our quest to seek out the new - before moving forward - Pruitt encourages us to seek clarity about what we've learned from the old. We talk re-engaging love, dating, and marriage after break-ups, separation, and divorce. If soul mates are real? The critical distinction between warning flags and deal breakers (where's your list?) And the importance of dating yourself first.

Credits:

Robert Pruitt (www.robertpruitt.com)

Music: "Former Fiancé" - by Electric Cowbell (CSC Funk Band)

Audio Editor: Alicia Barrett

Data scientists believe the art of modern dating to be lost. We invite Robert Pruitt: life coach, author, and international motivational speaker, to guide us back to foundational principles of dating, and relationships. Are our beliefs sabotaging our success? Are we clear about the rules and messages upon which we live our lives, and how they drive our choices? Can healthy and unhealthy co-exist? Pruitt shares why our answers matter, and how they serve as a source of who and what shows up in our lives.

Credits:

Robert Pruitt (www.robertpruitt.com)

Music: "Former Fiancé" - by Electric Cowbell (CSC Funk Band)

Audio Editor: Alicia Barrett

What keeps us from experiencing the love we say we want? We answer listener questions... and discuss: resolving guilt, the importance of honesty, loyalty to family patterns, staying together for the kids, unhealthy marriages, the courage to walk away, the pain of staying, how to stop blowing up our lives... and more.

Credits:

Ken Kizer (www.kenkizer.com)

Music: 'Former Fiancé'–by Electric Cowbell (CSC Funk Band)

Audio Editor: Alicia Barrett

"Love isn't all we need. We need direction." That's what Ken Kizer: spiritual life coach, expert leader in conscious breathwork, relationships, and astrology, wants us to know. In this first two-part episode of our 'Men, Wisdom, Love & Relationships' series–Ken directs us on finding the love of our lives–by consciously attracting, creating, and sustaining the relationships we most desire.

Credits:

Survey Reveals Just How Many People End Up With Their True Love

Ken Kizer

Music: 'Former Fiancé'–by Electric Cowbell (CSC Funk Band)

Audio Editor: Alicia Barrett

Inspired by the Caroline Myss TEDx Talk 'Choices that can Change your Life' we discuss the principle and power of Choice. Mainly you'll hear about: - the energetic distinction between choice and decision - different types of choices and why they matter - how belief systems drive the direction of our choices - the essentialness of integrity - the necessity of personal development - shifting from victimization and fear into empowerment; and - why having a foundation to sustain our choices isn't really optional.

REFERENCES / CREDITS:

Caroline Myss. TEDx Talk

Portions of information shared herein are informed in part from the following organizations curricula: - Because I Matter, LLC - Inner Visions Institute for Spiritual Development

Music: Burning by Tri-Tachyon

Producer: Oleksandr Hedz

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Last year, 2018 was predicted to be the "Year of Woman". Countless women emerged from the shadows of silence, fear and shame into solidarity, to radicalize movements like Me Too and Times Up—which advocate against sexual violence and unequal treatment of women. Yet many voices remain missing from these conversations and movements. We discuss the absence of men, LGBTQIA community, minorities and the church, whose experiences of sexual violence and trauma remain silenced in the face of newfound solidarity.

REFERENCES / CREDITS:

Experts: Males Also Are Victims of Sexual Assault. Department of Defense. J. Garamone

Sexual Assault and the LGBTQ Community. Human Rights Campaign

Music: Burning by Tri-Tachyon

Producer: Oleksandr Hedz

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In her interview with Krista Tippett, civil rights icon Ruby Sales invites us to look into the collective consciousness of where we hurt. Sales "unsettles some of what we think we know about the force of religion in civil rights history, and names a "spiritual crisis of white America" as a calling of this time." We discuss how historical shame in the white community has designed attitudes of denial and minimization towards the minority experience–and how wounds cannot heal until they cease being touched.

REFERENCES / CREDITS:

Where Does It Hurt? with Ruby Sales (Mp3 interview and Transcripts) – Krista Tippet

Where Does it Hurt?: Overcoming the Pain of White Supremacy with Ruby Sales – The Roundtable

Intercultural Development Continuum (IDC™) – IDC describes a set of knowledge/attitude/skill sets or orientations toward cultural difference and commonality that are arrayed along a continuum from the more monocultural mindsets of Denial and Polarization through the transitional orientation of Minimization to the intercultural or global mindsets of Acceptance and Adaptation.

Music: Burning by Tri-Tachyon

Producer: Oleksandr Hedz

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In our most difficult show to date, recorded on the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and days after more racist remarks from President Donald Trump color negotiations for the protection status of black and brown immigrants; we look beyond a moment into how the international legacy of systemic racism has set a precedent of deciding which human life is valued, entitled, and worthy. While exasperation aggravates Manaz's feelings of separation, Melinda hopes in those working to make our world better.

REFERENCES / CREDITS:

Divided island: How Haiti and the DR became two worlds

History of Haiti by Bob Corbett, August 1999

The Emergency by Ben Taub, The New Yorker

Music: Burning by Tri-Tachyon

Producer: Oleksandr Hedz

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Forgiveness is often a word visited upon us by way of religiosity, spirituality, morality, addiction and recovery. Yet more than just a word that can be pressed upon us–forgiveness is a process that we get to practice until the weight of what we've been holding is cleared from our minds, bodies, energy and environments. Forgiveness is ours to both create and receive, in ways which invite us to tell our whole truth, feel all our feelings and care for ourselves along the way. Today, we examine this and more.

REFERENCES / CREDITS:

• Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything, Iyanla Vanzant • Justice Matters, Mona Sue Weissmark – Justice as intergenerational, as interpersonal, and as compassion • Still Mostly True: Collected Stories and Drawings, Brian Andreas • The Forgiveness Handbook, Rev. Canon Marianne Wells Borg • The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, Simon Weisenthal

Music: Burning by Tri-Tachyon

Producer: Oleksandr Hedz

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Along with Trump, natural disasters and women's rights, Melinda talks surrendering attachments, new cast of clarity in her worldview, no longer fearing death, sitting with Koans, and Zen training. Manaz talks being okay with loving someone from her past, newfound sensual and sexual energy, relationship equality, and staying out of the Universes business. In our final episode this year, we share our most impactful moments, learnings and resolves, about 2017!

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Music: Burning by Tri-Tachyon

Producer: Oleksandr Hedz

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