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It's the second installment of the Best of 2018. Sheri and Nancy went looking for their highest downloaded episodes of the year (and personal favorites) and found three inspiring women who came on the show to share life-changing wisdom.

Mel Robbins helped us stop pressing the snooze buttons of our lives with her powerful "5-Second Rule". Angela Manuel Davis brought us to tears when she unwrapped the layers of possibility for our gifts, our potential, our destiny. And Kris Carr reminded us that we are each the CEOs of our health and it's time to take the wheel when it comes to self-care.

A trivecta of motivation to get us ready for our 2019 Pillar Lives!

Takeaways:

Ep 34: "Mel Robbins and the 5 Second Rule"

● The gap of knowing what we want to do and deciding to actually do it is about 5 seconds long. It may seem like a flash of time, yet it dictates so much of the 35,000 decisions we make in a day. When we lean into this gap, we can take inspired action and we step into our power.

● Procrastination is a symptom of stress and our attempt to relieve it. The more we acknowledge what we are stressed about, we can use Mel's 5 Second Rule to break through those barriers

Ep 35: "Angela Manuel-Davis: Honor Your Body"

● Gratitude changes things. When we start with a simple thank you in the morning for even just getting out of bed, it can shift our day.

● Our body is what houses the gift of our lives. When we understand that, it changes our perspective. The choice is ours for how to honor our bodies.

Ep 42: "Kris Carr and our Crazy Sexy SELVES"

● The more plants and better quality protein we consume, the better we feel and the more positive impact we make on the planet. The name of the game is "progress" not "perfection" when it comes to diet and lifestyle.

● The more we take accountability for our lifestyle choices, the more empowered we become. And if not now when? Midlife can be a sexy, juicy time for self-care, and it is never too late to add better, stronger choices to the mix.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Ep 34: "Mel Robbins and the 5 Second Rule"

Ep 35: "Angela Manuel-Davis: Honor Your Body"

Ep 42: "Kris Carr and our Crazy Sexy SELVES"

Pillar News:

The Pillar Shop is filled with so many fabulous goodies to treat yourself and your loved ones.

Dry Farm Wines — Special Pillar Life Offer: Buy one bottle of wine and get another bottle for just a penny!

Notes To Self Socks are cozy and inspirational. What a perfect Pillar Life accessory.

Beautycounter lipsticks, eyeshadows, facial peels, skin-care products and more, all make cruelty-free beauty that much lovelier. Beauty Comes Clean.

Thanks to our friends at Tea Vibes, we can hydrate, cleanse and calm ourselves while enjoying delicious, bespoke tea blends. Check out the Pillar Life T-TOX collection, which includes the custom-made Pillar Life teas, right here.

This year been a joyride. Sheri and Nancy have talked with some of the most fascinating and inspiring people they've ever met and now they want to share a few of their favorite eye-opening, poignant and hilarious nuggets from 2018.

They upgraded their dreams and pledged to "take it easy" with Deepak Chopra, talked style and sanctuary with Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent, and welcomed in Wabi Sabi love with 'lovemaster' Arielle Ford.

Sher and Nance are fired up for 2019, and can't wait to take their Pillar Lives to the next level, with all of you DreamTribers!

Takeaways:

Ep 18: "Upgrading our Dreams with Deepak Chopra"

● When we deconstruct who we are, what we want, and what our purpose is, we end up with infinite possibilities.

● How to call in your highest purpose? Take it easy. Make your vision as vivid and colorful as possible, relax into being, let go of the effort to make things a certain way, and then surrender to uncertainty.

Ep 24: "Beauty with Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent"

● The middle of life is a time to own your individual style and have fun, not shrink or hide from it.

● Our homes are either transitional or transformational. Even if it's just a small corner of your home, having a space that reflects your highest self is so important.

Ep 17: "Living As If with Arielle Ford"

● We can find perfect love in imperfect relationships.

● Most of the "annoying" habits of our loved ones are things we end up missing immensely when they are gone.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Ep 18: "Upgrading our Dreams with Deepak Chopra"

Ep 24: "Beauty with Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent"

Ep 17: "Living As If with Arielle Ford"

Pillar News:

The Pillar Shop is filled with so many fabulous goodies to treat yourself and your loved ones.

Dry Farm Wines — Special Pillar Life Offer: Buy one bottle of wine and get another bottle for just a penny!

Notes To Self Socks are cozy and inspirational. What a perfect Pillar Life accessory.

Beautycounter lipsticks, eyeshadows, facial peels, skin-care products and more, all make cruelty-free beauty that much lovelier. Beauty Comes Clean.

Thanks to our friends at Tea Vibes, we can hydrate, cleanse and calm ourselves while enjoying delicious, bespoke tea blends. Check out the Pillar Life T-TOX collection, which includes the custom-made Pillar Life teas, right here.

This one is weight-loss gold. And join the DreamTribe! https://www.thepillarlife.com

The holidays are a mixed bag. On one hand, it's the season to celebrate with friends and families, to get cozy with hot cocoa around a fire, to bake gingerbread cookies and sip the sparkly. But for most of us, it's also a time where we feel something missing — whether it's loved ones who have passed, dreams that have not yet materialized, or just a moment's peace in the frenzied bustle.

In this week's episode, Sher and Nance share their own Christmas stories: the good, the bad and the downright sad. And they decide to make this holiday season one of unbridled optimism, no matter what. The holidays are the perfect time to dive into our Pillar Life approach, with a special focus on the Spirituality + Happiness Pillar. Let's all stay happy, healthy and centered this holiday season...and let's keep that Next Right Dream in our sights for the New Year.

Takeaways:

● While Sheri and Nancy each appreciate their Christmas traditions, this time of year can feel weighty with nostalgia and tinged with sadness. Honoring your loved ones that have passed is a holiday tradition that can help us all feel more connected and less alone.

● The first step to moving happily through the holiday season is to observe your gloomy feelings and bring them to the light. Ignoring or denying your emotional rawness will just make it burn stronger.

● Too much focus on gift buying can be stressful. Connecting with a friend over a walk or cup of tea can mean even more than a store-bought item.

● We have the opportunity to change our story and look at December as a time to really focus on our Spirituality & Happiness Pillar.

● Being a Pollyanna is one of the most spiritually powerful things you can do. See the best in your environment and the people around you. This creates positive outcomes; people and situations will show up as reflections of your optimism.

● Trade your presents for presence. Carve out moments during your holiday celebrations to sit with yourself, journal, or do anything that connects you with peace, joy and alignment.

● A few of Sher and Nance's favorite holiday traditions: Baking cookies, lighting Christmas-scented candles, playing carefully curated (happy) holiday music (sorry Charlie Brown and Auld Lang Syne, you make us cry), and cuddling up to great movies like The Family Stone, Elf, White Christmas, and It's a Wonderful Life.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Thymes Company

Pillar News:

The new Pillar Shop site is up and there are so many holiday goodies and fabulous gifts to treat yourself and your loved ones this season.

Dry Farm Wines — Special Pillar Life Offer: Buy one bottle of wine and get another bottle for just a penny!

Notes To Self Socks are the perfect cozy and fashionable stocking stuffers, and they're now available with holiday-themed sayings!

Beautycounter products! The lipsticks, the facial peels, and the skin-care products make cruelty-free beauty that much lovelier. Beauty Comes Clean.

Thanks to our friends at Tea Vibes, we can hydrate, cleanse, and calm our bodies before we deck the halls. Check out the Pillar Life T-TOX collection, which includes the custom-made Pillar Life teas, right here.

A clever solution to an age-old problem. And join the DreamTribe! https://www.thepillarlife.com

How to move a would-be beloved out of the friend zone and into the bed zone? How to reignite the passion of a long-term relationship when things are feeling as stale as week-old bread? In this episode, our Romance + Sex soothsayer Bela Gandhi pops in to give us ingenious tips on how to keep things fresh and sexy in relationships at any stage. Bela says no matter where you are on your relationship trajectory, you should clear at least 30 seconds every day for a melty delicious hug. We LOVE that. Listen in.

Takeaways:

● After dating a series of men that weren't right for her, Bela did her own dating analysis in college and found that true love was in front of her the whole time. Her best friend Andy was really what she was looking for, so she moved him straight out of the friend zone, and 21 years later they are still madly in love (and still great friends).

● One of the first steps to reconnecting in our long-term relationships is to be honest and self-aware when we feel disconnection, and willing to communicate our feelings.

● It's easy for women to look at their partner of many years and see only what's wrong. Things start to shift for both people when each commits to noticing and appreciating the good.

● One of the fastest ways to reconnect? Plan a fun, cool, sexy date night at least once a month. Set the rules of engagement to keep the conversation dreamy and romantic, and leave the talk about the kids, or money worries, or the leaking roof OUT.

● While a long-term relationship is great and works for many, it may not work for everyone. Some relationships have their reasons and their seasons; you don't have to stay and slog it out if it's not working.

● Hug it out! Bela says the 30-Second Hug is a game changer to connect with your loved ones and to regenerate oxytocin.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Bela Gandhi

Create & Cultivate

Pillar News:

The new Pillar Shop site is up and there are so many holiday goodies and fabulous gifts to treat yourself and your loved ones this season.

Dry Farm Wines — Special Pillar Life Offer: Buy one bottle of wine and get another bottle for just a penny!

Notes To Self Socks are the perfect cozy and fashionable stocking stuffers, and they're now available with holiday-themed sayings!

Beautycounter products! The lipsticks, the facial peels, and the skin-care products make cruelty-free beauty that much lovelier. Beauty Comes Clean.

Thanks to our friends at Tea Vibes, we can hydrate, cleanse, and calm our bodies before we deck the halls. Check out the Pillar Life T-TOX collection, which includes the custom-made Pillar Life teas, right here.

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A free gift for the DreamTribe!

Agapi is a tender, joyful spirit, a gifted storyteller, and that friend who will make you name your worry, then help you dance it away. She's also Arianna Huffington's beloved sister and the author of Wake Up to The Joy of You, her new book, a treasure trove of wisdom and feel-good mantras that Sheri and Nancy just can't put down.

Agapi has devoted her life to spiritual work and meaningful interaction, whether it's one-on-one coaching or speaking to packed arenas. She talks with Sher and Nance about how we can all rise from worry to mastery, the conversations we must have with ourselves to come into our soul's true alignment, and some practical tips to get out of our heads full of worry and into our hearts full of joy.

Takeaways:

● Agapi's latest book, Wake Up to the Joy of You, provides "52 meditations and practices for a calmer and happier life." She believes in making it a priority to rewire the brain in order to become a positive creator in your own life.

● Ask yourself: What part of me am I judging? Find the root cause of your anxiety, and bring it to the light.

● The danger of worry is when we project it in the future or ignore it and let it gather steam. When we name it, understand it, and practice healing our present moment, the future will take care of itself.

● Agapi's mother instilled in her and her sister Arianna the wavering faith that "life is rigged in your favor."

● Know your linchpin, that one thing that holds it all together for you. For Nancy it's getting a great night's sleep. She's a 9-hour girl!

● The greatest gift we can give ourselves and the world is to go to bed feeling fulfilled and appreciative of all we did that day, and not to judge or feel guilty about what we didn't get to.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Mary Morrissey

The Wedding Date

[email protected]

Agapi Stassinopoulos

Wake Up to the Joy Of You, by Agapi Stassinopoulos

Pillar News:

The Pillar Shop is brimming with fabulous gifts to treat yourself and your loved ones this holiday season.

Notes To Self Socks are the perfect cozy and fashionable stocking stuffers, and now have holiday-themed sayings!

Dry Farm Wines, the healthier, sugar-and carb-free way to enjoy wine — with nothing added and nothing removed so you can imbibe without a hangover at the holiday party.

Beautycounter products! The lipsticks, the facial peels, and the skin care products make cruelty-free beauty that much more fun.