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If you're an author who is interested in creating socially conscious content, this episode is for you. UpLevel co-founder Christie Mann, an expert in creating socially conscious literature, is here to debunk common myths and provide you with valuable tips to bring your book ideas to life. 

Today’s episode: Christie Mann, "How to Birth Your Socially Conscious Children's Book"

Key takeaways:
📚Develop engaging book ideas that promote social consciousness in children.
📚Navigate the publishing and marketing process for children's books.
📚Establish a cohesive marketing strategy for success.
📚Generate excitement for your book launch.
📚Craft meaningful content with themes of depth, light, and consciousness.

Why is this information important to us? We're on a mission to ensure more socially-conscious content is created and published. We believe in supporting aspiring authors like YOU, especially now more than ever!

Thank you for joining us on this journey of learning, loving, and upleveling.

About Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC:
Christie is a Best-selling Author, Executive Coach, learning consultant, speaker, and Meditation + Embodiment teacher who designs, delivers, and facilitates transformational content and experiences. Her business leadership experience over the past two decades in marketing, operations, sales, business development, strategic partnerships, and learning & development has allowed her to work with some of the world’s leading brands and organizations. 

She possesses a rare ability to create larger organizational visions and make things real while achieving and exceeding targets, operating profitable P&Ls, and leading empowered teams who take responsibility for their results and their worlds.  

She is a proud member of CTI’s (the world’s oldest and largest in-person coach-training school) and The Trium Group’s - Faculty and Organizational Coaching teams, delivering courses and coaching leaders in over 100 countries across the Globe. Christie has a Masters in Spiritual Psychology and holds a B.A. in Media Information and Technoculture from the University of Western Ontario. 

She is the creator of the Emotional Leadership Academy, a 6-week Virtual Intensive, developed after the overwhelming response from adults with the release of The Adventures of Lil’ Sass, a series of emotional wellness books for young people. In awe of children’s resilience and emotional flexibility, she champions adults’ rights to have and express emotions too. 

When she’s not in the classroom, writing, on her mat, or in the boardroom, Christie is bringing leadership development tools to the vulnerable youth incarcerated in Southern California and Ontario, Canada. A stand for humanizing the workplace, Christie works with individuals and organizations to support them to UpLevel all areas of Well-Being and ignite their true potential.

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This week, we’re celebrating International Coaching Week by spending time with some of the coaching industry’s elders. We explored the essence of coaching, their coaching journies, and their thoughts on the future of coaching. We also discussed the need for openness, systemic change, and tackling issues like diversity and racism. Each elder offered valuable guidance for coaches and those interested in personal growth. Listen to this episode and help us celebrate coaching's power to transform lives and create positive change through a practical and co-active approach.

In This Episode:

- The concept of Eldership in families and communities

- The responsibility of being an Elder

- The value of different coaching tools and approaches

- The importance of an interpersonal and systemic approach

- The role of co-active coaching in creating common ground and goals

- The dismantling of privileged viewpoints and acknowledging unconscious behavior

- The importance of caring for oneself emotionally

- Regrets and learning from past mistakes

- The collective coaching model and incorporating themes like courage and vulnerability

- Co-active coaching as a way of being with people

- The future of coaching as a ubiquitous skill

- Acceptance of oneself and letting opportunities come organically

- Importance of balance and handling both good and bad times.

Guests:
Jeff Jacobson, Professional Coaching Services
Eric Kohner, Founder ekcoSYSTEM
Kelly Jones-Waller, ENGAGE Leadership Solutions, LLC
Anne Grete Mazziotta, Founder, North Star Coaching
Helen House, MCC, CPCC

Metaphor: Co-active coaching is like the trunk of the tree, with many branches that will forget what the trunk is. The impact of co-active coaching will infiltrate the world in a way that we cannot foresee right now, becoming a way of being with people.

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Emily Cardamon, Global Coaching and Talent Activation at lululemon, CPCC, PCC, joined The UpLevel Podcast for this week's episode. Emily shared the inspiring story of how she and her colleagues created an empowering coaching program at lululemon. 

She also talked about how starting a coaching program doesn't require a big budget, structure, or fancy surveys and how it's possible to take it one step at a time and allow it to grow. 

Emily highlighted the importance of coaching and how it positively impacts employee engagement, clarity of vision, empowerment, and retention rates. She dove into the coaching culture and how it emphasizes being curious and allowing employees to find solutions on their own. 

Overall, Emily’s journey teaches us about the value of investing in coaching skills and the impact it can have on individuals and an organization as a whole. 

(This is an excerpt from a live webinar about resiliency.)

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

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In this eye-opening episode, Christie Mann & Rachel Baldi, co-founders of UpLevel Productions, discuss the greater impact we're collectively feeling right now and offer a call to action for what we can do to better support our mental health journies.

In this episode:

• The impact Christie felt from something as simple as rearranging furniture
• The availability of mental health information for marginalized communities
• What to ask when someone is grieving
• A small thing we can do that can make a HUGE impact on someone who is struggling with mental health or grief
• How our conversations about our physical health are creating mental health challenges
• Holding multiple perspectives with neutrality

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

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🎙The tables have turned in this week's episode on The UpLevel Podcast!

It's Christie Mann's turn to be interviewed, and she is joined by her UpLevel Productions co-founder, Rachel Baldi. They discuss Christie's own mental health journey and talk about the powerful tools she uses to help support her mental well-being.

This episode is packed with takeaway tools for you to implement in your own mental health journey. PLUS, stick around for a BONUS guided meditation!

In this episode:

1. Learning how to be aware of your mental health status
2. Being aware you’re in a slump but feeling too stuck to do anything about it
3. Scientific reasons behind emotions
4. The evolutionary purposes of anger and sadness
5. How to support sadness in a healthy way
6. The power of Gestalt
7. Giving your emotions a seat at the table
8. Working with your energetic body + being aware of your energetic field
9. Guided Ego Eradicator meditation
10. A tool for people who struggle with focused meditation
11. The science behind active meditation

About Christie:
Christie is a Best-selling Author, Executive Coach, learning consultant, speaker, Meditation + Embodiment teacher who designs, delivers, and facilitates transformational content and experiences. Her business leadership experience over the past two decades in marketing, operations, sales, business development, strategic partnerships, and learning & development has allowed her to work with some of the world’s leading brands and organizations. 

She possesses a rare ability to create larger organizational visions and make things real while achieving and exceeding targets, operating profitable P&Ls, and leading empowered teams who take responsibility for their results and their worlds. 

She is a proud member of CTI’s (the world’s oldest and largest in-person coach-training school) and The Trium Group’s - Faculty and Organizational Coaching teams, delivering courses and coaching leaders in over 100 countries across the Globe. Christie has a Masters in Spiritual Psychology and holds a B.A. in Media Information and Technoculture from the University of Western Ontario. 

She is the creator of the Emotional Leadership Academy, a 6-week Virtual Intensive developed after the overwhelming response from adults with the release of The Adventures of Lil’ Sass, a series of emotional wellness books for young people. In awe of children’s resilience and emotional flexibility, she champions adults’ rights to have and express emotions too. 

When she’s not in the classroom, writing, on her mat, or in the boardroom, Christie is bringing leadership development tools to the vulnerable youth incarcerated in Southern California and Ontario, Canada. A stand for humanizing the workplace, Christie works with individuals and organizations to support them to UpLevel all areas of Well-Being and ignite their true potential.

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

Come Learn, Love and UpLevel with us!

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Your darkest hours can lead you to a fulfilling life. Irene Vizcarra joins Christie Mann in this episode where she shares her story of a dark period in her life, how she used plants to support her healing and offers suggestions for how you can use plant medicine to support yourself, as well.

In this episode:

• Leaving a comfortable corporate job
• How important it is to have a career that aligns with who you are at the core
• Busting through taboos and myths around plant medicine
• Doing the work and not feeling guilty about being in a positive place
• How to work with plants when you’re experiencing anxiety and depression
• Breaking down taboos around plant medicine
• The benefits of slowing down and drinking tea
• Which plants can help with anxiety
• Which plant can help with anger
• Which plant can help support you through grief
• Which plants can help with depression
• What to watch out for when using plants while you’re also using pharmaceuticals
• Mental health challenges and being an immigrant
• Which plants can help you feel a sense of belonging
• What Oat Straw can help with

About Irene:
Irene Vizcarra is the Founder and Medicine Woman behind Holy Wild. As a Folk Herbalist, Ceremonialist, and Green Witch, she creates all formulas in ritual, leaning on her relationship with the plants, the Spirit realms, and the Earth, to create offerings that are heart-felt and transformational.

https://holywild.me

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

Come Learn, Love and UpLevel with us!

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Everyone knows the pandemic had a massive impact on our physical and mental health. This week's guest has insight on how we can help ourselves get back on track. Jocelyn Pepe joins Christie Mann to talk about paying attention to our physical health and how physical health affects our mental well-being. She also shares some techniques everyone can use to help make taking care of their physical and mental health easier. She also has a special message about teens and what they really need right now.

In this episode:

• Why teens may need extra support with their mental health
• Postpartum depression
• The importance of sleep
• The time when we can get the most restful sleep
• Being as alive as you want to be
• Ultradian rhythms
• Circadian rhythms
• Organizing her week to help reduce anxiety
• Working with your menstrual cycle
• Foods that are good for cognitive function
• Gut health
• Off-the-plate nutrition
• Temperature modulation
• Supporting employees in a holistic way

About Jocelyn:
Jocelyn is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), a Registered Health Coach (RHCTM), a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and a member of the Health Coach Alliance.  

As a global facilitator, Jocelyn has co-created profound change in organizations and been witness to the change that is created when employees are provided with the right tools, resources, and support. 

By partnering with groups and individuals in a journey of self-awareness and self-reflection around their habits and well-being, employees at all levels develop healthier minds, bodies, and souls.  This enables everyone to truly thrive, building stronger relationships with themselves, their co-workers, and their clients.  The result is a thriving, healthy workforce who are highly engaged and resourced to produce and innovate.

As a mother of three, Jocelyn has felt the impact of being highly engaged in her career and yet out of alignment in her overall health and well-being, leading to total burnout.  

Jocelyn is fiercely committed to every individual realizing the benefits of having their physical, mental, and social well-being aligned to thrive personally and professionally.

https://truliving.ca/

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

Come Learn, Love and UpLevel with us!

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Kvon Tucker joins Christie Mann to have an open and authentic conversation about being a black man working on his mental health. He shares how his depression ended up being a blessing and provides actionable tips everyone can do to support their mental health. 

You won't want to miss this conversation! Come Learn, Love, UpLevel, and help bring awareness to and end the stigma around Mental Health.

In this episode:

• How suicidal thoughts are more common than one might think
• Focusing on just putting one foot in front of the other
• How his struggles led him to his passion
• Getting himself out of autopilot
• Still being depressed after reaching his 6-figure dream
• Removing himself from societal conditioning
• Not having to be filled with rage
• What depression is
• The power of meditation
• Where to start if you’re new to meditating
• Using writing as therapy
• Self-compassion
• How being kind to yourself actually helps you get more things done

About Kvon:
Kvon Tucker is a professionally trained Learning and Leadership Development expert, who has spent a third of his life dedicated to helping leaders, teams, and organizations learn, adapt, and transform. He has helped leaders at Netflix, Amazon, and Google adapt to hyper-growth and tremendous scale through experiential learning and coaching.

https://consciously.one

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

Come Learn, Love and UpLevel with us!

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Tina Meyers joins Christie Mann in this week's episode and gets very vulnerable as she shares about her mental health struggles and how she now uses her own lived experiences to help others discover how courageous they are. She also shares very practical tips you can start doing right away and even walks us through a meditation that helps bring out our inner warriors.

In this episode:

• Tina’s journey with anxiety
• Panic attacks in elementary school and feeling alone
• Being able to own your whole self
• Naming your inner warrior
• The importance of talking about your mental health
• Tips on how to share that you’re struggling with mental health issues
• The benefits of freeform writing
• Establishing healthy boundaries with yourself and others
• Examining how what you’re consuming is affecting you

About Tina:
After working as an environmental and social justice attorney and clean water advocate for several years, Tina was exhausted and felt like she was fighting to no avail, even when she won cases and received national awards. Knowing there must be something more, she switched paths and received her Master's degree in Spiritual Psychology and trained to become a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) with the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI). In working individually and with groups of women leaders and advocates, Tina has successfully combined her advocacy and conflict resolution background with her natural passion and fire to help those who help others.  She founded Tina Meyers Intuitive Coaching in 2016 and Women Advocates Rising in 2018.

Tina now leads women leaders through one-on-one intensive coaching, workshops, conflict resolution, and mastermind programs. Both individual and group work empower women leaders to create a life where they feel more balanced, inspired, joyful and effective at fighting for their cause. Tina’s coaching supports women to get in touch with the answers they already have within themselves and move past any challenges or doubts they might face.

Tina is also global faculty at CTI, where she leads transformational coach training courses.  She was also a manager for four years in CTI’s organizational department, where she brought powerful coaching and leadership development into organizations.  She loves hip-hop dancing, is obsessed with personal growth, and lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with her two kitty babies, Hazel and Neka.

https://www.womenadvocatesrising.com

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

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In this powerful episode, Master Coach Joni Mar shares her experience with her own mental health journey, how the pandemic affected her and how the anti-Asian hate she experienced made her feel.

Also in this episode:

• The time of day when the suicide hotline rings the most
• How the ​​Circadian Rhythm affects our inner saboteur
• What happens when your boundaries aren’t strong enough
• What Joni did to get back to a healthier mental state
• Having the courage to ask for help
• Getting back what you give
• How being alone can be dangerous
• When you need to listen to the outside voices
• How she gives herself time to get out
• The importance of getting out in nature
• Giving people a safe place to talk
• How to fill out an emotional quadrant
• How to not mask an emotion with food or something else
• One particular situation she experienced that was very hateful
• How you could handle a situation if you experience racism
• How having meaningful work helped her mental resilience
• What people who are in a service industry can do to support their own mental health
• The importance of blocking out time for your rest/vacation even if you’re not able to leave the house

Joni Mar is a Vancouver-based Master Certified Coach who works extensively in both Asia and North America, coaching and developing Leaders and their teams in large multinational organizations. As well as leading corporate courses for the Co-Active Training Institute in her role as a senior faculty member.

http://www.jonimar.com

About UpLevel Productions:
Founded by Christie Mann, MA, CPCC, PCC, and Rachel Baldi, CPCC, PCC, UpLevel creates, produces, and delivers Transformative Experiences, Workshops, Training, Events + Media that develop leaders who make our world a healthier, more alive, and connected place to be. As Associate CTI Faculty Partners, UpLevel is licensed to sell, produce and deliver Co-Active coach training and leadership development programs around the world to support the transformational growth of individuals and culture inside the workplace and organization.

Come Learn, Love and UpLevel with us!

www.uplevelproductions.com
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Facebook & LinkedIn @uplevelproductionscompany

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