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RD Weeks believes in a fun-filled life fueled through authenticity. He is on a mission to inspire and support others to share their authenticity to the world. At his first networking event after College, RD didn’t have the courage to share his authenticity by speaking with other attendees. Since that event 8 years ago, he made a promise to get more confident in his public speaking and help others do the same. RD has supported others to develop their public speaking skills and let their authenticity shine through his coaching programs and workshops. RD is focused on having fun, while making his job obsolete in our world.

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Also in regards to the offer I don't have any discounts I provide anymore for 1-on-1 and there isn't a virtual workshop around the launch date for when I use discounts. However, if we can emphasize another statement to share their public speaking questions with me through a direct message on Instagram or Linkedin with the title:" Kristen's Epic Podcast" I'll be happy to answer their questions directly! 

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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s solo episode! Today I am going to be speaking about core values. I have found in with working with my clients that identifying and defining your core values is really the foundational first step in cultivating holistic well-being because they are the compass you use in making decisions, a guide for how you want to show up and move in this world and they will be the root in how you go about cultivating all 8 pillars in your life. 

Today I will be covering several aspects of core values such as defining what they are, what influences them, conscious versus unconscious values, what happens when we are aligned with, honoring and expressing our values, what happens when we are misaligned, compromising or experiencing a conflict of values, how to discover and define YOUR core values and how to put your values into practice.

Now it’s time for you to do the work! Download the worksheets and carve out some quiet time to do them. If you have questions about any of the material covered in todays episode or about the worksheets send me a DM on IG, FB or linked in or shoot me an email at [email protected]. Additionally, if you would like to set up a free 30 minute discovery call with me to explore how 1:1 coaching can support you in your growth journey, go to my website www.wideningyouraperture.com and fill out the contact form. As a special thank you for being a listener of The Widening Your Aperture Podcast use code TWYAP2023 to get 25% off all 1:1 ala carte sessions and coaching packages! Have a great rest of the week and tune in next Monday for another epic conversation with a familiar voice from Season 1!

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“Yes. Of course. I’d be happy to. It’s no problem at all.”

Sheryl Green has taken “people-pleasing” to Olympic levels. For decades, she put everyone else’s needs above her own… until she hit a metaphorical brick wall.

After committing to one-too-many responsibilities, Sheryl discovered the importance of boundaries… okay, she actually discovered that boundaries were even “a thing.” Now, she works with individuals and organizations to establish healthy boundaries to improve relationships,  communication, and well-being.

“Goth” as a teenager, Sheryl dreamed of being an FBI Profiler and hunting down serial killers. She earned a Master’s Degree in Forensic Psychology but decided against spending her days in the minds of criminals. Instead, she has worked in Mental Health, Customer Service, Public Relations, Education, and the Non-Profit world. This brings a unique blend of experience and insight to her audiences.

Sheryl is the author of six books (of her own), including her latest, “You Had Me at ‘No’: How Setting Healthy Boundaries Helps Banish Burnout, Repair Relationships, and Save Your Sanity.”

She is also an avid animal advocate, dedicating her life to providing a voice for those who cannot speak. She donates her time, talent, and money to animal welfare organizations.

When she’s not working, she’s spending time with her husband and their two fur babies, doing yoga, and tending to a small jungle’s worth of houseplants.

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Hello friends and welcome back for season two of The Widening Your Aperture Podcast! There’s been a bit of a gap since the ending of season one and I wanted to use this intro episode to share the changes I have made to the format as well as share a little bit about what’s in store for season 2. 

Last season the focus of the podcast was personal stories of transformation. While that is still an important undercurrent in season 2, we widen the aperture and look deeply at how to cultivate holistic well-being using an eight pillar framework. In the process of building your holistic well-being foundation you are also becoming the best version of yourself, which already exists, you just have to step into it. The word thrive means something different for everyone, for me it it means that I am flourishing and expanding. These definitions may resonate with you, but ultimately, you get to define what holistic well-being and thriving mean to you and what that looks like in your unique human experience. My guests this season will also share what they think it means to thrive in life at the end of each episode. The process of creating holistic well-being will look different for everyone. For me, in this season of life, this process is re-identifying who I am now after all of these major life changes and then fostering, aligning and integrating the 8 pillars of my life. This is, and will always be, a work in progress.

My guests this season are what I consider to be subject matter experts on the topics that they speak to in each pillar. They cover a vast breadth and depth of knowledge, and they serve in a variety of career paths such as coaching, solopreneurship, medicine, public speaking, organizational psychology, writing, and financial advising just to name a few.  You can expect episodes with relevant how to’s and information on each of the eight pillars of holistic well-being. I am also very excited to share a monthly special episode called Wide Open Aperture that will air on the second Wednesday of every month. My cohost is my favorite human who also happens to be my brother, Brian. These episodes will be off the cuff, somewhat lengthy, and funny conversations about current events, books we’ve read, podcasts and documentaries we’ve enjoyed, the hard things we are doing, our wins of the month, and our attempts to solve some of the what the fuck’s of life. These episodes will also serve as an AMA opportunity for listeners! If you have a question, a hard decision that you want some outside perspective on, unsolicited life advice, or just want to vent your own what the fuck to be acknowledged and validated, send us an email at [email protected] Lastly, this season you can also watch all of the guest conversations and Wide-Open Aperture episodes on YouTube. As always, links will be provided in the show notes.

My favorite quote is from Ram Dass “we are all just walking each other home”. I would be honored to walk with you. My ultimate intention for this podcast is to step into my full potential and guide others to do the same. Together we strive for mastery in all areas of our lives, and yet accept the paradox, that mastery is never fully available to us. I love discovering the many complexities of the human experience and I consider it my mission to elucidate those complexities into manageable steps that makes sense and are easy to accomplish. I hope to provide you the tools, resources, and wisdom, so that you can take each of those steps with confidence. And now, welcome to season two of The Widening Your Aperture Podcast. My name is Kristen Henry, and I, along with this seasons guests, look forward to meeting you on our shared journey to holistic well-being and thriving in life.

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• Biju Kewalram has 30+ years of C-level and management board experience. 
• He has been CIO, COO, CEO, Chief Digital Officer and Chief Transformation Officer in organizations ranging from start-ups with 20 people to global multi-nationals in the logistics industry with almost 20,000 people. 
• He has a special emphasis on teams & technology for Digital Transformation and has spent most of his career at the intersection of people, technology, and process to achieve transformational results. 
• He has a passion for teaching and is a guest lecturer at the Global Logistics Professional Program at CSULB / CITT, where he focuses on the role of technology. 
• He is currently the principal of Transformation Core, a board and executive advisory firm where he has developed his own framework to power Digital Transformation initiatives. Transformation Core’s tag line, “technology is not enough”, illustrates his belief that multiple elements, included in the Transcore™ framework, are equally important for using technology to respond to disruptive change.
• He says that he has realized over the years that people, not just technology, are the building blocks of organizational transformation. This has made him a passionate believer in the power of Agile as a transformational set of team practices. 
• Biju can be found on LinkedIn and on X @Bkewalram

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Kristen Henry is a Certified Professional Midlife Transitions and Holistic Wellbeing Coach and host of The Widening Your Aperture Podcast. After experiencing several major midlife transitions simultaneously, she made the decision to leave her 14-year career in healthcare to enroll in the Coach Training Program through The Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) which led to her jumping into the wild world of entrepreneurship and starting her private coaching practice. She immediately began cultivating a community that strives to guide, inspire, empower and support individuals on their human experience journey. In her private coaching practice, Kristen creates a safe space for her clients, meets them where they are, and partners with them in facilitating a process that leads to self-discovery and decision making as they navigate various midlife transitions and identity shifts. Working with Kristen, clients will learn valuable tools and resources that will strengthen their resiliency and develop their transitional intelligence, giving them the ability to navigate future transitions with more ease while maintaining their holistic wellbeing through the process. 

Utilizing 1:1 coaching, group coaching, online education, podcasting, community and retreats that foster a connection with nature, Kristen hopes to impart a positive impact on humanity and raise the collective vibration by empowering each individual’s self-transformation, integration and alignment of body, mind and soul.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

‘A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life’ by Donald Miller - https://amzn.to/3Dx3a8c

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Lauryn Girgenti did all the ‘right’ things, go to school, get good grades, get into university, get a degree (in her case she got two bachelor's and a master's), and land a corporate job. Registering as a Psychologist, she spent 10+ years building a corporate career as a Human Capital Consultant only to realize that doing all the right things is neither a guarantee of success nor happiness. This was the inflection point and catalyst for radical change in both her life and career, including founding her own company Laurintium, where she supports emerging to mid-career professionals to find more freedom, fulfillment, and purpose by re-defining their careers and unleashing their potential. 
 

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Richelle Jessey is a former HR/Training Development Manager turned Business and Mindset Coach for female coaches looking to scale their coaching business so they too can escape their 9-5 doing work they're passionate about!

While in her previous 9-5 career, Richelle discovered the coaching industry and the personal impact it had on her colleagues and the organization as a whole. This intrigued her enough to pursue a yearlong coaching certification from iPEC (Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching), so she could master the skills needed to guide others to achieve their highest potential.

After successfully launching a leadership coaching business, she had others in her network seeking guidance on creating, launching, and scaling a business. While feeling her passion being pulled from leadership coaching to business coaching, Richelle developed the Side Hustle to Main Hustle Coach Academy which is her signature methodology that walks her clients through a proven framework for scaling a coaching business in a way that combines mindset work that is critical for the entrepreneurial space and industry-leading business essentials for building a sustainable, results-driven coaching business.

Her clients have achieved results that include:

• Leaving their 9-5 during the 6-month academy,

• Selling out their services,

• Increasing the pricing (and sales!) of their services,

• Gaining PR and collaboration opportunities,

• Increased inquiries from ideal clients, and more!

She is passionate about empowering women to build the life and coaching business of their dreams so they can experience time and financial freedom doing work they love! When not coaching, Richelle enjoys traveling, exploring new restaurants, wine tasting, and enjoying time with friends and family!

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Jana Day is Leadership Development and Career Coach and Consultant. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation, EQ-I, EQ360 and PQ Certified Coach.

Jana's coaching practice developed from years of working with executive leadership, and organizations and finding competitive and cutting-edge solutions. She has worked with highperformance leaders in Fortune 100 companies and supported Academy Award® and Emmy Award® winning crews. Her first Emmy Award® winning crew was Steven Spielberg’s Animaniacs and her first Oscar crew was with Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse. At the moment, her primary client is Nickelodeon Animation.

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Danielle Dvora is a Kabbalistic Astro - Coach.

Danielle served the IDF for 5 years, she became a squadron commander and managed over 1000 soldiers, commanders and officers. She has experience in managing large groups of people from all over the world. Danielle has worked with the Israeli ministry of education, welfare and municipal affairs. Danielle was often sent on short-term assignments to manage and improve the organization's structure. Her focus was on yielding results, creating efficient processes and to identify & refine the organization's culture. Danielle served in the units competent to command disadvantaged populations and youth at risk, back then, she fell in love with the sense of vocation that surrounded her role. That's why she decided to sign permanently for another three years beyond the mandatory service. Danielle took three extensive courses that specialize in command, leadership, management and organization.

For the last 4 years she has been a student of Kabbalah and currently serves as a mentor for groups of students in the basic courses of Kabbalah. In the last 2 years she studied Kabbalistic astrology, and took a coaching course. Her vision is to create a unique mixture between Kabbalistic astrology and coaching, to raise awareness and encourage people to step out of their comfort zone in order to stimulate spiritual and material development, realize their full potential and achieve the "impossible". Just like it happened and continues to happen to her in her personal life.

Danielle is married and lives in NYC. In her spare time, she educates herself in business management, currently writing a book of poems and a TV series.

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