Think Out Loud With Me

Some of us are on a mission to bring voice to lived experiences, putting a microphone in front of humans to share stories and relatable journeys with the world. We have a particular level of curiosity and knack for engagement that draws out characters and plots and allows us to fade in to scenes of life that are especially meaningful and packed with perspective. I’m one of those. My guest in this episode is another.

Chris Denson is marketer, multimedia host, bestselling author, and former stand-up comic. He has spent his career building better companies, launching new ideas, and giving rise to cultural tastemakers through awe- inspired experiences, content, and advisory. Echoing an award-winning career across entertainment, marketing, media and technology industries, Chris has valuable insights, practices, and resources to thrive in an always- evolving cultural and technological landscape.

He has done this alongside The United Nations, Fast Company, Omnicom Media Group, MullenLowe, The Emmys, Cannes Lions, MassChallenge, HubSpot, Google Launchpad, The Obama Administration, and authored the 2018 #1 bestselling book, "10 Essential Rules for Breaking Essential Rules.” He is also trained and experienced in trauma response, body movement, meditation, and psychedelic facilitation.

Listen in. I stalked Chris and hold him down long enough to have a fantastic conversation. Here are the highlights:

🦁 Recap of Live from Cannes Lion with 🤖 Zeke, the Co-Host with the (Al)most
🥣 Soup Fixin's of AI, Innovation, Transition, Human Interaction
🤦🏽‍♂️ LOL'ing and Ideating with a Recovering Comedian
🧠 Growing the Super Power of Your Innovative Mind
🛄 The Innovator's Journey and the Value of Lived Experience
👁️‍🗨️ Visionology: Mental Health as Exploration and Excavation

Connect with and experience Chris Denson in the following ways:

• https://www.chrisdenson.co
• https://www.chrisdenson.co/visionology 
• https://www.instagram.com/densonology
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisdenson/

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My guest in this episode gets it. She gets me. And she gets those of us who struggle with a shitty mindset around money. Listen in as I think out loud with Keri Lynn, The Wealth Alchemist! She is on a mission to shift the wealth consciousness of the planet. She loves helping us learn the energy and mindset to clear whatever is blocking us from increasing our wealth. 

If you were in a relationship with your money right now, what would your status be? Do you even have an awareness of your relationship with money? This is one of many ideas Keri introduces. You'll enjoy the journey we go on, I know it. Here are the highlights!

💰 Money stories - we each have one
🤑 Ours is a culture of indebtedness
🙏🏻 There are no mistakes, even in money
💗 Keri's story and holistic perspective around money
🎥 Manifestation through subtle shifts and your life's movie script
🗣️ Asking for what we want, rather than the breadcrumbs and bare minimum
💭 Last thoughts of giving and new levels of money consciousness

If Keri Lynn's vibe is one you want to explore further, please get in touch. She also has a new book hitting in September I'll share as soon as I can!

• Keri's website
• Keri on Instagram
• Keri on Facebook
• Keri on LinkedIn
• Keri's new podcast, Redefining Normal

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In this fresh episode, I connect with a new friend from #HERNATION.

Former corporate America employee turned entrepreneur, Caren Cooper is a Corporate Trauma Recovery Specialist. She is incredibly passionate about helping women heal from the shackles of life in the corporate lane. Having been a working mom, Caren knows first hand the traumas corporate roles can deliver and how much that trauma plays a role in entrepreneurship and life. Through her signature program Unscrew Yourself, Caren empowers women to harness the power within themselves so that they can show up confidently and authentically as their unique badass selves.

Caren is also a mom of two young adults and is unabashed in her love for Disco and corny jokes. She is known to host dance parties on Facebook, and I adore her for her bravery and sass.

Fast-paced and fun, tune in as Caren and I blaze through an array of topics.

🕰️ Back in the old days of Brooklyn and Monticello
👠 Why ditching a corporate identity is so damn difficult for entrepreneurs
🚷 Ageism is rejection, it's real, and it sucks
🔩 To Unscrew Yourself with Caren, start by sitting in the shit!
🤲 Being grateful ain't about 'shoulding on yourself'

Listen in and take note of the homework she gives at the end. Caren is a sincere and wonderful woman, and I know you'll enjoy broadening your perspective with a bit of hers.

Connect with Caren on her website or [email protected]
Find Caren on social - Facebook or Instagram or LinkedIn

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Meet Kat, a resilient entrepreneur with over 15 yrs of teaching and training, who is on a mission to teach others how to embrace the mantra that everything happens for you, not to you. Fueled by a personal journey through domestic violence & emotional abuse, Kat shifted her narrative from victimhood to empowerment. As a coach, speaker, author, and podcaster she candidly shares her tumultuous path—from teen pregnancy to a decade in an abusive relationship—to inspire others to rewrite their stories.

Kat and I take a trip underground together to think out loud about her journey of healing and reclaiming her life to now live as vibrant and authentic human. 

😊 Gratitude: starting the day with a smile and anticipation
🧎‍♀️ Up and out of abuse: recovering one's self is not easy but has to happen
🧲 The Law of Attraction: framing life in the power What If's
🚸 Setting an example: our kids are watching and learning with us
👯 Partnering with others to let go of fear to face and embrace life
🪷 The lesson of the Lotus: meeting in the mud
💡 Lightbulb moments: choosing yourself and never looking back

You can find Kat online and engage her in your own way. Here are her website and social handles:

Website - www.the-lotus-effect.com
Real Chat with Kat - https://www.the-lotus-effect.com/podcasts
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/katpolsinelli
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/thelotuseffectcoach/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thelotuseffectcoach/

You've heard me talk about Teo. If you're interested in taking your own journey to this land of healing, you should consider getting in touch with my beautiful friends at Freedom Folk and Soul.

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The work and commitment to the details of self-awareness, self-love, self-regulation, self-management, and anything SELF…these details have been of great importance to me over the last many years. As I’ve met and been mentored and connected with others with the same priority of growing emotional intelligence and mental agility, I am amazed at the wisdom, compassion, creativity, and commitment to a greater good those in my growing circle of humans have. We are here to help others. We are surrounded by beautiful people eager to partner with us to heal, thrive, and expand our potential.

I’m excited to introduce you to Chrysta Bairre, my guest with her own unique and fantastic gifts of giving and supporting others. Chrysta is an advocate for herself and others. As a child she grew up in poverty primarily in the Denver area, surrounded by family members with mental illness and addiction, while her own non-apparent disability went unrecognized and undiagnosed. A queer woman with several disabilities, she fought to get the help and support she needed to thrive, and became a voice for unseen and under-served people like herself. Today, Chrysta is a career coach, speaker, and author, and through her leadership as founder of Live Love Work and She Goes High, she helps women create balance, show up in their brilliance, advocate for themselves, and find happiness in work and life. Her book, Beautiful Badass: How to Believe In Yourself Against the Odds, was published in 2020.

We have an emotional conversation. Listen for more on:

👑 Acknowledging and deprogramming privilege
🪢 Finding a brave voice, talking someone off the ropes
💡 Neurodivergence: how we talk about it and react to it
🤲 Inclusion: what it's not and working towards what it is
‼️ Give grace: we are humans first, and we will get shit wrong

Chrysta can be found online at: 

• Website: Live Love Work and She Goes High
• Email: [email protected]
• LinkedIn, Facebook
• Buy her book at your local, independent bookstore or local library!

Chrysta mentions several studies. Here are links:

• Neurotypical Peers are Less Willing to Interact with Those with Autism based on Thin Slice Judgments
• Do Neurotypical People Like or Dislike Autistic People?
• Neurotypical people can quickly detect an autistic person 

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To React or Respond is today's question. At first blush, React and Respond feel similar in meaning, right? Your thesaurus will tell you they are synonyms for each other, and I’m sure we've all used the words interchangeably at some point. But if you’re a communications nut like I am, semantics matter, and a lot is going on between these two words that has me curious.

My guest is a woman I have come to know and respect for her deep commitment to responding to the world around her with love, compassion, and pursuit of justice. Deciphering her role in seeking justice in the face of fear at an early age, Sosamma Samuel-Burnett is the founder of G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice, a nonprofit in Loveland, Colorado, that works to inform, impact, inspire, and provide education and advocacy on local, national, and international justice issues. 

⚖️ Justice: loving when it's hard
🚦 Human trafficking: in everyone's backyard
🪨 Hard stuff: talking about difficult topics
📖 Sosamma's story: on the shoulders of beautiful humans
👩🏽‍🏫 Being a teacher: incubating a future of intention
🏠 Micah Place: connecting for community, culture, and  justice
🤝🏻 Of course, you should: experiencing Sosamma and G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice

We are hummingbirds doing our part. If just one person hears and takes action, and moves in their own life with a sense of compassion and justice because of what Sosamma and I share together, we will have succeeded.

Sosamma and the G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice team can be found via the following links:

Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

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The stress from uncertainty in today's world has many of us feeling drained, worried, or even hopeless. Navigating your way through the day and keeping it REAL when everywhere we look we’re tempted with loaded headlines and soundbites of reasons to run and hide is…well…HARD.

That's why I’m grateful to have connections like my guest, Ariana Friedlander, MPA, founder and principal of Rosabella Consulting. Ariana is an organizational anthropologist, a leadership development expert, and an author. As well, she is a master facilitator, coach, speaker, Certified Conversational Intelligence® Coach,  certified HeartMath mentor, and a trained Breathwork practitioner.

Ariana is someone with whom I can think out loud about hard questions and know I’m going to get an honest perspective. In episode 14, she and I tackle topics worth listening in on, including:

🚨 Trauma response: when you don't recognize yourself
🍬 Oh sweetie: climbing out of Altschmerz and the same ol' shitty sitch
💑 Tonglen and the global vibration of Heartmath
🫥 Circumstances of self-awareness, interpreting thoughts as facts vs perception
💔 Where we are at: a global emotional recession, (dis)trusting ourselves
💡 A brilliant idea: connecting with Ariana as a client

Visit: Website/Newsletter
Connect: LinkedIn
Read and Learn: A Misfit Entrepreneur's Guide to Building a Business Your Way

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Stop. For just a minute. Unclench your f^cking jaw. Drop your damn shoulders. Rub your temples. Take a slow, DEEP inhale through your nose. EXHALE that sh!t out your mouth. Say THREE things you’re grateful for and WHY. Slightly turn up the corners of your mouth. Get on with your f^cking day.

I didn’t write that. My guest did. And now that you’re all relaxed and sh!t, you should know her, too.

She’s Sarai Speer aka The Platinum Giraffe. Sarai is an independent hairstylist educator and Life & Empowerment Coach. She has 8 years of sobriety, is actively recovering from a 30-year Eating Disorder, and is working on her Mental Health Coach Certification. Sarai will tell you she’s slightly obsessed with empowering humans to achieve their goals and GTFO of their own way!

Wow, we dig in. We dig in deep. Healing isn't linear, this conversation isn't linear, and it's all LIFE. We're HUMAN, and we show ourselves - vulnerable, raw, and real. It's incredible to connect with someone with no agenda except to BE. Accepted and worthy. Helped and helping with every story we share. 

This isn't a surface-level casual cast. Sarai and I cover topics of imposter syndrome, addictions, facing demons, the mess of healing, self-awareness, woo and yoga and meditation and therapy and the mental health cocktails we're double fisting, holding brave space and reclaiming our personal power. Healing OUT LOUD.

FOLLOW this woman. She's real. You don't have to be a hairstylist. Just human.

Sarai Speer aka The Platinum Giraffe can be found online and on tour:

Instagram
Website
The Three G's Masterclass
The Vibes Tour

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I found my way here to connect by the water and share space with a beautiful human, Lisa Cheney-Philp. Lisa is Visionkeeper of Women of the Water. She serves as a death doula, grief guide, shamanic practitioner, creative facilitator, artist, and river guide. Lisa belongs to the world as one who rewrites history, one who dwells in river canyons, and one who dreams of the river meeting the sea. As the founder of Women of the Water, she braids together her skills, training, and lived experiences to help us remember the ways and wisdom of water so we can well-tend experiences of death, dying, grief, loss and love and restore Life for generations past, present and future. Lisa has been embedded in Colorado communities and watersheds for over 20 years and currently calls Fort Collins, Colorado, and the Poudre River watershed home with her husband and daughter.

Lisa and I have a beautiful exchange about our personal rivers, the beauty of death, our capacity to experience joy and grief in endings of all kinds, be they life being over, or a relationship, a job, a season, a significant move, or other upheaval in life, major or otherwise. Endings happen every day, and with awareness and openness, we can indeed give and receive the sacred tending needed to alchemize grief into relief. And joy.

Listen in. Lisa's voice and energy are welcoming and sweet, and she is exactly where she needs to be in her role on this planet. Lisa is open to connect and commune by the water with you One-on-One, in Community Grief Circles or Nature Mandala Workshops, and even rowing and growing in unique River Experiences. Most recently, Lisa has created a space where questions and wondering can be exchanged for others to explore death, grief, and loss. To ask a question of your own, contact her in one of the following ways:

[email protected]
Cup of Tea Connection Meetup
Virtual Connection Call

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I LOVE conversation around #mentalfitness, #mentalagility, #mentalmuscles getting stretched, limber, stronger, and ready to engage, flex and perform, no matter the situation. This means the soft, quiet, stuff. This means the vulnerable, courageous, raw stuff. This means the high-impact, charged, under-pressure stuff. And everything in between.

In this latest episode of #TOLWM, I'm joined by Abigail Veliquette, Ph.D., PCC, leadership coach and consultant with Sequoia Leadership Group. Abby and I discuss #positiveintelligence, or #PQ for short, and the value it brings to growing #emotionalliteracy. We're both recovering people pleasers who host a cast of characters in our minds. We're also blessed with the beauty of #choice and the ability to engage our #sagemind in recognizing and regulating our #survivalinstinct beyond #fightflightfreezefawn and into the #loveofpossibility. With everything, there is a gift and an opportunity.

Come think out loud with me and Abby. You'll find the chat at https://www.buzzsprout.com/2032664/15007062 and on every major podcast directory.

Find Abby at https://www.sequoialeadership.co or on LinkedIn.
Try the PQ Assessment and explore Shirzad Chamine's Positive Intelligence.

#connection #community #communication #positivepsychology #mentalmedicine #selfawareness #selfregulation #selfactualization #mentalhealth #mental #mentalhealthmatters #bloomstruck 

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