Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast

As a bestselling Canadian author, inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and blogger, Danielle LaPorte knows a thing or two about the creative process. Listen in as she and Cate talk about how to decide what to put out into the world, how to make your message accessible, receivable, and digestible. 

• How morning rituals change your life
• What you’re worth, how to manifest and speak to your higher self
• What are the core desired feelings 
• How to identify the signs that you love yourself
• What is the desire map
• How to give it to God

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Cate and Danielle talk about . . .

• . . . the creative process and how to decide what to put out into the world
• . . . how to make your message accessible, receivable, and digestible  
• . . . authenticity and transparency 
• . . . identifying your avatar and establishing group culture

• 0:45-2:05 - Introduction. 
• 2:07-4:14 - Danielle talks about her creative process and what motivates her. 
• 4:25-7:18 - Cate relates Danielle’s comments to yoga philosophy, and Danielle expands on that.
• 7:20-11:22 - Making your message accessible/receivable/digestible.  
• 11:23-13:28 - Cate talks about the accessibility of her Body Thrive course.
• 16:38-19:44 - Cate asks Danielle how she decides what to put out into the world. Danielle explains why her own enthusiasm is the first choice point.
• 19:44-23:15 - Danielle talks about ease, resources, and revolutionary membership pricing.
• 23:15-27:58 - Cate and Danielle talk authenticity and transparency.
• 27:59-31:13 - Identifying your avatar and establishing group culture. 
• 31:52-35:30 - Cate talks about Master of You.

• “I am a spark of god, and I’m here to help move things forward. So me just being happy and well and sane and healthy, that’s of service.” --- Danielle LaPorte
• “If we want to grow, we have to deepen integrity. That’s the name of the game. And that becomes increasingly subtle.” --- Cate Stillman
• “Inclusivity is complex.” --- Danielle LaPorte
• “Do it for the love. There’s nothing to prove. . . . Be in the flow. Every idea is there for you. . . . Be receptive.” --- Danielle LaPorte

Danielle LaPorte is a member of Oprah’s Super Soul 100, a group who, in Oprah Winfrey’s words, “is uniquely connecting the world together with a spiritual energy that matters.”

She is the creator of The Desire Map series, “A heart centered approach to finding your true power”. The book has been translated into ten languages, a day planner system, a multimedia course, a Top 10 iTunes app, and workshop and coaching programs with leaders in 15+ countries. She’s also the author of White Hot Truth: Clarity for keeping it real on your spiritual path, and The Fire Starter Sessions: A guide to creating success on your own terms, which also spun off into a coaching curriculum.

She was a bartender, an apartment manager, a nanny, and eventually… she ran her own publicity agency, and a future-studies think tank studying trends for the likes of the Pentagon and the World Bank. Now, she writes poetry and speaks about conscious living. She’s also a mother to a teenage son.

Named one of the “Top 100 Websites for Women” by Forbes, over 5 million people a month visit DanielleLaPorte.com for her regular #Truthbombs and poetry, and what’s been called “the best place online for kickass spirituality.” Marianne Williamson refers to Danielle “as a bright light in the modern priestesshood.” Eve Ensler calls her “a force field of energy, wonder, humor, and love.”

Danielle’s charities of choice are VDay: a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls; and charity: water, setting out to bring safe drinking water to everyone in the world.

She lives in Vancouver, Canada. You can find her on Instagram @daniellelaporte.

Cate reads from her new book, Master of You, and leads us through a five-bodies meditation. Tune in to check in with the koshas - the five sheaths surrounding your true self. Learn how the habits of yogis can help you experience integration, so that you can be an integrated being in spirit, in matter, embodied and resilient.

• A preview of Cate’s new book, Master of You
• An understanding of the koshas - the five sheaths of the self
  

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• Cate reads from her new book, Master of You, and leads us through a five-bodies meditation.

• 0:00-5:47 - Cate reads from Master of You
• 5:48-19:05 - Cate begins the meditation
• 19:06-end - Takeaways from the meditation

• “This is all about engendering deeper rhythms in your life so that you can experience the kind of energy, sleep, focus, and resilience that you are designed to experience.” --- Cate Stillman
• “There are habits that nurture each of the five bodies . . . so that you can experience integration, so that you can be an integrated being in spirit, in matter, embodied and resilient. And these are the habits of yogis. These are the habits of rhythmic living.” --- Cate Stillman

In this episode, Kate O’Donnell joins the Yogahealer Yogidetox group members to give her best advice for seasonal cleansing. Kate is an Ayurvedic practitioner and author of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind, and the forthcoming Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self Care. Tune in to learn how seasonal detoxification can be a study in consciousness, a mental and emotional journey, in addition to a physical process.

• How seasonal detoxification can be a study in consciousness, a mental and emotional journey, in addition to a physical process.
• What to eat to clear out congestion.
• How to shift from long-term, fast-paced lifestyle to a more relaxed pace during a cleanse.
• How to detox during menstruation.
• How to feel nourished and satiated during a cleanse. 
• How to combat dryness in the body.
• How cleanses should differ depending on one’s constitution.

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• Kate O’Donnell fields questions from the Yogahealer Yogidetox group and shares her best advice for seasonal detoxification.

• “In the beginning, it really is about food. It’s often about physical imbalances, sort of getting a handle on habits that are beneficial. The place I find myself at now is it’s like an altered state of consciousness to be undergoing detoxification.” --- Kate O’Donnell

Kate O’Donnell is an author, lecturer, and senior yoga teacher. She wrote two popular cookbooks, The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook and Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind. A nationally recognized Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ashtanga yoga teacher, Kate is a founding member of the Boston Ayurveda School and adjunct faculty for Kripalu School of Ayurveda. She continues her travels to India annually for study and teaches internationally. Connect with Kate on her website and facebook page.

How are you currently designing your life? Is it in integrity with what you really want? If not, listen up as Cate explains how Ayurveda can help you start to take control of your body, your space, your time, and your ability to choose ease over stress.

• How Ayurveda can help you design your body and design your life.
• How to recognize whether you have ama.
• How to befriend your agni and use it to dissolve your ama.

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• 0:00-4:20 - Intro. How can Ayurveda help you?
• 4:20-6:38 - Intuition. Designing your dream life. 
• 6:38-11:46 - Designing your physiology.
• 11:47-13:56 - Increasing your mental capacity and mental clarity
• 16:44-18:18 - The benefits of learning with a group.
• 18:18-21:50 - Healing ancestral patterns.
• 21:50-27:12 - Do you have ama? Three types of ama. Understanding agni.
• 27:22-31:33 - Tips for getting your agni into tip-top shape.

• “One of the biggest benefits for me of living an Ayurvedic lifestyle, of learning Ayurveda as I grow each year, is that I get to design the life I want. I get to design my life through actually designing the habits I want, designing the goals and dreams I want, and a lot of that is based on this deep cellular integrity.” --- Cate Stillman

I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Vikram Chauhan about healing modern Western diseases with Ayurveda. What I love is that he reinforces how the mind, body, and spirit all have to be healed together, the definition of holistic medicine, and how they are all contributors to disease in the physical body. Tune in for a deeper understanding of the lighter and darker sides of your habits: they can cause disease, or be the key for your healing.

• What are the basics of ayurvedic formulas vs. single use herbs
• What causes Autoimmune disease
• How ayurveda views and heals difficult to treat ailments like cancer
• What soul healing has to do with cancer
• Ayurveda for healing Why you want to embody Ayurveda’s, universal energies,  Earth, Water, AIr, Fire and Space - The 5 eternal elements and components of the universe plus the sixth element which is Soul.
• Ayurveda believes in healing of Body-Mind- Soul together, that's why the approach is for holistic healing.
• Dr. Vikram Chauhan uses the ancient knowledge to heal the patients. He sees about 40 patients everyday in his clinic in India and travels worldwide to see his patients. He has set up one of the oldest telemedicine and online Ayurvedic consulting portal www.planetayurveda.com and patients from all over the world are taking consultations from his team of doctors.

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• Dr. Chauhan explains how the road to disease has changed in the modern age, including increased stress and the modern diet, which includes too much “dead” food.
• Cate and Dr. Chauhan discuss the concept of and the intelligence of prana as it relates to our diet. 
• Dr. Chauhan cites ama as the root cause of autoimmune disorders.
• Cate explains the difference between Easter and Western medicine as it relates to sussing out the source of disease. 

• 1:50 to 5:17 - Dr. Chauhan explains how the road to disease has changed in the modern age, including increased stress and the modern diet, which includes too much “dead” food.
• 5:27 to 9:10 - Cate and Dr. Chauhan discuss the concept of and the intelligence of prana as it relates to our diet. Dr. Chauhan cites ama as the root cause of autoimmune disorders.
• 10:00 to  - Cate explains the difference between Easter and Western medicine as it relates to sussing out the source of disease. Dr. Chauhan goes on to talk about the effects of a poor diet.
• 14:30 to 19:00 - Failure to learn from past mistakes; samskara; how we don’t take “downtime” for reflection; staying in touch with the five elements.
• 19:00 to 20:48 - Ayurveda as personalized medicine.
• 20:48 to 24:32 - How prakruti and vikruti determine how disease manifests.
• 24:33 to 28:58 - Using pancha karma to rid the body of imbalances before they take root as disease. 
• 28:58 to 33:20 - Eastern vs. Western perspectives on how to remove disease from the body.
• 33:20 to 39:04  - Lifestyle and spiritual components of Ayurvedic treatment
• 39:05 to 43:39 - The importance of connecting with God or universal consciousness and the effects of disconnection on the body. The concept of karma.
• 43:40 to 49:17 - Dr. Chauhan talks about the efficacy of his herbal formulas.
• 49:17 to  - How diagnosis and the names of disease in Ayurveda differ from Western medicine.

• “Things are changing rapidly because of the technology, because of the lifestyle, the stress has increased tremendously. And stress is one of the leading cause of so many diseases.” --- Dr. Chauhan
• “At each stage [of disease], there is a chance to restore the balance. . . . Maybe with just a little modification in your lifestyle and diet, things can be restored.” --- Dr. Chauhan
• “What’s fascinating [about pancha karma] from the Westerner’s perspective is that you’re removing disease from the body without surgery.” --- Cate Stillman
• “The most important thing is mental health, in our life. If you are mentally fit, you can be physically fit.” --- Dr. Chauhan
• “In Ayurvedic pathogenesis, the words we use to describe the problem are a path to the solution, which is so different than a disease name.” --- Cate Stillman

Dr. Vikram Chauhan developed natural formulations for worldwide distribution and online sales.

He has developed herbal treatment protocols for various difficult to cure health problems like Psoriasis, Sarcoidosis, ulcerative colitis, Inflammatory bowel disease, Cancers, Liver failure, Kidney failure, Autoimmune disorders and explained everything on his blog.

He also wrote a book on basic principles of Ayurveda- Ayurveda- God's manual for healing. The book has been translated in many European languages.

Dr. Vikram has Ayurveda clinics and franchisees, Distributors in the name of Planet Ayurveda in various countries in Europe, USA, Canada, Singapore and so on. he often visits them for consultations, lectures and seminars. His aim is to spread Ayurveda all over the planet. That's why he named his organization - Planet Ayurveda

Dr. Vikram Chauhan uses the ancient knowledge to heal the patients. He sees about 40 patients everyday in his clinic in India and travels worldwide to see his patients. He has set up one of the oldest telemedicine and online Ayurvedic consulting portal www.planetayurveda.com and patients from all over the world are taking consultations from his team of doctors.

Yogahealer live events are not retreats. They’re catalysts for starting to understand outdated structures in your life and figuring out how to break through them. In this podcast episode, Cate uses her upcoming live event to dive into and teach us about how two liberating structures can help us grow personally and professionally.

• Why we show up for Yogahealer live events.
• How we show up for Yogahealer live events. 
• What happens at Yogahealer live events. 
  

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• Cate explains what happens at Yogahealer live events.
• The group applies two liberating structures to an upcoming Yogahealer live event.

• 0:32 to 4:08 - Cate explains the power of live events and how to show up for live events.
• 4:34 to 10:01 - 9 Whys - Why are you showing up for live events?
• 23:28 to - 15% Solutions - What 15% can you bring to the table at a live event?

• “Live events, I think for all of us, there’s a sense of energy and there’s a sense of nerves, in a way, and excitement. There can even be a little bit of apprehension. And it’s always true for me too.” --- Cate Stillman
• “What I really look forward to in live events are these really intense processing sessions. It’s very, very interactive. It’s not very lecture-based. It’s very hard to market to for this reason.” --- Cate Stillman
• “What’s a liberating structure? It’s these more evolved ways of tapping into collective intelligence for desired outcomes.” --- Cate Stillman
• “By being together, doing exercises in person, we’re already showing up with a shared value system that’s very growth-oriented and breakthrough-oriented. There’s something that’s possible that’s not otherwise possible.” --- Cate Stillman

In today’s podcast I break down the steps that we must undergo to create a social group that will support and contribute to our evolutionary experience of life. Most of the time, it is only ourselves that is in the way of the growth we want to experience. So tune in to see how you can strategically utilize your social resources to transform the quality of your life in all aspects.

• Strategies on how to assess whether your social group is in adherence to your values.
• How can we progress faster towards our goals by consciously investing in specific relationships.
• How to find and mesh with new social groups that will support our health ascension and identity evolution.

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• Determining our influencers and our own core values.
• Deciding whether those influencers withhold and support our values.
• Finding alignment with a social group that will encourage a blossoming into the type of person we want to become.

• 7:20- The steps we can take to create and upgrade our evolutionary social group. 
• 13:20- We are not procrastinating due to the requirement of perfection.
• 15:45- Moving from a consumer to a collaborative mindset.
• 16:30- How to determine your influencers and whether they are helpful in your evolution.

•  “We must think big, and test small. We are not afraid of failure, it is the first attempt in learning.” -Cate
• “Leverage your strengths and know your assets.” -Cate
• “There is always an opportunity to create what you want to create next” - Cate

In today’s episode of the podcast, I sit down with the incredible Kriste Peoples to follow-up on our conversation from the Sounds True Wisdom of the Body Summit. We discuss why it’s time to embrace the wholeness of who we are and how to embody the wild nature that feels like home. She will definitely inspire you as much as she inspired me.

• How to go beyond what we know and surpass fear to dismantle our old stories
• Why fearlessness is overrated 
• What is rewilding you
• How does Cate do it “all”
• How habit evolution creates collective leadership
• Inclusivity in interviewing
• Interviewing for the Wisdom of the Body Summit
• When an interview doesn’t go well…

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• 3:25- Inclusivity and exclusivity in mindsets, structures, and ways of speaking 
• 12:55- The paradox of needing to be highly analytical of ourselves and goal oriented but also self reassuring that we are already exactly where we need to be.
• 30:30- Why we must take the risk to show up fully as ourselves and how that can benefit the collective.
• 40:50- The meaning and significance of “re-wilding” to embody the feeling of wholeness/okayness.
• 55:55- The importance of taking the risk to verbalize confusion and questions.

• “People come into yoga for superficial reasons, but often what happens on the path to awakening is greater levels of care and concern... where they want to become apart of deeper cultural habit solution.” -Cate
• “I am enough as I am— I don't need to be striving all the time, I don't need to be going out doing every single thing.” -Kriste
• “Unless we know who we are, our programming, and our limiting beliefs and incorporated enough reflection, we won't be able to leverage our history or be as whole as we actually are.” -Cate
• “It’s all going to be okay. It’s okay now, it’s going to be okay later, and it was actually okay yesterday, but we weren’t tuned into the okayness.” -Cate

Kriste Peoples is a speaker, producer, trail running coach, mindfulness meditation practitioner and teacher-in-training. Her work in the field of equity and inclusion in nature combines her passions for deep engagement and facilitating events that connect underrepresented communities to new, empowering narratives of wellness. Connect with Kriste at her website.

Richard E. Boyatzis is a Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve

University. He holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. Using his well-established Intentional Change Theory (ICT) and complexity theory, Dr. Boyatzis researches how people and organizations engage in sustainable, desired change. His latest book, Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth, will be released in September. In this episode, he sits down with Cate to discuss how to effectively help people change. 

• How to ask the right questions to help shift others into a more open, receptive, and centered frame of mind.
• Why coaching with compassion works better than coaching for compliance.
• What role neuroscience plays in effective coaching. 

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• Cate and Dr. Boyatzis discuss the neuroscience behind effective coaching.
• Cate and Dr. Boyatzis discuss how the state of modern society, including the role of social media, affects our ability to coach and be coached. 
• Cate picks Boyatzis’s mind about the effectiveness of mastermind groups.

• 3:07-7:22 ~ Boyatzis describes the core of his work and explains the difference between coaching with compassion and coaching for compliance.
• 15:20-17:40 ~ Cate and Boyatzis discuss the neuroscience behind effective coaching.
• 18:19-21:34 ~ Cate and Boyatzis discuss the role of the parasymapathic nervous system in effective coaching.
• 27:18-30:56 ~ Cate emphasizes the importance of starting with a positive focus (what’s working) and maintaining an awareness of the big picture.
• 39:29- ~ Cate picks Boyatzis’s mind about mastermind groups.

• “If you want to help people be the most open to new ideas . . . , you want to start with their dream, their sense of purpose, their sense of calling.” --- Richard Boyatzis
• “The more we structure people’s time, children or adults, the more we take away their time to . . . reflect and then imagine.” --- Richard Boyatzis
• “One of the things we have to be careful about in teaching more holistic mind-body work . . . , is to help people remind themselves that they’re doing this for a sense of oneness, for a sense of being centered. They’re not doing it to check their box today.” --- Richard Boyatzis
• “A lot of times, the things that really help us help each other are basic human caring and interaction.” --- Richard Boyatzis

Richard E. Boyatzis is Distinguished University Professor of Case Western Reserve University, Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Cognitive Science, HR Horvitz Professor of Family Business, and Adjunct Professor in

People/Organizations at ESADE.

He has a BS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, a MS and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University. Using his Intentional Change Theory (ICT), he studies sustained, desired change at all levels of human endeavor from individuals, teams, organizations, communities and countries, specifically has been researching helping and coaching since 1967. 

He was ranked #9

Most Influential International Thinker by HR Magazine in 2012 and 2014. He is the author of more than 200 articles on leadership, competencies, emotional intelligence, competency development, coaching, neuroscience and management education. His Coursera MOOCs, including Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence has about a million enrolled from 215 countries. His 9 books include: The Competent Manager; the international best-seller, Primal Leadership with Daniel Goleman and Annie McKee; and Resonant Leadership, with Annie McKee, and Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion or Lifelong Learning and Growth with Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten. He is Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

In today’s podcast, Laura Powers and I dive into the significance of tapping into our intuitive awareness, and how doing so can evolve the quality of our lives. We talk about how the modern world can hold us back from harnessing our psychic powers, and what we can do to regain our power and channel this divine insight. Join our conversation to learn how to uncover and embrace the unseen spiritual realms that may hold the answers to the questions that you have in life!

• How to better navigate the material world by connecting with and understanding the etheric and non-physical realm.
• An understanding of the distinction between the different koshic bodies and how they can help us make health improvements. 
• What it means to have psychic energy and how it can help us.

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• Today's technology is becoming a burden to the human psyche (spiritual intuition and awareness) because of its superficiality and distractive nature.
• The ethereal qualities of psychic awareness closely connects to the vata dosha mentality.
• Listening and learning how to understand the signals, needs, and language of your own body is the gateway for psychic awareness.

•  4:00- Modern technology can be a disruptor to human psychic intuition. 
• 10:00- Significance and conceptual contribution of the Ayurvedic Koshas
• 19:00- The correlation between individuals with a stronger vata mental constitution and psychic abilities.
• 24:50– Things you can do to start tapping into your own psychic intuitive abilities.

•  “In Ayurveda, things move from subtle to gross, so if you're recalibrating at the subtle body, then it eventually filters down to the physical.” - Cate
• “You want to keep a clear channel— since it’s rapid pace movement and subtle energy, if you're not running a pure, clean, clear experience in your own body, there is some level of disconnect, doubt, or skepticism for what you may be channeling…. it might also just be an overactive imagination.” - Cate
• “A lot of these harmful substances will gum up or block for abilities or make it harder for you to get the clear information” - Laura
• “There are so many distractions, that are in many ways, disrupting our ability to think intuitively.” - Cate

Laura is a Celebrity Psychic who has been featured by Buzzfeed, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, the CW, Motherboard by Vice Magazine. She is a clairvoyant, psychic medium, writer, actress and producer.
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