Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast

Hello, it’s Cate Stillman with yogahealthcoaching.com and yogahealer.com, and I’ve been asked to finish the series on overweight-ness in Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. So you may have heard the episode on overweight Vatas, or the episode on overweight Pittas, and not the episode on overweight Kaphas, because I hadn’t created it until right this moment.

Often, when someone is overweight, they assume they are Kapha. As an Ayurvedic practitioner, we think, “Hmmm, maybe. But maybe not.” And yet sometimes, the person that we’re talking to is indeed an overweight Kapha, that their prakruthi, their constitution, is Kapha, and that the nature of their imbalance, or vikruthi, is also Kapha. And that’s unusual. It’s unusual enough that I created the overweight Vata and the overweight Pitta episodes: That’s where you have an overweight Vata person – their prakruthi is Vata – and their imbalance also might be Vata-provoking Kapha. Or it might be an overweight Pitta, and the imbalance might be a Vata or a Pitta imbalance-provoking Kapha, or a Kapha imbalance.

But the thing is, Kapha imbalances are pretty unusual in this day and age. Tune in to find out why, and to find out whether or not your extra pounds are really the cause of Kapha.

• How to tell if your extra weight is really a kapha imbalance
• When and how much kaphas should eat in a day
• Where to leverage kapha strengths to your advantage

• Overweight Vata Podcast
• Overweight Pitta Podcast
• How to be a Kapha Tipsheet from Cate
• Thrive for each constitition
• Take a constitution test

• 1:15 – Kapha imbalance is actually rare in this day and age! While this may seem strange because we have such a sedentary and heavy-diet culture, the vibration and pace of life is really quite hectic.
• 5:40 – Kaphas are strong, stable, faithful, trustworthy, and dependable. They naturally accumulate people, friends, money, and bodily tissue. In order to befriend your kapha constitution, you have to get in touch with this accumulation tendency.
• 11:00 – As a kapha, you can afford give away. As you realize how much you can give away physically, you become lighter, brighter, more inspired, and more mobile, and you realize how much service you can be to humanity.
• 12:30 – Kaphas really only need to eat 1-2 meals a day, which may sound terrible! But if you look at it from an energetic standpoint, you’ll realize that you’ll save so much time that you otherwise would have spent buying, preparing, and eating food.
• 17:00 – A Kapha’s deepest bliss is nurturing the people, the causes, and the projects they care most about. Learn to leverage those gifts through service and connection, rather than carrying that generosity in your physiology.

• “For a Kapha to befriend their constitution, it often means getting really in touch with their accumulation tendency.” – Cate Stillman
• “We’re meant to be relaxed, and attuned, and sophisticated in understanding the nature of who we are, in understanding our strengths and our weaknesses.” – Cate Stillman
• “You can stay strong and stable, and give away. As you do that, you become lighter and brighter, more inspired, and more mobile.” – Cate Stillman
• “Awaken this power of your own natural abundance.” – Cate Stillman
• “In giving away, you feel more and more fulfilled.” – Cate Stillman

When I started this show years ago — we’ve just passed episode 300, which is kind of mindblowing — I was talking with Ayurvedic specialists and other people in my field. People asked me to put those shows on the internet, so I turned them into podcasts. Hundreds of episodes later, I’m now able to talk to more people I really respect outside of the field of Ayurveda. One of these people is Danielle LaPorte. She’s on the show today.

Some of you may have heard of Danielle before. She created The Fire Starter Sessions and The Desire Map. She’s educated tons and tons of amazing coaches out there. She’s one of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 — a group who’s “uniquely connecting the world together with a spiritual energy that matters,” in Oprah’s words. Danielle also has one of the top 100 websites for women, as judged by Forbes. Millions of people visit her website every month for her Truthbombs.

What I love about Danielle is that she’s able to cut through the cultural clutter and find the deep truths from deep wisdom traditions. She’s able to interpret them in a poetic way that really reaches people at all stages and life situations. See why chatting with her is my dream come true in this episode!

I rap with Danielle LaPorte about keeping it real on your spiritual path:

• How ambition and devotion are intertwined
• How we deal with anger and forgiveness while trying to be compassionate creatures
• Why and how to make a difference when you’re feeling overwhelmed
  
  

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Learn how simplicity can help you better serve others (and yourself) in deeper and wider ways
• Find out what the weightiness of presence is and why it’s important to live with
• See how to determine what you need to say no to in life to find your big inner yes

Links:

• Body Thrive Book
• White Hot Truth Book
• FREE Chapter of White Hot Truth
• The Fire Starter Sessions Book
• The Desire Map Book 
• Danielle’s Website 
• Danielle’s Facebook 
• Take the Changemaker Challenge!
• Plan Your 2018 – Free Webinar

Related podcasts:

• How to Become Part of a Team: From Disorganized Chaos to Collaboration with Amanda Hemmingsen

• JJ Virgin and the Miracle Mindset: Overcoming Life’s Hardest Lessons

• Kathryn Budig on Aiming True in Your Life

Show Highlights:

• 9:00 — Much of Danielle’s work comes from experiential wisdom — experiential living driven from within, creating from within, exploring from within. There’s a lot that comes along with wisdom traditions — including cultural dysfunctionality. Danielle illuminates how her experiences and explorations of those traditions taught her that nothing can make you impervious to weaknesses and that dysfunctionality.
• 12:30 — Danielle explains her relationship to ambition and devotion. These concepts are related and can even be mistaken for each other, but they’re both part of living with fullness, expressing yourself freely, and even pursuing a career.
• 19:30 — Sometimes it feels like the world and the events in it are getting tougher to process, but it’s still important to be present — even for the negative things. We all have different ways of working through the feelings, but the important thing is that we do so, not how we do so, and that we face them instead of pushing them away. Recognizing them and feeling their weight — feeling the weightiness of presence — is the first step.
• 28:15 — Danielle describes the rhythm she finds in saying no to lots of things so she can focus on what she says yes to and get super-committed. Ask yourself what lights you up the most and if an option you’re considering is something you’re pumped about. Then, get feedback from others about how you can get there.
• 34:30 — Collaborating with others gives us the power to fast-track our journeys of creating the world we want to create. But it’s vital to be able to communicate what our strengths are so we can understand each other and work together.

Favorite Quotes:

• “I’m all for creating the world that I want to live in.” –Danielle LaPorte
• “So much beauty. So many answers. So many things that are truly healing. So much real wisdom. It changed my life.” –Danielle LaPorte
• “I have to be my own guru.” –Danielle LaPorte
• “Devotion feels like something that comes so much more from the heart.” –Danielle LaPorte
• “The simplest things are the easiest places to find the sacred.” –Danielle LaPorte
• “The simplicity is the imperative to the bigger service.” –Danielle LaPorte
• “Scatteredness is a contemporary epidemic.” –Danielle LaPorte

BIO:

Named one of the "Top 100 Websites for Women" by Forbes, millions of visitors go to DanielleLaPorte every month for her daily #Truthbombs and what's been called "the best place online for kickass spirituality." A speaker, a poet, a painter, and a former business strategist and Washington, D.C., think tank exec, Entrepreneur Magazine calls Danielle “equal parts poet and entrepreneurial badass…edgy, contrarian…loving and inspired.”

She’s the author of White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path—From One Seeker to Another, The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms, and The Desire Map: A Guide To Creating Goals with Soul — the book that has been translated into eight languages and evolved into a yearly day planner system, a top 10 iTunes app, and an international workshop program with licensed facilitators in 15 countries.

Prior to founding DanielleLaPorte.com, LaPorte was Executive Director of The Arlington Institute think tank in Washington, D.C., a partner at Carrie & Danielle, Inc., and a communications strategist at The Next Level communications agency. She was also a regular contributor on business and career topics on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News Network show, Connect with Mark Kelley. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with her favorite philosopher, her son. You can find her @daniellelaporte just about everywhere on social media.

One of my favorite topics is self-reinvention — the idea that we can create who we want to be next, and not only that we can but that we should. It’s a sign of an awake, connected, learning human being.

So, I invited my friend Edie Berg to talk about this topic. She’s a fellow podcaster and the founder of The Strong Women’s Club. She lives in Israel, and she and I have connected around this concept of being really fluid in our careers. That’s the main chunk of what we discuss in this episode, and you’ll hear about how Edie has taken experiences between jobs into new versions of her business.

As you listen, I want you to really think about who and what you want to become next. Can you be more fluid? Can you allow yourself to be Plastic Person so that who you’ve been in the past can be a toolkit that gently informs, but doesn’t determine, who you’re going to become next?

I rap with Edie Berg about developing your leadership skills:

• What it means to transition niches
• Why flexibility of character makes identity evolution easier
• How it’s okay — and even an advantage — to switch careers or life paths as many times as you want to
  
  

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Learn how to translate your skill set to apply it to any role or life change you’re interested in
• Find out how to recognize when you’re no longer excited about your career or what you do each day and formulate a plan for change
• See how to make yourself available to what you’re interested in and learn easy ways to get started in being open to change

Links:

• Body Thrive Book
• The Strong Women’s Club
• Edie’s Facebook
• Who Is Edie Berg?
• Take the Changemaker Challenge!
• Plan Your 2018 - Free Webinar
• Danielle LaPorte

Related podcasts:

• The Yoga of Investing in Yourself: Cate’s Take on Breaking Plateaus Through Skillful Personal Investment

• The Real Deal on the Dharmic, Passion-led Career Path with Jenny Fenig

• Creativity, Career, + Lifestyle Design with Paul Jarvis

Show Highlights:

• 3:30 — It’s okay to take big leaps in your career and switch to something completely different. When you decide to make a transition to become the next version of yourself, there are many benefits to taking on a totally new role that fits with your shifting personality and your desires.
• 6:15 — Edie tracks her global career journey from physical therapy management to private catering to managing a prestigious cybersecurity company to starting The Strong Women’s Club, which she’s focusing on now.
• 13:00 — Sometimes fluidity in a career path is forced on women because of their life cycle and having children. Edie discusses how women seem to naturally accept and fall into this fluidity, but as career demands change, more men are using this opportunity and becoming more connected with family life, too. Barriers are dropping en masse in this day and age.
• 20:50 — It’s important to start opening yourself up to new choices. Take a fraction of what you want to do and start doing it. Edie discusses several ways to start helping yourself get excited about making the changes you know you need to wake up with a smile on your face and the knowledge that you’re enjoying life.
• 26:20 — Ask yourself what you’d rather be doing. Write down your answers. Block out time on your calendar to begin pursuing them. This is your starting point for your transition.
• 29:50 — You don’t have to be a natural leader to start leading. It’s something you can learn, and it’s attainable. You can be a leader of a different type of person. It doesn’t matter who you are; it’s a process, and ambition is what’s important. Try hanging around ambitious people to start awakening your own ambition.

Favorite Quotes:

• “You’re a different person when you’re 25 years old or when you’re 45 years old — and all the time.” –Edie Berg
• “Whatever you need, you learn it as you grow.” –Edie Berg
• “Be open to opportunities that are kind of scary — the unknown. It definitely makes for a good time.” –Edie Berg
• “Our lives should be interesting. And if they’re not, we’ve got to take control of what is interesting next.” –Cate Stillman
• “You can’t just quit your job and start something new because you feel like it. It takes a lot of planning and knowing yourself better and better as time goes on.” –Edie Berg
• “What if what I want to do is what the universe wants me to do?” –Cate Stillman
• “Women leaders in all different fields have an inner strength that is unshakeable.” –Edie Berg

BIO:

Founder and CEO of The Strong Women's Club: Podcast | Summits | Masterminds. Based in Israel, Edie empowers women locally and globally.

Physical Therapist / Speaker / Consultant.

Founder and Producer of The Strong Jewish Women's Summit.

Edie helps women in Israel connect and build their sports-based businesses, with local and global mastermind events.

Edie is a consultant to businesses who know that their employees' health and wellness are key to the company's success.

Hello Yogahealer Podcast listeners! Today is one of those days where I shut myself in my gorgeous closet in Alta, Wyoming and I hit record and see what happens. In this episode, I talk to Miriam Hamui of Mexico City. Miriam and I met a few months ago, and I fell in love with her way of practicing and teaching, and what she's doing. She's written a few books, and she loves writing as a process to deepen her practice on the mat, on the cushion, and teaching in the classroom. This conversation is about deepening your practice through attuning to You and your intuitive body, as a way of guiding deeper into You.  

I rap with Miriam Hamui about the intuitive nature of architecture and yoga:

• Both architecture and yoga can make you feel sensation, emotion, and thought on a subtle level
• As you upgrade your inner space through habit evolution, you may feel a natural desire to upgrade your outer environment
• By using intuition to create and design outer spaces like a building or a yoga practice, you can support your inner, more subtle space
  
  

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to create an environment that helps you thrive
• When to get rid of rules and create your own yoga practice for self-discovery
• How to create a meditation practice that doesn't make you dread hitting the cushion

Links:

• Miriam's books: Yoga and Architecture: The Art of Dwelling (English and Spanish versions), Meditate From Your Body: A Somatic Guide
• Miriam's blog (in Spanish)
• Miriam's next retreat (in Mexico)
• Amazon Author page 
• Facebook URL 
• Website 
• Website for Miriam's teacher, Orit Sen-Gupta
• Yogahealer Your Inner Goddess Webinar 
• Yogahealer FREE Live Training for Career Planning your 2018 

Related podcasts:

• Conscious Daydreaming is How You Connect to Your Future with Summer McStravick 

• Designing Your Space with Ayurvedic Wisdom (with Vixi’s Ashley Dentino

• Tiffany Cruikshank on Knowing Yourself with Yoga 

• Unlocking Your Subtle Body Anatomy + Deep Time with Tias Little 

Show Highlights:

• 3:35 - The body is the most complex piece of architecture: it progresses through poses and bears its own weight easefully, accommodating itself with every movement.
• 9:00 - The experience of inhabiting a body is similar to inhabiting an architectural space: both have gross and physical aspects, and both inner and outer spaces have more and more subtle levels that influence sensation, emotion, and thought.
• 16:00 - As children, we feel into creativity, but lose this intuition as adults, instead thinking logically when building something. By bringing creativity back into how we architect our environment and our practice, we can support our subtle inner space.
• 21:50 - Often in modern yoga systems, our practice is overly scripted, and doesn't allow our intuition to create it: instead, we listen to what someone else tells us to do. Self-discovery is key to getting the most out of yoga and our own distinct practice.
• 27:00 - Ease into your meditation practice! Meditating for too long or with a rigid set of rules can make you dread hitting the cushion. If this is you, try sitting in silence without setting a timer. Go at your own pace while following a few basic principles: weight bearing, finding your axis, and breath work, and create your own practice.
• 39:00 - Because people are less inundated with information in Mexico compared to the United States and other western countries, when yoga gained popularity, people started teaching and learning it intuitively, rather than through a set of rules. This is something many of us can learn from to uplevel our own practices.

Favorite Quotes:

• "As we're shaped by spaces outside of us, we also are shaped by how we design our internal space." - Cate Stillman
• "I wanted to convey it… so people could have a more clear understanding of the subtle aspects of inhabiting your inner space compared to the outer space and the universe." - Miriam Hamui
• "You can feel where you need to shift your weight, how you can create balance, and where you are needing more attention." - Miriam Hamui
• "There's some part of you that's connecting to the part that knows." - Cate Stillman
• "You're inviting people into their own mass, into their own physicality, into their own density, into their own space." - Cate Stillman
• "Find your specific way. And it's going to be unique to you." - Miriam Hamui
  
  

BIO:

Miriam Hamui has practiced yoga since 2008, and taught since 2001. Originally an Architect, she has combined her notion of inhabiting spaces with her ever-growing sense of embodiment through yoga, which inspired her first book, Yoga and Architecture: The Art of Dwelling.

She further enhanced her acknowledged sensitivity by becoming a Somatic Movement Educator though the school of Body Mind Movement. This resulted in the publication of her second book: Medita Desde Tu Cuerpo (Translation: Meditate Through Your Body: A Somatic Approach).

Miriam continually integrates whatever arises from her body through her personal yoga practice and uses it to inspire her teaching and writing. She sustains a blog since 2013 and has contributed articles to several Mexican yoga magazines.

Welcome back! This is Part 2 of my life story about becoming a wellness pro. It’s really sort of my own experience blended with some career counseling for those who are wanting to go down the pro healer path — yoga teachers, holistic practitioners. This episode sprang forth from an email from two interested, local gals in their mid-20s who wanted to ask questions about my life journey so they could make some decisions about pursuing wellness careers. Franni and Katie interviewed me in my closet! Listen as we get into the return on investment for wellness professionals and different lifestyle choices

I rap with Franni and Katie about ROI and my life story as a wellness pro:

• How to define who you want to become and set goals to get there — what’s your next step?
• Why we need to make a conscious effort to get “back to basics” in our understanding of health and how our interactions with our community and ecosystem shape our wellness
• The ways education can and can’t help you determine the course of action you want to pursue
  
  

What you’ll get out of tuning in:    

• Learn why we shouldn’t fear the planet or our bodies, even though we’re conditioned to
• Discover how to motivate yourself to grow by getting into integrity with yourself and your body
• See how to make choices about your future and your education — and how to determine what’s worth pursuing to you

Links:

• Body Thrive Book
• Yoga Health Coaching
• Have a FREE Conversation
• Take the Changemaker Challenge

Related podcasts:

• My Best 10 Career Tips to Grow Your Wellness Practice

• Superheroine Dharma Workshop for Pro Healer, Yoga Teachers, & Wellness Pros

Show Highlights:

• 5:30 — The Western mind has a tendency to dive into the specifics before it even understands the basics. Pausing and really looking to understand the fundamentals, starting from the ground up, can assist us in healing and thriving. We especially need to look at our relationship to the planet this way, even when it comes down to the plants we consume.
• 11:35 — There are millions of pieces to “the next steps” in focusing on what you love, making it your career, finding a community, and consistently honing your skills.
• 17:15 — Your earning capacity often reflects impact. When you can help people get results faster, your client base or business will grow. As you keep more results coming in faster, it works its way into your ecosystem and the potential for growth stays on a steadily increasing pattern.
• 25:45 — Education is very important, providing a basic infrastructure for the career you want to have. It can help you decide what you really enjoy, and you can look at what others have done to get to a spot where you want to be. There’s always a way to become deeply nurtured into thrive and create a completely abundant life. But it’s crucial to try new things and be willing to not follow the rules, even if it means not staying in school forever and not following what’s spelled out for you.
• 34:25 — Every wellness pro needs to look at how to get their people where they want to go in a way that’s fun, fast, and super effective. As long as that’s your primary concern — now how you’re going to fund things or make a living — then it’s so much easier to end up making money. Think in terms of who you want to help.

Favorite Quotes:

• “What happens if you get your heart centered on how you can be useful?” –Cate Stillman
• “Humans and plants — that’s our history.” –Cate Stillman
• “We’ve been taught from a young age to fear the earth.” –Cate Stillman
• “Every modern healer has to ask themselves, ‘How do I exchange value in the marketplace?’” –Cate Stillman
• “The wellness path invites us into integrity.” –Cate Stillman
• “That’s one of the attributes of feeling great — time and space open up.” –Cate Stillman
• “Follow people whose lifestyles you want. Follow people you get sparked by. Get involved!” –Cate Stillman

I’ve talked to a bunch of millennials lately for the podcast about their wellness careers, and it’s great to see so many young women who are going into these professions. It makes me so happy! Having so many brilliant young women going into wellness really inspires me. Today’s guest is Sahara Rose, author of The Idiot’s Guide to Ayurveda. Isn’t that awesome? At just 26 years old, she’s aiming to connect with millennials and draw them deeper into all the benefits that come along with learning Ayurveda and getting in touch with their bodies.

I rap with Sahara Rose about:

• Getting millennials interested in Ayurveda
• How deadlines can increase flow, balance you, and work to your benefit
• The importance of interconnectivity and becoming attuned to our ecosystems, the seasons, what’s growing outdoors, and our desires
  
  

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Learn how Ayurvedic principles can be applied — in your own way — to your diet (and just about anything)
• See how we can trick ourselves into thinking we’re being healthful when we’re really eating an unbalanced diet — and how to get back in balance
• Discover how to cut through information overload to connect with other generations

Links:

• Body Thrive Book
• Get Your FREE Body Goals Session
• Jiyo App
• Eat Right for Your Mind-Body Type
• Sahara’s Website
• Sahara’s Facebook
• Sahara’s Podcast: The Difference Between Karma, Dharma, and Kriya and Why It Matters
• Sahara’s Podcast: How I Became My Highest Self and Wrote The Idiot’s Guide to Ayurveda

Related podcasts:

• Lucky Breaks + Hard Work to become an NYT Best Seller with Ayurvedic Author Katie Silcox
• Maya Tiwari on Dharma, Power, Writing Books, + Healing

Show Highlights:

• 5:50 — Sahara outlines the biggest takeaways and learnings from writing books and having to work up her pitta to get through deadlines. One thing that stuck with her was the beauty of having a deadline and how it pushed her to tap into creativity in unexpected ways.
• 9:15 — Sahara explains the health crisis that guided her to Ayurveda and why she initially resisted the idea before using Ayurvedic principles to tailor her diet to meet her needs.
• 16:00 — We’re mammals, and our bodies want to naturally attune to the seasons and the climate. It’s important to let them, because this helps us maintain connectivity with our environment and get into flow with ecosystem attunement.
• 18:30 — When people are living in a state of service and can understand why they were put on our planet — for specific reasons that only their souls can fulfill — they realize their true importance. They want to feel their best because they realize their purpose and see how their individual piece fits into the broader global puzzle. Getting in touch with this dharma is an important teaching for millennials — and everyone.
• 20:00 — Ayurveda is about interpreting and honoring each individual’s personal experience. When they understand why they naturally feel a certain way and have certain habits, they can see how following their natural rhythms encourages better health and a feeling of ease.

Favorite Quotes:

• “When you’re in flow, things start moving really fast.” –Sahara Rose
• “People are getting to that phase of understanding that deeper nutrition and habit alignment are so we can do more. They’re simply more empowered as human beings.” –Cate Stillman
• “Ayurveda is a perennial wisdom.” –Cate Stillman
• “I started practicing hot Yoga and just feeling so much more connected to my body than I ever had before.” –Sahara Rose
• “Really feeling that mind-body connection showed me that it’s so much more than just the physical.” –Sahara Rose
• “It’s really important for people to find their truth. That’s sort of the predecessor to anything else.” –Sahara Rose
• “Figure out who you are, and the rest will just come naturally.” –Sahara Rose

BIO:

Sahara Rose is the best-selling author of The Idiot's Guide to Ayurveda and has been called “a leading voice for the millennial generation into the new paradigm shift” by Deepak Chopra. She’s a 26-year-old Certified Ayurvedic, Holistic, and Sports Nutritionist; wellness blogger; and host of the Highest Self Podcast. Sahara's mission is to awaken people to their innate potential so they can share their gifts and fulfill their purpose on this planet.

I received a couple interesting emails a few weeks ago, and two totally sweet women contacted me with their questions. Both ladies asked if I had time to talk about my profession over a cup of tea. They were wanting some career advice, and they happened to be local to my area. So, I emailed my assistant to get in touch with them and schedule some teatime chatting to answer their questions at my house. We ended up recording a two-part podcast episode together!

This week’s episode is the first part of that conversation, and we get a lot into the process of making choices. If you’re wanting to go into the wellness field or you’re already there and are wondering where to take your career next, both of these shows are going to be helpful to you. This first part is about my past history, about going to school, and about making career choices. You’ll learn a lot about awake living and making the right decisions for your future.

I rap with Franni and Katie:

• How the different healing modalities fit together
• What the journey to a career in Ayurveda looked like for me
• The importance of life experience in the decision-making process
• What “user error” is in a career and how practice helps you prevent it

What you'll get out of tuning in:

• Learn how to follow a career path that calls to you
• See how to assess your investment in education and how it’ll help you in a future career
• Discover how to provide value while getting practice in your field and making a living
• Learn how to hone in on the type of impact you want to make and set targets to get there

Links:

• Body Thrive Book
• Awake Living
• Sign Up for the FREE Changemaker Challenge

Related podcasts:

• My Best 10 Career Tips to Grow Your Wellness Practice
• The Real Deal on the Dharmic, Passion-led Career Path with Jenny Fenig
• Creativity, Career, + Lifestyle Design with Paul Jarvis
• Uplevel Your Wellness Income + Impact with Rachel Cook and Amanda Cook

Show Highlights:

• 3:40 — Teatime visitors Franny and Katie are considering pursuing careers in the healing and wellness field, and they want to learn more details from someone who’s been through it all in the wellness world for the past 20 years. They’re both torn on how they should direct themselves to the careers they’re interested in.
• 7:00 — Franny and Katie ask questions regarding how Cate got where she is, who her mentors are, and who she really is. Cate was motivated to pursue Ayurveda after working for an organization dedicated to energy efficiency and management. It caused her to realize that there’s so much around us, so much interconnectedness that we’re unaware of. Ayurveda was a natural evolution toward increasing planetary wellness and awareness.
• 17:00 — Getting out in the field and spreading your name as a wellness pro can require some creative tactics, as Cate explains while outlining the method she used to start drumming up business with local clients at the very start of her career.
• 23:40 — The wellness industry is super-competitive, sure, but the market for these types of services is growing every year. The most important thing you can do is get good through lots and lots of practice.
• 31:30 — Many people don’t know how to invest in themselves to get the experience they want out of life. That’s where your skills as a wellness pro come in. Once we know how to do that, we need to teach other people how to invest — each step of the way — to get what they want.
• 39:50 — Being a wellness pro is part providing tools and information and part helping to create community-based infrastructure that can also provide these tools. It’s not just about supporting yourself and individuals, but about helping your community as a whole transform with an eye on planetary wellness.

Favorite Quotes:

• “You get bitten by the bug, and it really becomes part of you — and you become part of it.” –Cate Stillman
• “My personal wellness path has always been tied to planetary wellness.” –Cate Stillman
• “Humans need to become more conscious.” –Cate Stillman
• “How much can I start to practice and use my skills so that I get better?” –Cate Stillman
• “Anyone can make it in anything… You can do whatever you want!” –Cate Stillman
• “What are you smitten by? DO follow your intuition.” –Cate Stillman
• “If you can’t thrive in your body, you can’t thrive in your relationships. You can’t thrive in your career. You can’t thrive in dharma, and you can’t make something incredibly amazing happen in your lifetime. You’ve got to start with your body.” –Cate Stillman

Katrina Blair is a blessing to humanity. More than any guru, healer or spiritual teacher I’ve met, Katrina is an awakened embodiment of the bodhisattva vow. The plants -- in particular the wild weeds -- are her teachers.

In a world where we dump herbicides into our neighborhoods, into our own yards, into our fields… the wild weeds fight back to recover the soil to heal the ecosystems back into diversity and health. In this episode you learn how to re-enter a symbiotic relationship with the weeds and trees outside your door.  The problem - the weeds - are the solution.

I rap with Katrina Blair:

• What Burdock taught Katrina
• Why you want to awaken your Primal Palate
• What the Pioneer Plants are… and what they are doing in your ‘hood
• Healing Depression and disconnection by connecting to the plants outside your door
  
  

What you’ll get out of tuning in:    

• How common weeds can help realign human integrity
• What you can do to create organic lands and parks in your community
• What nutritional benefits wild plants have for us

Links:

• The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival

• Dandelion Festival
• Thistle Wild Edible Food
• Thistles: A High-Nutrient Weed
• Turtle Lake Refuge
• Connect on Facebook

Show Highlights:

• 03:00 - How to reconnect with nature when we feel we are out of control or disconnected
• 5:14 - Local wild plants feel different to us but they are full of nutrients and wisdom when we use them as teachers
• 07:00 - Depression is disconnection. Connection is uplifting. If we isolate our palette from our ecosystem there’s a level of connectivity we don’t have
• 08:50 - Cate and Katrina discuss the concept of rewilding and rewilding our palettes and how the wild plants have so much to teach us
• 11:00 - Cate and Katrina discuss thistle, what it is and how we can all parts of the plant for nutrients; for example it can regenerate liver cells
• 14:58 - Self care industry has an idea that “everything needs to be just right” but thistle shows us that that doesn’t need to be so
• 16:37 - Cate and Katrina discuss the concept of reconnection through wild plants to what we already know on a deeper level
• 20:13 - Katrina talks about her experience with Burdock root and Cate discusses Oregon Grape Root
• 30:00 - Katrina talks about how urban dwellers can connect to wild plants
• 44:15 - Katrina discusses what’s going on in her area in terms or creating organic spaces for the community

Favorite Quotes:

• “When we start to eat the very earth from which we live, we become the earth” - Katrina
• “Depression … is a state of being that anyone can go into, but anyone can also get out of it” - Katrina
• “The degree of disconnection is the degree of palette distortion” - Cate
• “Everything that we need is right outside our door” - Katrina

BIO:

Katrina Blair began studying wild plants in her teens when she camped out alone for a summer with the intention of eating primarily wild foods. She later wrote “The Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants of the San Juan Mountains” for her senior project at Colorado College.

In 1997 she completed a MA at John F Kennedy University in Orinda, CA in Holistic Health Education. She founded Turtle Lake Refuge in 1998, a non-profit, whose mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands. She teaches sustainable living practices, permaculture and wild edible and medicinal plant classes locally and internationally.

She is the author of a book titled “Local Wild Life- Turtle Lake Refuge’s Recipes for Living Deep”, published in 2009 that focuses on the uses and recipes of the local wild abundance. Her latest book is "The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival" published in 2014 by Chelsea Green.

Cate and marriage coach Maggie Reyes talk about modern marriage. Maggie is a marriage coach and writer who helps people create more connection in a marriage based on the principles of nonviolence and self reflection. Maggie discusses the idea of teams and alliances in marriages, and Cate offers insight into the yogic philosophy of malas and how they play a role in relationships. Maggie offers a brief self-appreciation exercise at the end of the episode.

I rap with Maggie Reyes of Modern Marriage:

• Why you should work on self-fulfilment in order to be more authentic in your relationships
• How marriage has evolved over generations
• How the principle of Ahimsa relates to marital relationships

What you’ll get out of tuning in: 

• How marriage and yogic philosophies intersect
• Trends in modern marriages
• Family meetings as they relate to self growth and relational support

Links:

• Create Safety Marriage
• The Secrets to a Happier Marriage That Really Lasts
• Modern Married on Facebook
• Visit Modern Married here

Show Highlights:

• 02:47 - Maggie shares her theory that after leaving the womb, our whole lives are a quest for safety.
• 05:37 - Safety in a relationships start with our own needs and knowing how to honor them.
• 07:04 - Parallel with principle of yogic awareness and creating safety in relationships
• 08:45 - The meanings we assign to actions of others can be harmful or helpful.
• 09:26 - Cate talks about self-fulfilment or lack thereof in terms of relationships.
• 11:20 - Maggie shares a coaching exercise: Mental yoga.
• 15:17 - Cate and Maggie discuss the role of de-escaltion of violence in our everyday relationships as well as the principle of Ahimsa.
• 18:23 - Cate and Maggie discuss the yogic concept of malas
• 21:30 - Where are modern relationships and spiritual evolution going? To more connectedness and awareness.
• 26:53 - Maggie discusses her conscious choice not to have children and how her business, Modern Marriage grew from that so that she could articulate the evolving relationships in marriage as we redefine them as a culture.
• 30:08 - Maggie discusses the idea that in marriages there are teams and there are alliances.
• 35:48 - Cate and Maggie discuss longterm mating
• 42:10 - Maggie offers a self-appreciation exercise

Favorite Quotes:

• “When we don’t feel safe, that’s when relationships break down” - Maggie
• “The way that we are violent to each other is so increasingly subtle as our relationships evolve” - Cate
• “Sometimes the most healing and the highest good is to end a relationship” - Maggie

BIO:

Maggie Reyes is a Life Coach and Modern Marriage Mentor who helps high achieving women have happier marriages. Her romantic-yet-practical approach to love has appeared in Brides and Martha Stewart Weddings. She is the founder of ModernMarried.

In this episode I chat with Ian Hoge, a successful therapist, mindfulness teacher and author, about navigating our own personal journeys of transformation. We discuss the benefits of radical acceptance, and the importance of opening to difficult emotions in times of suffering with the knowledge that the suffering will pass. We talk about grief and how our practices can get us through. We talk about family meetings, the importance of parents in the lives of their children, and the way that children can often be our best teachers.

I rap with Ian Hoge about:

• How healing yourself allows further transformation
• How our practice can help us in difficult situations including times of grief
• Family meetings
• Radical acceptance as practice

What you’ll get out of tuning in: 

• How you can help your family grow with shared values
• What Cate takes from the work of Gay Hendricks
• Brain neuroplasticity

Links:

• Get 1 month full access for free on Evenflow. Download the app and use the code: EvenFlow2017
• Ian's website
• Gay Hendricks The Big Leap

Related Podcasts:

• The Wisdom Of Rhythm, Integrity + Dharma With Acharya Shunya
• The Evolutions + Regressions of Intergenerational Relationships with Tom McBride
• From Hectic To Healthy Holidays

Show Highlights:

• 07:15 - Increased stress levels in schools and introduction of mind-body programs into
• school environments
• 09:23 - Cate discusses the work of Gay Hendricks and what she finds relevant to mindfulness, especially in relation to suffering
• 11:15 - How mindfulness brings up realities that we need to face (school, work, lifestyle, etc) -- and how that can be terrifying
• 13:01 - Ian talks about the importance of finding space for mindfulness in our busy lives, including for teachers and parents
• 16:45 - Parents are the key to creating mindfulness practices in families
• 18:12 - How family meetings can help create structure, routine and shared values
• 23:00 - Concept of “talking stick” or a physical object to give people space in groups to be heard and of “listening from your heart”
• 32:00 - Meditation helps you lean into the unknown; it’s a practice
• 34:10 - The brain and meditation and neuroplasticity over time
• 38:18 - Different approaches to grief
• 39:10 - DBT therapy - Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• 44:03 - Awe and bliss come from lifelong practice

Favorite Quotes:

• “The most interesting thing is how can I help others” - Ian
• “Usually when change happens it is the death of something.” - Ian
• “The practice of being still is the best thing that we could possibly do.” - Ian

BIO:

Ian is a Mindfulness Teacher at Evenflow.io meditation app, co-Director of the Mindfulness Program at The Stephen Wise Elementary school in Los Angeles, and Mindfulness coordinator at PeakBrain institute. In addition he teaches Meditation, Mindfulness, and Yoga, both privately and in groups, to adults and adolescents in the LA area.

Ian is also a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern with a Masters in clinical psychology from Antioch University in Los Angeles.

Ian co-Wrote the book, 21 Days Of Enlightenments, with co-author, Bernadette Luckett. 21 Days of Enlightenments is a journey/discovery book filled with daily acts of service. He has also written and recorded two music albums about personal and spiritual growth available on itunes.