Wake Up to Real Love

Today, Dawn discusses the importance of self-discovery, healing, and conscious connections in relationships, with Lee Hite, a minister and life coach. Lee shares his personal journey of overcoming addiction, isolation, and self-defeating thoughts, highlighting the power of vulnerability and compassion. They delve into the significance of being a beneficial presence in the world and the value of listening and being present for others. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Lee emphasizes the significance of self-reflection in his healing journey, highlighting the need to distinguish between healthy alone time and self-defeating isolation.

• Lee discusses the value of vulnerability, noting that it is okay to show up authentically and be present with others, even when feeling less than 100%.

• Compassion is portrayed as the act of listening without the need to fix, allowing individuals to find their own answers and fostering a sense of connection and support.

• Lee metaphorically refers to the dark places as opportunities to plant seeds of growth and self-discovery, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging and learning from these experiences.

• Lee's personal credo of being a beneficial presence serves as a guiding principle in his interactions, reminding him to show up authentically and positively impact those around him.

BEST MOMENTS

"I'm stripping away what doesn't work so that I can reveal what does work. It's all about revealing my true nature rather than the lies I've been telling myself."

"I'm okay. I'm worthwhile. I am worthy of being here and it's okay. I can do the work. I am not that person anymore because I've learned and I've changed and learned and grown as part of the process."

"Why do you think so many people are afraid to pick up the phone? It's like we are programmed not to ask for help."

"Real love is giving and receiving without thought of giving and receiving."

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

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In this episode, Dawn discusses the themes of destiny, free will, and conscious living with guest, Anya Vasquez. Anya, an energy coach specializing in marriage and relationships, shares her journey of discovering energy work and the importance of reprogramming oneself to achieve unconditional happiness. Their discussion delves into the concept of destiny blueprints, the impact of names on one's life path, and the balance between predestination and free will. Anya and Dawn explore the idea of aligning with the universe, recognizing signs, and making conscious decisions to navigate life's challenges and opportunities. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The key to a fulfilling life is to strive for unconditional happiness, rather than seeking external factors like money or relationships.

• It is essential to reprogram oneself by identifying blockages, potential, and consistently working towards self-improvement.

• While there may be a predisposition or destiny blueprint, individuals also possess free will to make choices that can alter their path.

• Developing awareness and consciousness is crucial to avoid living on autopilot and reacting impulsively to situations.

• Names and birth details are believed to be chosen by the soul before birth, influencing the battles and experiences one will face in life.

BEST MOMENTS

"Listen, yes, whatever you did was wrong, but the way daddy reacted and because he's angry, that's not your problem. That's his problem."

"Nothing needs to be fixed. You're not broken."

"Everything, the good and the bad that has happened, had to happen for you to be right here in this moment."

"Everything is in duality. Nothing is just black. Nothing is just right."

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn

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In today's episode, Dawn sits down with mindset coach Renee Reisch to discuss the importance of finding one's voice, and speaking up for oneself. Renee shares her personal journey of resilience, including losing her voice due to a virus attacking her vocal cords. She delves into the impact of past experiences on self-expression, the significance of setting boundaries, and the process of building confidence and self-worth. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Renee emphasizes the importance of finding your voice to speak your truth, set boundaries, and show self-value.

• Renee discusses the need to let go of perfectionism and give oneself grace to take risks and make mistakes along the way.

• Renee highlights the difference between the highlight reel people often show on social media and the real challenges and hardships they face in their lives.

• Renee's mission is to elevate the voices of individuals, creating a community where people can share their stories and support each other on their journeys.

• Renee's personal journey of overcoming obstacles has led her to help others grow through their own challenges, emphasizing the idea of "what we go through, we grow through."

BEST MOMENTS

"Taking care of yourself? That was the last on the list. It wasn't even the last on the list. It wasn't even on the list. It didn't even make the list."

"Through the silence, you can hear the underlying message of what's coming through, the hurt, the pain, the anxiety of what somebody is trying to put out there that they can't even speak about, but it's coming through when you lean in and listen."

"Be excited instead of fearful. Fear is your projection into the future of something that didn't even happen yet."

"Isn't it nicer to see the glass half full than half empty? Isn't it nice to pour from an overflow than a broken glass?"

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn

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In this episode, Dawn speaks to Christopher Rausch on the importance of self-love, taking responsibility, and making conscious choices in life. Christopher shares his inspiring journey from a challenging upbringing to becoming a successful coach and speaker. He emphasizes the power of having a strong "why" to drive personal growth and change. Their conversation delves into forgiveness, self-care, and the impact of taking imperfect action to create positive transformations. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Self-love is the foundation for personal growth and success. It is crucial to prioritize self-care and self-love in order to make positive changes in life.

• It is important to take action, even if it is not perfect. Progress comes from taking steps forward, even if they are small or imperfect.

• Forgiveness and gratitude are powerful tools for personal growth. Forgiving oneself and others, and finding gratitude in challenging experiences, can lead to healing and growth.

• Having open and honest conversations, setting boundaries, and proactively addressing issues in relationships can lead to positive changes and growth.

• Investing in personal development, such as coaching, masterminds, or self-improvement resources, can lead to significant growth and positive changes in life.

BEST MOMENTS

"You can come back from anything and I've come back from a lot."

"When you stay comfortable, you don't grow. You don't grow, you stay stagnant."

"Real love is knowing the core of a person and loving them anyway."

"If you're looking to be upset, if you're looking to be frustrated, if you're looking to be angry, if you're looking for all that sh*t, you're gonna find it."

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn

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Welcome to the new season of Wake Up To Real Love. In today's episode, Dawn interviews Christy Holt, self proclaimed Happiness Hussy. They discuss the power of self-acceptance, conscious creation, and setting boundaries in relationships. Christy shares her personal journey of feeling stuck in a marriage and the transformative power of running as a coping mechanism. This episode also explores the CREATE method:  Calibrate your consciousness, Refine your routine, Elevate your energy, Activate your aligned life, Tune into your true vision, and Empower your elevated self.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Allow yourself to feel emotions without adding meaning, judgment, or resistance. Emotions are a compass, not good or bad.

• True power comes from accepting and embracing all aspects of yourself, recognizing your worthiness and wholeness.

• Shift from reacting to responding consciously, making intentional choices in alignment with your desires and values.

• Boundaries are not walls to keep people out but invitations for deeper connection by clearly stating your response to certain behaviors.

• Practice self-compassion, forgive yourself for past actions, and focus on growth and learning from experiences rather than self-condemnation.

BEST MOMENTS

"You don't need to become anyone. You don't need to change and do all the things differently. It's really just coming back to the heart of who you truly are and being that person here and now. That's your superpower."

"A boundary is if you continue to treat me this way, I will respond by leaving the room, by hanging up the phone, by whatever your response is going to be."

"If you're not going to accept where you're at right now, you're arguing with reality."

"The emotions themselves are not the problem. The emotions are actually just a compass. They're a piece of information, a signpost. And they really don't have good, bad, right, wrong meanings. It's just almost like this is aligned or this is not aligned."

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn

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In this episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn welcomes certified Christian sex coach Heather Tucker to the show to discuss her journey from growing up in the church and the issues with sex education. Discover the importance of understanding your body, why it’s essential to remove the uncomfortability around sex and how you can have a better romantic relationship when you’re open and honest.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Often religious couples are uncomfortable about talking about sex and it’s put down to something that each couple has just to figure out themselves.

• Not talking about sex in the church is a huge generation passing down of uncomfortability. Our brains have questions that don’t get answered and we are left having to learn about sex and ourselves.

• It’s vital for both men and women to learn about your own body, what turns you on, gets you aroused and the best practices to take to communicate your love is essential to your happiness.

• If you are open and honest when you enter a romantic relationship, you're going to have way better sex and communication with your partner.

BEST MOMENTS

“Nobody really talks about it.”

“When my kids were growing up and I said, I don't want them to feel awkward like I felt awkward.”

“Lots of kids grow up not even knowing the correct terminology.”

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
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ABOUT THE HOST
Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Heather Tucker is a certified Christian sex coach helping women overcome religious sexual shame, release their sexy confidence, female sexuality and empowerment into their lives and relationships. Heather is a two times bestselling author with her. Damn You and Weight Loss Plateaus.

We are all the sum of a multitude of things, each crucial to overall health, success and happiness. In this episode, Dawn is joined by holistic Transformation Coach Simone Gisondi. She shares her inspirational journey from trauma to purpose, how we can create self-worth, why we are conditioned to a certain environmental mindset and how we are simply on a journey to remind ourselves of our true beauty, love, joy and connection.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Mindset is so much more important than anything else, what state of mind are you in? How happy are you? Being at peace with yourself plays such a large role. Mind, body, heart and soul.

• People turn to substances, risky behaviours and even crime to be able to express themselves. People seek an outlet and we subconsciously do things that are so foreign to us, and we are not even in the state of awareness that what we're doing is actually trying to allow that trauma to come to finality.

• The feeling of self-worth can have the biggest impact on you. If you do not have it, you become ingrained with the feeling that you are not worthy of happiness, praise or anything of value. You need self-worth to be able to grow and evolve as a person.

• Your mindset is not always from you, you are conditioned to have your own sense of intrinsic worthiness because you weren't cared for, you weren't nurtured and you didn't feel safe in your own home. Your environment forms your mindset and it’s up to your awareness to understand that it is not right to break free.

• We're all here to help, uplift each other and come back to this place of love and acceptance for who we are at our core. We're not broken. We don't need to be fixed. We are on this journey to remind ourselves of our true beauty and nature, which is pure love and joy and connection.

BEST MOMENTS

“I remember the emotional impact that the words of my doctor had on me.”

“Trauma plays a huge role in one's life and health overall.”

“Affection was almost forbidden, we just did not show affection in our family.”

“Hurt people, hurt people.”

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
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ABOUT THE HOST
Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Simone Gisondi is a holistic Transformation Coach who serves more than just a client's body, but mind and everything crucial to overall health, success and happiness. Simone specialises in holistic approaches to cancer, regenerative detoxification, hypnosis and mindset development, she focused on the pillars of true health and what is needed to live a superior life.

MJ joins the Wake Up To Real Love show to share her journey to self-love and fulfilment. Dawn and MJ discuss the importance of a vision and taking control of your life, why we all how the power to create something bigger than ourselves and explain why everybody is worthy of love.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

BEST MOMENTS

“There's a certain point where I guess I was finding myself, growing and we were growing in a different direction.”

“In order for both of us to be happy and true to ourselves, it wasn’t going to work out.”

“Because I wasn’t working on myself the idea of working, having more money and going on holiday just became a repetitive thing that society teaches us to do.”

“Everyone is worthy of love.”

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
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ABOUT THE HOST
Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST

MJ is an award-winning artist, working mostly in acrylic and watercolour. She’s intrigued by the nuances between looking and seeing, believing that we don’t see things as they are, but as we are. She’s also interested in the participation of the viewers as an important part of her creative process.

MJ founded the Toronto Urban Sketchers (now Urban Sketchers Toronto) in 2013 and managed it for 5 years. She also led and organized several group exhibitions with the group and published an illustrated book called The Disappearing Landmarks of Toronto.

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In this episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn is joined by a music aficionado, voice talent coach, and author Mick Smith. Together they discuss Mick's struggles with parental alienation, how got into music, and his journey from pain to purpose.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Love is important but alone it is not enough to sustain society and structural stability is always needed.
• There’s always hope on the other side. You have to believe that and not give up hope because the truth will prevail, goodness wins over evil.
• No greater love does a man have than the pride to lay down his life for another. If you can lay down your life and give up whatever you need or want for that other person, you are turning your pain into your purpose.
• Fear, anger and resentment are all lower vibration energies, that do not help you heal or move forward in your life. Low vibration energy keeps you stuck in the past.
• Find a purpose that gets you out of bed in the morning and out into the world. It’s the best thing you can do to help yourself get past difficult and traumatic times.

BEST MOMENTS

“Religions provide guidelines for relationships”

“Society has killed God, leading to chaos and unhappiness.”

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
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ABOUT THE HOST
Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Mick Smith is a music aficionado, and voice talent coach and studied both history and religion at university before graduating as a professor.

Dawn welcomes back the founder of IDEA Seminars, Master NLP and DHE trainer and expert at helping people transform their lives, Rex Steven Sikes. Together they discuss the infinitesimal power of the brain and how you can transform yourself and your life to create winning momentum.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Winners win. The more you win with the small things, the more momentum you will build and you will create life, the more a habit of winning.
• You can transform yourself easily and when hardships come up, you're better equipped to handle them. There is always a way out of the turmoil, there is a way to change your life but it begins with tiny steps.
• Success is tied to your self-belief and everything that's ever happened to you in your life, every experience you've ever had, every feeling you've ever had, good or bad or whatever constitutes a resource. So you are infinitely resourceful.
• We can't even begin to understand the number of neural connections we can make in the brain. The connections our brain has to wire and rewire are infinitesimal. It's beyond anything we could imagine.

BEST MOMENTS

“A lot of people who go bankrupt understand that there's really nothing to fear about bankruptcy.”

“Bankruptcy isn’t pleasant but it, but I survived it.”

“Tiny steps, in the long run, will end up becoming a great solution, relief and opportunity.”

“Our bodies have a myriad of processes that are going on sequentially and simultaneously.”

“The conscious mind is just a tiny sliver of everything that we are.”

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
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ABOUT THE HOST
Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST
Rex Steven Sikes transformed his life after a skydiving accident nearly robbed him of it. He now has over four decades of experience helping thousands of people transform their minds and lives. His innovations include Mind Design™ The Attitude Activator™ and Directed Questions™.

He's a Master Trainer of NLP & DHE, A Master Hypnotherapist and Master Hypnotist, an Educator in Whole Brain and Accelerated Learning, the Law of Attraction and is the founder of IDEA Seminars.

Rex is a professional speaker, coach, business consultant, educator and author. He writes a blog Daily Inspiration And Gratitude. Plus, he's an actor, filmmaker and consultant to the entertainment industry.

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.rexsikes.com/