What Are the Rules?!® Podcast

After a two-year pause, What Are the Rules?!® is back with a conversation that gets right to the heart of the show: who gets to decide the rules we live by?

So who gets to decide the rules for your life? Well, according to Rachel Llanes, the answer is you. 

Rachel is a Human Performance Diagnostician, Peak Performance and Flow Expert, Keynote Speaker, and Founder of The Gardin Group. Put another way, she helps people identify what may be holding them back, understand what allows them to perform at their best, and intentionally create more of those conditions.

Drawing on more than a decade of experience, from marriage and family counseling to behavior change expert to master resilience training to the US Army, she combines a remarkable breadth of knowledge with the practical wisdom to help people take greater ownership of how they live, work, and thrive.

Today, through The Gardin Group, Rachel works with organizational leaders and their teams to cultivate the conditions that drive performance, engagement, and retention.

But I know Rachael personally, and she is no gatekeeper. In this episode, she brings that expertise directly to us, offering a practical framework you can use to examine the interconnected areas of your own life, establish rules that reflect what truly matters to you, and move from simply surviving to intentionally thriving.

While this conversation was recorded about two years ago, its message remains deeply relevant. All links will be kept up to date to reflect where you can currently find Rachel and the offerings she provides.

We talk about:

• Why the rules we live by are often inherited before they are chosen

• Rachel’s perspective on how people can decide what matters for their own lives

• The practical Eight Dimensions framework and how it helps create clarity

• What it looks like to question a rule without blowing up your whole life

• Why reflection can be useful without becoming a full-time personality

• How to reconnect with what feels true, useful, and livable now

  
  

Chapters:

00:00 You Decide the Rules

00:22 Meet Nancy + Show Intro

01:18 Introducing Rachel Llanes

03:30 Why Wellness Dimensions Matter

07:27 Environmental Wellness Rules

13:09 Physical Wellness Triad

15:53 Identity Discipline Motivation

22:49 Mental Wellness Reframe Thoughts

27:44 Emotional Wellness Feel It

33:40 Stop the Rumination Loop

33:57 Thoughts vs Emotions

34:58 Name the Real Feeling

37:03 Snow Globe Brain

37:58 Daily Spiritual Anchor

39:36 Find Your Beliefs

41:43 Connection Heals Health

43:26 Micro Moments Daily

44:43 Introverts and Boundaries

46:50 No Is Loving

51:07 Safety in Your Tribe

51:52 Money and Values

54:25 Define Core Values

55:29 Meaningful Work Mindset

58:03 People Over Career

01:00:46 Fast Rules for Life

01:02:48 Personal Daily Practices

01:04:50 Advice to Younger Self

01:06:28 Where to Find Rachel

01:07:22 Show Wrap

Connect with Rachel:

• Website: https://thegardingroup.com

• Instagram: @gardingroupconsulting @the.sovereign.sisterhood

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rllanes

  
  

Follow What Are the Rules?!® Podcast on Social:

• Instagram: @whataretherulespodcast

  
  

Note From the Host:

This episode marks the return of What Are the Rules?!® after a two-year hiatus. You’ll hear the original conversation with Rachel and a current outro with updated links and next steps.

Sure, it’s a new season. But the question remains the same–What are the rules!?® 

What Are the Rules of Dental Alchemy?! What if your mouth could be the key to whole-(mind) body (AND SOUL!) alignment?

In this episode, Quantum Dentist Dr. Jalal Khan shares how he addresses postural dysfunction and uncovers non-physical root causes of dis-ease. By exploring the connection between soul-level trauma and physical health, Dr. Khan uses Dental Alchemy—the mouth as a portal—to restore coherence on multiple levels for optimal health.

We’ll explore the body’s perfect intelligence behind grinding (yes, there’s a right way), the short-term fixes of botox and mouth tape, and why TMJ and crooked teeth are actually clever adaptations. We’ll also tap into the science of time dilation & slowing down and even reversing aging, and why the quantum reductionist view of health as mere protons & electrons is missing the magic.

Dive in with us and get ready to rethink what your mouth can do!

Find Dr. Jalal Khan on instagram at @k2calibre

Checkout his upcoming Dental Alchemy Workshop in Tampa FL 9/29/2024 https://www.k2calibre.com/florida-2024

Enroll in & Follow updates on Quantum Health Academy https://quantumhealthacademy.org