Your Superior Self

Michael J. Roads was born in Cambridgeshire, England, and grew up as a farmer's son. He left school as early as he could and worked for his father. At the age of 21, he married his first wife, Treenie (née Barker), with whom he emigrated to Australia in 1964. Together, they had a beef and dairy farm and raised four children. During this time, he became one of the key members that initiated the Australian organic movement and he wrote his first book, on organic gardening, which became a bestseller. After selling the farm in the mid-70s, he and his late wife co-founded a spiritual community, which they left after four years, eventually moving to the Bellingen Valley on the east coast of Australia. In 2007 he remarried Carolyn (née Silver). Currently, they reside on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland.

In 1986 he experienced what he described as "a profound leap into a higher state of consciousness" and began writing his books and giving public talks. For over thirty years, Roads has been a writer and spiritual teacher in many countries around the world.

Published McGraw-Hill and Hay House Author, Rena Greenberg has helped thousands of people all over the world achieve optimal health and improve their lives through corporate seminars, and online and face-to-face consultations. Rena's wellness program has been reviewed and sponsored in numerous hospitals and major corporations and she has been featured in hundreds of television and news stories including USA Today, Woman's World Magazine, The Doctor's Show, CNN, FOX-TV, Good Morning America, and ABC-TV Nightline, as well as her own show on PBS. Rena's passion for health and wellness began in her early twenties when, without warning, she suffered a heart attack. After 3 weeks in Cardiac Care and a permanent pacemaker implant, she was told she had the heart of an 80-year-old, was pre-diabetic, overweight, and had chronic fatigue. At a profound turning point in her life, she was determined to find health and immersed herself in researching health, nutrition, and wellness. Her research led her to the powerful Endo-cannabinoid System and the amazing benefits of CBD and she has been a compassionate advocate ever since. Rena holds a degree in biopsychology from the City University of New York and a master's degree from the University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism. She is also a hypnotherapy and NLP trainer and is board certified in biofeedback therapy.

Welcome to the first episode of Superior Self Sunday.  A series of episodes that allow me to connect one on one with my audience.  In this episode, I state my intention for the new series, and read a short introduction from Don Miguel Ruiz's book, "The Four Agreements".  Any feedback about the new series would be greatly appreciated. Please go to www.treydownes.com/contact to express that feedback. 

Maria is a "Plant Killer Turned Plant Lady" on a mission to help everyone successfully care for plants and make the world a kinder and greener place.

After learning to care for plants successfully and experiencing the exponential joy that caring for plants brought to her life, she founded the Bloom & Grow Radio Podcast to learn alongside her listeners as she interviews experts in all aspects of plant care.

Maria spent the last decade as a professional musical theater performer and has been seen in Broadway musicals in New York and around the world.

She's thrilled to now use her voice to help people grow more joy in their lives, through plant care with the podcast, virtual Garden Society, and book, Growing Joy.

Lisa is the author of the #1 best-selling book, "The Art of Psychic Reiki." and the upcoming book "Energy Healing for Empaths" (New Harbinger Press).

Lisa Campion is a psychic coun­selor and Reiki master teacher with over twenty-five years of experience. Lisa has been teaching Reiki for over 20 years. She has trained more than one thousand people in Reiki and has conducted more than fifteen thousand individual sessions.

She is also the host of the radio show and podcast, The Miracle of Healing on Empower Radio. She specializes in training emerging psychics, empaths, and healers so that they can fully step into their gifts since the world needs all the healers that it can get!

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world's leading experts on human performance. He is the author of ten bestsellers (out of fourteen books), including The Art of Impossible, The Future is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, translated into over 50 languages, and has appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, TIME, and the Harvard Business Review.

Susan Shumsky has dedicated her life to helping people take command of their lives in highly effective, powerful, positive ways. She is the author of 20 books in English, published by Simon & Schuster, Random House, Red Wheel/Weiser, and Skyhorse Publishing. She has won 43 prestigious book awards and has 36 books in foreign editions. A pioneer in the human potential field, she has spent several decades teaching thousands of people meditation, prayer, affirmation, and intuition. Her books have been published in several languages worldwide, and several were #1 Amazon.com best sellers. They include: Divine Revelation, Miracle Prayer, How to Hear the Voice of God, Ascension, Exploring Meditation, Exploring Auras, Exploring Chakras, Instant Healing, The Power of Auras, Awaken Your Third Eye, Awaken Your Divine Intuition, Color Your Chakras, The Big Book of Chakras, Third Eye Meditations, Earth Energy Meditations, Prosperity Meditations, The Inner Light, and her memoir Maharishi & Me.

Shumsky is a highly respected spiritual teacher and founder of Divine Revelation®—a unique field-proven technology for contacting the divine presence, hearing and testing the inner voice, and receiving clear divine guidance. For two decades, her mentor was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru of the Beatles and of Deepak Chopra. She served on Maharishi's personal staff for six years.

A sought-after media guest and highly acclaimed professional speaker, Shumsky has done over 700 speaking engagements and over 1300 media appearances since her first book was published, including Woman's World, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, nationally syndicated and network TV, Alan Colmes on FOX news, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, and William Shatner's Weird or What? She is featured in the movies Three Magic Words, The Illumined Ones, Superpower: Ignite Your Divine Intelligence, The Beatles and India, and The Maharishi Archives.

Sheila Darcey believes that art healed her soul, and everything she does is about sharing that powerful tool for self-care with the world. Her unique drawing style is intuitive, abstract, and organic, covering the page with flourishes and flashes of detail in a manner evoking Surrealist automatic drawing. It's made in a flow state as part of a daily practice akin to Morning Pages, except visual, and with compelling results that hold their space on any gallery wall, bespoke object, or more recently, NFT auction. (She's also the host of Arts & Healing, one of the only truly safe spaces on Clubhouse.) Her new book Sketch by Sketch guides readers to create a daily drawing practice that shifts a stressed consciousness into a place of calm, expressivity and truth; and her new crypto project Heal Coin celebrates creators, collaborators, and collectors passionate about holistic wellness.

Carol Ritberger Ph.D., is a radio host, author, and an innovative leader in the fields of personality behavioral psychology and behavioral medicine. With more than 28 years of experience as an internationally renowned medical intuitive, Carol's expertise is in helping people understand how personality, emotional, psychological, and spiritual energy can lie at the root cause of illness, disease, and life crises. As the result of a near-death experience in 1981, she is literally able to see the human energy system, the aura, to identify energy congestion, protrusions, depletions and blockages that are affecting the body's ability to function properly and sustain good health. Using this skill she is able to offer a comprehensive picture of why we become ill and offer insight into what is needed to heal.

Carol holds a doctorate in Theology and a doctorate in Esoteric Philosophy and Hermetic Science. Drawing on her education in personality typology, psychoneuroimmunology, spirituality, metaphysics, and esoteric healing, Carol weaves these perspectives together with biology, physiology, psychology, and psychospirituality. The result is she is able to uncover the hidden contributors behind illness in a credible and understandable way. Armed with this knowledge, a person is able to participate more effectively in their own healing and in helping other people heal themselves.

Carol is an author of Your Personality, Your Health; What Color Is Your Personality?; Love - What's Personality Got to Do with It?; Managing People - What's Personality Got to Do with It?; and Healing Happens with Your Help - Understanding the Hidden Meaning Behind Illness. Her books, What Color is Your Personality?; Managing People - What's Personality Got to Do with It?; and Healing Happens with Your Help are text books for many national and international educational institutions. Carol's work has been featured in print and on radio and television. All of her books are available at www.hayhouse.com, www.amazon.com and local book sellers.

Joe McQuillen has been married to his wife Sally for thirty years and is the father of three children. One of his sons is now on the other side.  Joe was the youngest of ten children born into an Irish Catholic family.  Although he has had two successful careers, Joe is at heart a blue-collar kid from Buffalo, New York. 
     Joe is thirty-six years sober and a member of AA. In fact, that has helped him get close to God and helped to carry him through the dark times after Chris's crossing.  Unwilling to accept a world devoid of his beloved son Christopher, Joe began to research the metaphysical and seek out the answers to What happens next? Joe's first book (Joe & Chris's book), "My Search for Christopher on the Other Side", tells the story of the journey of discovery over the first two years.  His second book, "We're Not Done Yet Pop, My Lessons from the Other Side", takes his audience to the next level of discovery and awakening.
     Joe speaks to parents who have seemingly lost children. He hopes to bring them comfort and hope.  When Joe finished his first book, he thought he was "one and done."  But Chris let him know that "We're Not Done Yet, Pop" and indeed they weren't.