"Everyday MINDFULness" Show

I am love, I am in my heart, I am listening.

In this episode, Holly interviews Juha Riverhill, spiritual teacher from Finland.

Juha’s inspiration comes from a lifetime of difficulties, from being bullied as a child to a tumultuous divorce in his later years. out of the worst moment of his life. A difficult divorce, overwhelm of the aftermath and the whisper from his spirit guide, Cecelia, led him to channel/write his book, The Golden Book of Humanity.

Questions Holly and Juha explore include:

• How did you come to the understanding of spirit guides?

• What is something that you may be resisting in your life that gives you an opportunity to find a greater guide in your own life?

• Where do you start and how can you implement a sense of curiosity in your daily life?

• How can we ponder and practice the mantra I am love, I am in my heart, I am receiving?

• The Divine approached Juha in many ways from the time he was a child. He asked to be shown the way to communicate on a deeper level with his spirit guides.

• During a time in Paris, his time with Cecelia and other guides gained clarity and understanding the gifts they could help him bring to the world.

He set a goal of becoming a spiritual teacher.

Coming from a Christian background, he always had an understanding of the Holy Spirit, but he came to crave more of a spiritual exploration to a connection with unconditional love. He found this by bringing his living from his head to living in his heart. Through this it fulfilled an aching heart and created a raised vibrational state of sending and receiving perfect unconditional love with his life.

Find out more about Juha’s book here.

Greg Williams is The Master Negotiator. His experience and proven results in negotiation skills and body language, combined with his knowledge of emotional intelligence, make him a sought-after speaker and​consultant. ​He is a dynamic speaker who engages and motivates audiences by us​ing real life examples from the negotiations he’s participated in to illustrate the principles he shares.

Questions that Holly and Greg discuss:

·     What are you top two or three tips for people to discuss the topics in today’s environment?

·     How do we iterate our master skills to meet the needs of today’s changes?

·     How insights can be gained by paying attention to body language during negotiations?

·     What are some introductory things that people can refine in today’s video environments?

·     Are you finding that you’re able to connect with a sense of oneness through body language?

Everything I engage in works!

Find more about Greg at https://www.themasternegotiator.com/ or email him at greg@themasternegotiator.com.

Remember, mindfulness matters and so do YOU!

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A New view on ROI (Return in Intention)

Holly interviews Jane Stevenson, Managing Director of Magnetic Minds in South Africa. The two shared a connection through stories that flowed together on stage at a South Africa conference in 2019. 

As the managing director of Magnetic Minds,  Jane’s company helps reframe mindfulness in ways that serve organizations in planning for their teams goals and future big picture. Her purpose: Finding True North. Personalized business solutions that equip leaders and teams to magnify results and impact. Magnetic Minds brings teams together to help them shift their mindsets in safe spaces to have conversations about where they want their teams to go. 

Some of the questions that Holly and Jane unpack are:

How do conversations within ourselves magnetize the right people to us? 

Who am I? 

Why does success in business not feel like success in my heart?

Are you showing up and following the plan that you committed to?

What is your purpose on earth?

Am I winning?

How to Reframe what success means – no more winners or losers.

We are all wanting to feel like more than just the jobs that we do.

We tend to focus on our jobs as the centers of our lives, but is this the most mindful way to live? 

Purpose is far bigger than profit! Jane mentions Elan Musk and his opening up his intellectual property to the world, and how his example of sustainability over profit is the perfect example of living with purpose. 

Collaboration brings a much higher influence than working alone and in isolation. Holly and Jane discuss global challenges such as violence against women. More questions that they address are:

How can we use the negative stories and build purpose driven collaboration around these? 

What are we doing to affect change? 

How do we become part of the solutions? 

How could anger create the answer? Sometimes we need anger to move into a state of brilliant action.

Jane actually uses Holly’s book, Everyday Mindfulness,  https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Mindfulness-Chaos-Crazy-World-ebook/dp/B07KDVFL8S/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=everyday+mindfulness+holly+duckworth&qid=1576620104&sr=8-1  as one of her tools to give herself a framework for setting daily intentions. 

Jane leaves listeners with “Don’t ever think of it as a failure, but as a revelation of how to not do things in the future.”

Find out more about Jane’s work at http://www.magneticminds.co.za/ or email her at jane@magneticminds.co.za

Holly interviews Justin Foster about his work with Root and River Marketing. He and his team have cultivated blending spiritual and practical for mission-driven brands. His company helps define ways for every great brand to have a spiritual experience. A brand is how others experience what you believe. They philosophy behind their strategy is humanistic marketing practices. Do not market unto others the way you would not be marketed to. “Root” is the intrinsic mission, brand and message. “River” is how your message shows up in the world and these need to be congruent.

Some of the questions they explore are:

• What makes a “Mystical friendship”?
• What thoughts do you have for navigating the deep roots of the changes happening right now?
• What does consciousness mean to you?

Justin pronounces that “Nature kills pretense!” These times are causing people to really examine what is really important. He also shares his belief that consciousness is the space between thoughts and feelings and YOU, your true self.

Justin recommends that we be willing to ask more questions and incorporate “this is what it means to me.” His philosophy is to have a self-intervention practice. This involved three things to ask yourself:

1. When you react to something ask yourself “is that true? “Don’t trust your thoughts and feelings completely. Listen to them, but don’t trust them completely.
2. What are you feeling called to do, or action to take, that you haven’t been called to do before?
3. What is something you can’t go back to?

Justin says that something he is not going back to borrowing energy from other people.

See more about Justin’s work at https://rootandriver.com/ or his personal work at https://fosterthinking.com/

Remember – Mindful Matters and so do YOU!! https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/

In Honor of National Hair Loss Awareness Month in August, Holly hosts an interview with The Alopecia Angel, Johanna Dahlman. After having alopecia and recovering through holistic and organic methods, Johanna created books, programs and a site that is filled with empowering information, healthy alternatives and side effect free results for hair and health.

Health is the greatest form of wealth. She helps people reduce anxiety, depression, stress, weight gain, health problems that arise due to neglect and reduce the toxic burden you are potentially enabling, even unknowingly. Correcting steps now, avoids potential health risks and increases productivity along with prosperity.

Questions Holly and Johanna explore:

How do we have the conversation with employers when a health situation comes up?

What are practices that can be done to start listening to the body?

What are symptoms of alopecia?

Where can we start to evaluate our lifestyles?

The power is in your hands to improve your health!

Visit www.alopeciaangel.com for more information.

Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do YOU!

Enjoy this rebroadcast with Dr. Jud Brewer.

DrJud.com was created by Dr. Jud Brewer (MD PhD) and the team at MindSciences, based on his work in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, combining over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training and a career in scientific research. He is passionate about understanding how our brains work, and how to use that knowledge to help people make deep, permanent change in their lives — with the goal of reducing suffering in the world at large.

As heard on C-Suite Radio

Mark Sanborn holds the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association (NSA) and is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame. He was recently honored with the Cavett Award, the highest honor the NSA bestows on its members, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the speaking profession. In 2019, Global Gurus named Mark the #5 Leadership Authority in the world.

In his latest keynote, The Intention Imperative, based on 33 years of working with organizations globally, teaching leaders and observing powerful shifts, Mark has identified three essential areas of focus for leaders in the world:

Inspiration: motivation to the power of purpose

Culture: creating an engine that sustains vision and values while achieving desired results

Emotion: designing and delivering positive emotions for customers and employees

You don’t have to have a title to be a leader!

If you take care of the moments the moments become your life. If you daydream, choose to do it and don’t do it accidentally.

Mark’s personal practice is to focus. Morning meditations and prayer and setting his intentions wherever you’re at, be there.

His current read is The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. He’s highly recommends taking the time to slow down to the point of purposefulness.

Questions Holly and Mark explore:

How can you deliver positive emotions to customers during this time?

How can we reconstruct how we connect to others?

What is a surprise lesson outside North America that you have learned?

Post COVID-19, people are now worried about security and safety. It’s imperative that companies, particularly restaurants, engineer around secure.

Being at home more, Mark learned that he really liked being at home. After a long career of travelling extensively, he hadn’t gotten much of a chance to be home. The lifestyle change helped him look at his underlying values. Reinvent yourself every day.

One of the tools that Mark offers is The Extraordinary Living Journal, which is a combination of two pages a day journaling, goal setting, examining purposes and important relationships. Recount what happened the day before, find three good things and examine them and then write and plan for the day.

Find more about Mark at https://marksanborn.com/ Mark Sanborn is an award winning speaker and Leadership Expert in Residence at High Point University, the Premier Life Skills University. For more information about his work, visit www.marksanborn.com. He also teaches professional speakers and leaders how to increase their messaging and public speaking effectiveness. Learn more here.

Remember Mindful Matters and so do YOU!

Please enjoy this rebroadcast of Episode 126!

Holly interviews Jean Marie DiGiovanna, President and CEO of Workshop University who shares her personal practice of creating mindfulness for her own life and helping companies become Renaissance Leaders™ who untap hidden talent and unlock ideas to create a Renaissance Culture™ that recognizes hidden talent, inspires original thinking and brings the heart & soul back into their organization.

Some of the questions Holly and Jean Marie explore:

How do you use grounding practices to inform work and personal life through tapping into intuition?

How can we be more curious by asking more powerful questions?

Jean Marie shares her new tool, Stop Talking, Start Asking. She expresses the importance of the concept of Silence is Attractive. She also touches on the 5 Principles of Creating a Renaissance Culture™ where these principles can live and grow. Find out more at www.jeanmariespeaks.com.

Also be on the lookout for her upcoming app to help your organization at stoptalkingstartasking.com.

Failing to plan for problems is planning to fail.

Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is on a mission to protect leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases, which devastate bottom lines and bring down high-flying careers. His expertise and passion is developing the most effective and profitable decision-making strategies, based on pragmatic business experience and cutting-edge behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience, to empower leaders to avoid business disasters and maximize their bottom lines.

 A best-selling author, he wrote he wrote Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (2019), The Truth Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide (2017), and The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships (2020). Dr. Tsipursky’s cutting-edge thought leadership was featured in over 400 articles and 350 interviews in Fast Company, CBS News, Time, Scientific American, Psychology Today, The Conversation, Business Insider, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Government Executive, Inc. Magazine, and elsewhere.

Questions Holly explores with Dr. Tsipursky:

• How can we navigate decisions from a place of higher awareness during this time?
• How does resilience pertain to the current situations?
• What are the six issues to think about during transition times?
• What are some tips for navigating awkward?

Decisions are 80-90% driven by emotions.  Going by gut responses, or the fight or flight responses, do not serve appropriately in today’s world. With the situation today, the world situation of Coronaviras and Covid-19, people’s responses are not built to deal with this situation appropriately. People are still functioning in emergency mode and need to adjust to a new “abnormal.”

Dr. Tsipursky’s business was deeply impacted during this challenging time. As a speaker and trainer, all of his events around his book tour were cancelled. His father also contracted Covid-19! His mother, having medical training, was able to keep him from going to the hospital.

With so many layers of crisis occurring right now, people may believe they are better at communicating than they are. We all operating through different lenses. It’s important to ask oneself, What kind of values and information does the other person have? What kind of filters are they operating with? How can your communication fail? How can you address the ways they can fail? With the advent of virtual communications there are many different aspects that need to be addressed and being aware of body language and other aspects of how one comes off on video.

His daily mindfulness practice mornings include yoga, John Cabbot Zen school of evidence-based meditation which have been evaluated by academic research and in the afternoon he does Zazen empty mind meditation.

See more of Dr. Gleb’s work at https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/ and read his book Resilience: Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

Also follow him on social media: Twitter: @Gleb_Tsipursky

Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do YOU!

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“You really miss something when we equate success to money. Balance and presence is the key to success.”

Peter Taunton is a pioneer in the fitness industry. In 2003, he had a vision for Snap Fitness to create an affordable, 24-7, results driven gym differentiated from the impersonal, expensive big box experience. Today there are Snap Fitness franchises in 2500 locations in 26 countries. And Taunton, CEO of Lift Brands, didn’t stop there.

Taunton is a expert at understanding consumer desires and fulfilling them. In recent years, he has acquired and founded several brands to round out the consumer fitness experience: 9Round, Farrell’s, YogaFit, STEELE Fitness, Fitness on Demand. Together with the Snap Fitness they comprise one of the world’s largest wellness franchise organizations with over 6000 locations across multiple brands serving 165 million workouts and counting.

Peter’s accomplishments have been well recognized by the business community. In 2010, he was named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of The Year.

For Taunton it comes down to one word: passion. He has it, he teaches it and the results speak for themselves. Even as his operations expand, he remains ever committed to providing owners and members with the tools and programs they need to reach life changing goals.

Some of the questions that Holly and Peter explore:

·     How did you create a vision of growing a wellness franchise?

·     What are tips and strategies get you into the flow and keep you there?

·     What is your daily mindfulness and physical fitness practice?

·     How are you building your CBD business?

Peter says “I love my life!” And in his life the common thread is wellness, physical and mental. Having the right mindset and being prepared to do the work by setting up a chronological order to set up new businesses. Take small bites and work your way through it. Thin yourself from the herd to be visible and impactful.

He found himself finding that money doesn’t buy happiness. He was wealthy, but single, and focused on philanthropy in order to create a life that made him happy. He started posting his daily devotionals and gained a following

Luck and hope is not a business plan. Along with his daily devotional, he has a to do list that he’s kept since he was twelve years old. Social media has become an avenue for him to express himself – if you see four guys in a meeting, three in suits and one in jeans and flip flops – he’s the one with the money.

He rides his bike around Miami to meetings. He prays with those he meets with. Known as Pistol Peet, even the homeless community leans on Peter to bring smiles and connection.

Peter looks back at his life and asks “What did I miss? What would I have done differently?” And, responds, “I wish I would have danced more. He wishes he’s spent more time with his family, church and friends. He built 377 stores in a year! He was able to hire the right talent and get them to stay in their lanes. He has used the same systems and processes over the years and they have worked successfully whether he was opening 5 stores a month or 377 a year.

Peter started working out when he was thirteen and just never stopped. He manages his weight and body fat and can do more pullups today than when he was in his twenties!

You really miss something when we equate success to money. Balance and presence is the key to success. Peter gives 10% of his profits in his CBD sales to charity. He is in it for the challenge of building a consciously run company.

Follow Peter on Instagram @Peter_taunton or on Twitter @petertaunton. For more information on Peter’s CBD Business, go to www.elevarelabs.com.

Remember Mindful Matters and So Do You!

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