See The Upside - Overcoming Obstacles and Doing Life a Little Better Everyday
See the Upside Podcast is all about seeing the good even when the hard moments happen. Inspired by real life challenges that led to awakenings, we explore ways to do life a little better every day, see the positive in every experience and share the wisdom and stories to inspire each other. Topics range from spirituality, healing, love, wellness, finance, friendship, personal growth, career development and anything else that makes our lives rich, full, happy and just plain good. Interviews are with real people who have thrived through adversity as well as experts in a variety of fields sharing best practices about how to find meaning and purpose in life's most difficult moments. Join the conversation and be inspired to move through life with a little more light, a lot of hope and the knowing that there are incredible, limitless possibilities ahead once you decide to see them.
Episodes
73 episodes
73. Learning How to Love the Journey - with Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson is a Spiritual Life Coach and Marconic Energy Healer. In this episode, we get into all kinds of healing modalities including integrating nature into your journey. We go deep into how to explore and find joy throughout the proces...
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72. How to Manifest your DREAM life - with Lucie Ptasznik
Do you know what abundance feels like? Does your dream life feel attainable? What if the way to get there was more about feeling into that space before it even happens? What if that's actually how you MAKE it happen? In this conversation with L...
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71. Speaking with The Heart and How it Totally Changes the Way We Communicate in Relationships with Dr Heather Brown
Dr. Heather Browne PsyD, LMFT, helps people recognize the power of communication. In this episode, Dr Heather shares her wisdom about communicating with heart increasing connection, understanding, and the love we give and feel. In...
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70. How Your Life can Totally Change When you Eliminate Anger with Mort Orman
We all struggle with anger at times, or have someone close to us who does. It can be be difficult to manage, can affect our lives in all kinds of negative ways and just plain doesn't feel good. So what can we do to better manage it? Or...
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69. Create Inner Calm Quickly with Micro Meditations with Ann Swanson
Sometimes starting something like meditation can seem overwhelming, or too time consuming. That's where Ann Swanson and mini meditations come in. Life these days is busy, and to fit something else in can feel like a big ask. What if you could d...
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68. How to Get into Flow with Change with Jane Cebrynski
Life coach, yoga instructor and all around beautiful and inspiring person, Jane Cebrynski shares all the best ways to navigate change. Jane's coaching style is to approach life like an athlete, but she's also super yogi-zen too. I love this com...
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67. *Raw and Unfiltered* - The Magic of Chanting with Kimberly Braun
In this episode, we totally break with tradition and have shared the raw, unfiltered version with you. When I went back to edit, there was just too much amazing background conversation that I really wanted to share. Kimberly Braun...
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66. What Happens When you Allow your Soul to Lead the Way with Kimberly Braun
Kimberly Braun is an author, a poet, TED X speaker, minister, teacher and a mystic. She has written a book of beautiful poetry (spoiler alert - she shares one of her poems in our conversation! ) and has also written a book on...
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65. Embracing Your Wounds as Invitations to the Highest, Most Awake Version of You with Damla Aktekin
From the moment I met Damla, she exuded a real calming energy. And that's exactly what she does. She work to create calm, peace and healing though energetic work including inner child exploration, journaling and crystal connecting. In ...
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64. Why You Create Deeper Connection when you Stop People Pleasing with Amy Green Smith
As a people pleaser, I know how complicated it is. It feels like it's part of who we are and how we like to give and show up for others. But when can it be not so good for us, or even not so good for those that we care most about? When does it ...
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63. Living a Truly Authentic Life on Purpose with Colleen Coles
Living authentically, on purpose. How would that actually feel? Letting go of all the ways we think we're supposed to live and finally allowing ourselves to be truly free...Have you ever thought about what this would mean for you? Or how it...
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62. Removing Money Blocks, Becoming Financially Empowered and Stepping into your Most Abundant Life with Patti Handy
In this interview with former financial advisor and mortgage broker turned financial coach for divorced, single and widowed women, Patty Handy, we talk all about women and money. From investing to tax strategies, to calling in abundance and ove...
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61. Believing the Love You Want is Possible and How to Call It In with Evan Marc Katz
In this interview with long time dating coach and author, Evan Marc Katz, we go into all the ways to show up as the highest and best version of yourself in dating and relationships. Evan shares simple (but not always easy) ways to be more inten...
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60. Why Healing our Childhood Trauma can be the Key to Finally Ending Unhealthy Relationship Patterns with Susan Gold
We all have childhood trauma of some kind. Even if it wasn't trauma with a capital T, we each had needs which weren't met which can be subconsciously driving us to unhealthy patterns and behaviours. Although these behaviours may have served to ...
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59. Getting off Autopilot and into Soul Aligned Living with JJ Digeronimo
In this episode author JJ Digeronimo gets real about being real with ourselves. So often we can get caught up in the going and doing of life, taking us down a fast moving path where we miss so many of the things that are really important to us ...
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58. Love and your Louis Vuitton - How Our Soul Connects with People AND with Things with Aaron Ahuvia
I LOVE my Hermes bracelet. My girlfriends gave it to me on my birthday and it symbolizes so much more than the beautiful piece of jewelry that it is. To mean it feels like friendship, connection, my old life in Florida, good wine, boat ri...
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57. Connecting to your Higher Self for your Daily Dose of Healing, Peace and Bliss with Benjamin Bernstein
In this episode Benjamin Bernstein (who read my natal/astrology chart in episode 52) is back to share his incredible tools - Instant Devine Assistance Invocations. Definition of Invocation: The summoning of a deity or the super...
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56. Navigating Menopause with Grace - What to Expect and How to Slow it Down with Sheryl Carroll
At a recent party a close friend of mine asked me if I had gotten hot flashes yet. My response was: "I don't know, what does that feel like? How would I know." She laughed and then responded - "OHHHHH honey, you would KNOW!" This s...
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55. Healing Multiple Sclerosis Through Healing Her Heart with Traci Hill
After a devastating diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis in her mid 20's, Traci Hill decided to make some changes. Through health and wellness focused experimentation and practices, she completely changed her life and is now totally symptom free.&nb...
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54. Everything you Want to Know to Create Deep Connection in Your Relationships with Marc Wendt
Does your relationship fulfill you on a soul level? Do you connect with your partner in a conscious, deep way? Are you unsure about how to even start that conversation? Many relationships struggle to find deeper connection. Our bus...
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53. How to Find the Soul Filling, Heart Expanding, Deeply Connected Love You're Looking For with Crystal Isom
We all could use a BFF that gives to us straight. Who wants the very BEST for us, who knows how special and deserving we are, and wants us to find happiness and heart bursting, inspiring, best version of ourselves love. She'...
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52. Deep Dive into My Strengths, Wounds, Relationships and Purpose: Astrology Reading with Benjamin Bernstein
In this episode, Astrologer, Shaman and all around intuitive rockstar, Benjamin Bernstein reads my natal chart. We deep dive into all the ways I have opportunity to heal and grow, expand and blossom and live my very best life.
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51. How to Feel Light, Free + Calm by Decluttering your House and Your Heart with Conny Graf
I think we all like to do a little bit of decluttering for the new year. Getting rid of the old and changing up the things that no longer serve us. What we may not realize until we're actually doing it, is it can be really hard to let go. ...
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50. Be the Light - How to Embody and Share Positive Energy with Carolina Ayala
For the 50th episode - yay! And the last episode of 2022, it's only fitting to have the topic be around positive energy. We are all energetic beings that embody, create, share, exchange manifest and emit energy to each other. So wouldn...
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49. Facing Unresolved Trauma and Why Now is Your Time To Heal with Greg Wieting
Mental health and emotional wellness are the foundation of feeling good and showing up as the best version of ourselves, but many of us don't know where to even begin. We may be feeling stuck, blocked, dissatisfied, less than, overwhelmed, unse...
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