Redefining Leadership with Neema Namadamu
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Neema Namadamu is the visionary founder of Hero Women Rising and an indomitable peace and women's rights advocate from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In our conversation today she shares her warmth and humor, wise insights and no bullshit approach to leadership. We talk about:
- navigating challenging times of political and social unrest
- forgiveness and inner strength
- how a deep sense of purpose helps us overcome barriers
- living with fear and uncertainty
- personal resilience and advocacy
- breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma
- the healing, creative nature of community
- the power of women coming together
- the impact of war on men, and their role in supporting women's liberation
- the distinction between influencers and leaders
Tracking Yes interview with Cynthia Jurs
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Creating True Wealth with Sarah McCrum
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Join me for a conversation with Sarah McCrum, author of “Love Money, Money Loves You”, about how to free yourself from fear and stress around money and create true wealth and well-being in your life.
We explore:
- the true nature of energy ~ and the powerful possibilites inherent in knowing how to work with it
- why we feel fear and stress around money
- why it’s essential to participate in the circulation of money
- our natural capacity to influence change and create well-being in our personal lives and in the bigger world
- the system of value exchange that generates all the abundance in our lives
- the magic of sharing your creativity as a contribution to culture
- how learning to relax and enjoy life is the key to creating significant shifts
Sarah also shares a fascinating teaching about the Four Currencies of Wealth and describes how we can align with them to create truly wealthy lives.
LINKS:
Sarah’s creative work with farmers restoring ecosystem vitality
The stunning artwork of Sarah’s mother, Bridget McCrum
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"Caring for the Earth" with Cynthia Jurs
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
35 years ago, Cynthia Jurs met a 106-year-old lama high in the mountains of Tibet and asked him a question that changed the course of her life.
In her new memoir, applauded by elders including Joanna Macy, David Abrams, Jack Kornfield and her beloved long-time teacher Thich Nhat Hahn, Cynthia recounts her decades-long quest of burying Earth Treasure Vases to bring care to areas of the Earth most in need of protection and healing.
Join us for an inspiring conversation about:
- trusting intuition and magic
- letting curiosity lead the way
- looking to the stars for guidance
and collaborating with the help that is always available.
Cynthia’s journey invites us to open to guidance from the natural world and trust the wisdom of the Earth at this pivotal time of collective awakening.
Cynthia Jurs website: www.GaiaMandala.net
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Unlocking Your Potential: Neuroscience and the 7 Levels of Effectiveness with Ursula Pottinga, PCC
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
The most current research on the brain has shown us that when you understand how your brain works, you can influence how it operates to increase your emotional and mental well-being.
In this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by Ursula Pottinga, PCC, professional coach and co-leader of an intensive neuro-transformational coach training program I completed this year.
Ursula has been coaching leaders for years on how to increase the value of their impact using BeAbove Leadership’s Map of the Seven Levels of Personal, Group, and Organizational Effectiveness.
The 7 Levels increase in resonance and effectiveness from:
Hopelessness
Fear
Frustration
Courage
Engagement
Innovation
Synchronicity
Based on Dr. David Hawkins's Map of Consciousness and Dr. Dan Siegel's mindfulness and neuroscience research, this map can help you recognize your own default position and gain insight and practical tools to raise your personal level of resonance and effectiveness.
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Reclaim Your Life Force: Decluttering Your Energetic Space with Lynda Caesara
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Lynda Caesara is a structural body worker who’s spent decades working with imbalances in the body. She helps people come back into optimal health through both physical and energetic alignment.
In our conversation Lynda speaks to managing our electro-magnetic fields and offers five essential practices for connecting to and harnessing energy in the body. Done consistently, these practices will support you in creating a clear and grounded energetic field so you can access the full power of your life force.
We explore:
- working with the body's innate capacity to heal
- understanding fear and our nervous system responses
- clearing stagnant energy to restore the free flow of our chi, or life force
- connecting with large coherent fields to shift from dissonance to harmony in our being
She also walks us through a five step daily attention practice to declutter your personal energetic space:
- Connecting with your centre
- Grounding into the earth
- Clearing your energy field
- Cultivating clear boundaries ~ and why they are essential to true intimacy
- Attuning to your chakras (including the eighth and ninth)
LINKS:
Lynda is not currently taking on new clients but if you want to know more about her work, she points to this excellent podcast interview (hosted by one of her long time students) that explores her work in even greater detail:
Mindfulness Exercises Podcast with Sean Fargo
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The Healing Power of Psychedelics with Rogers Masson
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
On today’s show I’m talking with Rogers Masson, a friend and remarkable human, who opens up about his journey with PTSD, and the transformative effects he experienced through psychedelic assisted therapy.
We talk about why trauma is such a challenging thing for us to navigate, and ways to orient to it that support integration and wholeness.
Rogers speaks about how the effects of MDMA (aka: Ecstasy) were significantly more healing for him than traditional therapy and also shares a negative impact in his treatment that moved him to draw on his 30 year career as a music producer to found a company dedicated to creating sound environments that greatly enhance the healing power of these medicine sessions.
Join us for an exploration of:
- the stigma of expressing emotions for men
- the cost of compartmentalization in our lives
- how to be with intense experiences so they are not stored as trauma
- how trauma anchors young parts of us in the past
- giving fragmented parts of self a home in present time
- creating wholeness through cultivating new stories of our past experiences
Find Rogers' work here: Psysonics Website
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Eight Practices for Living Consciously with Steve Taylor
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Steve Taylor is a transpersonal psychologist, researcher and author of 15 best-selling books on psychology and spirituality.
Our conversation begins with one of his earlier books: “Disconnected: The Roots of Human Cruelty, and How Connection Can Heal the World” which explores the continuum of human nature from psychopathy to spirituality and then we turn toward his most recent book “The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening” which delves into eight qualities of spiritually awakened people:
- dis-identification from the ego
- gratitude
- presence
- altruism
- acceptance
- integration with the body
- detachment
- embracing mortality
Steve shares practical exercises and meditations that help us cultivate these qualities, and offers insight into why practicing them leads to deep connection with yourself and others and through that, genuine happiness and fulfillment.
Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University, and the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality.
His articles and essays have been published in over 100 academic journals, magazines and newspapers. He regularly appears in the media in the UK and writes blog articles for Scientific American, and Psychology Today.
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"Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity and Kindness" with Margaret Wheatley
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Meg Wheatley is the author of 12 books, a social activist, a global leadership and organizational consultant, a Buddhist practitioner and a guide and trainer for Warriors for the Human Spirit.
After a lifetime of activism and a deep understanding of how living systems work, she’s come to realize that life is no longer subject to the kind of interventions that used to be effective.
In today's conversation we explore her newest book Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity and Kindness in Ourselves and Our Organizations and what’s possible when we follow the threads of curiosity and the mystical in our relationships and work.
Join us for some clear-eyed wisdom about how to best participate in the world we are now living in, including:
- what it means to become a Warrior for the Human Spirit
- the conditions that enable us to work together in empowered ways
- harnessing the power of curiosity to access joy
- connecting with the guidance that's revealed in the natural world
- essential practices that help us to be a stable, compassionate presence in difficult moments
- embodying sane leadership
- creating Islands of Sanity in a toxic culture
- listening to the world's needs to clarify meaningful purpose and action
Links from our conversation:
Margaret Wheatley website
Warrior Songline
Restoring Sanity - 6 week online course begins April 18th, 2024
Wendy Palmer interview
Pema Chodron
Joanna Macy
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"Writing By Heart - Discovering the Medicine and Magic of Your Muse" with Meredith Heller
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
In a world craving genuine connection, Meredith Heller's latest book, 'Writing by Heart: A Poetry Path to Healing and Self Discovery,' offers a sanctuary.
Leaving home at 13 to find her own way in the world led Meredith Heller through dangerous and heartbreaking terrain, but she didn't just survive; she thrived.
In our conversation today Meredith delves into the challenges of navigating adolescence, the beauty of becoming fully authentic and deeply connected to life through the initiation of adversity, and shares how her profound trust in the natural world supported her as she learned to use the transformative power of writing to grow and heal.
We explore the importance of creating a sacred space for storytelling and connection, the use of writing as a tool for self-reflection and empowerment and Meredith offers us a beautiful guided writing exercise on the wisdom of atonement.
Tune in to uncover the therapeutic power of putting pen to paper.
Meredith Heller website
“Firebird” spoken song on Meredith’s “About” page
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Tracking Magic Through the Shadows with Liz Wiltzen
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Join me for a conversation with Pete McLean where we explore the power of finding beauty in the darkest places and how you can keep coming back into a creative relationship with life—no matter what it throws your way.
We talk about:
- Tracking Yes: what it is, how it began and what it means to truly live it
- trusting the love that binds us and powerful ways to connect with its guidance
- dogs as spiritual teachers and what they show us when we’re paying attention
- tracking the threads of beauty and magic through the darkest places
I recently interviewed Pete on the podcast about his bone breaking 14 foot fall off of a scaffolding, and how that led to a series of interviews he did with fellow humans about how what they thought were some of the worst things ever turned out to be the best.
I was one of the folks he interviewed and this is our conversation. I think you're gonna love this conversation, Pete is as wonderful to be interviewed by as he is to interview.
Pete's Podcast series on 14 Foot Falls
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The Power and Grace of Our 14 Foot Falls with Pete McLean
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Show Notes:
Pete McLean was doing carpentry work when a scaffolding collapsed and he fell 14 feet onto rocks, breaking several bones in his lower body.
Sometimes the falls come for us, and sometimes we choose to leap, but either way, Pete holds that our falls are the moments in our lives when something deeper in us is creating an opening to make itself visible and expressed in this world.
Could it be that the thing that we spend most of our time keeping beneath the surface- because of fear or shame or some idea that it’s not OK- is presenting us with an opening to give it wings?
Join us for a conversation about how we might trust the falls in our lives as experiences in which our soul is calling us into greater courage, curiosity and possibility.
Pete’s Website: Of Earth and Soul
Of Earth and Soul Podcast: 14 Foot Falls on Spotify
Iain McGilchrist - The Master and His Emissary
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Ritual, Love and Transformation: Navigating the Journey of Death and Dying with Dr. Martha Jo Atkins
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
In this insightful conversation with end-of-life counsellor Dr. Martha Jo Atkins, we explore the power of restoring our natural connection with death in a culture that is conditioned to resist it.
We delve into:
- the clarity that happens when we partner with death as an ally
- how to cultivate the presence to support our beloved humans and pets at end of life
- the value of ritual and ceremony in the dying journey
- channelling creativity as a grounding force in challenging times
- how the medicine of kindness creates safety
- the unique ways that children are equipped to be with death
- the importance of creating spaces to feel deeply so that love can move with us
Martha Jo also shares about “D. School”, an initiative she designed to help us shift perceptions around death and offer guidance to those dealing with it.
Marked by personal revelations and heart-touching stories, this episode investigates how we can reframe our perspectives on death, making it less about loss and more about the transition of life.
* Martha’s next D-School begins in February 16th, 2024
Early Bird registrations ends: December 30th, 2023.
Martha Jo Atkins website
"Signposts of Dying" book
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Addiction, Perfectionism and God with Celia McBride
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Celia McBride is an author, playwright, cinematographer, and artist. She's also a spiritual director who helps others on their own path of seeking. In her work, she draws on her own experience of healing and spirituality, which has been anything but a straight and narrow path.
In our conversation today, we talk about:
- the nature of addiction: what motivates it, what fuels it, and what's essential to become free of it
- perfectionism: our deep desire to feel connection and belonging
- the path of seeking: trusting our personal path to meaning
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The Science of Wonder with Dr. Rich Blundell
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Rich Blundell holds a PhD in Cosmic Evolution and is the founder of OIKA, which explores the 13.8 billion year story of the cosmos and offers immersive practices that bring us back into dynamic, creative relationship with it.
In our conversation today, Rich shares his wisdom about the power of beauty to reconnect us with belonging, meaning, and wonder, and how the magic of science reveals to us how inextricably connected we all are.
He offers his scientific understanding of the intelligence of nature and how we can tap into it to generate collaborative responses to the collective challenges we face.
Today’s Guest:
Dr. Rich Blundell is an ecologist whose work explores the convergence of science, art, nature and culture. As the founder of Oika, his research examines how transformation happens across the scales of person, place and planet. As a communicator, Rich tells a scientific story of the universe that includes art and human creativity as natural phenomena. His goal is to make the continuity of nature palpable.
Dr. Blundell has received numerous grants and awards including an ongoing TIDES innovators award, The National Science Foundation grant for Science Out There and The Deep Time Values video award for An Earth Story. Blundell’s creative video work has appeared on PBS, National Geographic and numerous social media platforms. He is currently the Scientist in Residence at the Maria Mitchell Association on Nantucket Island.
Rich’s website: oika.com
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The Healing Power of Joy with Tanmeet Sethi, MD
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
How can you find joy amidst even the most profound pain?
My guest today, Dr. Tanmeet Sethi, a board-certified integrative family medicine physician, author, and esteemed faculty member at the Center for Mind Body Medicine, shares her remarkable insights on cultivating well-being and trust in life, even during times of intense suffering.
We talk about how negative cultural messaging and trauma can chip away at our trust in life and ourselves, and she shares the science behind the cell danger response and how an extended trauma reaction can hinder our power to thrive.
Tanmeet speaks of her journey of discovering unconditional love through her son's fatal diagnosis and how it sprung open a door to greater joy.
We explore the rejuvenating world of movement as a powerful form of healing. Tanmeet beautifully articulates how emotions can be propelled by movement to help us transcend a narrow experience of our pain and open to let it be held in a larger narrative.
We learn how to break free from the cycle of suffering by understanding where the pain lies and how to sit with it, how gratitude fuels compassion and why grace takes forgiveness to a whole other level.
Our conversation today promises to be a source of strength for anyone seeking to find joy and trust in life amidst the toughest of challenges.
Today’s Guest:
Tanmeet Sethi, MD is an Integrative and Psychedelic Medicine Physician, activist, author, and TEDx speaker who has dedicated her career to care for the most marginalized patients in Seattle’s refugee, uninsured and homeless populations as well as global communities traumatized by manmade and natural disasters as Senior Faculty for the Center for Mind Body Medicine.
She has been Core Faculty in residency medical education for the last two decades focusing on inpatient and outpatient family medicine, integrative medicine, and anti-racism in medicine. She is one of the primary clinical researchers at the University of Washington on a study of psilocybin for COVID burnout of frontline medical workers.
She is certified in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine and fellowship trained in Integrative Medicine from the University of Arizona. She lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and three children and her first book, Joy Is My Justice, was published on May 2, 2023.
Tanmeet’s Website: https://www.tanmeetsethimd.com
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What's in the Way is the Way with Mary O'Malley
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
What if we could break free from the struggles and compulsions that keep us feeling disconnected from life? Join us as we explore the healing power of wonder and the art of showing up for life with Mary O'Malley, a highly regarded leader in the field of awakening and the author of several books, including What's In The Way Is The Way.
Mary shares her insights into the healing power of attention in overcoming pain and trauma, and her experiences with Stephen Levine, who opened her heart and taught her to bring curiosity and compassion to her pain. We discuss:
- why we're addicted to struggle and how trauma fuels our compulsions
- the two core wounds of abandonment and invasion
- the eight core spells that keep us feeling separate from life and how we can free ourselves from them with Mary's guidance
We dive into her book, What's In The Way Is The Way, and Mary teaches us how to use open-ended questions to create a space for transformation.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a master in the field of awakening and reconnect with the joy of being alive!
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The Creative Power of Memory and How it Shapes Our Lives with Jessica Waite
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
I'm so delighted to welcome my good friend and author, Jessica Waite back to the podcast. Today we're talking about memory - how it isn't a fixed, static thing in our brain but actually a living, evolving force in our lives, and the love that's possible when you're curious and willing to allow a painful memory to be rewritten in current time.
Learn more about Jessica's soon to be published book:
"The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards"
Past episodes with Jessica Waite:
"The Power of Love Beyond Death" - April 2020
"The Wisdom of Heartbreak" - November 2021
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Wild Yoga: Recovering Wholeness in a Fractured Culture with Rebecca Wildbear
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Episode Summary:
Rebecca Wildbear is the author of “Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth”.
On today’s show Rebecca and I explore the connection between mind, body and soul, how to recover to wholeness in a fractured culture, and the path of finding our true place of belonging in the Universe.
Join us as Rebecca shares her wisdom on:
Mystery and Soul:
- partnering with the mystery deep within your own body
- listening with all of your senses for messages from your soul
- perceiving, integrating and living into the infinite wisdom that always supports you
- why dreams are an invaluable source of guidance and direction
Navigating Culture / Recovering Self:
- the impact of a patriarchal culture on the relationship between mothers and daughters
- harnessing the power of the feminine
- practices for refining our attunement to the wisdom of the natural world
- what drives our self-destructive and harmful practices and why it’s essential to become a love warrior for the earth
Wholeness, Healing and Death:
- cultivating wholeness on the journey of healing
- how her near death journey with cancer empowered her life
- exploring death as a return to innocence
Today's Guest:
Rebecca Wildbear is the author of “Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth”. She is also the creator of a yoga practice called Wild Yoga, which empowers individuals to tune in to the mysteries that live within the earth community, dreams, and their own wild nature so they may live a life of creative service. She has been leading Wild Yoga programs since 2007 and also guides other nature and soul programs through Animas Valley Institute.
Rebecca's Website: https://www.rebeccawildbear.com
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Collaborating with Mystery
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
There is more than meets the eye operating in the background of our day-to-day lives. Today I'm sharing a tale of the threads of connection that weave us intimately into the cosmos and that extend well beyond what the practical, logical mind can imagine.
It's also a real time story of tracking yes, a journey of abandoning the plan and trusting the clues that are appearing rather than seeking certainty to guide the way.
If you struggle with decision making, it almost always comes from the idea that you're the one making the decision, on your own. But when you try on the perspective that every decision you make is a collaboration between you and a multitude of seen and unseen forces, then you begin to tune into your felt perceptions, follow clues that are revealing themselves, and let the best decision emerge as you go.
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Dragons and Power Recast: Farewell to a Beloved Sensei - Leadership Embodiment with Wendy Palmer
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Show Notes:
Wendy Palmer passed away on December 2nd, 2022. In honour of her passing I’m publishing a recast of the interview we had in March 2022. If you’ve not heard this conversation I know you’ll find it compelling. If you have, I suspect it may land a level deeper on second listen, knowing that her words are now reaching us from the beyond the boundaries of this earthly realm.
In this insightful conversation Wendy offers the wisdom she has spent a lifetime embodying. She held a seventh degree black belt in the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido, and was a mindfulness practitioner for over 40 years.
Drawing on the skills honed from both of these practices, she shares deceptively simple, fast and effective practices that support you to recover to center in stressful situations and respond creatively when life throws you off balance.
Wendy speaks to:
- the essential Aikido practice of “letting the attack land in the space”
- the 3 most essential qualities of leadership
- what it means to be truly resilient
- why boundaries don’t work and what actually does
- the levels of challenge we move through when we are practicing mastery
She also addresses the 3 strategies of personality self:
- head wants control
- heart wants approval
- gut wants security
And she teaches how we can access the powerful antidotes of perception, compassion and courage.
Wendy’s website: www.leadershipembodiment.com
7 Guided Practices to Recover to Center
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The story that launched the ethos:
Tracking Shadow and Rewilding Your Soul with Brian Stafford, MD, MPH
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Dr. Brian Stafford is a former pediatrician and psychiatrist who left his position as an endowed chair in academic psychiatry to rewild and ensoul his own life, and to discover his deeper calling.
On today’s show Brian and I delve into the realms of mystery and shadow to explore the magic and possibility that emerges when we’re willing to enter a deeper conversation with the natural world, and leave the safety of the known to uncover and reclaim our wholeness.
Brian shares his extensive understanding of:
- rewilding and ensouling your life—what it is, and why and how to do it
- shifting from a constricted egocentric to an expansive ecocentric orientation to the world
- rediscovering the ancient connection between soul and nature
- building relationship with the natural world as one of our most loving and essential guides
- nurturing the life soul wants for you vs. perpetuating the life culture wants for you
The 4 Windows of Knowing
- full-presence sensing
- full-bodied feeling
- heart-centred thinking
- deep imagination
The 3 Realms of Knowing
- physical
- spiritual
- imaginal
Shadow Work
- projection and transference
- why we don’t see others as they truly are
- understanding repressed facets of self and why it’s essential to claim them back
- how healing our shadow creates clear perception and greater intimacy with life
Today’s Guest:
Dr. Brian Stafford is one of the leaders in the rewilding and ensouling movement.
A former pediatrician and perinatal, infant, child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, Brian left his position as an endowed chair in academic psychiatry to rewild and ensoul his own life, and to discover his deeper calling.
After retraining as a wholistic eco-therapist and depth psychiatrist with the Animas Valley institute, Brian has gone on to rewild and ensoul the world as a wilderness and vision fast guide, retreat facilitator, mentor, trainer, international speaker, and writer.
He is a guide, Board member, trainer, and Director of the Wild Mind Training Program, a nature-based wholistic eco-depth psychotherapy training program, at the Animas Valley Institute. He is also the Founder or Co-founder of several institutions dedicated to the rewilding and ensouling of Education, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Christianity.
He lives in Ojai, California, USA and is currently finishing a book entitled “Path
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The story that launched the ethos:
The Art of Emergence with Schuyler Brown
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Show Notes:
Schuyler Brown left a life of enormous achievement and success by our culture’s standards when a series of events led her to the realization that her livelihood was not in integrity with her soul.
Join us for a conversation about the courageous path she followed out of that life, the wisdom of embodiment, the creativity and power of magic, and cultivating the skill of tuning in to the emergent field to perceive guidance about how best to move in our lives.
It’s a deep and playful exploration into:
- becoming embodied in a culture that values intellect over felt perception
- how the qualities of the divine masculine and feminine support creativity ~ and how to recognize their toxic manifestations
- what magic is, and why it is an essential ally in our path forward
- becoming adept at moving between the subtle and material realms
- cultivating and trusting the ground of our being vs: an endless quest for safety and happiness
- the emergent field: perceiving it, trusting it and skillfully responding to its unwavering guidance
- the practice of creating mandalas as a portal into connection and dialogue with the natural world
Today’s Guest:
Schuyler Brown offers spiritual guidance, meditation, coaching, and facilitation through The Art of Emergence.
She is a former futurist and strategist in the business world who has dedicated herself to the emergence of enlightened culture and commerce. She works with individuals and groups to heal trauma and become more embodied. Her work is grounded in Buddhist Tantra, yogic philosophy, embodiment, and feminine wisdom.
She writes about it all and offers guided meditations and embodiment courses on Substack.
Schuyler Brown Website
Schuyler’s Substack: Art of Emergence
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The story that launched the ethos:
Dragons and Power - Leadership Embodiment with Wendy Palmer
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Show Notes:
Wendy Palmer holds a seventh degree black belt in the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido, and has practiced mindfulness for over 45 years. She is the author of 4 books, including her latest: Dragons and Power, which explores the elements of Leadership Embodiment, a practice she founded and has been teaching to high level leaders for over 30 years.
Her process draws on principles from Aikido and Mindfulness to offer simple tools and practices to increase the leadership skills of responding to stress and pressure with confidence and integrity.
Wendy shares simple, fast and incredibly effective practices to recover to center when triggered, and what it means to embody the Aikido practice of “letting the attack land in the space”.
She offers her personal wisdom around what it means to be resilient, why
boundaries don’t work and what actually does.
She also explains the 3 most essential qualities of Leadership:
- Warmth and inclusiveness
- Receiving feedback as creative fuel
- Acting with clarity, integrity and confidence
Today’s Guest:
Wendy Palmer is the founder of LEADERSHIP EMBODIMENT, a process that uses principles from the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido and mindfulness to offer simple tools and practices to increase leadership capacity and respond to stress and pressure with greater confidence and integrity. Wendy holds a seventh degree black belt in Aikido and has practiced mindfulness for over 45 years.
She has worked with executive teams and individuals for Twitter, Genentech, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, The Gap, NASA, Gates Foundation, Salesforce.com, McKinsey &Co, Oracle, Google, Unilever, The BBC, Accenture, Blackrock, Capital One, Intel, The George Washington University, Eileen Fisher and The Daimler Chrysler Group.
She is also an author of four books, Leadership Embodiment, The Intuitive Body, The Practice of Freedom and Dragons and Power.
Her coaching organization, LEADERSHIP EMBODIMENT offers Coach Training to experienced coaches and facilitators who wish to learn to coach leaders in Leadership Presence.
Wendy’s website: www.leadershipembodiment.com
7 Guided Practices to Recover to Center
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The story that launched the ethos:
Radical Wholeness with Philip Shepherd
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Show Notes:
Philip Shepherd is an international authority on embodiment and author of New Self, New World - Recovering our Senses in the 21st Century and Radical Wholeness - The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being.
This is a specially curated edition of a more extensive interview I had with Philip back in August of 2020. In today's conversation he shares guidance and tools for shifting from the head driven strategies of control and order to an embodied and deep connection with the present moment. He offers thought-provoking wisdom on these important questions:
- If our essential nature is wholeness then why do we act against the whole in service of our own best interests?
- Rather than striving for answers, how can we formulate meaningful questions in a world of disinformation, divisiveness, polarization and chaos?
- How do we stay in connection as we navigate diverse perspectives and challenging dialogues?
- Why do we lapse back into old patterns, and how do we choose the thing we know is better for us?
- How do we access our body's inherent wisdom and find creative ways forward in times of crisis and social uprising?
- Does Philip feel we're headed for self-termination and if so, how does he orient to that possible reality?
Listen to our original, full length interview:
Radical Wholeness and Embodied Activism with Philip Sheperd - Part 1
Radical Wholeness and Embodied Activism with Philip Sheperd - Part 2
Today’s Guest:
Philip Shepherd’s unique techniques have been developed to transform our disconnected experience of self and world. The practices of TEPP help people reunite the thinking of the head with the deep, present and calm intelligence of the body. Philip’s approach helps you listen to the world through the body, and come to know what the body most deeply understands: that it belongs to the world. Philip’s website: PhilipSheperd.com
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The story that launched the ethos:
Trusting the Magic of Curiosity
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC
Show Notes:
Brian Pearson recently interviewed me on his podcast The Mystic Cave. His questions sparked a fascinating conversation about the philosophy and practice of Tracking Yes, and touched on things I haven’t named before, so wanted to share it here with you guys.
Join us as we explore what it’s like to:
- open to the wisdom of your imagination
- hone your intuition and perceive the clues life is always sending you
- replace your fear-based survival strategies with deep presence
- bring curiosity and the spirit of play to problem solving
- trust yourself to walk away from “success” when adventure calls
- claim the courage to live an authentic life
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The story that launched the ethos:
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Collaborating with Mystery
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Dragons and Power Recast: Farewell to a Beloved Sensei - Leadership Embodiment with Wendy Palmer
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Trusting the Magic of Curiosity
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