707 | Cancer Taught Me To Appreciate The Moments with Ray Hartjen
Own Your Choices Own Your Life
Release Date: 05/23/2024
Own Your Choices Own Your Life
In this episode, I dive deep into the concept of why EFT tapping works, explore the intricate workings of our subconscious mind and how EFT tapping can help us reprogram our thoughts and emotions. As children, we absorb information through our senses, processing 2.3 million bytes of data per second. However, our brains can only handle 126 bits of information, leading to a filtering process where we distort, delete, or generalize information to make sense of it. This filtering process can lead to the internalization of negative emotions and perceptions, disrupting our body's energy...
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Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast. I had the pleasure of interviewing Gabriela, a seasoned coach and author of the upcoming book Becoming a Power Couple: Four Pillars to Engineer Legendary Marriages. In this episode, Gabriela shares her journey from chemical engineer to certified coach and delves into the passion that drives her work in helping individuals engineer legendary lives. Gabriela emphasizes the importance of passion in driving one's life and discusses the key focus areas for a life of no regrets - career and primary relationships. She highlights the freedom to...
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Welcome back to the show! As we enter September, a time of reflection and transition, I invite you to join me in exploring the themes of self-trust and personal leadership. This episode dives into the importance of trusting in our path, actions, and intuition, especially during challenging times when trust may seem elusive. I emphasize that trust is not just about sitting back and waiting for things to happen; it requires active engagement and movement. We can cultivate a stronger sense of self-trust by trusting the seeds we've planted, past efforts, and our ability to show up for ourselves...
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In this episode, I wanted to share thoughts on avoidance, why you might be avoiding something, and how you can shift through that stuck emotion. In this episode, we discuss: 1) Avoidance is a way to make you feel in control, to avoid rejection or to avoid discomfort. Avoidance behaviour is a way to cope with uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. Many people rely on avoidance as a coping mechanism, which can seem like the easier path compared to confrontation — but avoidance can be harmful in the long run, leading to more fear, anxiety, and unhealthy habits 2) Your...
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Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast! In this episode, I enjoyed interviewing Alejandra Brady, an experienced interior designer, feng shui practitioner, biophilic designer, and best-selling author. Alejandra shared her journey of discovering feng shui and biophilic design and how these practices have transformed her life and the spaces in which she works. Alejandra explained that feng shui is about working with the energy flow in a space, whether it's a home, office, or any other environment. She used the analogy of building a house on a mountain to illustrate the importance of finding...
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In this episode, I wanted to share thoughts on fear, what fear is, what it is trying to do, and how to change your relationship with fear so that it doesn’t have to hold you back in your life. Fear is a primal response that tries to keep you safe and protected, exactly what your subconscious mind is built to do. “Fear can have a voice, it doesn’t get a vote.” by Elizabeth Gilbert. Stop trying to rid yourself of fear; it doesn’t go away; you build a better relationship with it. Fear can keep you safe; it has well-meaning intentions, yet it doesn’t get the deciding vote or the...
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In this episode, I wanted to share thoughts on your daily circumstances, which are dictating your day. Who are you when everything is going right and when it feels like nothing is going right? This will all come down to knowing your intentions and your values and living by them. In this episode, we discuss: 1) Intentions, values, self-leadership and how we can lead ourselves when it feels like nothing is going smoothly. 2) Here are some tips on how you can rise above when it feels like things are not going right, when challenges are high when things don’t make...
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In this episode, we speak with Entrepreneur, Keynote Speaker and Mental Health Motivator Jared Scott. Jared’s motivational movement, which began at the age of 15, marked the Welcome to today's episode, where we dive deep into the powerful and inspiring story of Jared, a public speaker, counselor, husband, father, and musician. Jared's journey began at age 15 when a tragic event shook his world and made him realize the importance of vulnerability and connection. Jared shares how the loss of his best friend's girlfriend to suicide opened his eyes to the hidden struggles that people face...
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In this episode, I wanted to share some insight into emotions in our bodies and how they continue to contribute to the stories we tell ourselves. Our emotions can put us on a roller coaster daily; if we haven’t been taught how to feel them, recognize and process them if we have also been told to be afraid of them, we don’t know what to do with them. Then those unknown emotions become scary and unknown, and our subconscious mind deems unknown and unfamiliar as unsafe, so we avoid them at all costs. “The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes...
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In this episode, I wanted to share thoughts on what to do when life feels like pushing you or putting pressure on you and how to handle failure or setbacks because of it. First off, I am not a huge fan of the word failure because we are never failing, and there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. In this episode, we discuss: 1) How do you keep lif’ing when it feels like life is really hard? Do you meet it with a ton of resistance, pushback and fighting, which only decreases your ability to meet yourself with compassion or grace? 2) Remember that everything is...
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In this episode, we speak with Writer & Musician, Ray Hartjen. Ray is a writer, musician and songwriter living in Northern California. In a professional career that has spanned parts of five decades, he pivoted on many occasions, from investment banking to pharmaceuticals, from consumer electronics to SaaS software. One constant throughout his career path, however, has been storytelling. A cancer fighter every day of the week that ends in a ‘y,’ Ray shares his experience and raises funds for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation with his latest book, Me, Myself & My Multiple Myeloma. And, with life’s soundtrack playing in his head, Ray also performs and records with his two-piece acoustic band, the Chronic Padres.
In this episode, we discuss:
1) Cancer has become Ray’s biggest calling and he shares his experience and raises funds for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation in his latest book, Me, Myself & My Myeloma. He has reframed his fight against cancer to focus on what makes life worth living.
2) Cancer taught Ray to not take life for granted, and the power of vulnerability and learning that his story could help others feel less alone in their story too.
Connect with Ray
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Website: https://rayhartjen.com/store
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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Storytelling NLP Trainer, Speaker, Publisher & Author, 2xs Podcaster
Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share, and publish their stories.
Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life. She empowers people how to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders, and build platform businesses that create massive impact.