From totally shut down to feeling your feelings again with Amanda Johnson
Release Date: 06/09/2023
New to Clarity on Fire? Start Here! (2024 Edition)
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In case you missed it, last week we announced that – for a few reasons, but mostly because Rachel is having a baby later this year! If you’re new-ish to Clarity on Fire – or have been around for a while but want to introduce new people to us – that gives you an excellent opportunity to catch up on our over-400 episodes. Buuuut we also know that’s a LOT of content and you might be overwhelmed! 😅 So, we’re making it easy for you (or your friends) to know where to start. Here’s where we recommend starting if you’re new to Clarity on Fire: Before...
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We’re going on hiatus again (& having a baby)!
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Dear Krachel: How do I stop blaming myself when things go wrong at work?
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Exploring the nervous system with Amanda Johnson
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It’s the fifth Friday of the month, which means this should be a “bonus book club” episode––it isn’t, but it’s also not NOT a book club episode, either. 🙃😂 During our last book club conversation about Attached with Amanda Johnson – our friend, fellow coach, and all-around expert on attachment theory – we said that we wanted to have Amanda back on the podcast to have an episode devoted completely to the nervous system. So, that’s what we did! Amanda is back on the podcast this month to help us explore all facets of the nervous system, using one...
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Side Chat: Is trauma unconsciously influencing your career choices?
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Message from the Universe: Step aside and watch what happens next
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info_outlineFor most of her life, Amanda Johnson excelled at being “the good girl.”
She was a stellar student who knew how to play by the rules, whether that was in school, at church, or with friends or family.
She implicitly understood what was acceptable, and what wasn’t, so she followed the prescription for a successful life: Go to college, major in something respectable and useful, get a good job, get married, have 2 children, get an MBA, move up the career ladder.
Until one day, almost like coming out of a coma, she said she “woke up in the middle of a life.” She’d built an entire life, and wasn’t sure how she’d done it, or whether she’d truly chosen any of it consciously.
And then the real work began.
Listen in as Amanda and Rachel get into…
- What it means to be living a “good girl” kind of life, and what happened when Amanda decided to be “bad,” instead
- How she started to access her true feelings and opinions again, after a live lived mostly on autopilot
- Amanda’s 180-degree career pivot, and how she exited the corporate world
- The incredible gifts she quickly developed once she was free to be herself, and how she’s using them to help herself and others
Come leave a comment after you’ve listened to share how Amanda’s journey resonated with you!
MORE ABOUT AMANDA
Amanda Johnson is your typical high-energy, over-achieving, perfectionist, people pleaser type who, by all accounts, looked great on paper, but wasn't feeling a whole lot of anything for a long time. After years of building a successful career in the marketing world, Amanda had a wake up call in the form of a full blown spiritual awakening and started questioning pretty much every facet of her life. After coaching with Rachel, and working for the past several years toward calling in more authenticity and alignment, Amanda's gifts came online in a big way.
Recently, Amanda made some serious changes to her life, including pivoting away from her corporate life to launch Heartspark, an intuitively based energy work and life purpose coaching business. Amanda is trained in reiki, completed iPEC's coach training program and loves questioning the mysteries of the universe. When Amanda isn't working with clients or chasing her two little boys around, she loves to spend hours talking to her friends and family about signs, dreams and hopeless romantic things, traveling to far off places, reading 1,000 books all at the same time and dipping her toes in the ocean as much as possible (preferably in San Diego!) She's all about living her life with an open heart, and hopes she can inspire you to do the same.
You can find her at heartsparksoul.com and @heartsparksoul on Instagram.
And just for Clarity on Fire listeners, Amanda is offering the first 10 people who book a classic Heartspark Session 20% off (through the end of June, or until all spots are taken, whichever comes first) with code KRACHEL.
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