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Soul and Stories

Release Date: 01/01/2019

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Soul and Stories

A year ago, I gave myself permission to pause everything when my dad was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. I stopped my podcast for many months. Now, I am back and want to help raise vibrations all around. So much Love and Light to you! 

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Mel Bridger became internationally recognized for her success in the Salsa dance industry in her twenties at venues around the world. Her energy and drive commanded a big following. She felt tremendous pressure feeling like she always had to prove herself to people and put on a certain persona. Behind the mask of success, happiness and confidence was Mel’s secret feeling of not being good enough. Years later those feelings worsened as Mel suffered from depression and anxiety that she kept hidden away from everyone around her.    I met Mel in 2017 in London while seated at a table...

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In this episode, I reflect on how downsizing our possessions helped us to upgrade our lives. Our experience moving to China seemed impossible when we first started the process of decluttering and letting go of stuff we had accumulated throughout our lives.    It turned out to be quite liberating and such a freeing experience as it opened up space for us to spark more Joy into our lives.    Imagine that you’ve just been told you need to pack up your house to move to a new home. Just the thought of packing and moving is quite daunting for most of us.   Now, imagine...

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Azul Terronez is an incredible husband, a wonderful father and my best friend. He lights up my life and many others who have the gift of knowing him. We met just over eleven years ago and have shared a journey and passionate pursuit to live in more alignment with our truth and inspire others to do the same. In recent years, we became business partners in our efforts to help authors find their unique messages, tap into their creativity and overcome resistance to write and publish their books. I am beyond words with excitement to be able to introduce you to Azul through this episode. It’s a...

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The New Year is here and there’s so much talk about setting intentions, setting goals for ourselves and moving onward and upward. Yes, it’s true that we only have the present moment and there is no turning back. Yet, we hope for a brighter tomorrow. In this episode, I take some time to reflect about where I am on my journey and a big lesson I learned that helped me to get here. I found myself reflecting back to 18 years ago in the days when my favorite TV show, Sex and the City, was a way to escape the day-to-day reality of my life. I dug into my memories back to August 2001 when Season 4...

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Who are you? It’s a common question and often leads to common answers linked to careers, roles and other circumstantial descriptions that help us set ourselves apart from others.    Think about your answer to this question carefully. Who are you?   What if you strip away all the labels, role expectations and conditions attached to your answer? Who would you be left with?    Who are you? The answer is simple yet deeply intricate.    Have you ever considered that we are all equal? That we are all connected?    My guests today for this beautiful...

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Koes Bong was born and raised in Indonesia until he moved to the US for college in 2000. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Lindsay, and their two children.   In this episode, Koes shares what it was like being unemployed after years of working in the software industry. Being highly educated and highly skilled had given him a false sense of security when his pursuit to land another job left him empty-handed for many months.    Doorway after doorway failed to open and after more than 100 rejections from job interviews he began to reevaluate the meaning of...

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On a recent trip back to my hometown, I was reminded of my love-hate relationship with the place where I grew up. I attribute most of my negative viewpoint to the widespread homophobia I faced there as a deeply repressed gay kid, the closed-mindedness and traditional beliefs. I never felt I could be my authentic self under the cultural and societal pressures and chose to stay hidden for many years. Return visits always seem to stir up these old feelings for me.   This time, my trip home was different. I went with a strong intention and chose to see myself and my connection to...

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This episode really took me by surprise. It wasn’t how I planned it to be and it was definitely not an accident that Kathe Crawford showed up to talk with me at this particular moment in my journey.  Please note: This is Part 2 of my continued conversation with Kathe Crawford. You are exactly where you are supposed to be on your own path to living in divine alignment with your truest self. Recap from Part 1: While there were some unexpected turns, I have no doubts our conversation landed exactly where it was supposed to and will have lasting impact for someone out there who is having a...

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This episode really took me by surprise. It wasn’t how I planned it to be and it was definitely not an accident that Kathe Crawford showed up to talk with me at this particular moment in my journey.    I was having a tough day before we started our conversation. I just couldn’t shake it off and pull myself together. I almost canceled, last-minute. I am so glad I just leaned into my fear and pressed onward to do the show.   I feel so close and connected to Kathe. She is a sacred soul sister. Her voice is like a hug that invites me to just be myself. I’m truly grateful...

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Who are you?
It’s a common question and often leads to common answers linked to careers, roles and other circumstantial descriptions that help us set ourselves apart from others. 
 
Think about your answer to this question carefully. Who are you?
 
What if you strip away all the labels, role expectations and conditions attached to your answer? Who would you be left with? 
 
Who are you? The answer is simple yet deeply intricate. 
 
Have you ever considered that we are all equal? That we are all connected? 
 
My guests today for this beautiful conversation are Dawn Sinclair and Bahia Mackoul.
They help others step into their Truth to discover that we are all equal in our essence.
 
“Truth can only be known through direct experience.” Everybody comes from a different place of understanding and Being. Anything you haven’t experienced is external from yourself. The only truth you have is that which you experience. Dawn and Bahia create experiences for people and allow them to come in their own truth. That creates our world. 
 
Your Truth is your Belief. Nobody can tell you that it’s not your truth. It is your truth. No matter what your truth is. Together, Dawn and Bahia open up the space and hold the space for others no matter what their truth is and nobody has the right to tell anybody else that their truth is wrong. 
 
At one point, I asked a burning question in my curiosity. How does the Universe pull us together? 
Dawn replied, “Well that’s the thing. When you start living in your flow it just does. It just is.” 
 
Bahia expanded, "That’s the Magic. That’s the Truth. I feel like when you make that conscious effort to walk in your Truth and to honor your true feelings and live from a place of vulnerability and from a place of Love you will just naturally attract those people in your life that are going to be there to reflect that back to you."
 
Several years ago, Dawn and Bahia put down all the identity labels and masks. It happened independently as their lives were undergoing separate transitions. During that time in their lives, they came together in what became a sacred interaction where they walked into their own Truth simultaneously. They connected on such a deep level and knew in that moment they had to bring their newfound secret to the world. 
 
The secret of knowing someone at their soul level is available to everyone. To allow one's self to be. They knew they had tapped into something truly special and what followed was their co-creation to write and publish a book titled Self. The feeling that comes from Self, is what came through Dawn following this sacred connection with Bahia. It is unexplainable how it happened, yet Dawn wrote the book all at once so clear, pure and untouched. She also created all of the colorful and inspiring illustrations in the book by hand. 
 
Self came to be in a way that just flowed. It is an absolute divine expression to remind all who read it to remember to embrace their soul. The book has made its way into every school in Nova Scotia, Canada, as a part of character development for children.
 
Bahia described the experience of how reflection of Self works in our lives in this way. “What you are now going to experience in the world is that which exists within you. Your belief systems, your conditioning, the way that you feel about yourself is how situations in your life are going to be presented to you. That’s how we learn and grow. That’s how we begin to identify patterns in our lives that are no longer serving us.”
 
Lee Harris, the globally acclaimed intuitive messenger and transformational leader, described Self as a seed rather than a book.
 
I agree wholeheartedly. I believe Self will help us all to replace the seeds of fear with seeds of Love.
 
To learn more about how to foster deeper connections, you can find Bahia and Dawn on Facebook @1EqualEssence, on Instagram @BeYourEssence and visit their website www.equalessence.ca to learn more about Self and more.