23: CALM - How to overcome Anxiety & Stress with Tom Cronin
School Your Soul || Personal growth | Inspiration | Be your best self | Happiness
Release Date: 08/29/2017
DARIN OLIEN: Heart-Focused Living
School Your Soul || Personal growth | Inspiration | Be your best self | Happiness
Hey guys! Welcome to a new episode of School Your Soul! Boy oh boy are you all in for a treat today. Our guest is Darin Olien! Darin is an absolute GEM. He is one of those people that carries this beautiful, charismatic, loving energy and it seems like he leads a magical life. I was connected to Darin through my husband who absolutely loves him so before we even spoke I was a huge fan of all things Darin Olien and his MANY endeavors… To name a few… Darin is the co-host with Zac Efron on the super popular Netflix show “” and host of the #1 Health & Wellness...
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Former Navy SEAL Pat Dossett on Stress Management & Creating Healthy Habits
School Your Soul || Personal growth | Inspiration | Be your best self | Happiness
Pat Dossett spent 9 years serving as a US Navy SEAL. Following his service, Pat earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business as a Tillman Military Scholar and spent three years at Google before leaving to co-found the company Madefor, where he currently serves as President and CEO. Lets talk a little bit about Madefor because it’s a pretty phenomenal program… Madefor is a simple 10-month method created by the very best minds in science and health, that transforms your brain, body and I’d even venture to say spirit. Each month you receive a kit focused on the science, benefits,...
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JAMES VALENTINE: Lead Guitarist of Maroon 5 on Fostering Creativity, Following Your Passion & Using Meditation to Ease Anxiety
School Your Soul || Personal growth | Inspiration | Be your best self | Happiness
James Valentine is a musician and songwriter and the lead guitarist for one of the most popular bands of our time Maroon 5. The GRAMMY award-winning band has sold more than 120 million records and been together over 20 years. In addition to being an extremely talented and accomplished musician and a kind and generous person, James is an avid meditator and has gone on multiple silent retreats. I was excited to talk to him about his journey working as a creative and how mindfulness has impacted his craft and his life. In today’s episode we explore: How he discovered his passion...
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FREQUENCY - The Power of Personal Vibration with Penney Peirce
School Your Soul || Personal growth | Inspiration | Be your best self | Happiness
Penney Peirce is a respected clairvoyant empath, visionary, author, and popular lecturer and trainer. For well over thirty years, she has taught and counseled thousands of people internationally. She is one of the early pioneers in the intuition development movement, specializing in expanded perception, inner energy dynamics, dreamwork, and transformation. She helps leaders, professionals, artists, and those on a spiritual path discover the hidden dynamics of what makes for true success. Penney is the author of ten books, including Transparency, Leap of Perception,...
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KALEY CUOCO- Laughter, Loyalty and Love
School Your Soul || Personal growth | Inspiration | Be your best self | Happiness
KALEY CUOCO is on the show!!! Whaaattt???!!! Oh my gosh, I was so excited when she said she would come on the show. I’m lucky enough to call Kaley a friend and I have to say she is one of the most loyal, kind-hearted and generous people I have ever met. She really needs no introduction but Kaley, is an actor and producer. In the late 90’s, she landed her breakthrough role as Bridget Hennessy on the sitcom 8 Simple Rules but she is best known for playing Penny for 12 seasons on the mega-hit TV show The Big Bang Theory, which is the longest running sitcom in U.S. history. Since Big Bang...
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BROOKLYN DECKER - Living with Authenticity
School Your Soul || Personal growth | Inspiration | Be your best self | Happiness
Brooklyn Decker is a powerhouse. As a former model, actress, philanthropist, entrepreneur, mom of two and wife, she has no shortage of talent or drive. As a model she graced the cover of Sports Illustrated in 2010. As an actress she is currently playing Mallory on the hit Netflix series Grace and Frankie, which is the longest running show on Netflix. In 2017 she added tech entrepreneur to her resume starting the company Finery, a brilliant app to help people manage their wardrobes, which she’s since sold. And she is the loving mother of a 4-year-old son Hank and a 2-year-old daughter Stevie....
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How to Manage Your Stress In Real-Time with Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman
School Your Soul || Personal growth | Inspiration | Be your best self | Happiness
Dr. Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Huberman provides us with some incredible tools to deal with the current stress, anxiety and fear we might be experiencing. His lab, The Huberman lab, is focused on brain function, development and repair with an emphasis on regeneration to prevent and cure blindness. They also study the neural circuits that control visual fear and are developing tools to re-map these circuits and treat anxiety disorders. This guy even dove with great white sharks in the name of...
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HAPPINESS Amidst A Pandemic With Marci Shimoff
School Your Soul || Personal growth | Inspiration | Be your best self | Happiness
Marci Shimoff is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a world-renowned transformational teacher, and an expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love. Marci’s books include the runaway bestsellers, Happy for No Reason, Love for No Reason, and six titles in the phenomenally successful Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul series. Her books have sold more than 15 million copies worldwide in 33 languages, have topped all of the major bestseller lists, and have been on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of 118 weeks. Marci is one of the bestselling female...
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PURPOSE: Leading A Life Of Meaning With Dave Phillips
School Your Soul || Personal growth | Inspiration | Be your best self | Happiness
Dave Phillips is an executive mentor for business leaders who are seeking an authentic life purpose (we’re talking power houses like Richard Branson). He also a super start athlete. He was a member and coach of Canada’s National Freestyle Ski team, a stunt man, and a professional ski-show performer. Phillips broke two Guinness World Records for ski duration - snow skiing for 83 hours and 17 minutes and water skiing for 57 hours and over 1300 miles. Phillips is an entrepreneur, columnist, talk show host, and the author of “Three Big Questions,” a book that helps everyone to answer...
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MEDITATION: Inner Smile Meditation for Health & Wellbeing
School Your Soul || Personal growth | Inspiration | Be your best self | Happiness
With all that’s going on in the world I wanted to share with you a popular Taoist practice, that I really enjoy, called the inner smile meditation. It’s supposed to be very powerful for your health and immune system. Taoist Master Montak Chia says “Sickness starts from negative emotions settling in the organs. The inner smile breaks this cycle. It removes the cause and symptoms of disharmony by transforming destructive emotions into positive energy.“ This meditation is simple to replicate on your own and I once you get the hang of it and you can make it as long or as short as you want...
info_outlineDo you suffer from stress or anxiety? Do you ever feel out of control of your life? Then this could be a good episode for you.
Today our guest is coming all the way from Sydney Australia! He is the founder of The Stillness Project and his name is Tom Cronin.
Tom believes the portal to reduce stress and access stillness and calm in our lives is meditation. As a meditation teacher for many years he has inspired thousands of people all over the world to unlock their brilliance and calm. But Tom’s journey to find Stillness has not always been easy.
At just 19, Tom started his career as a financial broker. If you guys have seen “The Wolf of Wallstreet” Tom says this is a pretty accurate portrayal of what his life was like back then.
He was living the work hard, play hard lifestyle… long, high stress hours at the office, followed by late, drug and alcohol induced nights entertaining clients. After a decade of this lifestyle Tom was suffering from various addictions, anxiety and depression, which eventually led to a nervous breakdown. (We talk all about this in the episode)
Doctors advised him to take medication but Tom didn’t believe that was the answer for him.
He found meditation and that is what finally helped him to bring balance and wellness back into his life.
Then in 2012, after 26 years in the finance industry and at the height of his career, Tom decided to walk away from his very lucrative job to fulfill what he believed to be his mission of spreading calm and stillness across the globe.
Determined to share the transformative power of meditation with others Tom started The Stillness Project.
The Stillness Project is a movement of change.
Using multiple streams - from films and online courses, to retreats, blogs, books, and personal mentoring,
his goal and the hope of The Stillness Project is to inspire 1 billion people to sit in Stillness daily to connect with their inner Being and transcend the barriers of separation. The hope is to encourage a movement of awakening on our planet.
And boy does our world need more humans who are connected to spread some love! So, thank you Tom!
In today’s episode we discuss:
-Tom’s personal transformation
-Why it took a nervous breakdown to finally change his life
-The dangers of stress
-How stress changes your physiology and biochemistry and effects our ability to LOVE
-Understanding the difference between the soul and the ego
-How stillness relieves anxiety and stress
-How we can replenish our mind, body and spirit
-The benefits of meditation
And much much more
One of my favorite parts about meditation is that it’s a way to help us remember who we really are, a way to reconnect with our truth- our authentic self - amidst the chaos and stress of the modern world. It gives our mind a moment to rest and it turns up the volume to the voice of our soul.
Often times we look outside for answers or validation only to be left feeling empty, confused and alone. What if all of the answers are within? What if all that you need is within? What if all that you are so desperately longing for the world to give you is within? When we look inward and find stillness we are reminded of our infinite power and connectivity with all that is.
To come from a place of authenticity is where we are our most powerful in life. What if our only mission in life was to be ourselves? To be our TRUE selves and to peel away all the false layers and barriers that prevent us from being ourselves. What would that look like? How would your priorities change? What would you do differently?
If meditation is a way to bring us closer to our authentic self, then I think it’s worth making time for! Don’t you?
RESOURCES FROM EPISODE:
The Stillness Project https://stillnessproject.com/
Tom’s Website www.tomcronin.com
Thom Knoles – Tom’s meditation teacher http://thomknoles.com
BOOK: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle