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438 Michelle Weinstein, Sales Strategist, The Pitch Queen

Michelle is a Sales Strategist, and she teaches entrepreneurs how to sell without being sleazy!

Her mission is helping mission-driven entrepreneurs sell high-value services to their clients without feeling sleazy, pushy, or desperate. She shows & teaches her clients how to have empowered sales conversations, own their value and worth, and skyrocket their top-line revenue.

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437 Chris Burns, Entrepreneur, Coach, Host of Becoming Your Greatest Possible Self

Since growing up lost, numb, and disconnected, hitting rock bottom, and winding up in a VERY scary place years ago, Chris Burns has hired numerous coaches and invested well over 10,000 hours into the fields of communication, business, and leadership. Now, Chris coaches entrepreneurs and leaders to overcome obstacles, eliminate self-sabotage and get into flow so they can build better businesses and make a bigger impact. He’s spoken at more than 90 live events across the United States, to rooms of more than 250 people, and in the last year and a half, Chris has interviewed over 300 inspirational role models, influencers and leaders on his weekly, 12-hours-straight live-streamed marathon and podcast called Becoming Your Greatest Possible Self.

Inspired Round Q&A:

  • Most Inspiring Book-
  • Favorite Song-
  • Best Resource-
  • Surprising Fact About Chris-
  • Most Important Thing to Know About Chris-
    • He’s in this for the long haul, how you see him on the show is how you see him off the show. Trust yourself that you are enough, loved, protected. You are here for a mission and purpose and this is why he is here too! He’s here to live his own truth, powerfully owning his own truth. Live your message, he’s living his message and it’s important to share and live in it! Share in a way that is powerful!

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436 Dr. Clare Johnson, Leading Expert on Lucid Dreaming & Author

Clare R. Johnson, PhD, is the leading expert on lucid dreaming. She has a PhD from the University of Leeds on using lucid dreams as a creative tool (the first doctoral work in the world to explore this topic), is a lucid dreamer herself, and is the board director of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. She regularly gives talks and leads workshops about dreaming.

Inspired Round Q&A:

  • Most Inspiring Book-
  • Favorite Song-
  • Best Resource-
    • Her daughter’s dreaming mind, she’s 8 years old and shares her lucid dreams and she loves witnessing her daughter discover her dream life.
  • Surprising Fact About Clare-
    • She speaks 5 languages and has lived in a few different countries
  • Most Important Thing to Know About Clare-
    • Her life’s work is to help other people through the work of exploring their dreams

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435 Iain Grae, Serial Entrepreneur, Founder & Creator of Evolved Lyfe

Iain has spoken to groups as small as six and to groups of over 10,000 people. His passion for human potential radiates from his presence. The only thing he enjoys more than making personal improvements is helping others to reach new heights.

Iain Grae is a serial entrepreneur who lives life with a passion for creating inspirational experiences. He started his first small business in his teens and continues to build his portfolio. His first major success came in his mid-twenties when he founded Innovation Ads, Inc. – a New York-based advertising agency which grew from just himself to over 150 employees in just three short years at which point he sold it. Iain currently owns San Antonio Raceway & Cycle Ranch MX Park which allows him to build family-friendly events that enable people to pursue their childhood dreams. He uses a unique management style to empower his employees & customers alike to make the experience all that they want it to be.

He regularly attends and participates in conscious raising experiences and events. He sees life as a quest for continuous education and firmly believes in the Law of Attraction and the power of positive belief. He attributes his success to surrounding himself with great people and always being ready to learn something new.

In this podcast:

  • How he has evolved into a high vibing person consistently based on his journey so far
  • The books he read as a kid like Think and Grow Rich
  • When he practiced the practices his life was always high vibrational until he wasn’t
  • Everyone is responsible for creating their reality
  • Looking at your errors you can find access to your greatness
  • The various stages of consciousness he’s experienced: asleep, victim, survival mode, fixing the things outside of yourself, the flourishing stage where love is all around, leadership, mastery
  • The fusion between the emotional and rational side of your feelings and thoughts
  • Taking 100% responsibility for everything that’s happening in your life
  • Just try it to see if it works for you
  • 17:45 You can be right or you can be happy
  • Lack of clarity on a vision can create a disruption for you
  • His daily intention is to experience Heaven on Earth and help people around him experience the same
  • He shares part of his morning practice when he’s home
  • 21:00 One of the most important questions he asks is  “Who am I being?”
  • What does Heaven on Earth mean to him- a perpetual state of joy
  • What Evolved Lyfe means
  • What he means by ‘Introsextion’ of the masculine and feminine
  • Practicing joy so it becomes your default state most of the time

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434 Andy Molinsky, Author Professor of Organizational Behavior and International Management Brandeis University

Andy Molinsky is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and International Management at Brandeis University’s International Business School. Andy’s work helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. His research and writing have been featured in Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, NPR and Voice of America.

Andy was awarded as a Top Voice for LinkedIn for his work in education. His first book, Global Dexterity received the Axiom Award for Best Business Book in International Business & Globalization and has been used widely in organizations around the world, including Boeing, AIG, the US Air Force Academy, and the Clinton Foundation, among others.

His latest book is Reach, A new Strategy to help you step outside your comfort zone, rise to the challenge and build confidence. He teaches, consults, and lectures widely to university and corporate audiences.

In this podcast:

  • Why he wrote the book Reach
  • Why it’s hard to step outside our comfort zone
  • 5 Core Challenges – psychological roadblocks
    • Authenticity – it doesn’t feel like me
    • Likability – what if people don’t like this side of me
    • Competence – feeling like you’ll be really bad at it
    • Resentment – resenting they need to step outside their comfort zone
    • Morality – am I doing something wrong here?
  • Part of his mission to normalize the experience of these roadblocks
  • 15:53 Nudging yourself forward in a way that increases the odds at each point that you will approach instead of avoiding
  • Doing it in a slow, steady way to achieve
  • Be vulnerable and manage your expectations in the midst of it
  • 3 Core Strategies to be successful stepping out of your comfort zone
    • Clarity – the capacity to have an even-handed perspective over the challenges you are facing (not over catastrophizing it) anchoring yourself with a clear perspective
  • How we underestimate our resilience throughout life
  • Customization tool- the idea that there is no one size fit all of anything, you have more power then you think to make it more comfortable for yourself
  • The power of conviction/purpose
  • Part of his purpose matrix is practicing what you preach
  • Stepping out of your comfort zone is not rocket science. It’s about setting yourself up for success and taking nudges that work for you.

Inspired Round Q&A:

  • Most Inspiring Book-
  • Favorite Song-
  • Best Resource-
  • Surprising Fact About Andy –
    • He used to do Old English calligraphy and can do it free hand
  • Most Important Thing to Know About Andy-
    • He puts a lot of information out there, he cares about the work he’s doing, he really cares about helping people cross-culturally, he really cares about his students. He loves being able to impact people through his books and speaking. He really cares and he hopes it comes through.

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433 Dr. Saundra Dalton Smith, Author of Sacred Rest

Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is a board-certified internal medicine physician and has an active medical practice near Birmingham, Alabama. She received her B.S. in Biochemistry at the University of Georgia and graduated with honors from Meharry Medical College in Nashville. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Baker College and Davenport University in Michigan teaching courses on health, nutrition, and disease progression. She is an international media resource on the mind, body, spirit connection and featured in Prevention, MSNBC, Women’s Day, Redbook, First For Women, and numerous other media outlets. She is the author of Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity

In this podcast:

  • How burn-out led her to learning about Sacred Rest
  • How it led to changing the feeling of not feeling whole
  • Noticed how the life we anticipated and built didn’t live up to her expectations and she realized it was her
  • What happened when she stopped and noticed what was happening in her life
  • What Sacred Rest means (7:30)
  • The rest required for us to get to the point of feeling whole
  • The rest you might be getting might not be in the area you have the greatest deficit
  • When you think about rest, think about what you are restoring
  • The 7 areas of Sacred Rest-
    • Physical – passive and active rest
    • Mental – clear your mind
    • Emotional – being able to share yourself in an authentic way
    • Spiritual – having an understanding of something greater than who we are
    • Social – allowing yourself to share your story, the rest we find in the presence of another
    • Sensory – detaching from our gadgets
    • Creative – allowing yourself to experience awe and wonder from beauty – ie. a song, art, nature, doing anything but in awe of it. It’s not a demand on you but is awakening something inside you
  • Tiny tweaks can make a huge difference in restoring your rest deficit
  • 30:00 When you find your primary source of rest deficit you will see immediate improvement within a week of making the change. The deficit is actively affecting other areas in your life.
  • The importance of identifying your key point of rest needed

Inspired Round Q&A:

  • Most Inspiring Book-
  • Favorite Song-
  • Best Resource-
    • Google Calendar – helps her manage her work, rest ratio
  • Surprising Fact About Saundra-
    • She minored in dance in college, she loved how it made her feel
  • Most Important Thing to Know About Saundra-
    • The lesson she’s learned, never judge anyone from the life that you see on the outside. Always be true to your story and allow yourself to receive the rest that you need. 37:00

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432 Morgana Rae Best Selling Author, Financial Alchemy, Speaker, Teacher

Morgana Rae is the international #1 best selling author of Financial Alchemy: Twelve Months of Magic and Manifestation. A sought out teacher, speaker and pioneer in personal development, she is widely regarded to be the world’s leading Relationship with Money coach. Morgana’s groundbreaking program for creating wealth has featured her on ABC, NBC, FOX, PBS, NPR, CNN, United Press International, Yahoo Finance and The Wall Street Journal online. She wrote the “Life Magic” column for a national women’s magazine and was named a Top Woman In E-commerce by WE Magazine. Morgana’s been a featured expert alongside Deepak Chopra, Marcia Weider, Marianne Williamson, and many others. Morgana’s books, recordings, magazine articles, and classes have impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.

In this podcast:

  • The work is not about money, it’s about your relationship with money
  • If we are doing everything to pursue a goal and we are not getting what we desire, unconsciously we are protecting ourselves from receiving it
  • You are not a failure
  • Change happens at the speed of safety (4:00) especially with women
  • When things are safe all areas of life start changing and it feels like magic
  • What does money represent? This is where the root cause is
  • Financial issues are a symptom of other issues – worthiness, love, feeling safe
  • How money becomes an unconscious area of pain (10:00)
  • If money was a person who would money be?
  • Having a millionaire heart set
  • When love and money are on the same team this is where the magic happens
  • For real-world results, you must take real-world action
  • 25:28 her mission for the world

Inspired Round Q&A:

  • Most Inspiring Book-
  • Favorite Song-
  • Best Resource-
    • The beach, getting into nature doesn’t cost anything, she loves walking barefoot in the sand and swimming in the ocean
  • Surprising Fact About Morgana-
    • She was hit by a car in 1983 and in a coma for a week, had a brain injury and saw her life fall apart, but her intuition got really acute during that time and walked away with a gift.
  • Most Important Thing to Know About Morgana-
    • She’s not about money, her primary driver in life is love. Love motivates her. This is why she’s here.

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431 Paula Brown, A Heartist, Intuitive Graphic Facilitator, Purpose Coach, Author & Speaker

Paula Brown’s life story forged her belief that your story’s masterpiece is your heart; the clear picture of your purpose. She gets leaders unstuck from “story invisibility”. Her unique stories and life-after-death experience lit her purpose quest skills. She is a Heartist: an intuitive graphic facilitator, purpose coach, author, and speaker. Leaders hire Paula to literally and figuratively draw out their authentic story, the true heartbeat of their purpose and vision so that they can lead with their unique values. Her Sketch Quests pull the “extraordinary from the ordinary”, attracting aligned followers for her clients. Paula’s best-selling book “Fur Shui. An Introduction to Animal Feng ShuiTM.” shines her intuitive tools and blue sky questing within and beyond the visible world.

In this podcast:

  • She defines story invisibility
  • She calls herself a heartist and describes what this means
  • She can help you get unstuck through pictures, she shares how she does this
  • She’s the missing link between your heart and mind
  • 7:20 “Think with your heart and feel with your mind…”
  • Short circuits the ego from fear of changing
  • The pictures tell you what is going on, you can see them and they are non-judgemental
  • What happens when you go on a Purpose Quest
  • Your small steps are really your big steps
  • A visual will process 60,000 times faster than your words
  • Art is important to help unhook your ego and your mind
  • She sparks and ignites heart bonfires, she finds the essence of the heart of each story and celebrating it!
  • It’s very important to show up

Inspired Round Q&A:

  • Most Inspiring Book-
  • Favorite Song-
  • Best Resource-
    • Nature and the ocean, she’s a flowing person. She believes if you go for a walk, nature will connect you back to your nature within.
  • Surprising Fact About Paula-
    • She’s a Hawaiian Shaman, they find solutions.
  • Most Important Thing to Know About Paula-
    • Don’t be afraid to look people right in the eyes. She has an intense gaze but she’s actually introverted and the outside world can be challenging for her.

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430 Debbi Dachinger, Media Personality & Visibility Expert

Debbi Dachinger is a Media Personality and an expert in, visibility. She is sought-after to provide media makeovers for global messengers. Previously an award-winning actress and singer, today Debbi is a radio personality, as well as a popular media guest who has been interviewed on more than 800 radio and TV shows. As a speaker, Debbi was the keynote at the Women’s Calgary Red Carpet event; Global Influence Summit, the Business Success Summit, the prestigious Los Angeles Conscious Life Expo, The New Media Summit, and San Francisco’s New Living Expo, along with distinguished speakers including Marianne Williamson. Debbi helps leaders and global messengers write their bestselling book, helps you learn what your message is, and schedules clients on media interviews.

Debbi has been featured twice as an ‘Icon of Influence,’ is a certified coach, is featured in The Ultimate Directory of Podcasters of the world’s leading podcasters, and is a three-time international bestselling author, which won The Silver eLit Award for Literary Excellence, the National Indie Excellence Awards, and the Expert Insights Publishing Award.

In this podcast:

  • What is visibility?
  • A conversation about showing up authentically, where does our voice want to go out in the world? books, speaking, online
  • The desire for our message and business to get out there combined with our discomfort with the how to do it
  • How to be visible in a comfortable way
  • Inauthentic sharing
  • The journey of your visibility and engaging your audience
  • Goals for visibility- How you show up and where you are showing up
  • Honoring your gifts with your message
  • She shares Dr. John Demartini’s journey story
  • 13:29 Debbi’s journey is all about grabbing the microphone, the pen or the camera
  • The healing journey that happens along the way
  • The mess becomes the message (me -sage) a wisdom teacher is inside based on your personal path and the journey you’ve come to teach
  • The key is to allow yourself to share and you can always make another choice
  • She works with conscious professionals: how to write a great book and taking it to international best-seller, booking people on interviews and visibility strategy calls.

Inspired Round Q&A:

  • Most Inspiring Book-
  • Favorite Song-
  • Best Resource-
  • Surprising Fact About Debbi –
    • She’s done 2 LA Marathons, 26.2 miles twice
    • She won an award for the prettiest eyes in LA
    • She loves bats and sloths, they are the coolest and adorable
  • Most Important Thing to Know About Debbi-
    • She’s been very affected by all the suicides that are illuminating the subject right now, she understands, and no matter how we are each perceived, there is an underbelly, we all want to be loved, seen and connected to others. She wants you to hold on, keep going until the miracle happens. Stand in the light, be who you are, embrace who you are.

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429 Mandaza, Medicine Man

Mandaza is a spirit medium and medicine man from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He carries with him in his heart the Central African spiritual tradition of healing and peacemaking  He is known internationally for his loving presence and for his preservation of the old ways. He stands for truth, love, justice and peace in this world.

In this podcast:

  • Instead of seeing peace and love in this world we are seeing more conflict and he’s wondering why
  • What he sees happening in human society is the peacemaking to coexist with the challenges
  • Conflict is caused by humans so it is up to humans to bring peace and order into our world.
  • Peace is up to us – we must bring it
  • The peace-loving people of the world have the answers
  • The younger generations have some of the answers for the peacemaking, they are born wisdom keepers and there is a disconnect with the elders respecting the younger generation
  • Creating oneness- demolish the boundaries that separate us
  • Conflicts begin from within each individual
  • Truth, justice and love start within, start with yourself and then extend it to your neighbor
  • 2 levels of love that he sees in his heart
  • The practice is up to us, how do I connect with that tree, how do I begin to love you, come together in ceremonies to talk about it, we need to gather to talk and share
  • Discover the purpose of life for humans to be on this earth right now, we must know why we are here on planet earth
  • Community includes more than just humans it includes mother nature as well, you can sit by the ocean in community with the land and the water
  • Living prayer – listening to the challenges of what is happening around you and praying for those.
  • Living a heart-centered life – our purpose of existence here on earth

Inspired Round Q&A:

  • Most Inspiring Book-
    • it’s yet to be written yet it’s been in existence…. it has many beautiful chapters….it’s Mother Nature, this is his Sacred Book
  • Favorite Song-
    • Many songs in nature, songs that have no words, songs you listen to when you sit by the ocean, river, waterfall…
  • Best Resource-
    • Love and compassion and to be in constant prayer on behalf of all of creation
  • Surprising Fact About Mandaza-
    • He shared a chant for this answer (tune in at 31:00 minutes)
  • Most Important Thing to Know About Mandaza-
    • He’s not a holy man, he’s not an important person, he’s just like everyone else on planet earth. The special thing about him is his message he shares.

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