In this episode I speak with one of Canada’s best comedians Simon King.  Simon gives us some insight into the process of “finding your voice” as an artist.  He shares the various transformations he had to go through as a comedian to get him to where he is today.  He shares the joys and pains of that process and the importance of listening to your inner self.Simon and I talk about how comedians and most people in society are constantly chasing validation.  Whether that validation comes from our work, peers, family, or love interests we talk about how chasing validation affects our behavior and leads to jealousy and resentment.  We talk about our own journeys of releasing those heavy emotions and learning to stop chasing validation and start chasing what we want.Simon shares with us how his spirituality and belief systems have evolved in the last few years after having a child and after his father died.  He tells us how he looks at life now with deeper meaning and how that helps him approach his days.   https://www.thisissimonking.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I speak with author and yoga teacher Troy Hadeed.  Troy talks about all the labels we use to define ourselves in this world and how limiting they can be.  He talks about how all of our choices revolve around the preservation of our identity.  He takes this concept further and talks about how we identify with our bodies and how that gives us a deep fear subconsciously that affects all our behaviors.  Troy talks about how most of our personalities and actions are based on how we are conditioned.  He tells us how we can never truly be compassionate unless we understand their actions come from conditioning.  He talks about the truest form of privilege that someone can have is receiving love.  Troy tells us about growing up with a Middle Eastern background in Trinidad.  He talks about the shame he felt from his background and privilege that was associated with his background.  He talks about how he dealt with that shame and guilt growing up and learning to accept his privilege.  Troy tells us about how Reggae and Rastafarian culture impacted him growing up and shaped who he became.https://troyhadeed.com/Instagram - @troyhadeed  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I speak with Amrit Singh Reinsch.  Amrit has been practicing Kundalini Yoga for over 30 years and now has become a high performance life coach where he combines spirituality and goal setting.  Amrit talks about going to India as a young adult as a spiritual seeker and how hard it was on him.  He talks about what a lot of spiritual seekers' mindsets are like going to India and how it changes while you are there.    Amrit tells us about how to balance spirituality and the want to have material things and other desires.  He tells us about how we are humans with drives and it's ok to satisfy our desires.  He tells us his form of spirituality: make sure you are acting through your heart and not through shame or guilt.  He tells us how lots of people think with spirituality you need renunciation but he shows how this doesn’t work well for most people in modern times.      Amrit tells us about Kundalini Yoga and how it helped him bring discipline into his life.  He gives us advice on how to form habits better by really focusing on why you are doing them.  Amrit also tells us about different diets he’s tried during his time in India and how it affected his spiritual practices.  https://coachingnow.info/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I speak with Charlotte and Jonathon from “Wellness Theory ''.  Jonathan and Charlotte started Wellness Theory to help people eliminate unhealthy stress, calm irate minds, and control their emotions to live a better life.  Jon and Charlotte talk about how interconnected our mental, physical and emotional health are.  Jon gives us his background of how healed his chronic pain and the physical and emotional parts behind it.    Jon and Charlotte tell us the 3 different levels of stress and how they manifest themselves in our body and mind.   They tell people to focus on their body, thoughts and emotions to try and get to deeper parts of your stress.  They talk about having to deal with unresolved emotional traumas or even just question our own belief structures and values and ask ourselves how they are serving us.Jon and Charlotte tell us how stress affects our body especially when we eat, sleep or do different activities.  They tell us a few myths about stress in our culture and how we got to stop believing these lies.  They also give us different exercises to calm down our nervous system and to recognize and release excess emotion stuck in our bodies.https://www.thewellnesstheory.com/   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I speak with professional Disc Golfer Scott Stokely.  Scott has multiple Guinness World Records, multiple World Disc Golf Titles and is author of the book “Growing Up Disc Golf”.  Scott tells us about growing up as a latchkey kid and eventually moving to a rich neighborhood where he didn’t fit in.  He tells us about how he found community through playing on the first ever Disc Golf course ever.    Scott talks about leaving Disc Golf and turning to business.  He talks about eventually developing a drug habit trying to stay up late to work on his businesses.  He talks about losing his home and trying to find places to live.  He shares a story of walking into a Disc Golf store after being out of the for a decade and being recognized as one of the best Disc Golfers ever.  He tells us how this gave him the conviction to get off drugs and get back into the professional Disc Golf tour.    Scott tells us how he now is constantly traveling the world playing Disc Golf and running his businesses and helping tons of charities.  Scott tells us his reasons for giving back to people and the community.  He has his own ideas on what people's reasons behind giving are and how it doesn’t matter.https://scottstokely.net/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I speak with comedian Andrew Oporto.  Andrew tells us about meeting his mentor that really helped change his life a few years ago.  He tells us about what his mentor practices called Ferasa which is the ancient art of face reading.  Andrew tells us how our faces tell us stories about what we have gone through in life and he shares some of the simplest ways he learnt how to read other people’s faces.    Andrew shares how his mentor highlighted things that happened in his past and that he needed to let go of in order to be happy and more balanced in life.  He shares more about the Ferasa philosophy that really relies on balance in all areas in life and especially with your closest relationships.  Andrew talks about changes he made in his life in the last 4 years including having a better relationship with his family, stopping drinking and smoking weed, and developing a spirituality.      Andrew talks about how western culture focuses on material possessions and isolation and how it brings more suffering to us.  He talks about the need for community and how being around people shifts your emotional state and how good that is for your well being.  Andrew talks about how in western culture we are very hesitant to accept stuff from people when it's offered.  He tells us how important it is to accept gifts and what that does for society.Instagram - @andrewoporto Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I speak with Edward Strum.  Edward is a self proclaimed self-improvement junkie.  He’s created multiple viral videos, appeared on numerous TV shows, and has created the “Commit Club” where he gives its users 30 day challenges to implement new positive habits into your life.  Edward tells us how he created these viral videos and his secret behind it.    Edward tells us about “small chunking” which is doing a little bit of something everyday and watching how it compounds over time.  He shares how he was able to enter different tech fields just by learning a little about something everyday until he was very proficient in it.  He tells us how this inspired his “Commit Club” challenge and how it helped him gain so many great habits like meditation, journaling, cold showers and more.    Edward has lived in over 30 countries and he talks about why and where he has been.  He tells us about being in Keiv, Ukraine right before the war broke out and all the craziness he had to go through to leave the country.  Edward is in Rome right now and tells us about his experiences walking through the Vatican.  https://commitclub.co/30-day-challenge/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I speak with host of the podcast “Addicted to Recovery” Tara Boyce.  Tara tells us about her journey with alcoholism being in and out of rehab 12 times.  She talks about the differences every time she goes into rehab.  She talks about how rehab met her needs of connectedness, purpose, structure and how she struggled to meet those needs in her life.    Tara tells us about how alcohol calmed down her anxiety and feelings of inadequacy.  She talks about how drinking just created the negative feedback loop that makes your anxieties worse.  She tells us about the persona she has when drinking and how the longer she was drinking the further separated she got from her sober self.      Tara tells us about the spirituality in the 12 steps program and how it didn’t connect well with her.  She tells us the importance of spirituality in recovery and how she had to find a spirituality that worked with her beliefs.  She tells us how she found secular ways of finding meaning and purpose in her life without religion or dogma which she couldn’t get on board with.https://www.buymeacoffee.com/recovery Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I speak with comedian Damonde Tschritter. Damonde is celebrating his 5 year anniversary of his critically acclaimed one man Fringe show "The Messenger" which was about his Ayahausca ceremonies in Mexico. Damonde takes us on profound journey though all of his Ayahausca ceremonies and the messeges he received during them. He tells us why he felt the need to make his experience into a one man show and the fear that he had to push through to do it. Damonde is an engaging storyteller and this is a must listen episode for people who are interested in the plant medicine Ayahausca. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I speak with host of “The Meditation Conversation Podcast” Kara Goodwin.  Kara is a meditation teacher and tells us about the really difficult year she went through that made her dedicate herself to a meditation practice to manage the turmoil in her life.  Kara tells us about the meditation technique she started with and tells us how to do it.  Kara tells us how meditation changes our brain over time and continuous practice.  She explains how the emotional parts of your brain can dominate most of your experience.  She explains how mediation can activate different areas of your brain and activate higher states of being including creativity, altruism, and concentration.  She explains how a continuous meditation practice can lead to living more consciously and allows us to make better choices.  We have a great conversation about how meditation can help us recognize self sabotaging thought patterns and how those patterns affect us.  Kara gives us advice on how to disrupt those patterns.  Kara also talks about the link between spirituality and meditation.  She tells us about how her meditation changed her beliefs about life and our place in the world.https://www.karagoodwin.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.