Gateways to Awakening

Today’s episode is with Payal Kadakia, the founder and executive chairman of ClassPass, a monthly membership program that provides people of all fitness levels access to the best boutique fitness classes, gyms, and wellness experiences across the US and abroad. Since its launch in 2013, ClassPass has facilitated almost 100 million reservations across 22,000 partner studios in over 20 countries. Payal is also the founder and artistic director of The Sa Dance Company, founded in 2009 with the mission to increase awareness of Indian Dance in the mainstream. Payal has been listed as one of FAST COMPANY’s 100 Most Creative People, and was named to FORTUNE’s 40 under 40 list. Her book LIFEPASS: Drop Your Limits, Rise to Your Potential - A Groundbreaking Approach to Goal Setting debuted on February 15th, 2022. We talk about the following and more: ✅ Why she created Classpass and how the company transformed her ✅ How her experience of growing up Indian American influenced her journey ✅ How she deals with fear on her journey ✅ What it takes to set goals and commit to them ✅ In her book, she talks about “finding your gift and giving it away” ✅ The importance of setting clear boundaries as an entrepreneur ✅ How she deals with adversity and change as an entrepreneur Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

Respected clairvoyant empath, Penney Peirce, discusses intuition, personal vibration, and perception. They explore the concepts of frequency, vibration, and energy, emphasizing the importance of heart and attention skills in understanding awareness. They also discuss triggers, shifting realities, trusting intuition, and moving through challenges without negative energy. Penny shares resources for cultivating intuition.

Have you ever wondered what happens after we die? Today’s episode is with James Van Praagh, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of over a dozen international best-sellers, including his debut, Talking to Heaven and his latest, most transformative book, The Power of Love: Connecting to the Oneness. He is considered one of the most widely-recognized and accurate spiritual mediums working today. A “survival evidence medium," Van Praagh provides evidential proof of life after death via highly detailed messages from the spiritual realm. He is hailed throughout the world as a pioneer of the mediumship movement. For over three decades, his messages have brought comfort and peace to millions grieving lost loved ones or fearing death and the unknown. Throughout his career, James Van Praagh has appeared on countless national radio and television shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, Dr. Phil, 48 Hours, The View, The Joy Behar Show, Chelsea Lately, Coast to Coast AM and many more. We talk about the following and more: ✅ When he was able to connect with the other side ✅ What it means to have spirit guides, and what kind of spirit guides exist ✅ Where spirit guides reside and specifically what the astral dimension, the etheric dimension, the spiritual dimension, and the celestial dimension are. ✅ What it means to connect with the other side, what it feels like ✅ Some of the greatest lessons he has learned from this work Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is with Ethan Kross, one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he is the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. Ethan has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed about his research on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to have an inner critic ✅ Why we have an inner critic, and how you would guide people to deal with their inner critic ✅ How he came up with this concept of dealing with the inner critic ✅ What he has learned about self-control ✅ Why some people benefit from turning inwards to understand their feelings, while others are apt to fall apart when they engage in precisely the same behavior? ✅ Why some people have louder inner critics than others? https://www.ethankross.com/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is with David Bingham, a leading voice in the world of consciousness. His interview on Consciousness TV was a major inspiration for Rhonda Byrne’s creation of The Secret, which she publicly talks about, and is how I first heard about David. After interviewing David, I felt a wave of peace wash over me, as he has a profound way of speaking about our true nature in a way that changed my entire perspective on reality. David was a spiritual seeker for nearly thirty years, before realizing his True nature in 2005, while listening to a podcast of the American non-duality teacher, John Wheeler. Gradually, following Realization, he started speaking one to one with people seeking to realize their True nature. Effortless Being is the core aspect of his approach. He has assisted over two thousand people to become Self realized. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to “wake up” and what the experience was like for David ✅ What it means to be a human and what it mean to be consciousness ✅ What it means to be “awareness” ✅ The difference between self-realization and consciousness ✅ How he defines the concept of “self realized” ✅ How he deals with conflict and suffering ✅ The role that love plays in our reality ✅ How we can change our self-concept Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I sit down with Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., a psychologist, writer, speaker, and Jungian analyst who has published 19 books including, The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance and Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path. She hosts the popular podcast ENEMIES: From War to Wisdom that provides a fresh look at human hostilities and what to do about them. She is a lifelong Buddhist practitioner and a Mindfulness teacher. I learned about Polly through a past guest, Katherine Woodward Thomas, who spoke so highly of her work, and I’m excited to dive in. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What does ”love between equals” mean? ✅ What is projective identification and why does it feel like such a terrible offense? ✅ Why does it recreate the conditions that we so often want to escape? ✅ Why we often get stuck in loops in our relationships - it seems like we often get to the same impasse. Why does this happen? ✅ Why we are so unprepared to be in equal relationships? And what she has seen in her workshops on how we can become equipped to become equal. ✅ What the self-esteem trap is ✅ How we free ourselves of self-importance? Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with Barbara Huson (previously known as Barbara Stanny), who is the leading authority on women, wealth and power. As a bestselling author, financial therapist, teacher & wealth coach, Barbara has helped millions take charge of their finances and their lives. Barbara's background in business, her years as a journalist, her Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, her extensive research, and her personal experience with money give her a unique perspective and makes her the foremost expert on empowering women to live up to their financial and personal potential. Barbara is the author of 7 books including, Prince Charming Isn’t Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money, Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to up Your Earnings and Change Your Life, Overcoming Underearning: A Five-Step Plan to a Richer Life, Finding a Financial Advisor You Can Trust: A Guide for Investors and Those Who Want To Be, We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Why is wealth a topic so many women do not talk about? ✅ What does it mean to be “wealthy”? ✅ Why so many women have so much difficulty making or managing money ✅ The three levels of financial development ✅ Why she said “problems with money are never about money”. ✅ Why so many women are underearners Barbara Huson has been featured on Good Morning America, The View, Extra, The O'Reilly Report, and many times on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, PBS and NPR, as well as the New York Times, and USA Today. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Enmeshment and healthy boundaries are a topic of interest for many of us, as our family dynamics often contribute to our inability to show up in our romantic relationships. In today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Kenneth M. Adams who began his professional career in 1981 treating children, adolescents, and their families. Dr. Adams created and facilitates the Enmeshment Workshops: From Guilt and Ambivalence to Passion and Purpose to help those struggling to break free from enmeshment. In 1985 he began a private practice with the Children of Alcoholic Parents program, an outpatient program for the treatment of adults who had grown up in alcoholic families. It was there that he began to notice that many of these clients had addictions and enmeshment issues, two of his primary specialties today. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What is enmeshment? ✅ Why does it happen, and how often does it happen? ✅ When does it start? ✅ How enmeshment is different between parents and children v romantic partners ✅ The difference between enmeshment and codependency ✅ Some ranges of healthy enmeshment v unhealthy enmeshment ✅ How he works with people who need to create boundaries and step out of their enmeshment patterns ✅ Guidance for parents as well as children who are in enmeshed relationships Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is with Deepak Chopra, founder of The Chopra Foundation, and Chopra Global, a modern-day health company at the intersection of science and spirituality, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Deepak made a major impact on my life when I was in my 20’s in NYC and started listening to many of his recordings, which transformed my life. He is the author of over 90 books translated into over forty-three languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. For the last thirty years, Chopra has been at the forefront of the meditation revolution and has written over 92 books on success, fulfillment, wholeness, and plenty, offering practical advice on how to cultivate a sense of abundance in times of fear and insecurity. TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” www.deepakchopra.com We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to be a human and what it means to be pure consciousness? ✅ What the words “pure potentiality” mean. ✅ What it mean to be “aware” ✅ Why he thinks we are here ✅ How he deals with conflict or suffering ✅ The nature of reality ✅ What our biology has to do with our spirituality and how they function together ✅ The meaning of “naive realism” Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with ​​Karla Mclaren, M.Ed. an award-winning author, educator, social science researcher, empathy expert, and workplace consultant. Her work revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. Her applied work, Dynamic Emotional Integration®, is a groundbreaking process that reveals the genius and healing power within the emotional realm. She is the author of many books, including The Power of Emotions at Work, Embracing Anxiety, and The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You, and she’s the developer of the online learning site EmpathyAcademy.org. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ Why understanding our emotions is so important ✅ Why so many people do not understand their emotions ✅ Why “Restoring the intellect to it’s rightful position” ✅ In her book “The Language of Emotions”, we talk about the need for a balanced psyche, and incorporating the elements of air, earth, water and fire. ✅ Some of the dominant emotions she speaks about in her work, specifically, anger, guilt & shame, fear and then boredom - and how to move through them. ✅ What happens when someone represses their anger? And why she says that dealing with your emotions (like anger) should be a restorative act. It was a pure delight to connect with Karla and I think you’ll enjoy this conversation tremendously. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.