Gateways to Awakening

I am so excited about today’s conversation! Today’s episode is about exploring the magical world of mushrooms and fungi with Giuliana Furci. Giuliana is foundress and executive director of the Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy, Co-Chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee, and author of several titles including a series of field guides to Chilean fungi and chapters in publications such as Fantastic Fungi. Giuliana has worked in the non-profit sector for the last 17 years and has held consulting positions in U.S. philanthropic foundations as well as full-time positions in international marine conservation NGOs, and Chilean environmental NGOs. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ How her path from childhood to undergrad to adulthood brought her to the world of fungi ✅ What mushrooms are and why they are called fungi ✅ The dominant types of mushrooms ✅ Why mushrooms are so important to our ecosystem ✅ Why mushrooms, which have so many benefits, have been so understudied and why there is such a renewed interest in mushrooms today ✅ How mushrooms affect us from a health perspective ✅ Her experience with other types of mushrooms that have gained popularity and some of her discoveries in this space It was a pure delight to connect with Guliana 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.

In today’s episode, I speak with both Dr. Christopher Germer and Dr. Kristin Neff. Christopher Germer, PhD is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program with Kristin Neff in 2010 and they wrote two books, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program. MSC has been taught to over 200,000 people worldwide. Kristin Neff is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, conducting the first empirical studies on self-compassion nearly twenty years ago. She is author of the bestselling book Self-Compassion, and her newest book is Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ What self-compassion is in their words ✅ How self-compassion is different from self-esteem ✅ The steps to connect with yourself through the lens of self-compassion ✅ Why the idea of a “shared or common humanity” is so important in the work of self-compassion ✅ How they teach people this process 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.

On today’s episode, I interview Patricia Albere, the founder of the Evolutionary Collective, internationally known contemporary spiritual teacher, visionary, bestselling author of Evolutionary Relationships: Unleashing the Transformative Power of Mutual Awakening and recognized leader in the emerging field of post-personal development. Her unique experience of a sustained dual awakening over 20 years ago led to the discovery of the essential components that create an awakened ‘we space’ that is transforming our understanding of what is possible in the space between us. Patricia has a free, self-paced Introduction to Mutual Awakening e-Course available at www.evolutionarycollective.come/intro-course-yt We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ The new evolutionary dimension of embodiment and what it means to be in an evolutionary relationship ✅ Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how she applies it to the world of relationships ✅ How the need for connection has changed in the last ten years and especially in the last year of the pandemic ✅ The Mutual Awakening Practice and why its important 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, we’ll be speaking with Parker Palmer, a writer, speaker, activist, and founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal. He has reached millions worldwide via his ten books, including the best-selling Healing the Heart of Democracy, Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, and A Hidden Wholeness. His latest bestseller is On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old (2018). Palmer holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, and 13 honorary doctorates. In 1998, the Leadership Project, a national survey of 10,000 educators, named him one of the 30 “most influential senior leaders” in higher education and one of the 10 key “agenda-setters” of the past decade. I first learned about Parker Palmer through Krista Tippet, as I was a part of the On-Being weekend at 1440 Multiversity many years ago, and was moved by his books. -------- We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ His book, “Let your life speak” and what he means by the phrase: "living the life that wants to live in me." ✅ How he made the decision to create his own path as a teacher and a leader ✅ How he knew that he was not going to go down the conventional road ✅ “Age itself,” he says, “is no excuse to wade in the shallows. It's a reason to dive deep and take creative risks.” ✅ How he decided to take creative risks ✅ In his book, Let Your Life Speak, he talks about how leaders can cast both shadow and light, and a few shadows are: insecurity about identity and worth, and the belief that the universe is a hostile battleground. ✅ His time with the Quakers and how it shaped him ✅ How his journey through the depths of depression shapes his life You can learn more about Parker Palmer here: https://couragerenewal.org/wpccr/parker/ 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.

On today’s episode, I speak with Brenda Dunn, who was Laboratory Manager of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory from its inception in 1979 until its closing in 2007. She now serves as President and Treasurer of ICRL, International Consciousness Research Laboratories www.icrl.org. With Robert G. Jahn, she is coauthor of Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World, Consciousness and the Source of Reality: The PEAR Odyssey, Quirks of the Quantum Mind, and Molecular Memories. She also served as coeditor of Filters and Reflections: Perspectives on Reality and Being and Biology: Is Consciousness the Life-Force. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ Her experience and observation of how intuition works ✅ Her book, “Margins of Reality”, and what she means by “sensors and filters” ✅ What the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) “PEAR” is, why it was created, and her role in the program ✅ Some of the major experiments that were conducted at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Lab in remote viewing, and human intention ✅ Her book, “Quirks of the Quantum Mind” and what they are ✅ The International Consciousness Research Lab 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 Brett Fleisher, a life long pursuer of the expressive arts and authentic expression. Brett has traveled down many paths; as an actor, writer, musician, filmmaker, youth educator, somatic and reiki practitioner. After many years of feeling out of balance physically, emotionally and mentally, Brett discovered the power of somatic release and began to heal through old traumas that were causing him lifelong pain and discomfort. He instantly resonated with this approach to integrating the mind, body and belief systems and began studying the Point Holding Process and Somatic Release Technique with his beloved teachers Catalina Ureta and Judith Johnson. Brett founded The Yummy Heart in the fall of 2018 and loves working one on one with people to help guide them back into their bodies, as well as educating people on understanding the function of trauma through workshops and community gatherings. In addition to his work with The Yummy Heart, Brett is a long standing facilitator with Sacred Sons and is currently a lead mentor of the Sacred Sonz Youth Program. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to play as an adult ✅ What somatic embodiment work is , and why he decided to invest in this methodology in his practice ✅ What the Yummy Heart organization, why did you create it, and why did you choose that name? ✅ What Sacred Suns is , and why he decided to join this organization -- and how he’s become a mentor for youth ✅ What it means to show up as a conscious and embodied male in your words ✅ Some of the trends he has seen when working with young men You can find Brett at https://www.theyummyheart.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thephoenixassembly/ https://www.sacredsons.com/ https://beheadedforgreatness.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.

In today’s episode, I speak with ​​Katherine Woodward Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Calling in “The One”: 7 Weeks to Attracting the Love of Your Life, and Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After . She is an award-winning marriage and family psychotherapist. Over the past two decades, Katherine has had the honor of teaching hundreds of thousands of people from all corners of the globe to create conscious, loving relationships and to realize the higher potentials all their connections hold for health and happiness. We dive into relationships, finding the “one”, and conscious uncoupling, and much more: ✅ What it means to “call in the one” ✅ How her book forces you to inquire all the ways we are really disconnected from ourselves ✅ The meaning of a “spiritual partnership” which she defines as: “Spiritual partnership implies a goal of encouraging and supporting the unfolding of each other’s soul’s reasons for being here in the first place”. ✅ Why she wrote this book as a series of 7 prompts, and over a period of 7 weeks ✅ What Conscious Uncoupling is, and why she started this movement after her relationship ended ✅ How her POV on relationships have changed in the last decade Katherine also trains and certifies people to become Certified Calling in “The One” Coaches , and/or Conscious Uncoupling Coaches and provides ongoing supervision and development to a vibrant community of her coaches from around the world. 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.

On today’s episode, I speak with Betsy Burroughs, the president of FocusCatalyst in San Francisco, California. Atlantic Magazine called her “A Silicon Valley branding executive turned neuroscience researcher." Betsy consults with organizations on business innovation--and with individuals on how to easily stop bad habits. Even though her first book is for businesses, surprisingly she used every technique in it to make it easy, effortless, and fun for her to change one bad habit after another--all the way up to and including easily losing 90 pounds. Her book Focus: The catalyst for innovation is available on Amazon. Her second book is ”Do You Have A Scaredy-Cat Brain? 52 Ways to Soothe A Scaredy-Cat Brain. Based on the Neuroscience of Cortisol and Dopamine.” It will be available in 2022. We dive into the following and much more: ✅ We define what dopamine is and why is it such an important neurotransmitter ✅ What the Focus Catalyst process exactly is and how it works ✅ How she uses her neuroscience hacks to help people overcome triggers ✅ We break down my own session and how you can create new neural pathways when you are triggered in your own life You can follow her @TheDopamineDiva. You can reach her at: www.FocusCatalyst.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.

In today’s episode, I speak with the prolific Martha Beck, PhD, who spent a decade at Harvard before becoming a world-renowned life coach and NYT bestselling author. She has published nine non-fiction books, one novel, and more than 200 magazine articles. Her passion and only real interest is the elimination of human suffering, by any means available. Some of her books include: “The Way of Integrity” and “Finding your North Star”. I’ve read both books, which had a profound impact on my career journey. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to be a being of integrity ✅ Why Martha says that “Integrity is the cure for unhappiness, Period”. ✅ The ways that she has stayed true to herself and how we all can ✅ Why Dante’s The Divine Comedy was the book that was so integral to her understanding of self 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. We'd like to thank our sponsors, Glow Botanica for this episode. Glow Botanica is a company whose mission is to increase hormonal wellness awareness through education, and create natural effective products for every phase of a woman’s life. In partnership with Hormone University, Glow Botanica is committed to educating women so that they can advocate and take charge of their own hormonal health. Head to glowbotanica.com to check out our hero product Tummy Butter. You can take advantage of a special offer for Gateway to Awakening with the promo code: Gateway10.

Today’s episode is about past lives, reincarnation, and the art of channeling with global channeler Kevin Ryerson. I first learned about Kevin at a workshop led by Walter Simkew who has worked in the field of past lives for a number of decades. Kevin is an acclaimed author, award winning consultant, expert intuitive and trance channel in the tradition of Edgar Cayce. He has been lecturing and teaching in the field of parapsychology and spirituality for over 40 years. He has been a guest on national television shows including Oprah Winfrey and Good Morning America. He is the author of the landmark book Spirit Communication: The Soul’s Path. Shirley MacLaine features his intuitive abilities in her best selling books. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ He defines channeling, and in particular trance channeling ✅ The difference between mediumship and channeling ✅ Who Edgar Cayce is for those who don’t know about him and his work ✅ Some of his predictions that he made that were documented and came true ✅ Who Kevin channels and his relationship with Shirley McClain ✅ The bond between our spirit and our physical body ✅ What time means to him This episode was mind-blowing. You can learn more about Kevin Ryerson here. 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. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, please DM me.