Gateways to Awakening

Today’s episode is with Ben Schick - a seasoned senior executive coach and leadership facilitator with a global reach, catering to CEOs and executive directors, as well as high-profile professionals in the tech industry, including senior product designers, engineers, and marketing directors at companies like Apple and AirBnb. For six years, he was President of the Strozzi Institute, the originator of embodied leadership and somatic coaching, and has a masters in organizational development from Antioch University. With a wealth of experience as a former senior executive, Ben's leadership journey includes steering impactful organizations such as Challenge Day—an award-winning program endorsed by Oprah Winfrey and highlighted on MTV, credited with significantly reducing bullying and suicide in schools across the U.S. Notably, he also spent a nine-year tenure as the CEO of MediaOne Services. His approach is based in neuroscience, and blends ontological and somatic methods, providing leaders with transformative practices to expand their leadership capacity. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ His approach to coaching and what sets it apart from other coaching methodologies ✅ What actionable change means in the context of your coaching? ✅ How he helps individuals change and show up differently, especially under pressure or in challenging situations ✅ Some success stories or examples of clients who have experienced significant transformations through your coaching? ✅ Some insights into the most common challenges his clients face in these areas If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up @ www.InnerKnowingSchool.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 Samantha Garcia - the author of the bestselling book, Regenerative Business: How to Align Your Business with Nature for More Abundance, Fulfillment, and Impact, and is the founder of Dirty Alchemy, the marketing agency & consulting firm for conscious entrepreneurs, coaches & course creators. Sam hosts the Regenerative Business podcast and helps ambitious online business owners to build a thriving business ecosystem that contributes to a better world vision. Sam graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors in Physics and a minor in Environmental Science and went on to get a Permaculture Design Certification before moving to Maui in 2013. She co-founded the regenerative agriculture business, Living Earth Systems, with her now husband Eddy Garcia in 2015, on the side of growing her marketing business. Sam works and lives off-grid with her husband on their regenerative farm in Maui. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What a "regenerative business" is and why it's important in today's world ✅ What inspired her to get involved in the field of regenerative business practices, and what drives her passion for it ✅ Doing more than just “sustaining” our business ✅ The need for regenerating lands as an example of the ways one can set up the framework for regenerating your business ✅ Why working in cycles and seasonality is a method they use If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up @ www.InnerKnowingSchool.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 Finnian Kelly, the leading expert on living a life with Intentionality and disrupting the business world with his unique approach of using breathwork as a superpower. As a multi-time successful entrepreneur, Finnian Kelly has coached the CEOs and leadership teams of more than 150 companies. With impact and service always at the forefront of his ventures, he was featured on the National Geographic documentary Undercover Angel, a series featuring millionaires taking on discreet missions to benefit underprivileged communities. Finnian’s work has also been recognized on Business Insider, Forbes, Sky Business, Smart Company, LA Weekly and he is a featured guide on Othership - the leading breathwork app around the world. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What is breathwork? Why is breathwork so important? ✅ His unique approach of using breathwork as a superpower in leadership development ✅ How he discovered its potential ✅ Common challenges he sees in leaders when it comes to intentionality and purpose-driven leadership ✅ How he defines "leading with intention," and why he believes it's crucial in today's business world ✅ The role positive psychology plays in his work, and how it contributes to helping leaders transform their behaviors ✅ His feature on National Geographic's "Undercover Angel. If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up @ www.InnerKnowingSchool.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 Erin Sullivan, known as “Erin Outdoors”. Erin Sullivan’s photography is an exploration in wonder, creativity, and awe. Throughout her career, Erin has traveled to over 40 countries photographing landscapes and crafting stories from around the world built on curiosity and a desire to create connection. When she's not photographing the great outdoors, she's creating Our Great Indoors, a wondrous miniature series that blurs the line between real and imagined. Using everything from vegetables to jello, large outdoor spaces are re-invented into miniature scenes and viewers are invited to re-think the way they see the world, and their place in it. Erin and her work have been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, The Drew Barrymore Show, and the TED stage. She believes that life provides each of us with an interdisciplinary education and encourages us all to use it intentionally. Everything about her can be found on her website, www.erinoutdoors.com We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What photography means to her ✅ Where she draws inspiration from when she’s behind the camera ✅ What her creative process looks like when she approaches a new photography project ✅ What photography equipment she considers essential, and what she recommends for someone just starting in photography ✅ How travel influences her creative vision, and what advice she has for photographers on the road ✅ Some of her favorite places that she’s visited and taken photos - and why If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up @ www.InnerKnowingSchool.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 Azrya and Bee Bequer, the Co-Founding Stewards of KAVAN , a 30-acre retreat center on the South-Pacific coast of Mexico that serves as a nexus of gathering for a community committed to personal and social transformation. The husband and wife duo are also Co-Stewards of MUSA, a 500+acre, beachfront residential development. The Bequers have dedicated the past decade to their passionate desire to put power and resources into the hands of purpose-driven entrepreneurs and creatives. To support this work they co-authored the BEQOMING book and developed the BEQOMING Process, a unique and powerful methodology that integrates Transpersonal Psychology, Sociology, Systemic Theories, Leadership, Coaching, Breathwork, Neuroscience, and other embodiment practices. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What does spirituality mean to them and what role does it play in their lives? ✅ Why did they decide to write the book Beqoming, and the themes that readers have resonated most with? ✅ Their desire to build community and act as a catalyst for others ✅ Some of the themes about their courses on spiritual awakening, and what they’ve seen as a moment of transformation for individuals ✅ What is “Kavana” If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up @ www.InnerKnowingSchool.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 Joanna Pitt, a writer, evolutionary astrologer, yoga and meditation teacher, and producer of wellness events and media. A graduate of Duke University, she has an extensive career across Entertainment, Tech start-ups, Advertising, and the Wellness industry. Over the last decade, she has been focused on personal growth and expanding consciousness through different modalities including Kundalini yoga, meditation, mantra and sound healing, and the study and application of astrology. She is deeply inquisitive and passionate in using and teaching the language of the cosmos to understand how energy moves within us and reframe our experiences as divine gifts. She is currently recording an album of mantra music and producing a travel adventure series about the spiritual mysteries of the natural world. Learn more about Joanna’s astrology offerings at twinfawnsastrology.com We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What is evolutionary astrology, and how is it different than other types of astrology? ✅ What are some of the major themes we should know about in our charts? ✅ What is the significance of the astrological houses in a birth chart? ✅ How many houses are there in an astrological chart, and what do they represent? ✅ What role do the twelve houses play in shaping an individual's personality and life experiences? ✅ How does the position of the Ascendant (Rising Sign) affect the first house in a birth chart? ✅ How do the houses relate to different life areas, such as career, relationships, home, and spirituality? If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up @ www.InnerKnowingSchool.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 a little different! After 175 episodes, Yasmeen Turayhi, host of Gateways to Awakening, has now turned the mic on herself and asked her dear friend and past guest, Dr. Laurie Scolarie to interview her to share her inspiration for the show with her audience. Yasmeen Turayhi is a technology agency founder, a filmmaker, a 3x author, speaker, and 3x podcast host. She is the host of the show, “Gateways to Awakening”, focused on neuroscience, intuition, and consciousness produced by Hakawati. She has a Master Certification in Intuition Medicine and runs an Intuition school called the Inner Knowing School (InnerKnowingSchool.com) for Executives and Creatives, where she teaches them how to tap into their intuition and master their energy instead of their time. She is the writer, narrator, and director of the audio miniseries, Hyphenated-Journey which chronicles her life growing up Iraqi-American. The show premiered at the top of the carousel on Apple in 2022 and was shortlisted in the category “Changing the World One Moment At a Time” at the International Women’s Podcast Awards in London 2023. She is the writer and executive producer of “A Star in the Desert”, a short fantastical drama about a boy who creates his own fantastical reality on the eve of the first Gulf War, which was selected as a finalist in over eight international film festivals, winning two audience awards for “best child actor”. She is often reflecting on the nature of reality and how she can be a steward of the planet, and to be of service to others. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What is intuition? ✅ Her unique approach of creating transformation through energy management ✅ The two years she spent learning intuition at an academy that trains people on intuition development ✅ Why she started Gateways to Awakening ✅ Her intuition and transformational coaching program, Inner Knowing School If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up @ www.InnerKnowingSchool.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 Neil Markey the co-founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats, a holistic wellbeing company that merges the science-backed benefits of psychedelics with supportive, contemplative practices that support holistic wellbeing. At Beckley Retreats, Neil is dedicated to building a business that operates with the utmost integrity, both internally and across the many communities the business touches. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ How he discovered alternative well-being practices like mindfulness and psychedelic mushrooms as part of his healing journey? ✅ The role did meditation and plant therapy play in your personal healing process? ✅ The science-backed benefits of psychedelics that Beckley Retreats. ✅ How do these benefits complement contemplative practices for holistic well-being? If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up @ www.InnerKnowingSchool.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 Scott Britton, an entrepreneur, content creator, and consciousness explorer. His most recent startup Troops was acquired by Salesforce in 202 where he received the Forbes 30 Under 30 award for enterprise technology. He is the host of the EvolutionFM podcast and author of the substack blog Consciousness: The Doorway to Human Evolution https://blog.scottbritton.me/ where he writes about how we can use everyday life to expand our consciousness and redefine what is possible for the human experience. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What exactly is intuition? ✅ How can people cultivate intuition or do they have to be born with this gift? ✅ What are some of the ways that people can tap into their intuition? ✅ What spirituality means to him? ✅ Some ways that people can cultivate abundance - and how he thinks about abundance? If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up @ www.InnerKnowingSchool.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 Gary Moon, who works and plays at the intersection of consciousness, entrepreneurship, and private capital markets. As the Founder and Managing Partner at Nfluence, Gary helps mission-aligned companies and conscious entrepreneurs on investment rounds as they scale and ultimate liquidity at the end of their company journeys. Married with 5 children between them, you can find Gary, and his wife Maria on various internal and external adventures somewhere around the world, including the Yearn where we met. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ The importance of a "fully integrated life". Can you elaborate on what that means for you personally and professionally? ✅ His personal journey towards blending capitalism with consciousness - and what conscious capitalism means to him ✅ The pivotal moments that made him take this role ✅ The cultural aspect of scaling a business and the role of a Chief Cultural Officer. This episode is sponsored by BloodMoonBox.com If you’d like to join the waitlist for my next coaching program, sign up @ www.InnerKnowingSchool.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.