Live Into Your Brilliance

Most of us spend our lives trying to keep things together. We plan, we push, we grip tightly to the idea that if we can just control enough of life, things will turn out the way we want. But the truth is the opposite. The more we try to control, the more resistance we create. The moment we let go is the moment life starts to move.In this conversation, Penny Finnie returns to share how releasing control has opened doors in her life that she could never have planned. From unexpected meetings to perfectly timed encounters and the quiet winks that show up when you are willing to trust the unfolding, Penny brings a rare blend of insight, warmth and lived experience.This episode is a reminder that letting go is not passive. It is choosing to stop wrestling with life and allowing something deeper, wiser and far more beautiful to lead.🔥 Topics We Explore• Why the need for control shuts down connection and possibility• How fear, busyness and distraction keep us from hearing our own guidance• The surprising synchronicities that show up when you say yes instead of resisting• Why surrender is the gateway to peace, creativity and clarity• How to recognise the moments life is nudging you• What Mary Magdalene and the mystics can teach us about letting go• Why peace and love only appear when we stop gripping the wheel📚 Books MentionedMary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan WattersonA New Earth by Eckhart TolleThe Universal Christ and Falling Upward by Richard RohrThe Seven Storey Mountain and writings of Thomas Merton🌐 Connect with Penny and EgalPenny’s mission driven company Egal is creating period products that are as accessible as toilet paper.Learn more here: https://www.padsonaroll.com💭 Reflective PromptWhere in your life are you gripping tightly because you think you have to? What might open up if you loosened your hold and allowed life to take the next step for you?🧠 Quote to Remember“We are the hands of the universe. Let go of control and let yourself be guided.” — Penny Finnie🌐 Produced in partnership withhttp://www.podlad.com

Most of us eat on autopilot. Reaching for food or drink to soothe, distract, or fill a gap. But what if every meal was an opportunity to practice awareness.Alan and Bilos explore how food becomes a mirror that reveals our habits, emotions, and relationship with presence. They share personal stories about using food and drink to escape discomfort, and how slowing down enough to actually taste what’s in front of you becomes a quiet spiritual practice.Because the opportunity in mindful eating isn’t better health, it’s better awareness. When you practice noticing in the small moments, you start to carry that awareness into everything else — your work, your relationships, your choices, and the way you meet life when it gets hard.Themes We ExploreWhy we reach for food or drink when we’re in painAwareness as daily training, not something to save for hard timesThe difference between feeding the noise and feeding the soulThe body as the vessel for your spiritual journeyHow slowing down to eat can slow down your mindFinding joy without using food to escapeReflective PromptWhen you sit down to eat today, can you notice the first impulse that pulls you to rush, numb, or fill space — and choose instead to pause.Key Quotes“Take joy in food and drink. Don’t eat and drink to seek joy.”“If your only task is to return the soul in better condition than when you set off, you’d probably want to look after the vessel.”“You’re fucked if the only time you practice is when life throws you a curveball.”“Does it feed the noise or feed the soul.”🌐 Produced in partnership with:www.podlad.com

Every working parent knows the tension: the pull between providing for your family and being present with them. You tell yourself you’ll slow down later, that you’re doing it for them, but time doesn’t wait. One day, your child grows up and you wonder how many small moments you traded away without even noticing.Our friend Peter Campbell shares the painful honesty of seeing those trade-offs in hindsight. From his rise to CFO of a global company to walking away from a high-paying role after his son asked, “Dad, do I only get to see you on weekends?”, Peter speaks with rare vulnerability about success, identity, and what really matters when life forces you to choose.This episode isn’t about guilt. It’s about awareness. It’s about waking up before it’s too late to realize that presence is the greatest gift you’ll ever give your family — and yourself.🔥 Topics We Explore:• The quiet pain behind career success and family absence• How identity gets tied to work without us noticing• The hidden cost of constantly choosing productivity over presence• Why regret only disappears when we stop judging ourselves• The truth about slowing down before life forces you to• How to see “trade-offs” differently — not as mistakes, but as moments to learn from• Why compassion for yourself might be the first step to healing💭 Reflective Prompt:What story are you telling yourself about why you have to keep working so hard? What would happen if you challenged it — just once — and chose presence instead?🧠 Quote to Remember:“They’re not going to put on your tombstone, ‘I should have spent more time at work’” — Al Kenny🌐 Produced in partnership with:http://www.podlad.com

For many of us, the body doesn’t always feel like a safe place to live. We push through tension, numb out pain, and try to think our way out of emotions we don’t want to feel. But what if the key to healing isn’t found in the mind, it’s in the body itself?Sienna Richardson, somatic therapist and educator, helps us understand what it truly means to come home to the body. She shares how trauma, stress, and unprocessed emotion can stay stored in the nervous system, quietly shaping how we feel, think, and connect with others.If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your emotions, anxious for no clear reason, or overwhelmed by life’s demands, this episode will help you reconnect to the wisdom that’s already within you.🔥 Topics We Explore:Why your body holds on to unprocessed emotionsThe connection between trauma, anxiety and physical symptomsWhat it really means to feel “held” and why that matters for healingHow somatic therapy differs from traditional talk therapyThe power of presence and compassion in releasing fearWhat happens when we stop resisting difficult feelingsThe role of nature, acceptance and connection in recovery💭 Reflective Prompt:What would it feel like to stop fighting your body — and start listening to it instead?🧠 Quote to Remember:“When we are held, we can hold more.” — Sienna Richardson🌐 Connect with Sienna:Website: www.imsienna.comProduced in partnership with http://www.podlad.com

Dreams can light us up or wear us down. The difference isn’t in the dream — it’s in the story we attach to it.In this conversation, Al and Bilos explore how even the most inspiring visions can quietly become a source of frustration when we grip them too tightly or convince ourselves they’re out of reach. What starts as playful imagination can turn into suffering the moment we believe happiness lives somewhere else.Through funny, honest stories about houses, life decisions, and daydreams that became real, they unpack the subtle shift between inspiration and attachment. What if you could dream freely without needing it to happen? What if letting go of the story was the key to feeling free right now?This episode is a reminder that there’s no such thing as a bad dream — only the meaning we give it.🔥 Topics We Explore:When a dream inspires and when it becomes sufferingThe difference between attachment and desireWhy denial can cause more pain than failureHow to spot when your ego is driving the dreamThe simple practice of asking, “Is that true?”The freedom of taking action without needing controlWhy the real magic is found in curiosity, not certainty💭 Reflective Prompt:Is there a dream you’ve been holding too tightly? What would happen if you let go of the story and simply went to see?🧠 Quote to Remember:“No story, no suffering.” 🌐 Produced in partnership with:www.podlad.com

If you’ve ever wondered why certain goals feel just out of reach, this conversation will open your eyes to a simple truth.Your subconscious decides what’s possible long before your conscious mind does and this is either the key or the barrier to creating the life you want.Lynnsey Robinson, certified hypnotherapist and host of High Vibin’ It, joins Al and Bilos to explore how the subconscious mind quietly runs the show. She explains that you are always succeeding at what your mind believes is safe. The work isn’t to push harder or do more. It’s to expand what your mind believes you’re allowed to experience. Lynnsey shows how rewiring limiting beliefs, reshaping inner safety, and aligning thought with possibility can completely change how life unfolds.You'll learn:• Why your subconscious sets the ceiling for your success• The link between safety, self-worth, and what we allow in• How hypnotherapy helps rewire limiting beliefs• Why affirmations and logic alone rarely change results• The difference between hustle and alignment• How to teach your mind that more is safe• Why “everything is possible and inevitable” isn’t just a phrase💭 Reflective Prompt:What if your goals aren’t blocked — they’re just waiting for your mind to believe they’re safe to have?🧠 Quote to Remember:“You are 100% successful at being exactly where your mind believes is safe.” — Lynnsey Robinson🌐 Connect with Lynnsey:Explore her work at:http://lynnseyrobinson.comDownload Align Your Mind App:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/align-your-mind/id6747592994Listen to Lynnsey's podcast High Vibin' It:https://www.lynnseyrobinson.com/high-vibin-itOther socials:https://www.instagram.com/lynnseyrobinson/https://www.tiktok.com/@lynnseyrobinsonThis podcast is prodced in partnership with: http://www.podlad.com

Most of us spend our lives avoiding two things — discomfort and death. Yet in that avoidance we miss the very liberation and beauty that are already here.In this conversation, returning guest BE Alink challenges the Western obsession with prolonging life and clinging to comfort. She shares how our fear of mortality has become a kind of cancer in society, keeping us trapped in consumption and distraction instead of waking us up to the simple truth — nothing is permanent, and that is what makes life so precious.From her own childhood loss to the insights of other cultures that celebrate death rather than fear it, BE points us back to the cyclical nature of life. Death is not the end. Discomfort is not a problem. Both are doorways to growth, creativity, and presence.If you have ever felt weighed down by fear of loss or trapped by the need to hold on, this conversation will help you see how letting go brings freedom.🔥 Topics We Explore:Why fear of death is the hidden illness of the WestThe connection between mortality, consumerism and unhappinessHow other cultures embrace death as part of lifeWhy friction and discomfort are essential for growthThe trap of materialism and legacy in Western thinkingHow letting go of attachments can free us to live fully now💭 Reflective Prompt:Where in your life are you avoiding discomfort or denying loss? What beauty might you see if you faced it instead of running from it?🧠 Quote to Remember:“If you don’t die, you don’t live.” — BE AlinkSubscribe to LIYB on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/@liveintoyourbrilliance🌐 Produced in partnership with:www.podlad.com

We have all had those moments when we snap at someone we love, stew over a comment at work, or replay an argument in our head and then wonder later, what was that really about.In this conversation with coach and community builder Marlene Mier, we explore the quiet truth most of us miss. Our reactions are rarely about the moment in front of us. They come from the stories we have been carrying for years. The labels, the judgments, the old conditioning. All of it shapes how we see others and how we see ourselves.The good news is that even one pause can interrupt the cycle. With a moment of stillness we move from reaction to response. From fear to curiosity. From the story we have told ourselves to the truth of what is here now.If you have ever felt hijacked by your emotions or misunderstood in your relationships this conversation is a reminder that peace is much closer than you think.🔥 Topics We Explore:Why our reactions are rarely about what is happening right nowHow old stories and labels distort the way we see othersThe practice of the sacred pause and the hot minute of stillnessLetting go of the need to be right in favor of being kindWhat it means to hold life lightly instead of gripping tightlyHow presence and curiosity can change any relationship💭 Reflective Prompt:Where in your life are you reacting to an old story instead of what is really happening. What would shift if you gave yourself a single pause before responding🧠 Quote to Remember:“Every moment is an opportunity. Are we willing to embrace it” — Marlene Mier🌐 Produced in partnership with:www.podlad.com

How often do you tell yourself, “I can’t because…”?In this episode, Al and Bilos go deep into the hidden power of self doubt and limiting beliefs through the context of choice, the choices available to us, the choices we make and the choices we don't make.The quiet narratives that convince us we’re stuck, when in reality we have far more choice than we realize and EVERYTHING is a choice.This is about rediscovering the inspiration, wisdom, and freedom that come when you see self-improvement not as fixing yourself, but as remembering what’s already true: you always have choice.🔥 Topics We Explore:• How “I can’t” is usually just fear disguised as fact• Why self doubt and limiting beliefs create invisible prisons• The difference between genuine needs and ego-driven wants• Practical self-improvement tips for breaking free of stuck thinking• How taking just five minutes of action can dissolve overwhelm• Why wisdom lives in holding things lightly, not gripping tightly• The surprising freedom that comes when you stop over-identifying with status, stuff, or roles💭 Reflective Prompt:Where are you saying “I can’t because…” in your life? What changes if you reframe it as “I choose not to…”?🧠 Quote to Remember:“The moment you hold all of your attachments lightly, you’ll realize you have all the choice in the world.”🌐 Produced in partnership with:http://www.podlad.com

What if the real power in life isn’t about fixing, controlling, or resisting — but simply accepting what is?In this intimate two-way conversation, Al and Bilos explore how acceptance can transform even the most frustrating or painful situations. From family struggles to everyday annoyances, they share raw, personal stories of catching themselves in resistance — and the surprising freedom that arrived the moment they let go.This isn’t about giving up. It’s about seeing clearly, softening your grip, and remembering that life is a game of snakes and ladders. Sometimes you hit a setback, sometimes you rise — but when you accept what shows up, you unlock the choice to play differently.If you’ve ever wondered how to navigate life without being ruled by fear or resistance, this episode is a reminder that acceptance is not weakness — it’s the doorway to wisdom, resilience, and freedom.🔥 Topics We Explore:Why acceptance makes problems dissolve (even when circumstances don’t change)The difference between experiencing life and choosing how to play the gameHow resistance amplifies suffering, while acceptance opens new possibilitiesWhy the most profound wisdom often hides in the mundaneSeeing life as a game of snakes and ladders — and why setbacks are part of the designMoving beyond “I don’t have a choice” to “I choose not to”💭 Reflective Prompt:Where in your life are you resisting reality? What might happen if you accepted it — fully, just as it is — without trying to change a thing?🧠 Quote to Remember:“Acceptance makes all my problems go away today.”🌐 Produced in partnership with:www.podlad.com