Gratitude Blooming Podcast

Send us a textIn this episode, we sit down with Ariel Loh, the composer and producer behind Window Seat, to discuss his newest album, The Garden of Healing. This album is a collaboration with Gratitude Blooming and was inspired by the themes and art from our beautiful card deck. We discuss the 10 themes of the album, which range from Forgiveness to Patience, and how each piece of music reflects the intention behind each theme.Ariel also shares with us his creative process, which involves utilizing a variety of instruments and found sounds to create a unique and immersive sound. We discuss the power of music in promoting mindfulness and introspection, and how The Garden of Healing can serve as a tool for listeners to connect with themselves and nature.Join us as we celebrate the release of The Garden of Healing on the 2023 Spring Equinox and delve into the world of ambient music and mindfulness with Ariel Loh. Listen on Apple, Spotify or wherever you find your music. This is the first of four music collabs. Enjoy! --- Create an intentional practice with your own Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candle and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com. Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4: Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao CenterIf you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review. Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow. Share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at hello@gratitudeblooming.com. We love hearing from our listeners!

Send us a textThis week, we sit down with Adam Rosendahl, the founder and CEO of Late Nite Art, to explore the theme of Celebration through the metaphor of a bouquet of flowers. Adam reflects on his journey into facilitation and art, including a transformative experience of being blessed as a baby by a monk who noticed that he had "the hands of an artist".Adam also discusses the power of art and music to help people feel seen and connected, and how Late Nite Art uses an arts-based methodology to support teams from all industries to improve their creative confidence and break routine ways of thinking. He emphasizes the importance of pro-activism and creating experiences that make people feel deeply connected, seen, and supported.Throughout the episode, Adam shares his insights on how to tune our instruments to be in harmony with the world around us and how to move beyond the first step of learning to truly embody and live out our values. This episode is a reminder to celebrate the things that bring us joy and connection, and to use our creativity to build a better world.Enjoy our closing reflection question to help you explore what you'd like to be celebrating in 10, 40 or even 100 years from now! Here's more on Adam and where to explore his work!Adam Rosendahl is an internationally renowned facilitator, team engagement expert, and the founder of Late Nite Art®, a connection and creativity firm based in San Francisco. He works with the world’s top companies to create transformational learning events that help teams take more risks and build meaningful relationships. At its core, his work is about humanizing people beyond the roles they play at work. Over the past 10 years, Adam has led 500+ events, impacting 10,000+ people across 15 countries. His clients include Pixar, Instagram, and Southwest Airlines – as well as prisons, schools, and nonprofits across the globe.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamrosendahl/IG: https://www.instagram.com/theadamrosendahl/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adameliasrosendahl/TEDx Talk:--- Create an intentional practice with your own Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candle and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com. Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4: Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao CenterIf you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review. Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow. Share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at hello@gratitudeblooming.com. We love hearing from our listeners!

Send us a textIn this episode, we have a captivating conversation with Jim Herr on the theme of curiosity. Jim discusses the importance of self-reflection, looking behind the curtain we create, and questioning who we are. He shares his personal journey of self-discovery and how he overcame the fear of being an imposter or not being good enough. Jim highlights the significance of recognizing our own power and, like Spiderman, the responsibility that comes with it. He shares how he found his purpose in leading an initiative for democracy preservation at the Japanese American National Museum and ensuring that no one is left behind. Join us as we explore the beauty and challenges of self-reflection and making room for those who may not agree with us.--- Create an intentional practice with your own Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candle and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com. Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4: Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao CenterIf you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review. Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow. Share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at hello@gratitudeblooming.com. We love hearing from our listeners!

Send us a textIn this episode, we are joined by Emily Golding, Executive Director of Amplifier, a nonprofit design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of our times. Together, we explore the Gratitude Blooming theme of Choice, represented by the spring rose. Emily shares her journey of embodying choice, teaching the joy of choice, and leaning into how ideas incubate in young people.  She also discusses the concept of time dignity and how it impacts our well-being with a focus on the importance of setting boundaries and saying "no" in order to create space for our "yes." Emily shares her personal story with balancing work and motherhood, and the importance of taking time for ourselves to nurture our well-being. She also explores the challenges faced by the younger generation, including eco-anxiety and the pressure to constantly be "doing," and offers insights into how we can create a more fulfilling and purposeful life. Read more about Emily and her work here:As an Irish/Latina native of the eastside of Los Angeles, Emily is keenly interested in how the stories we tell shape our collective identity. In her 10+ years in the social impact space, she has collaborated with philanthropists, artists, activists, technologists, journalists, and scholars to launch large-scale media, art, theatre, dance, and film projects that expand our notion of public life. To date, Emily has secured over 17 million in funding from over 100 grantors spanning from the Knight Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of State, and global brands like Johnson & Johnson, The North Face, and Louis Vuitton for projects across the United States and Latin America. Program partners have included the U.N., the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, Facebook, and ViacomCBS.Emily is the Executive Director of Amplifier, a design lab that amplifies the most important social movements of our times. Prior to Amplifier, Emily spent seven years running the national grantwriting and comms firm Girasol Consulting, and served as a writing professor at Occidental College. She has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Folk and Traditional Arts grants program and spoken about narrative shift and culture change work at Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, and on ABC and FOX news. Her writings on politics and culture have been published by Zocalo Public Square and by Harvard University and New York University journals. Emily holds a master’s degree in Journalism from Georgetown University and an undergraduate degree in Modern Literature from UC Santa Cruz. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, creative writing, vegan nachos, and adventures in revolutionary motherhood!--- Create an intentional practice with your own Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candle and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com. Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4: Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao CenterIf you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review. Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow. Share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at hello@gratitudeblooming.com. We love hearing from our listeners!

Send us a textHow do you handle "life mountains?" In this inspiring episode, we sit down with Georgina Miranda, a mountaineer, athlete, social entrepreneur, and explorer. Georgina shares her journey and how it led her to discover the power of mindset and inner strength. She discusses the challenges she faced, including climbing Mt. Everest and the implosion of a previous business venture. Georgina learned that life will give you lessons and the lessons will only get harder if you don't listen.  She shares her thoughts on grieving the disappointments in life, the significance of awareness in creating change, and the harmony between humanity and nature. Join us as we explore the wild truth of life's mountains.   We hope Georgina's story inspires you to tap into your own inner strength and find balance in your own journey.  Try out our closing practice on returning to your personal basecamp at home or in nature! --- Create an intentional practice with your own Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candle and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com. Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4: Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao CenterIf you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review. Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow. Share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at hello@gratitudeblooming.com. We love hearing from our listeners!

Send us a textIn this episode, we dive into our relationship with the natural world through the Gratitude Blooming theme of community, represented by the Bleeding Heart flower. Our guest, Ryland Engelhart, co-founder of Kiss the Ground, shares his thoughts on how we can improve our relationship with nature by spending time and attention on it. He invites us to imagine building a relationship with nature like having good friends, and emphasizes the importance of tending to and reveling in the living world. Join us as we discuss the significance of putting time and attention into our relationship with nature and learn how it can bring joy and fulfillment to our lives.The nonprofit Kiss the Ground is on a mission to awaken people to the possibilities of regeneration and the name of their organization was inspired by this Rumi poem. Today, like every other day,we wake up empty and frightened.Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading.Take down a musical instrument.Let the beauty we love be what we do.There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.- Rumi, 13th centuryLearn more about Kiss the Ground at https://kisstheground.com and watch their film on Netflix. We hope you enjoy the closing practice of nurturing quality time with a fresh cut flower or potted plant inspired by Ryland's own relationship with nature! --- Create an intentional practice with your own Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candle and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com. Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4: Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao CenterIf you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review. Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow. Share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at hello@gratitudeblooming.com. We love hearing from our listeners!

Send us a textThis week, we interview Katrina Spade, the founder of Recompose, a company that provides funeral service by composting the dead. Inspired by the Gratitude Blooming Wildcard - Lilac, Katrina shares her personal journey and experiences that led her to this work, including her childhood growing up in rural New Hampshire and her background in architecture and design. She explains how composting and gardening were a part of her early awareness of the cycles of life and death, and how her work with Recompose is focused on creating a more natural and sustainable way of dealing with death. She also talks about the challenges and successes of starting and growing her business, as well as the legal and societal hurdles she faced in this field. Additionally, she shares her thoughts on the funeral service industry and its impact on the environment and the rising conversation around end-of-life and climate change grief. The goal of Recompose is to make composting the default solution and to create a gathering of community to legalize and prove that it is safe. With this in mind, Katrina aims to make the entire experience, including decomposing human bodies, beautiful and to create rich topsoil in 30-60 days.Enjoy our closing practice on thinking about your own legacy and what you want to consciously leave behind!--- Create an intentional practice with your own Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candle and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com. Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4: Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao CenterIf you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review. Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow. Share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at hello@gratitudeblooming.com. We love hearing from our listeners!

Send us a textIn this episode of the podcast, "Impermanence - embracing loss," we dedicate it to our beloved podcast producer, Brian Vasquez, who recently passed away. Brian was a self-taught and Grammy-nominated audio producer who never forgot the magic of audio and had a deep appreciation for the craft. He will always be remembered for his love for sound and storytelling. Brian’s love for audio began at two years old with his first Fisher-Price cassette recorder. On any given day, this small wonder of technology gave his imagination permission to run wild as a sportscaster, a preacher or a musician. He would always remind us that “sound is eternal.” We also feature our conversation with Karen Mack, the founder of LA Commons, an arts organization that helps communities tell their stories and artists create dynamic works of public art, including with nature. Karen shares her insights on how art and community work together to create meaning, and how technology can both connect and disconnect us from each other. She also reflects on the importance of imagination and the beauty of nature. We hope you enjoy the closing practice of listening with presence as a way to cherish the relationships that truly matter to you!Support for Brian Vasquez’s family can be made here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/lets-rally-for-brians-battle-against-leukemia--- Create an intentional practice with your own Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candle and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com. Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4: Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao CenterIf you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review. Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow. Share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at hello@gratitudeblooming.com. We love hearing from our listeners!

Send us a textIn this podcast episode, Belinda Liu and Omar Brownson sit down with the multi-talented Kameron Green to talk about her relationship to time and how she uses this time of year to reflect on her accomplishments, set intentions, and create an ongoing practice for the new year. Kameron shares how the pandemic has changed her, both personally and professionally, and how she has shifted her focus on self care, reprioritized her values, and let go of things that no longer serve her. She also talks about finding joy in the work that she does, and how that has helped her to love her jobs in philanthropy and in the entertainment industry. Join us for an inspiring and thought-provoking conversation about how to make the most of the time we have.Kameron Green is a multi-talented professional who wears many hats. As the Vice President of Professional Learning & Family Philanthropy at Southern California Grantmakers, she plays a significant leadership role in developing and implementing programs that enable members to increase their knowledge, skills, competencies, and networks. Additionally, Kameron is also a radio personality and producer, currently hosting the “Radio-Free Top 23 Countdown,” and co-hosting the Stellar Award-winning show, “Spread the Word,” on 102.3 Radio Free KJLH-FM and worldwide at kjlhradio.com. With a background in education and marketing, she is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, with a B.A. in Mass Media Communications. Kameron is passionate about mentoring young people of color and inspiring them to dream with purpose.Arlene's story of destiny this week was inspired by this song of Dido: https://youtu.be/f3DFaIovZxcAnnie Lennox and London City Voices perform a choral version of ‘Dido’s Lament’ taken from the 10th Anniversary Edition of ‘A Christmas Cornucopia’--- Create an intentional practice with your own Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candle and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com. Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4: Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao CenterIf you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review. Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow. Share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at hello@gratitudeblooming.com. We love hearing from our listeners!

Send us a textJoin us for a special episode of the Gratitude Blooming Podcast as we explore the theme of forgiveness with author and optimist Simon Sinek. In this captivating conversation, we delve into Simon's personal and professional experiences with forgiveness and how it has impacted his life. Simon also shares his thoughts on the concept of heartfulness as the new mindfulness and offers some valuable advice on embracing chaos and finding direction without a map. As we enter the new year, this episode is particularly relevant as we reflect on how we want to show up and what we want to experience in the coming year. The anemone flower represents the theme of forgiveness in the Gratitude Blooming card deck. Remember, forgiveness can be one of the greatest gifts we give or receive. Take some time to consider how you can express gratitude for being forgiven.--- Create an intentional practice with your own Gratitude Blooming card deck, notecards, candle and much much more at our shop at www.gratitudeblooming.com. Learn more about our co-hosts and special guest for Season 4: Co-host Belinda Liu | Hestia Retreat Centers Co-host Omar Brownson | Trickster's Guide to Immortality on Substack Special Guest Dr. Paul Wang | The Dao CenterIf you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to leave us a 5-star rating and review. Your feedback is valuable to us and helps us grow. Share your thoughts and comments by emailing us at hello@gratitudeblooming.com. We love hearing from our listeners!