Mindfulness Mode

Amanda Goldman-Petri is an Online Marketing Coach and Speaker, She teaches her clients to work smarter, not harder. She’s a bit off the wall, a bit out of the box, and a whole lot nerdy. At least that’s what she calls her business, Market Like A Nerd. Amanda is passionate about helping people and sold on mindfulness. Contact InfoWebsite: www.MarketLikeANerd.com Facebook Group: The Balanced Entrepreneur (Join by going to www.marketlikeanerd/invite) Most Influential PersonMy husband Effect on EmotionsIt's allowed me to become more in control of them [my emotions]. Thoughts on BreathingI recognize my breath in an effort to to let negative thoughts and the outside world go away. Suggested ResourcesBook: No book App: No app (The OFF button lol) Advice for Newbie Practice acknowledging your feelings and the way that you're reacting to the things that are happening to you because the very first step to mindfulness is acknowledgement. Then from there you can get better at how you handle those feelings that you've just acknowledged. The very first thing is you have to start becoming aware of your words, your actions, your feelings, your state.

Shannon Cason is a writer and storyteller. He’s told stories on stages across the U.S. and has been featured on such top storytelling shows as The Moth and Snap Judgment. He’s also host and executive producer of WBEZ’s Homemade Stories - a collection of fiction and non-fiction stories with unique commentary. When you hear Shannon, you get a sense he’s just naturally mindful, lives in the moment, and likely doesn’t stress out too much. At least that’s my take. Contact InfoWebsite: www.ShannonCason.com (Signup for my newsletter) Podcast: Homemade Stories Most Influential PersonEasy Rawlins (Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is a fictional character created by mystery author Walter Mosley. Rawlins is an African-American private investigator, a hard-boiled detective and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. - from Wikipedia) Effect on EmotionsI have more control over my emotions. More lucid to think before I act. Thoughts on BreathingI have to control my breathing because I do breathe hard and I've noticed that I control my breathing more. I do breathing exercises but I can't get into them. My wife will tell me, why are you breathing like that, so I am mindful about how I breathe. Suggested ResourcesBook: by Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Steven Covey App: Google Calendar and my physical To-Do List Advice for Newbie I would ask them, "is what you're doing working?" Maybe you need to do a little less. Maybe you need to be mindful of all these things you're trying to accomplish; where is it going? A lot of times you can be so busy doing a bunch of stuff, but then where's all this stuff going? I used to work with people like that. Why are they that busy? Are they just trying to look busy? Putting the rubber to the road is the more important thing. Sometimes it doesn't take as much as you might think it might take. Be mindful of your plan and your strategy to get there.

Jake Heilbrunn is an author and inspiration to youth everywhere. He has written for Psychology Today, Thought Catalog and Pick the Brain and has also written his own book called, Off the Beaten Trail. Jake writes a blog post every Wednesday for his blog, Eyes Fully Open and he's also a passionate speaker. At the age of 19, Jake has already achieved successes only dreamt about by much older authors. Contact InfoWebsite: www.JakeHeilbrunn.com Blog: Eyes Fully Open Most Influential PersonEffect on EmotionsIt's definitely been a huge way for me to process difficult emotions. I think it was definitely easier for me to just ignore difficult emotions, but mindfulness has allowed me to just sit with those emotions so I can fully deal with them as opposed to just ignoring them. Thoughts on BreathingBreathing is a huge part of my mindfulness practice. Whether it's surfing or working out or doing occasional transformational breathing classes or just sitting at home, breath allows me to lift weights or run more or if I'm sitting at home it allows me to facilitate getting into that state where I'm at that peaceful sense of mind. Suggested ResourcesBook: Man's Search For Meaning By Victor Frankl App: Headspace

Diane Daniels is a professional speaker and host of two podcasts, Weight Loss Nation & Medicare Nation. She has spoken on many radio programs including The Senior Voice Radio show (Tampa), The Bev Smith Radio Show (Washington D.C.) and The Financial Survival Network with Kerry Lutz. In the area of health care, Diane collaborates with politicians and national associations to advocate for her clients. Diane is determined to lose weight and she decided to build a team and start a podcast to not only inspire others, but also to be inspired. She is chatting with me today as she continues on this weight loss journey. She has currently lost 25 pounds. Contact InfoWebsite: www.TheWeightlossNation.com Email: support@TheWeightlossNation.com Podcast: Weightloss Nation Most Influential PersonJJ Flizanes (Fit2Love Podcast and Resources) [show-notes-influence] Effect on EmotionsNow if I have frustration or anxiety, I do not have to reach for food. I just sit for a moment, and think, why am I feeling this way. I just stay in this moment and then I realize what it is. Then I see if I can solve this problem. I stay in the moment and try to realize what it is. Thoughts on BreathingI am learning to improve in this area. I am good about taking in a deep breath and letting it out. If I am frustrated or have anxiety, I will just sit take a deep breath and let it out slowly for a few seconds. It's amazing how that feeling [of anxiety or frustration] dissipates. Suggested ResourcesBook: Plant Based Diets For Maximum Focus and Energy by Suzanna McGee App: My Diet Diary Advice for Newbie The first thing they have to do is admit that they're having an issue and they don't know what to do about it. You have to admit you have some kind of issue. Once you admit it, then you are open to looking for a solution and you're open for help. Once you've done that, like I did, then you can look out there and find someone else who's in the same situation as you. Someone who has the same like mindedness, who needs to do the same things. Whether you join a Facebook group, or you go online and participate in a program like Weight-Loss Nation or other types of programs. Find someone else who can be your buddy and can help each of you be accountable on your journey. 

Jean Caton is a business coach specializing in helping women who are emerging leaders in STEM related careers. STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Jean blazed the trail as a women in Corporate America, specifically New York City in the 1980's. She finds that women moving into this STEM space can find the transition to be particularly challenging. Jean is also an expert at helping her clients establish confidence and she partners with professionals to help develop strategies for managing tough situations, difficult people, and high levels of overwhelm. Contact InfoWebsite: www.CoachJeanCaton.com Facebook/ColorMyWorldConfident Podcast: Color My World Confident Most Influential PersonBruce Langford and Eckhart Tolle Effect on EmotionsIt has calmed that intensity big time. I'm much more at ease with what I'm doing. Even if I'm busy and there's a lot going on I do it in a more easy way, just more flow. I have more calm and more flow. If I do start speeding in the mind, and going somewhere else, I know I can call on that and come back to it. Even just in my mind, I'm in the car, or with all the people or whatever, they don't know what's going on in my mind. I just focus a little bit on my breath and calm myself back down and reduce that intensity, kind of on the go. Thoughts on BreathingI just focus a little bit on my breath and calm myself back down and reduce that intensity, kind of on the go. Suggested ResourcesBook: Presence by Aimee Cuddy App: IPhone Timer (I set a nice quiet chime to go off) Advice for Newbie The most important thing is that if you are a woman experiencing overwhelm, you need to do something for yourself. The first thing you may say is, 'I don't have the time'. People get on a vicious cycle with looking after their children, husband, demanding job. Women have taken on these really big jobs in the last twenty or thirty years, but they didn't take away very much. They still try to be the perfect wife/mother and homemaker. I would say you must make time for your mindfulness and find a resource, listen to the Mindfulness Mode Podcast, or find any other mindfulness website or resource and just try it. Make the time. A lot of women do yoga, or other kinds of moving meditations or swimming. This will pay back a hundred fold. Suggested Resources Free Download - The 5 Mistakes Women Make That Cause Their Careers to Fail. Get it at www.CoachJeanCaton.com Free 30 Minute Sample Coaching with Jean after downloading the above. Get it at www.CoachJeanCaton.com

Michael Glover works in the field of Holistic Health. He brings everything together into one whole package, including nutrition, sleep, stress management and the mental side that holds so many of us back. Michael is adamant that it takes way more than just a diet to make you a healthy person. Michael has been an introverted kind of guy most of his life, but he has a unique, off the wall sense of humor which means you’ll remember the concepts he teaches because of his very funny personality. Michael is also super mindful in his life and he integrates mindfulness into his health passion. Contact InfoWebsite: www.IAmMichaelGlover.com Facebook.com/TheMGlover Podcast: Enlightened Entrepreneurial Badasses Most Influential PersonPaul Chek, author of How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy Effect on EmotionsMy emotions have been effect very positively. It's enabled me to believe that it's ok to express my emotions and not to suppress everything. Now I know it's not weak of me to have these emotions. I'm still a man, even though I might express emotion. Thoughts on BreathingBreathing is what I use to keep myself focused on the present moment. It's a huge part of our health. If we have a poor breathing pattern, it can screw up a whole host of other things. Breathing is the only thing we can concentrate on right now, and it just reminds us that it's happening right now. I imagine my breath and I imagine the little particles of air going in and spreading throughout my body. This brings me to the present moment and to what's going on inside my body. Suggested ResourcesBook: How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy by Paul Chek App: www.Brain.fm (This is a website, they don't have an actual app yet)

Aimee J. is a software developer, podcaster, speaker, and Chief Dream Chaser on the Chasing Dreams podcast.  Aimee began podcasting in 2013 and has launched multiple podcasts including Revisiting Haven, which discusses the TV show, Haven. This project took Aimee to Nova Scotia, Canada to interview the cast & crew of Haven on location. With her latest podcast, Chasing Dreams, Aimee is working to inspire and motivate people to chase their own dreams. Aimee believes that it is important to live without regret and as such, you need to make moves, take a chance, and chase your dreams. Contact InfoWebsite: www.ChasingDreamsHQ.com Twitter & Instagram: AimeeJ21 Facebook: official.AimeeJ21 Podcast: Chasing Dreams Most Influential PersonMy Dad Effect on EmotionsMindfulness sets my mindset for the day. It can either settle it, or by not doing it, be anxious. Thoughts on BreathingIt's a good thing to do on a day-to-day basis. When overwhelmed, I take some time to just take deep breaths and let it out. I don't do it in public, I'll just step to the side and give myself time to reset. Suggested ResourcesBook: Creating Magic Lee Cockerell (This is a wonderful book on leadership, but I recommend it for everyone) App: Wonderlist or Things or Fantastical (Any kind of To-Do list as a productivity assistant) Advice for Newbie Take it one moment at a time, meaning reflect upon yourself. Don't try to take on the whole world. Don't try to take on more than you should. Start with something simple, something you know. Try being mindful of yourself. What is your state of being, what is your world like at that moment and then go from there.

Andrea Klunder is a Meditation Facilitator for startup companies & creative individuals. She is the founder of Peace & Play Yoga for kiddos & grownups. Andrea integrates her background in music, theater and creativity to engage her students in a playful experience of peaceful practices, to help them become more mindful in their day-to-day living. Andrea is also Host of The Creative Impostor Podcast, a show all about how to get out of your head and take bold action.  This show is all about dealing with that inner voice which says, “Who do you think you are? You can’t do THAT!” Contact InfoWebsite: www.TheCreativeImposter.com Facebook: AndreaKlunder.Creative Podcast: The Creative Imposter Most Influential PersonSean Johnson of Wild Lotus Yoga and the Wild Lotus Band Effect on EmotionsIt's [mindfulness] definitely helped me to not have so many peaks and valleys. I would say my first bout of depression that I ever had in my early thirties, when I closed my first business, a yoga studio which I had for five years, it really helped me to recognize that depression which was showing up for the first time ever in my life and to be able to experience it and move through it rather than getting sucked down into it. Thoughts on BreathingBreathing is so important. When I originally was studying vocal music, we spent a lot of time in music classes learning how to breathe so that we can produce a certain quality of sound. When I stopped studying music, I sort of lost that connection to my breath. Coming back to the yoga and meditation practice, I was able to reconnect to that as the quickest tool to drop into when I find myself in a tricky situation. Suggested ResourcesBook: How To Train A Wild Elephant by Jan Chozen Bays (It includes 52 exercises, one for each week of the year) App: Podcast App (To listen to Podcasts like Mindfulness Mode to help me stay in the mode) Advice for Newbie I would say to just resist the urge to get frustrated. I think there's a tendency to feel you're not doing it right or other people are doing it better than you or you're never going to be able to fit it in with all of the other things that you're doing. If you can just acknowledge that right in that moment as you're having the awareness that you feel frustrated, that you've just become more mindful in that moment of having that awareness of frustration. It's sort of like success.

Michelle Dutro is a Biofeedback Specialist and and is certified as a Life Coach in Strategic Intervention. She is also a Wellness Consultant, Hypnotherapist and Yoga Instructor. Michelle Dutro has figured out her life’s purpose, which is ‘to inspire you to believe that your life truly represents limitless possibility. She especially loves working with those who are living without a voice. Contact InfoWebsite: www.InnerNorthStar.com Podcast: The Game Changer Social Media FB, Twitter, SnapChat: Inner North Star Most Influential PersonDr. Richard Millar - founder of irest, yoga nidra a form of guided meditation. Effect on EmotionsMindfulness allows you to go from being reactionary to responding and there's a very big difference between the two. Mindfulness allows you to stay present, not react, come from the right place and not be triggered by past events that have nothing to do with the moment that you're currently in. Thoughts on BreathingBreathing is a connectedness. It helps us to realize our thoughts that impact our breathing, when we're under stress. [Our breathing becomes] very shallow and rapid. When we control our breathing we control our body; we control our thoughts. It's a connectedness that we're all one, we're all whole, we are connected to the rest of the world in that same way. It's kind of a centering and a grounding practice that when things get a little bit lucy-goosy, focus on the breath, come back into your being and then start again. Suggested ResourcesBook: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn App: Meditation Timer

Khaled Ghorab is passionate about relationships. He knows that healthy relationships make for happier people and in the workplace they boost productivity and ultimately the bottom line. Khaled calls himself a systems thinker and has worked as a consultant and coach as well as a leader of workshops. After traveling the world, reading hundreds of books, meeting tens of thousands of people and learning from the best mentors, Khaled feels aligned with himself and his mission and is determined to share with the world. Contact InfoWebsite: www.KhaledGhorab.com Facebook: facebook.com/KhaledGhorabOfficial SnapChat: GKappa Most Influential PersonMy Dad Effect on EmotionsIt keeps them in check. I feel like I have a deck of cards, some of these are emotions, some of these are thoughts. When I'm in mindfulness mode, I know which card to pull out. Thoughts on BreathingI breathe from my belly. I learned something from Anthony Robbins called Priming, where I have to breathe rapidly from my belly to reach a very quiet place inside of me. This is something I practice in the morning. It is very powerful. Suggested ResourcesBook: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle App: Calm (One of the most beautiful apps I've ever tried) Advice for Newbie Mindfulness is a gateway to pure love. If you want to find that out, find out what's important to you first. Then you will open everything else up.