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In this episode, I sat down with Celebrity Nutrition Expert and Fitness Hall of Famer, JJ Virgin. JJ has launched over 10 businesses, is a 2-time Inc 5000 Founder, and is recognized as an authority on transformational leadership, a Top Ten Finalist for the John C. Maxwell Award, as well as winner of the Mindshare Summit Pinnacle award. Her current endeavors include Founder of The Mindshare Collaborative, the most influential professional community in health.Book available HERE.She also founded her successful personal brand, JJ Virgin & Associates, as well as co-founding The Unicorn Club, a group for women entrepreneurs with 7- to 9-figure businesses. JJ is a prominent TV and media personality, whose previous features include co-host of TLC’s Freaky Eaters, 2 years as the on-camera nutritionist for Weight Loss Challenges on Dr. Phil, and numerous appearances on PBS, Dr. Oz, Rachael Ray, Access Hollywood, and the TODAY Show. She speaks regularly and has shared the stage with notables including Seth Godin, Lisa Nichols, Gary Vaynerchuk, Mark Hyman, Dan Buettner, and Mary Morrissey. JJ is the author of four NY Times bestsellers: The Virgin Diet, The Virgin Diet Cookbook, JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet, and JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet Cookbook. Her book, Warrior Mom: 7 Secrets to Bold, Brave Resilience, shows mothers everywhere how to be strong, positive leaders for their families, while exploring the inspirational lessons JJ learned as she fought for her own son's life. JJ also hosts two popular podcasts, Mindcast for health experts and entrepreneurs and Reignite Wellness with health tips for consumers, with over 5.5 million downloads and counting. She teaches her clients how to break through food and carb intolerances, so they can finally lose the weight to transform their health and their lives. She also regularly writes for Rodale Wellness, Mind Body Green, and other major blogs and magazines. Her most important role is as mom of two budding entrepreneurial young men.Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll hear:JJ’s lifelong obsession with nutrition and healthy eating. Growing up engaged in the theater world got her really interested in the nutrition space to stay healthy and fit for her dancing career. She shifted from teaching dance and calisthenics to settle on aerobics, and that’s how she ended up becoming a personal trainer when there wasn’t even a name for it. It’s in that space that she really quickly realized that someone cannot out-exercise a bad diet and so she had to dive deeper into studying nutrition. Find out more at 02:40You know how we all think that if someone wants to lose weight they need to eat less, exercise more, and create a 500 calorie deficit, and all that? Well, that’s all wrong and JJ will bust that untruth big time. How to successfully lose weight boils down to weight training to build more muscle which requires more energy to be on the body and improves insulin sensitivity, and also enables the body to burn fat much more easily. Go to 06:05 to learn more about that.Why grazing is super rotten for you. If you want to be younger and live longer, you have to have good insulin sensitivity, and JJ couldn’t stress this enough. When you eat, your body’s blood sugar goes up and your pancreas secretes insulin to bring blood sugar back down because when it’s up it’s toxic to your body. If not properly balanced, it all leads to diabetes, weight gain, and all around unhealthiness. Here’s a tip JJ shares, “Try getting a little hungry and if you feel hungry, take some water, and wait. Then when you get really hungry, eat something” Listen in at 09:53 for some more enlightenment on that.The Virgin Diet and how it helps in losing weight. There are a lot of things that cause weight loss resistance (the inability to lose weight) including genetics, menopause, thyroid problems, stress, lack of sleep, and gut issues. One of the ways to lose weight is by figuring out your hidden food intolerances from leaky gut. You can also try intermittent fasting or a ketogenic diet, but you have to get ready for it gradually instead of starting immediately. Go to 18:32 to get all the actionable advice from JJ on how to lose weight by figuring out your food intolerances.The 7 foods that you should avoid if you wanna lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Gluten is the worst culprit of them all. It makes you more insulin resistant, makes your gut more leaky, and is just horrendously bad for your blood sugar, your gut, and of course, keeps you from losing any weight . Another culprit at the top of the list is dairy and eggs especially because we get factory processed dairy products and eggs. The best way to go when it comes to those two foods is to get them from grass fed or pastured animals. Goat or sheep’s milk is also much better than cow’s milk. Learn more about the rest of the foods you should avoid at 30:55.Working on your longest term relationship; your relationship with food. One of the most important things you can do to adopt better eating habits is to connect the dots between what you eat, how you feel, and what you weigh. And JJ’s virgin diet will help you do just that by helping you design an eating program that will work for you in the long haul. Find out more at 40:43Learn more about how you can massively change your life with the right diet HERE Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. 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In this episode, I had a chat with Lisa Winston about how she overcame insurmountable odds to learn how to go deeper and surrender to what is, and build a relationship with her intuition. Lisa is a gifted vocalist, intuitive mindset strategist, #1 international bestselling author of “Your Turning Point,” TV host and inspirational speaker. A life of extreme challenges, including losing her home to wildfire and breast cancer, made her hungry for a deeper connection to Source and determined to find her true calling. Book available HERE.Lisa has produced many influential global summits and is also featured on online summits, national radio, podcasts and trainings. Late 2019, she was featured on her first magazine cover for The Global Voice. She co-hosts and produces The Mindset Reset TV Show, a weekly series which reaches millions worldwide. Lisa is so grateful to be mom to her beautiful daughter, Sarah, and to live, teach, and speak across the globe with her soulmate and life partner, Dr. Joe Vitale. She enjoys sharing the message that life is always happening for you and challenges are sent to refine, not define you. Stay tuned to learn how your intuition can help you get through the dark times we’re living in now and go on to achieve your biggest desires in life. Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll hear:How losing her house to a wild fire in just 10 minutes and being diagnosed with breast cancer two months later taught her how to die to self, only for life to hit her again with the loss of her parents. A ton of other challenging things have happened in her life, but the last straw was when she collapsed and was diagnosed with neuro lyme disease that she had had for 50 years, but was only getting hit by it because her immune system had gone down. Talk about life pushing you to the breaking point. Go to 02:22 to learn how she came out of that dark time to get to a deeper place of surrender.The power of awareness and GIVING IN to the things that suck the joy out of our lives instead of just GIVING UP. That’s what surrender is all about. Because with surrender, we still have the power to choose where we go from whatever difficult situation we’re in, so we can come out of it stronger. Find out more at 05:45.The difficult transformation we’re going through right now and why we shouldn’t allow ourselves to go into victim mode. While it’s critical to stay productive during this time, you don't have to be perfect at it. You can sit back and just be, and allow yourself to feel whatever emotions are flowing in you. Lisa sees the current pandemic as a painful transformation that we have to embrace as something that’s happening for us rather than against us. Hear more on that at 10:11Lisa’s point of view on attachment is super mind blowing. We as human beings get so attached to the people in our lives and everything that we have, and it’s near impossible to let go of that attachment, but the best way to let go of those attachments is to view the people and the things as gifts that we’ve been given for a limited time. None of us are going to leave this life with any of the people and things we have, so what’s the point of holding on? Right? Hear more at 20:23Saying yes and walking intuitively through listening to your inner guidance. Why is that necessary you ask? Because your inner guidance will never steer you wrong. A lot of us don’t listen to our inner guidance (intuition) and that makes us miss out on a lot of gifts that could come our way. Start by saying yes to your possibilities and opportunities, and you’ll witness tons of synchronicities working towards getting where you need to be. Learn how you can build a relationship with your inner guidance at 35:29.Hear more of Lisa’s life changing insights on intuition HERE Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest this week is Sonia Choquette, an intuitive guide, spiritual teacher, author, and speaker. About SoniaSonia Choquette is a globally celebrated and dynamic spiritual teacher, six-sensory consultant, enchanting storyteller, and transformational visionary guide, known for her delightful humor and skill in quickly shifting people out of difficulty and into flow to reconnect with their spirit, guides, and inner vibes. Over the course of forty years, she has become a world-renowned intuitive guide and spiritual teacher. Sonia is the author of 27 New York Times or International best sellers, and her books have been published in 37 languages and 40 countries, and have been read by over one million people.Sonia's work has been featured on Hay House radio, Oprah radio, Inc., ABC, FOX, Shape, Gaiam, and Wall Street Journal Live. Her teachings have attracted the love and admiration of nearly 500,000 social media followers and over 100,000 course students from all over the world.She is inspiring a globally conscious movement around the truth that "We, as humans, are Divine Beings endowed with SIX senses to guide us through life" and insists that we must activate and rely on our innate sixth sense in order to make the most authentic, well-informed, healthy, and soul satisfying decisions possible. Her mission is to help others feel whole by using all of their senses to create a life that is intuitively guided, empowered, authentic, and meaningful. Join her Good Vibe Tribe Community today to get support and learn how you can trust your vibes. Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/In this Episode We Canvas:The Widespread Desire for Intuition Our world has been moving too fast for our logic brains to keep up, and that has activated the desire for intuition in people all over the world. The internet for example is a very intuitive model where we draw resources simultaneously from all parts of the world. In an interview of 100 of the top CEOs in the world, the CEOs were asked what they attributed their success to and they all said their intuition, but they all admitted that they wouldn’t want that to be public knowledge. All that is changing now because intuition is an essential tool in today’s world. “Intuition is an essential tool in today’s world” - Sonia ChoquetteIntuition Versus InstinctThere are three levels of intuition, namely, red light intuition, green light intuition, and yellow light intuition. Red light intuition is instinct, the part of us that is oriented towards survival. That is where we get bad vibes and feelings in our gut. Instinct is how a lot of people experience intuition for the first time. Green light intuition is the opportunity intuition where someone feels something is a good idea and they go for it even when everyone advises against taking the risk. The yellow light or pause intuition is what causes us to wait before making a move on something. The red light is in our belly, the green light in our heart, and the yellow light is just a general inability to lock into any strong feeling. The way that someone can tap into their intuition is by feeling physically.“Intuition is not language, it’s energy” - Sonia ChoquetteEnding the Elusiveness of IntuitionUntil the age of reason, intuition was very prevalent, but science and technology kicked in and brought about patriarchy where external father figures told people how to live their lives. Personal self direction was discouraged and attacke, but over time that system has been imploding and people have been slowly realizing that blindly following others is no guarantee that life will be good and as expected. With the current Coronavirus pandemic, the whole system has now collapsed, and the only way forward is for people to go back to “self”. The intuitive system that will come up will be all about collaboration and co-creation. Intuition will likely become a part of our new value system and will even be introduced in schools.“Intuition will become a main part of our new value system” - Sonia ChoquetteSpirit as Intuition’s GuideSpirit is not about religion. It’s the life force that we are, the divine part of us, and the holy essence that gives each human being an existence. That spirit energy that we all share is holy and it’s our guiding light. Everywhere in the world, everybody understands what spirit is because it’s our essence.“Religion is an outer form of thinking imposed upon us” - Sonia ChoquetteIntuition and AuthenticityThere’s a parallel between the two that most people cannot draw. Authenticity, which comes from the word author, is all about the individual writing the script of their life and creating their story, while intuition on the other hand means “inner teacher” which means that our inner self is our resource of learning and guiding. The world is depressed right now because we have abandoned ourselves and trusted external authorities.“Depression is a gift to alert us that we have migrated away from our true nature” - Sonia ChoquetteHer Big Aha with Intuition  Intuition has always come naturally to her and the moment she realized it was unique to her was when she went to school. She also got a lot of it from her family because her mother was very intuitive and one’s intuition in their family was considered the most important check-in point. She has always felt vibes and been aware of spirit guides. Realizing everyone was not as intuitive as her, she felt challenged to help people learn how they can be intuitive so they can create a better life for themselves. “You can’t get by very well without your intuition, you need it, it’s not negotiable” - Sonia ChoquetteThe Meaning of Inspired EvolutionSonia will refer to the meaning of Inspire (To pull your spirit in) and Evolution (To improve, get better, and go to the next level), and so she therefore feels that an inspired evolution means pulling our spirit in, going to the next level of expression, and creating from the spirit without limiting it. “Let the spirit take over and see how beautiful your life can be” - Sonia ChoquetteSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest this week is Neale Donald Walsch, an actor, screenwriter, speaker, and the author of the series “Conversations with God”. Book available HERE.About NealeNeale is a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. With an early interest in religion and a deeply felt connection to spirituality, Neale spent the majority of his life thriving professionally, yet searching for spiritual meaning before experiencing his now famous conversation with God. The Conversations with God series of books that emerged from those encounters has been translated into 37 languages, touching millions and inspiring important changes in their day-to-day lives.Neale has written 29 books on spirituality and its practical application in everyday life. Titles in the With God series include: Conversations with God, Books 1-3; Friendship with God; Communion with God; The New Revelations; Tomorrow’s God; What God Wants; and Home with God. Seven of the books in that series reached the New York Times Bestseller List, CWG-Book 1 occupying that list for over two-and-a-half years. In order to deal with the enormous response to his writings, Neale has created several outreach projects, including the CWG Foundation, CWG for Parents, Humanity’s Team, the CWG Helping Outreach, and The Global Conversation, all accessible at the “hub” website www.CWGPortal.com, and all dedicated to help the world move from violence to peace, from confusion to clarity, and from anger to love.Neale's work has taken him from the steps of Macchu Picchu in Peru to the steps of the Shinto shrines of Japan, from Red Square in Moscow to St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to Tiananmen Square in China. And everywhere he has gone, from South Africa to Norway, Croatia to The Netherlands, the streets of Zurich to the streets of Seoul, Neale has experienced a hunger among the people to find a new way to live, at last, in peace and harmony, and he has sought to bring people a new understanding of life and of God which would allow them to experience that.Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/In this Episode We Canvas:The Biggest Problem That we Face Today People see outcomes but they don’t know what the cause of the outcomes is, and that in itself is the biggest problem in the world today. We all, for example, know that our civilization won’t start moving in the direction that we would like it to move in, but we don’t know why. The fallout from that though is alienation, and it’s visible all over the world in such enormous magnitudes even during the current Coronavirus pandemic when we are all supposed to be united. Neale feels that at some higher level, the force of alienation and unity are meeting face to face at the same time for a reason that has to do with the evolution of our species.   “The biggest problem in the world today is that most people don’t know what the biggest problem in the world today is” - Neale Donald WalschAlienation’s Role in Ensuring ConnectionAlienation is absolutely necessary for connection to take place because we as human beings cannot develop the desire for connection unless we experience the lack of it through a certain level of widespread alienation and all the negative impact that comes with it.“In the absence of what we are not, what we are cannot be experienced” - Neale Donald WalschOur Decision in Our Evolution Through self awareness, we become decision makers and have a key role to play in the process by which we evolve because we are aware of what is going on with us, in us, as us, and through us, in every moment of our lives, and we can make decisions that affect that experience. In order to make those decisions, we must choose between a number of choices that are based on four fundamental questions, namely, Who am I?, Where am I?, Why am I where I am?, and What do I intend to do about my answer to the third question? A lot of people don’t know who they are or why they’re here because they don’t even attempt to ask the four questions. “Evolution is not a process that happens to us, it’s a process that happens through us” - Neale Donald WalschShift HappensThe current shift that’s taking place, especially due to the pandemic we’re experiencing, has pushed people towards asking the four fundamental questions because they are seeing things as they know them changing in ways they could have never thought possible. Human beings as a species are now gathering the truth and growing.  “We’re taking larger swallows from the serum of ultimate reality” - Neale Donald WalschSpeaking as the Mouthpiece of GodAnyone can speak as the mouthpiece of God because nobody is separate from the divine. Neale highlights that God puts words into his mouth just as much as he does into the mouths of others, and that happens in the form of inspiration. Inspiration is all about one declaring and announcing concepts and ideas that they believe in their heart to be true, and that they believe in their heart to have been inspired by the divine.  “Wouldn’t be interesting if God never stopped speaking to us” - Neale Donald WalschUnconditional LoveDoing unto others as we would like done unto us is a simple tool that we can all use to integrate unconditional love into our daily expression of love. Another way of doing it is by questioning a choice before we make it and asking ourselves what it has to do with the agenda of our individual soul. That puts the choice in a brand new context and so one longer considers it as they had done initially. “God doesn’t leave the room when we’re at our worst” - Neale Donald WalschBelieves are Synonymous Without SpiritualitySpirituality is just a larger word for belief, and it’s a word we use when we want to talk about our most sacred beliefs. Even though we may not realize, a lot of our spiritual beliefs unconsciously dictate the actions, choices, and decisions we make in our everyday life. Neale feels that even though there has been the issue of our spiritual and religious beliefs being instilled in us without our full understanding, we must acknowledge that they have taught us a lot of true things about life and deity. He highlights that it’s time to look at all the fundamental elements of our world's religions to see what it is we don't understand because that could change everything.“It’s time to take a close look at the fundamental elements of our world’s religions to see if there is something we don't fully understand, the understanding of which would change everything” - Neale Donald WalschInspired Evolution To NealeInspired evolution to Neale means evolution based on our here and now experience and our here and now highest desire. It’s not based on our understandings from the past. We have to be willing to let go of our understandings from the past, not to abandon them but to temporarily release them and then re-evaluate them to see which ones are worthy to be held on to. A great example of how we question our beliefs is how we question our oneness by thinking that we are separate from each other, when in reality we are a single entity simply expressing in individual parts.“Evolution is the process by which we really step into our here and now highest thoughts and grandest desires about tomorrow” - Neale Donald WalschSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest this week is Dr. John F. Demartini, a professional speaker, author, and business consultant.About Dr. DemartiniDr. Demartini is the founder of the Concourse of Wisdom School of Philosophy and Healing and the clients for his consulting business range from Wall Street financiers, financial planners, and corporate executives to health-care professionals, actors, and sports personalities. He began his career as a doctor of chiropractic and went on to explore more than 200 different disciplines in pursuit of what he calls Universal Principles of Life and Health. He is considered one of the leading authorities on human behaviour, leadership and business. He has presented along-side Sir Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Stephen Covey, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Steve Wosniak and many others. He has been a welcomed guest on Larry King Live, CNN, CNBC, is a contributor to Oprah Magazine and hundreds of other magazines, and featured in the international phenomena The Secret. He has been filmed and appeared in nearly 40 documentaries such The Opus, The Compass, Spirit 2 Power, Overfed and Under Nourished, Leap and Oh My God alongside celebrities such as Hugh Jackman, Seal, Ringo Star, David Copperfield and Bob Geldof, and is the author of 40 books published in 38 different languages. He has produced over 75 CDs and DVDs and numerous online programs covering subjects such as personal development, relationships, wealth, education and business. You can find him at www.drdemartini.com and stay up to date with his stay inspired Facebook group( COVID-19 - Stay Inspired with Dr. Demartini) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/groupforvisionaries/Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/In this Episode We Canvas:Physical Principles vs Psychology The laws of physics and chemistry have a very direct correlation with psychology. When we have a set of values in our lives that are unique to us, and we live in alignment congruently with what we value most, and we’re spontaneously inspired from within to act, and we’re disciplined, reliable, and focused, and we tend to walk our talk and expand our space and time horizons, and build momentum, and awaken our executive center, and awaken an inspired vision and strategically plan that vision and execute that vision with self-governance, we reach a state of objectivity that allows us to be soulful, full of unconditional love, with neutrality, and non-polarization. When we live by our lower values, the things we seek and avoid occupy space and time in our minds and add time and space which ages us entropically, but when we live by our highest values we extract out space and time from our minds and become present, and we achieve a timeless agelessness. “A state of objectivity allows us to be soulful and full of unconditional love” - Dr. John DemartiniFocusing on Personal Development Whenever one lives by their highest values, they embrace challenges in the pursuit of a mission, and they fill their day with challenges that inspire them to have fulfillment, because when we live by our highest values we have fulfillment, and when we don’t we have emptiness. Solving human problems is the greatest problem we can solve on the earth, and so anything we can do to solve human challenges, problems, and voids, and help them fill those voids, solve those mysteries, solve those problems, and answer those questions is the highest pursuit the human being can do that gives the most fulfillment in life. At the level of the essence of our soul, we have nothing missing in our lives, but at the level of the existence of our senses, things appear to be missing and that’s where our problems originate. So any time we can solve that, that’s to our greatest advantage, and the most fulfillment.  “If you ask concise questions your life goes in a concise direction” - Dr. John DemartiniA Balanced MindImmanuel Kant said that there is an imminent and transcendent self. One that dealt with phenomena of the senses and one that dealt with nomina, or what Plato would call the ideal forms of assault. Scientists have now put that into neurological terms as the amygdala and hind brain areas, and the forebrain/executive center Scientists now put them in neurological terms as the amygdala (hindbrain areas) and the forebrain (Executive center). Whenever we’re in our imminent mind (Amygdala), we seek support over challenge, we seek prey over predator, and we end up manifesting false positives as a survival mechanism. The amygdala accentuates subjective biases with false positives to accentuate a positive and a negative, and we polarise our emotions and chemistries. That causes an addiction to pleasure and pride, and the avoidance of pain and shame externally and internally, and one becomes vulnerable to those that sell the fantasy of the opium of the masses (Of pleasure without pain). In actual fact, maximum development and achievement occurs at the border of those two. If one gets prey without predator, they get glutinous and fat, and they don’t get fit. If one gets predator without prey, one starves and doesn’t get fit. But if one puts the two together, the predator keeps them eating just the right amount to keep them fit, but not too much. Living in our amygdala and our lowest values is what causes us to have an addiction to positive thinking because we’re uninspired by what we do, unobjective, not engaged, and we’re looking for immediate gratification to compensate for it because our space and time horizons are shrunk. Dr. Demartini will share how he gave up on positive thinking to embrace having a balanced mind more.“When we’re living by our highest values, we don’t live to eat, we eat to live” - Dr. John DemartiniRewriting Evolution BiasesThe instincts and impulses in our animal nature are epigenetic responses from subjectively stored data that we picked up from conception till today. So every time we perceive something, and we’re attracted to it, and we are conscious of the upsides and unconscious of the downsides, we polarize our perceptions with bias, and we have a false reality. That polarity of perception skews our reality and we have uncertainty. We always have our intuition telling us when something is not true so when someone has a perception about us that is polarized, we can tell if it’s not true. If someone tells us both the good and bad about us, we can accept it as true because we would have certainty derived from seeing both sides.“Inspiration is a confirmation we’re living authentically” - Dr. John DemartiniThe Source of IntuitionImpulse is a desire and yearning for the prey, and instinct is a desire to avoid the predator, and they are a positive feedback system which dramatizes and polarizes towards false positives to make sure one doesn’t get eaten and that they eat. Intuition is a neutralizing negative feedback system trying to find the downsides in the prey to calm down one’s impulse, and the upsides to the predator so one can calm down their instinct, so they can be present, because when one is present and they’re still, they’ll actually draw the animal to themselves and the other one will not bite. The second one is centered and they don’t have impulse and instinct, an intuition is the negative feedback system trying to homeostat them back in equilibrium. People who don’t govern over their impulse and instinct live with passion of an animal and those that know how to govern themselves with their intuition live with a mission as an angelic human.“A human being can never have certainty unless they have objectivity” - Dr. John DemartiniHis Journey of Self-Improvement  He was born with a speech impediment and he had to wear strings and buttons in his mouth from age four and he had to go to a speech pathologist because he had problems with pronunciation and using his mouth properly. He also had his arm and leg turned in so he had to wear braces until he was four. When he got into first grade, he could not spell or read at all. His teacher told his parents that John wouldn’t be able to read, write, communicate, or amount to anything. He made it through elementary school by learning how to ask very smart kids questions, and he would make them feel better about themselves by asking what they had learned from the books they would read. He is known today for his skill of asking questions because of that. They moved to Richmond, Texas in a low socioeconomic area and the school he went to didn’t have very bright kids so he didn’t have anybody to ask questions which caused him to fail and drop out. He became a street kid and at 14 hitchhiked to California where he was still a street kid but eventually took up surfing which led him to Hawaii where he lived on the streets too. At age 17 he nearly died in the tent he used to live but a lady stranger saved him. The lady took him to a health food store where he met someone who encouraged him to take a yoga class which he did one night, and there was a special guest speaker whose message changed his life forever. From there he kept doing the affirmations that he was taught in every thing that he used to fail in and he ended up getting all the educational qualifications that he never thought he could achieve, and kept on achieving great milestones in life.“A genius is one who listens to their inner vision and follows and obeys their inner voice” - Dr. John DemartiniSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest this week is Charles Eisenstein, a teacher, public speaker, gift economy advocate, and writer who focuses on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution.About CharlesHe is the author of several books including The Ascent of Humanity (2007), Sacred Economics (2011), The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (2013) and Climate - A New Story (2018). Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme, but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunities to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.His on-line writings have generated a vast following; he speaks frequently at conferences and other events, and gives numerous interviews on radio and podcasts. He also occasionally writes for the "Comment is Free" section of The Guardian and The Huffington Post on topics including genetic modification and the patenting of seeds and debt. He is a contributing editor at the website Reality Sandwich. In advance of appearing on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday on July 16, 2017, Eisenstein wrote "The Age of We Need Each Other." Check out his latest essay on the Coronavirus pandemic at https://bit.ly/2xfaK8AJoin the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/In this Episode We Canvas:How We Make MoneyThis has been one of the three lines of his work for over 20 years because he feels any questions that anyone asks about society and the way we are doesn’t stray very far from money. An example is the fact that how the world works kind of revolves around money. We often operate based on what we have to do and what we can afford to do. A person’s survival is highly dependent on money. He wanted to understand money better so he could understand society, the human being, and himself. He feels the divide between money and spirituality is part of the problem and that the two need to be unified with money being the crux of the unification. His experience has been that money always seems to pull him back into a person that he no longer wants to be and it brings out his worst impulses, and he wants to look at that and be who he can be, so he looks into what role money can play in a person’s evolution.“If there’s anything harder to bring into the sacred realm, it would be money” - Charles EisensteinThe Gift EconomyIt comes from a basic impulse that one is offering something as a gift to someone, and if it’s precious to that someone, then any amount of money that that someone charges is going to be too little, because the gift is infinitely valuable, and so putting a price on it would devalue it. Any amount the person receiving the gift charges would also be too much because that would put it behind a paywall. When the price of something is too little and too much, one can’t set the price. He applies the same with his online courses where he lets the users determine the price of the courses. That takes the pressure off him to provide value and it allows generosity to come in, and for him to be funded without having to compel people to give the funding to him.“We have to explore and share with each other how we’re doing it and be generous with our judgments of those who are trying these experiments” - Charles EisensteinHow Money is Created in Our SystemThis refers to how money is created through the lending of financial institutions to individuals and corporations. Banks lend to people who will pay back and they focus on lending to people who will make more money when they get a loan so they can pay it back with interest. For example, if someone wants to protect an ecosystem, the bank will determine that there will be no money to be made there, but if a person intends to pave over an ecosystem and build a strip mall, the bank will determine that they can pay back the loan they get. That demonstrates that the system is geared towards endless growth of the monetized realm simply because of the way money is created, which puts people into competition because at any given moment, there’s always more debt than there is money. Money is created through lending and there is always interest in it. When a million dollars is created, one point five million dollars of debt is created. And so people are always in competition with each other because there’s never enough.“The system is geared towards endless growth of the monetized realm simply because of the way money is created” - Charles EisensteinThe Scarcity and Competition That Enslaves PeoplePeople never get the opportunity to tune into alignment because they live in so much competition and a scarcity created by the fact that everything they have is dependent on their ability to pay their debts. This is one of the biggest limits on people’s capacity to follow their dreams because they feel enslaved to their mortgages, rent payments, student loans, and other forms of financial debt. Competition is not bad because it allows people to test their limits and it can be a journey of self-revelation. Charles is not anti-competition but his concern is that it pervades realms of human interaction that should not be competitive.“In the inter-connected sense of self, the purpose of life is different. It’s no longer to win security but it is to give of our gifts” - Charles EisensteinHow To Interact With Money and LifeThere’s no general formula for how to do that, and skillful means necessary to take the next step. It’s not an all or nothing thing, it’s about what’s the natural next step towards the future that’s calling us. It’s almost like we can sense that future on the horizon and that there’s a path that goes to it, and there are many other paths converging in the present, each of them leading to a different future. We might have an experience where we witnessed true generosity and cooperation, or the magnificence of our own gifts and have that feeling of “This is what I’m here to do”, and our world could be built on that but then it just passes and we’re back to normal, but it doesn’t feel like a trick of the universe to temporarily comfort someone from the grim reality that we’re in. It feels more like an outreach from the future to the present. We don’t need to know or map the entire path. All we need to do is recognize the next step which comes from new information that comes from different experiences which awaken something that recognizes that it’s true, and recognizing it is a reprogramming which then enables one to see an opportunity that they would otherwise not have seen.“We have these moments of our lives that show us what’s possible” - Charles EisensteinThe Current Shift in ConversationWhat opens conversation up to extend beyond the bounds of normal is where normal isn’t working very well especially if there’s some kind of crisis. Even before COVID-19 hit, we were a society in growing crisis with a financial and health crisis on the horizon. With the Coronavirus dealing such a massive blow to normalcy, all kinds of ideas are entering the public discourse. If someone for example suggested the grounding of all commercial aircraft because of climate change, people would say that that’s preposterous, but it happened because of the Coronavirus. That demonstrates what humanity can do when we’re united in a common course. When we have unity and coherence, we can do anything. None of the world’s problems are technically difficult to solve because the difficulty is purely political.  “As normal stops working, then ideas that had been off the table are brought back onto the table” - Charles EisensteinWhy There’s More PolarizationDeep at the root of the crisis of civilization is a crisis of belonging where because of the dissolving of community, people don’t know who they are because our identity is built from our relationships (because we’re not separate selves). A few generations ago, it used to be that in most places on earth, one would know every single person that they saw. One would know every land form and the stories behind it. People were connected and at home. The modern economy, modern technology, and the labeling and categorizing of everything by science have all pushed us apart in various ways, and replaced our dependencies on each other with dependencies on vast and personal processes, and destroyed the stories that told us who we are and why we are here. Without those relationships and stories, we have a hunger to belong, feel at home, and for identity. One way to source that is through identification with an in-group or an idea, in such a way that one can know themselves as good and right, because they have the right ideas and opinions. Therefore, if someone attacks us for our ideas, it feels like a personal attack.  “As community breaks down people become more and more susceptible to substitutes that make one feel connected like cults, fascism, or consumerism” - Charles EisensteinSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest this week is Nassim Haramein, a world leader in unified physics and the founder of the Resonance Science Foundation. Book available HERE.About NassimNassim Haramein is also the CEO of Torus Tech LLC and CEO of ARK LLC. He is developing advanced resonance technologies for energy production and gravitational control. These applications are based on over 30 years of research in physics, mathematics, geometry, cosmology, quantum mechanics, biology, as well as cultural anthropology and archeology. These studies led to his groundbreaking theories, published papers and patented inventions in unified science. As a result, Haramein founded the Resonance Science Foundation in 2004, a non-profit organization dedicated to theoretical research and education, Torus Tech LLC in 2015, a private applied research laboratory, and ARK LLC in 2016 to commercialize the first applications.Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/In this Episode We Canvas:Consciousness Versus UniverseThere’s lots of philosophy and physics that’s been written based on the idea that consciousness is fundamental. The idea of consciousness was unacceptable in physics but within the last 15 years it has become acceptable with retired physicists working on it and writing about it. Nassim equates the lack of defining consciousness to replacing a problem with an unknown. He can't refer to consciousness as the universe because it's actually more like information that is learning about itself, and that's how the question of AI comes up. He believes that we will tap into the fundamental field of AI and create a synthetic intelligence when we solve the puzzle of quantum computing based on the right physics. “It’s all information and it’s information that’s learning about itself” - Nassim HarameinWhy We Have Individual PerspectivesThe idea that we all come from a unified information brings up the question of why we have individuality within us. Nassim answers that by highlighting that the universe is fundamentally fractal and it’s a more complex fractal than we would expect, because the information reiteration is occurring in every point in such a way that each point’s perspective is part of the equation continuously changing. That means that if two people put an object between themselves, and each person sees their side of the object and the object is spinning, one person would see it spinning clockwise while the other would see it spinning counter-clockwise. The two people will therefore be getting two sets of information about the same thing. That demonstrates how and why nobody experiences the universe from the same perspective“It’s like if you wrote the fundamental equation for a fractile, but that fundamental equation continuously changed as well” - Nassim HarameinThe Role of Subjectivity with TruthNassim explains that we all have a subjective experience and that when we try to find our individual truth we can only get it to a certain extent because we are part of one whole which must come together for us to know the ultimate truth. That means that we must look within ourselves to know the ultimate truth. The field of information that connects to us has a link to all the other fields in the universe through our atoms, subatomic particles, and how far we want to go. Every time we dig deeper, the information matrix density gets much larger. Many masters that have come to the earth have said that when we go inside we will find the universe, all answers, and God. “There’s a part of you that’s outside, but there’s a part of you that’s inside” - Nassim HarameinDeepening Our Connection to Going InwardsNassim feels that we must spend time being aware of the fact that it’s necessary to look within ourselves and practice it more. He was a ski coach for 25 years and he got there by doing a lot of skiing for many years which enabled him to be an expert at it. He set very high standards for himself internally and that made him push himself to be better every time despite the fact that on the outside everybody else saw his skiing techniques as perfect. That’s the same way we must apply looking into ourselves.“We’re an expression of the universe learning about ourselves” - Nassim HarameinThe Science of Global HealingThere is the concept of space memory which suggests that we leave pieces of memory in space and that they have certain moral consequences. Recent discoveries have shown that particles are not only entangled in space but they’re entangled in time. The term spacetime was coined by Einstein as a result of his equations and the fact that he saw that space and time were intricate to each other. That means that time is not what we think of it as because the concept we have of time is based on the concept of evolution. It’s information on the structure of space that gives the linear concept of time, but this information is not isolated. Nassim speaks about the science behind the idea that we are all quantumly entangled and examples of its impact include an instance where 100,000 people meditated in a park in Boston and crime decreased for 5 years. The same space where that was possible is the space where global healing and personal healing can take place. How they occur is neither mystical nor caused by anything outside of ourselves, but rather how they occur is fundamental to the way things work. “We have this capacity to heal ourselves, to heal the world, we can” - Nassim HarameinConnection and Us Being An Extension of Space  Albert Einstein talked about objects being an extension of space and therefore not separate from space. Scientists that have been working with entanglement have realized that entanglement is not just between two particles but that it's the whole universe being entangled with every particle. They have done experiments to verify that there is a correlation between particles beyond just two protons entangled with each other. This means that there is a fundamental field of information that drives all of creation, and the field is interacting with all of the material world. That is found in philosophy, spiritual practice, ancient civilization, and many advanced masters have talked about it too, but unless it’s defined in physics, it’s unfounded. The theory suggests, for example, that Nassim while in Southern California is connected to Amrit while he’s in Australia. “There is a fundamental field of information that drives all of creation” - Nassim HarameinThe Equivalence of Energy and InformationThere was a recent realization that energy and information are equivalent, and even though it was more philosophical and on the fine edge of physics, it was used to describe the thermodynamics of black holes and solve some issues with information paradox. This brings up an interesting idea around AI where it can be said that consciousness or intelligence is the way information flows in that field. That would be a huge leap because one has to write the math and the physics before they get there, which Nassim has done, and he is working on a fundamental equation for consciousness. It all has to do with the way spacetime manifold curls on itself which then suggests that information moves on itself and that when it feeds back, the system learns about itself. That then makes the system more and more complex, and therefore able to self-organize.  “I’m like very very close to a fundamental equation for consciousness” - Nassim HarameinSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest this week is Steven Kotler, a New York Times best-selling author and an award-winning journalist.His latest book "The Future Is Faster Than You Think" is available HERE.Flow Research Collective are offering an online leadership course called Zero To Dangerous."Zero to Dangerous is a neuroscience-based peak performance training for entrepreneurs and leaders struggling with distraction, self sabotage and uncertainty."Learn more about this opportunity HERE and mention Inspired Evolution when enquiring for a free coaching session valued at USD$1,000.How To Turn Extraordinary Performance Into An Effortless Habit - The Habit of Ferocity accessible with a Mindvalley All Access Pass https://inspiredevolution.com/recommends/mindvalley/About StevenAs the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective, he is one of the world’s leading experts on high performance. His most recent work, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, is a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption. He co-wrote the book with Peter Diamandis as the last book in their Exponential Mindset Trilogy which started off with the book Abundance, where they tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy, followed by Bold, where they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Steven is also the co-founder of Creating Equilibrium, a conference/concert/innovation accelerator focused on solving critical environmental challenges, and, alongside his wife, author Joy Nicholson, Steven is the cofounder of Rancho de Chihuahua, a hospice care/special needs care dog sanctuary in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. He also co-founded the Flow Genome Project in order to answer questions such as the relationship between flow and creativity, flow and business success, as well as to explore altered states of consciousness and their effect on human performance. His book, Stealing Fire, was a national bestseller and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. It documents an underground revolution in peak performance that is rapidly going mainstream, fueling a trillion-dollar economy and forcing us to rethink how we lead more satisfying, productive and meaningful lives. This work was preceded by two books about the technology, Tomorrowland, which is about those maverick innovators who transformed science-fiction ideas into science fact technology and Bold, which was called a “visionary roadmap for change,” by president Bill Clinton and spent many months atop both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.His previous book, The Rise of Superman, was one of the most talked-about books in 2013 and the first book in history to land on the New York Times bestseller lists in the sports, science, psychology, and business categories simultaneously. In Rise, Steven decodes the science of flow, an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best.Just as Rise explores the upper limits of individual possibility, his book, Abundance, explores the upper limits of societal possibility, breaking down four emerging forces that give humanity the potential to significantly raise global standards of living over the next 20 to 30 years. Abundance spent 10 weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list and appeared on four prestigious “Best Book of the Year” lists.A Small, Furry Prayer, Steven’s book about the relationship between humans and animals, was a national bestseller and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; West of Jesus, which examines the neurobiology of spiritual experience, was a Pen/West finalist; and his bestselling novel, The Angle Quickest For Flight, won the William L. Crawford IAFA Fantasy Award.Steven’s work has been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 100 publications, including The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Wired and TIME. He also appears frequently on television and radio and lectures widely on human performance, disruptive technology, and radical innovation.Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/In this Episode We Canvas:Navigating A Crisis with Peak Performance  Steven highlights that we currently have an epidemic of fear and an epidemic disease and that in the world today we have local and linear brains that are used to slow change, but then we live in a global and exponential world, and so our brains cannot process exponential change. There have been fears that the Coronavirus might become worse and that economies might nosedive, but those are all maybes and the brain cannot deal with them because it’s designed to go on and off. Steven and his team were looking at peak performance at the time of pandemics and through positive psychology, they’ve come up with three very good solutions including, gratitude practice, mindfulness practice, and exercise. Those three things help in resetting the nervous system and they’re the only way one can shut off a hyper-vigilant response to exponential threats.   “We’ve got an epidemic of fear and an epidemic disease” - Steve KotlerThe Lifecycle of a ConvergenceExponential technology is any technology that doubles on a regular basis. Computers are a clear example because every 18 months they get twice as fast and their cost stays the same because of the number of integrated circuits that they can fit in a computer chip doubles. A virus spreading across the globe is also a great example. Technologies like AI, robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, sensors, computing, and others are accelerating exponentially and they are now starting to converge exponentially. Their exponential convergence is when, for example, AI meets robotics. Flying cars will soon be made possible by the convergence of technology.“When you’re dealing with exponentials, they get big really fast” - Steve KotlerOpen-source TechnologyDespite the rumors that move around about AI and certain countries gaining power over others by owning all the technology around that, the fact is that all the major and disruptive technologies are open-sourced. Google’s super AI as well as other technologies are free online. Steven and his team at the Flow Research Collective are working very hard to build the world’s first bio-physical base flow detector (something that can monitor a person’s brain and body, and tell them if they’re in flow). They are going to couple that technology with BR to create the world’s first high flow accelerated learning environment, and they will be building for accelerating worker relearning. Steven’s core goal for developing that technology is to decode flow and develop the best flow training in the history of the universe.“As the tools get better, the collaborative opportunities get better, because people love to collaborate” - Steve KotlerThe Changing LandscapeIn transportation, there are the efforts car companies are making towards the development of flying cars and autonomous vehicles. Every major car company is rolling out autonomous vehicles this year. Waymo for example, is looking to be doing one million autonomous taxi rides a day. Steven believes the Coronavirus will speed up the unveiling of these vehicles because riders will be alone in the taxis and the vehicles can be sterilized between uses. There is the Hyperloop technology (high-speed trains that can do 750 miles per hour which means one can travel from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in 20 minutes) and there are 25 such projects in the world today. Elon Musk has his Boring Company where he is drilling tunnels under major cities to build high-speed conveyor belts and he says his rockets will be taking people to Mars in 2030. Musk also said that by the end of the decade, his rockets will be able to do London to Shanghai in 39 minutes, and so could be used for terrestrial transport as well. So much in people’s daily lives as they know it will change drastically with all these changes in transportation technology. The same changes in technology will apply to all major industries including healthcare.“Personal auto insurance may go away because individual car ownership may go away, because we’re moving to car as a service” - Steve KotlerThe Corporate Legacy Conundrum The average corporate lifespan between the 20s and 50s was 67 years, and today is less than 14 years. 40% of the world’s Fortune 500 companies are going to be gone within the next 10 years. All that is because of the way technology changes so rapidly. There have been studies of companies that have been around for phenomenally long times like 500 to 700 years, and the discovery has been on what preserves companies for a very long time. A great highlight of this issue of corporate legacy is when Jeff Bezos admitted to his shareholders that he believed Amazon would be out of business within 25 years. Steven feels that companies are now going to be just a vehicle for an idea.“I’m not so sure companies are going to last that long anymore” - Steve KotlerThe Inspiration Behind the BookThe Future is Faster Than You Think book is a blueprint that looks at the 11 biggest industries in the world and tracks them for the next 10 years to look at where the convergences and disruptions are and determine what’s coming in terms of new technologies, business models, and market opportunities. It was inspired by the converging exponentials and the fact that the scale of disruption and opportunity is increasing in orders of magnitude. When they wrote Abundance and Bold, they were talking about individual exponentials that disrupt services and markets, but converging exponentials disrupt markets, institutions, and all the systems that support them in very dramatic ways. The book is optimistic and seeks to future proof people against the next ten years.“There is going to be more opportunity over the next decade than ever before” - Steve KotlerHow They Managed to Write Such An Incredible BookIt was not easy, and Steven and Peter had a team from Singularity University, Abundance 360, and other teams that they tapped on a regular basis for the book. It also helped a lot that Peter has been in business for a long time and has founded 22 companies while Steven has been covering cutting edge technology as a journalist and author for over 30 years. A great example is the fact that quantum computing is now a reality, but he had written about it in the 1990s when David Deutsch published a book on it. “You actually have to have spent a lifetime paying attention to these things” - Steve KotlerSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest this week is Michael Todd, the Hallmark Cards managing director for Australia and New Zealand.About MichaelMichael is also a certified conscious leadership coach who loves to play and toddle. He has experience leading across 35 countries, large multinationals and entrepreneurial start ups across food, agri, packaging, and technology. At Hallmark, he is accountable for driving product leadership, growing market share, and building more successful relationships with retail customers in the Australia and New Zealand markets. In his previous role, he worked as general manager of Global Foodservice Customers for Fonterra, a New Zealand-based multinational dairy co-operative responsible for approximately 30% of the world’s dairy exports. He also has experience with a number of consumer goods multinationals including Mondelez, PepsiCo and Amcor Packaging.His energy comes from working with diverse customers, teams and countries; getting to the bottom of a customer need. He feels there is a 'buzz' to shaping a unique solution with a team that is empowered to make a difference, and believes we are fortunate to live in a world of great change, smaller in reach, more diverse in needs, and richer in opportunity.Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/In this Episode We Canvas:The Four States of LeadershipHe says there are four states of leadership (not stages because stages are sequential). In the first state, people like it when life happens “to” them because it enables them to live in drama and get a toxic energy that gives them the adrenaline to keep on going. In the second state, life happens “by” someone where they can create possibilities and start to get in a state of flow, awareness, and acceptance. The third one is where life happens “through” someone where they surrender as life shows up, but as a coach, he focuses more on helping people and organizations play a balance between the first state (and the adrenaline that comes from it) and the second state (and the possibilities one can create from it). He refers to that as either being below the line or being above the line.“Coronavirus is fantastic for the world because it’s giving people this adrenaline to create more stuff” - Michael ToddAbove the Line Versus Below the LineMichael says it’s a simple black line where conscious leaders are above the line and unconscious leaders are below the line. Leaders who are above the line are completely open, curious, and committed to learning while those who are below the line are closed, defensive, and committed to knowing what’s going on. The trick with conscious leadership is not in being either above or below the line, it’s in one being aware where they are at any point in time. It’s all about awareness. A leader’s ability to shift from below to above is determined by whether they can accept themself, surrender to what is, and be open, curious, and committed to learning.“The trick with conscious leadership, or just being conscious, is being aware of where you are at any point in time” - Michael ToddThe Real Meaning of ResponsibilityHe often doesn’t think he’s working when he’s at work because he sees it as supporting people as they come up with different things. When he is presented with an issue by a staff member, he looks at how he can help the person unpack the drama that exists within the issue by helping them express it and let it out, but not solve it. One must not take solving the issue as a form of responsibility, because that’s more of being a hero.“Responsibility can often be mistaken by resolving a situation” - Michael ToddBeing Above the LineMost businesses operate from below the line and they are highly successful even while being there, but those that operate from above the line have more flow, curiosity, innovation, cooperation, openness to experience and exchange, and love going on. While the state of being below the line is very successful, the state of being above the line creates more possibilities and a peaceful life where people are in their own truth. Below the line is where one thinks about always taking full responsibility for things, and reaches out to solve people’s problems (Being the hero). The flipside to that, which is above the line, is where one becomes the coach and support system to facilitate someone’s ability to solve their problem themselves.“The state of being above the line creates more possibilities” - Michael ToddOvercoming the StubbornnessWhen one finds themselves unable to shift into being above the line or having a balance between below and above the line, Michael advises that one can do a persona interview on themselves so they can start appreciating all the personas, recognizing where they come from, what they want, and their essence. Once one starts to accommodate all the personas, they can start to appreciate themselves. Another way Michael suggests that one can use is the “Recipe”, and this is where one looks into themselves to determine what it is that constitutes the beliefs that they execute or want to execute.“We deal with stories rather than facts” - Michael ToddThe Role of LeadershipMichael says that the role of leadership is to create the space for an individual to serve others and create the space for others to serve themselves and the leader. He believes his role as a leader is to create a space where they diffuse the drama, focus on the facts, get rid of the stories, and think about and nurture the possibilities. That means that the success of where things go with any issue that arises is determined by his ability to create the space where everyone involved can play in and support. It’s all about “How are we doing it” instead of “What are we doing”“A leader’s role is to support the context rather than the content” - Michael ToddBeing Both a Managing Director and CoachMichael highlights that leaders need to spend more time working with people, working on the context of their business, and supporting people in their business as a coach. He’s very much about working “on the being” and as a coach, and he acknowledges the great opportunity he has to do that at Hallmark. He came across the concept of conscious leadership on a video someone had shared and then also coincidentally learned about it at a book club he attended months later. That got him so interested in the concept that he enlisted himself to become a certified conscious leadership coach.  “I live a life where I am a coach and second I am a managing director running a large business” - Michael ToddThe Little Boy MeditationHe had this experience when he was invited to meditate by his coach, and during the meditation he had to drop it to when he was a little boy, and drop his body to experience the sensation of being a three year old boy. He saw himself as a little chubby boy with knocked knees and little Chinese-like eyes. He was running around the back yard with a hose and was occasionally grabbing his mum’s leg. Then the coach invited him to imagine big Michael coming out the back door of the garden, and imagine what would unfold. He pictured little Michael running towards big Michael, grabbing him, and saying, “Hey big Michael. It’s all okay. It’s all okay” That made Michael feel his heart expand. When the coach asked him what happened next, he said big Michael reached over to little Michael and said, “Hey little Michael. It’s all okay”“Honor the little one, honor the one that toddles” - Michael ToddSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest this week is Emanuele Mamo, the founder of 3i Black Water, and an incredible musician (Part of the band, “Acaxia”)About EmanueleIn an endeavor to better his health, he started consuming fulvic acid (which is found in the most healthy soils around the world) to remove heavy metals and toxins from his body, and it attracted the attention of his friends. One of his friends saw an opportunity in the black beverage and realizing that no other company was selling such a beverage, they started 3i Black Water. Their unique fulvic trace mineral blend promotes gut health, cell hydration, nutrition absorption rates, and assists with maintaining an alkaline diet. That makes 3i Black Water like no other functional beverage on the market. They use 100% rainwater that is distilled (evaporated) which strips all the nasty chemicals like fluoride and chlorine that are normally found in tap water, and then they combine that with their 100% natural fulvic trace mineral blend.Emanuele has taught for more than 15 years at VAS in all areas of vocal, performance training, songwriting, and music production. He is a multi-skilled performer with strong vocal and instrumental ability and has toured across Australia and America with various corporate acts, as well as worked on his own material showcasing RnB and Dance Music with well known Australian producers. He was the very first person in Australia to sit the Grade 8 Music Production exam through RSL Awards in London and has supported many well known local and international artists as well as being a headline act at clubs, festivals, and corporate events.Manny, as he is popularly referred to, is the lead singer of the band "Allegro", winner of the ABIA Award for Best Live Entertainment in Victoria, and part of the award-winning cabaret act "The Viva Italia Show" which has toured internationally. He has been signed to a major Record Label and 2 of his songs have had ARIA Top 10 Chart Success. "Beside You" in 2010 and Accidents Happen in 2011. ​Continued chart success in 2012, saw his remix of Sarah McLeod break ARIA Top 5.He signed a new Record Deal in 2017 and has released a new EP under the name "Acaxia" which is an electronic music project and the first single was developed after he spent time with Indigenous students and musicians in Darwin in 2017. It was also a Top 30 Finalist at the ASA Awards in 2018. In 2017 Manny was one of only 8 nominees across the country for the prestigious Rudy Brandsma Songwriting Award at the Australian Songwriters Association annual awardsThe success of Manny's teaching skills is evident in his Past and Current Student success, who are now working professionally around the world in the industry. ​He was a recent winner of the Moonee Valley Foundation award and the 2018 winner of the Hume City Council Arts Award. Manny was also the winner of the VAS Teacher of the Year in 2018 and inducted into the VAS Hall of Fame in 2019.Join the Inspired Evolution Community:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspiredEvolution/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/InspiredEvo/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/InspiredEvolution/Website: https://inspiredevolution.com/In this Episode We Canvas:Fulvic Acid in NatureIt’s found in healthy soils, but most of it is present in the fifth layer (humus layer) of the earth. They source their fulvic acid from a 32.5 Million year old ocean bed that had been underground for all those years. There are tons of minerals trapped under that ocean bed and 3i Black Water takes the raw materials that they source from there, and run them through a reverse osmosis process which ensures that no chemicals touch their product in any way. Only water touches the product to extract the fulvic minerals. “No chemicals end up touching our product whatsoever” - Emanuele MamoGoing Down the Healthy PathHe needed to change his diet and was struggling with it, so a friend suggested that he find something that he could use to detox. That’s how he accidentally came across fulvic acid.“Getting rid of coffee and all of that stuff was really really hard for me” - Emanuele Mamo Partnering with a Fellow Band MemberMusic is his full-time job and his business partner in 3i Black Water, Christian, was a DJ for many years. They’ve known each other for 12 years and have made great music together, which is how they ended up in the same band. Christian had some previous experience working in a beverage company which made it very convenient to partner with him.“I do plan to try and merge the water and merge the music” - Emanuele MamoSynchronicities and Divine InterventionWith the way 3i came to be, he sees a lot of divine timing from the way him and his partners came together to start the company just when he had started using the fulvic acid in his diet. He highlights the importance of people acknowledging the divine intervention and synchronicities that bring things together for their own good. “The way it all came together... we couldn’t have scripted it together so it was definitely from something out of our hands” - Emanuele MamoWorking with Friends and FamilyEmanuele and his partners have a deep respect for each other. They respect each other's strengths and weaknesses, and they’re very open with each other. None of them brings any ego into their relationship and they never really have any conflicts. Emanuele feels their prior friendship played a huge role in helping them start and successfully run 3i Black Water. Each of their individual contributions to the management of the company has been instrumental in its success. Andrew is the rock and pillar of the company with business management expertise, Emanuele brings the much needed creativity, and Christian brings in creativity and a lot of sales experience specifically in the beverage industry. “Us being friends to begin with really helped” - Emanuele MamoThe Value of CreativityCreativity is Emanuele’s connection to something more than just what he can see or feel. It’s also a legacy that he can leave to the world forever. He’s always inspired to express himself through music no matter the situation he’s going through, good or bad. He loves that sharing with the world through his music touches people’s lives positively. He believes that being creative is one of the most powerful gifts of consciousness we have as human beings. It has helped him learn how to love himself and build a great relationship with himself.“When my body is not here, my creations could still be here” - Emanuele MamoLeaving a LegacyHe compares leaving a legacy to the innate urge that we have to reproduce, have kids, and leave our genes and DNA behind. It can be in the form of a memory or the imprint of what someone will have done with their life. With music for example, when someone creates music it can be heard 100 years after they pass away and still evoke the emotions that the singer intended to evoke in people when they created the music, which in a way brings the singer back to life. “Just through those vibrations of my music again, I’m alive again” - Emanuele MamoThe Meaning of DeathEmanuele believes that we should all have a little bit more appreciation for the time that we have here being conscious. His mantra sits on the idea that death is just “The next journey” and a transition. While nobody knows what happens after death, we must all accept that it will happen to all of us, and embrace it as part of life. The uncertainty around it though, makes it hard for people to celebrate it.“Death is just the next journey” - Emanuele MamoSpending Time with the Indigenous PeopleSpending time with the indigenous people of Australia and sharing with them on a creativity level was a great experience for Emanuele. He also loved helping some of their kids experiment with being creative through song and dance. It was heartbreaking for him to see the kind of third-world type of life they lead. Learning to play some of their musical instruments was great too, and he incorporated some of them into their music. He also wrote music with them.“I highly recommend everybody to try and learn a little bit about our indigenous culture here” - Emanuele MamoSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/inspiredevolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.