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Episode 061 How to Develop Emotional Intelligence: Building Self- Confidence to Create Change
Our beliefs often make or break us, and Self-doubt is something we often experience. Even the people who look like they have it all together have insecurities.
Developing healthy, constructive beliefs about yourself allows you to accomplish what you want. Do you have difficulty believing in yourself?
It's time to stop mirroring the stories and experiences of others.
People often struggle with their self-confidence because of their past experiences.And Being comfortable in our own skin can be a challenge at times.
But what if you are lacking this essential trait?
Embrace you confident self - Because confidence starts with you! Most of us are simply not taught and empowered with this necessary life skill.
Our guest Mike Acker is going to share a few key components which will allow you to develop the emotional intelligence needed to gain a greater sense of self- confidence, and self-awareness - All while becoming a more effective communicator.
He tells us : Confident Communication Equals Currency
Mike Acker is a speaker, leadership coach, and bestselling author, with over 19 years of experience in speaking, leadership development, and organizational management. Known for his authenticity, humor, and engaging presence, his expertise in communications and leadership has drawn a wide range of engagements including his presentations to executive teams, emerging leaders, non-profit organizations, churches, and public schools.
Mike shares how building emotional intelligence can be a powerful tool leading us to Confidence -Stay tuned to find out how to develop more confidence and translate that into success on this episode of The Light Inside.
Visit Mike: https://www.stepstoadvance.com/media/
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Music Score by Epidemic Sound
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Bassline Esstablished by Jerry McHoy
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker
Mixing, Engineering, Production and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio
Episode 060 Moving into Confidence: Learn to Walk through Fear and Into Purpose with Lucia DiVieste Severtson
Fear imprisons our minds and blinds us to hope and possibility.
Today our mission is to guide you in crossing the bridge from fear into freedom. We are told fear is one of our greatest survival mechanisms.
But was it ever really fear that allowed us to survive truly threatening situations? Or is it our ability to logic - always coming to truly save the day?
Personally, as a coach and as a leader - The mind is a tool I feel a great many of us struggle to form a healthy relationship with.
Join us as we share a conversation with Lucia DiVieste Severtson- Empowerment and Leadership Coach at Be Brave Psychotherapy.
We will discuss:
- How fear manifests in both obvious and subtle ways
- We Explore how Dance/movement and drama therapy can help break habitual patterns of mind and body
- Empowering us to embrace What it means to live a brave life on a daily basis.
- Lucia tells us How bravery leads us towards love and away from fear
- And why this is crucial to embodying authentic leadership
- In the process developing a plan while face the Giants in our lives
Tune in to find out how you can leverage body movement to gain more confidence on this episode of The Light Inside.
Visit Lucia: https://bebravewomen.com/
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Credits:
Music Score by Epidemic Sound
Musical Transitions by Otto Wallgren and Ooyy
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker
Mixing, Engineering, Production and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio
Episode 059 Releasing Shame: Embracing Resiliency to See Our True Self
The greatest thing we can have
is a balanced and healthy sense of self.
But shame often can clutter up this relationship
Filling our view with baggage which holds us stuck from realizing our true sense of value and worth.
Its ok to release the shame…
In fact, its not just ok to be ok…
Being ok is the key to being GREAT!
Author and thought leader Brene Brown tells us:
“Shame is the warm feeling that washes over us, making us feel small, flawed and never good enough.”
We find out today that when we release expectation and the guilt often associated with shame-
The law of averages kicks in and we become centered in who and what we truly are.
We share this conversation today with online therapist, Melissa Russiano discussing how empowering empathy
can become a tool for combating shame internally-
stepping beyond yourself to connect with and lead others. things
Find out how to Releasing Shame: So your can being Embracing Resiliency to See Our True Self.
On this episode of The Light Inside.
Music Credits:
Epidemic Sound
Musical Transitions by Peter Sandberg and Gavin Luke
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker
Mixing, Engineering, Production and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio
Episode 058 How to Leverage Neuroscience To Achieve More Effective Goals with Purdeep Sangha
There are certain truisms, when examined- which provide great insight into the very deep and evolving nature of life.
Vision, after all, is often the difference between what is and what could have been. If you don’t know where you are going, well, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Motivation speaker Les Brown shares this inspirational thought- “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars."
Moving into alignment with purposeful intention requires setting clearly defined goals. Smarter Goals begins with Developing a Smarter Brain.
Sharing this mind-opening episode is Purdeep Sangha- Internationally acclaimed personal advisor and coach to high-performing executives and entrepreneurs, exploring How to Leverage Neuroscience To Achieve More Effective Goals.
Lean in as we unlock the mysteries of the mind, empowering you with the science of smart- So you can develop efficient and effective goals on this episode of The Light Inside.
Credits:
Music Score by Epidemic Sound
"Heads May Roll" by Hakan Eriksson
"Memorable" by Dreem
"The Cost of Fear" Zenosyne
Musical Transitions by Peter Sandberg and Gavin Luke
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker
Mixing, Engineering, Production and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio
Episode 057 Discovering Your Emotional Set Point to Uncover Hidden Traumas with Amanda Webster
Our Emotional Guidance System has a wide range of emotions beginning with the most positive empowering emotions to emotions of desperation and weakness. This system is designed to signal whether our thoughts, in the present moment - are in harmony with our desires and greater good.
But often we find ourselves staring into the edge of the unknown, feeling lost in that desperation- And Chasing out the darkness inside.
On today's show, we share a conversation with Recovering Addict, Suicide Survivor and Life Coach- Amanda Webster exploring how her brush with suicidal ideation, hearing a favorite song during an episode on a Canadian hotel ledge led her to discover the importance of establishing a healthy emotional set point.
And why realigning our emotional and physical state of being is crucial in maintaining a health relationship with ourselves.
Find out how on this episode of The Light Inside
Credits:
Music Score by Epidemic Sound
Musical Transitions by Peter Sandberg and Gavin Luke
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker
Mixing, Engineering, Production and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio
Episode 056 Memory Skills: The Easy 3 Step System to Remember Anything and Everything with Chester Santos
At some point in our lives, we are all faced with memory loss and forgetfulness. Important faces, names, numbers, or information we try to recall- yet we pull a blank.
Sometimes we even struggle to retain even the simplest daily data. Right now, That's all about to change...
Memory Expert Chester Santos is known as the International Man of Memory. Chester is one of the world's foremost authorities when it comes to developing memory.
- Chester shows us How to Remember and Retain More in shorter period of time
- We learn that repetition and brute force memorization is not the way to go
- Losing the need to endless repeat things in our brains.
- How do we develop what you call mental filing systems?
- We discover how to master instant recall, forward and backward, in a matter of minutes.
- Chester also shares Tricks and Tips To Improve Your Memory
Teaching you how to remember anything that's important to you, forever. We find out, everyone is capable of doing extraordinary things with their memory by developing a few easy to learn skills. As We learn how to finally come to our senses in order to improve our memory on this episode of, The Light Inside.
Credits:
Music Score by Epidemic Sound
Musical Transitions by Peter Sandberg and Gavin Luke
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker
Mixing, Engineering, Production and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio
Episode 055 The Legacy of Trauma: Releasing Trauma Identity with Andrew Ecker
We so often become the identities which are imprinted on us- by our upbringing, our environments, society and even ourselves
The stories we live under, the stories others tell us, or simply the stories we choose and become comfortable within.
Discovering our true self can often feel like a battle for our soul. We struggle to find the light inside. Sometimes that trauma keeping us from discovering our light is buried deep in our emotional DNA.
Our greatest battle becomes aligning our emotional set point-In finding our True North.
Our guest Andrew Ecker knows the pain and suffering of overcoming generational and cultural trauma all too
Born into an inheritance of trauma, both his parents were addicted to drugs and died very young. Growing up in the height of the Reagan and Clinton “War on Drugs” policies
Led Andrew down a path of destruction that included cocaine and heroin abuse, ultimately causing him to serve 3 and a half years in prison on federal drug charges.
While in prison, Andrew found much needed healing through the use of ancient technologies including drumming and the ceremonial processes of his Native American ancestry- which inspired him to write his book ‘The Sacred 7’.
His program- The Sacred Seven: A Path to Finding the Wholeness of Self-Identity is guiding others on their path of rediscovery. Helping others transform their lives beyond trauma and allowing them to rediscover Their True North.
From the four winds, life will rise unto the beauty it is when the sun mingles with the twilight.
Join us as we discover why the essences of what is not seen, but only felt, becomes the secret to making us feel alive-On this episode of The Light Inside.
What are the Sacred 7?
- The Sacred Child
- The Sacred Feminine
- The Sacred Masculine
- The East The Sacred Newness
- The South The Sacred Family - Center
- The West The Sacred Community - Center
- The North The Sacred Elementaled reactions and very effectively release the
Credits:
Music Score by Epidemic Sound
Musical Transitions by Peter Sandberg and Gavin Luke
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker
Mixing, Engineering, Production and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio
Episode 054 Emotional Detox: 3 Ways to Cleanse Yourself of Stagnated Emotions with Sherianna Boyle
Throughout our everyday lives-we often find ourselves caught in struggle and wrestling with some of our deepest held emotions. Re-living the situations which bring us pain and suffering, replaying the scene in every detail we can remember.
In her career as an adjunct professor of psychology at Cape Cod Community College, our guest Sherianna Boyle has been supporting educators and families along there emotional journeys since 1995.
In our discussion today we share why Your emotions matter, and how processing them matters even more. We explore why emotional detox is a reset for the soul- flushing out negative feelings, which clears a path for new habits and behaviors.
In our conversation Sherianna will share how:
All emotions are good-Revealing that no emotion is toxic. We discover how to uncover suppressed reactions and very effectively release them- Allowing us to changing the way we relate to our emotions.
Join in as we Learning to free ourselves to process and experience all of our emotions in a more healthy way on this episode of The Light Inside.
Credits:
Music Score by Epidemic Sound
Musical Transitions by Peter Sandberg and Gavin Luke
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker
Mixing, Engineering, Production and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio
Episode 053 Developing Unconditional Love in a Conditional World with Larry Indiviglia
As we celebrate the one year anniversary here at The Light Inside, looking back- we’ve talked a great deal about finding deeper purpose in our lives.
Simply asking- What does it mean to live deeply?
It's often said- If we want to truly LIVE deeply, we must LOVE deeply. If we want to set our worlds on fire. Seek those who fan our flames.
Loving them deeply and the life we create together in return.
Joining us today is Author, Fitness Professional and Life Coach, Larry Indivigilia. His Amazon best-seller, 126 Days and 11 Minutes: Our Love Story was written to honor the life of Gayle, a women he shared short but very compassionate, deep and and endearing love story with as she battled stage Stage IV cancer.
Today, we hear why Larry considers his relationship with Gayle one of the most profound experiences of his life.
Find out why on this episode of The Light Inside.
Credits:
Music Score by Epidemic Sound
Musical Transitions by Peter Sandberg and Gavin Luke
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker
Mixing, Engineering, Production and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio
Episode 052 How To Find Meaning Full Filled with Dieter Randolph
We ask ourselves-
How can we design the space to discover who we are and what brings us the greatest sense of meaningfulness?
Viktor Frankl reminded us by saying - “Everything is Practice. What is demanded of man is not, as some philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.”
Joining to day is Dieter Randolph, author of the book- Meaning Full Filled, Dieter is third generation minister on a mission to transform the spiritual experience beyond the traditional church.
Find out what happens when we venture “Way Past Okay” In our search for meaning and purpose in life
On this episode of The Light Inside
Credits:
Music Score by Epidemic Sound
Musical Transitions by Peter Sandberg and Gavin Luke
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker
Mixing, Engineering, Production and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio
Episode 051 Faith, Family, And A Song: Overcoming The Devastating Loss Of Child With Shannon And Brittany Clark
In today's conversation, we share a discussion with musicians, Shannon and Brittany Clark as we explore the story of how the tragic and sudden loss of their newborn daughter to a rare heart condition -Nearly side railed their love and shared career as recording artists.
We also explore how music has been a common bond which has given them strength and resiliency to overcome the devastating loss of a child- pulling them closer together as a family with their surviving children.
We discover how leaning into your faith, learning to surrender and trusting your gut can become your life line to pull you out of the pain of grief.
On this episode of The Light Inside.
Grief is two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
Shannon Clark and The Sugar
Credits:
Music Score by Epidemic Sound
If You Wanna See Me Again by Spring Gang
Last Morning by Shannon Clark and The Sugar
Musical Transitions by Peter Sandberg and Gavin Luke
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker
Mixing, Engineering, Production and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio
Episode 050 Driving Here: Understanding Human Needs Psychology with Chandra Lynn
As Human beings- we all feel a certain pull, driving us towards basic wants, desires and needs. Having needs is not evidence of weakness – it is, at its core- to simply be human.
Three things are needed for humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Everything else - Is irrelevant.
We are all on a course seeking change- our evolution. The great unfolding of our becoming what is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
This episode, we share a conversation with join us today is the founder of Glow Living, Chandra Lynn - A Lifestyle entrepreneur, she is Inspiring us to love the life we each live.
We share this discussion exploring how the need for change is such a driving force in discovering our roots, allowing us to grow and rise.
Tune to find out Who's Driving Here?
Create a balanced foundation, get unstuck and begin truly loving life!
Join Chandra for a FREE INTRODUCTION to her program, Root To Rise- A System for Loving Life
Credits:
Music Score by Epidemic Sound
Bedroom by Loving Caliber
Starfields by Hallman
Musical Transitions by Peter Sandberg and Gavin Luke
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Besecker
Mixing, Engineering, Production and Mastering: Aloft Media Studio
Featured Author
Daniel Bruce Levine
“In The Mosaic, Daniel Levin captures the essence of the human condition in a delightful parable that will entertain, enlighten and touch the hearts of all who read it. This simple and enjoyable story is a new adventure for all of us who desire to connect with and trust more of what is the same within us all.”
light reading
Speak With No Fear by Mike Acker
Rocket Fuel by Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco
Speak With No Fear by Mike Acker
When you think of public speaking, do you get nervous, anxious, or even sweaty?
Would you prefer never to give a presentation?
Do you want to gain confidence in your communication and beyond?
This book can help you. You don’t have to be afraid any longer. You don’t have to let communication anxiety keep you from your goals. While my upcoming book will give advanced strategies to master the game of speaking, this book allows you to get in the game and get started.
Through this book you will learn 7 strategies you can begin today. These strategies will give you a new perspective, they will prepare you, and they will give you actions to practice. As you implement these strategies, your fear will begin to fade.
It can easily seem like everyone is a gifted speaker when you watch TED talks or compare yourself to skilled co-workers giving presentations. Don't get caught up in the costly comparison trap. Instead, take action to improve your ability and to overcome your fear.
If you struggle in speaking, then first realize that you are not alone. Public Speaking is the #1 fear in America. You are not alone.
Millions of people are terrified at the prospect of going up on stage and addressing a crowd even more than they’re afraid of death. Moreover, it’s an unavoidable experience if you want to succeed in this world. Maybe it’s a business presentation for your career path, a speech in school, or a toast at your best friend’s wedding. Fear of speaking grips you. However, it doesn’t have to. Not anymore.
Full of relatable anecdotes, executable tips, and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, this book promises to teach you 7 proven strategies to help you find your inner presenter. Don’t wait any longer. Today is the day you take charge of your anxiety, calm your nerves, and – most importantly – speak with no fear.
The Mosaic
Rocket Fuel by Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco
Speak With No Fear by Mike Acker
A ground-breaking book in the tradition of The Alchemist and The Celestine Prophecy, The Mosaic, by marketing expert and activist Daniel Bruce Levin invites you to see the world from a new point-of-view― one that focuses on what connects us to each other and brings us happiness.
The Mosaic follows the journey of Mo, a boy who loses his parents two years apart on the same day.
When he asks the adults where his parents went, they tell him they are in heaven. Mo sets out to find the place called heaven and along the way, he meets an assortment of ordinary people, who are anything but ordinary.
The Mosaic is a magical book that will inspire conversation around the possibilities that exist when we are able to see what we do not see. It will entertain and uplift you through the magic of connection, and it will linger with you well after you finish its story.
“The most profound and lasting way to learn is through story, and a story that reflects so many aspects of our shared human journey keeps the lessons learned alive in the heart forever. This is one such beautiful and lasting story.“ ― Sonia Choquette New York Times best-selling author of The Answer is Simple...Love yourself, Live your Spirit! .
Rocket Fuel by Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco
Rocket Fuel by Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco
Rocket Fuel by Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco
"Ignite your inner fuel to break through barriers and take your life to the next level with ROCKET FUEL, Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco's forthcoming debut book.
Past hardships can be a powerful gravitational force that keeps you down and forces you to think small.
To get out of orbit, you need Rocket Fuel.
In his new book, Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco shows you how to convert past adversity into ROCKET FUEL to break free from the negative pull of pain and despair.
"C-Roc offers life-changing lessons in personal transformation that start with the question: What Are You Made Of? This powerful question can give you the thrust you need to achieve greatness."
"ROCKET FUEL will teach you how to overcome painful past obstacles and build a fulfilling life where you're in command of your future. If you're ready to shoot for the stars, C-Roc says, "Thrust is a must!"
Strap in and get ready for the ride of your life.