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Connecting to Nature in My Heart ~ Episode 109 ~ My Converation with Lotus Hackenberger

My childhood growing up in nature opened my heart and interest in the connection between all living things. It facilitates to always think about how all of my decisions will impact other people in other places, or other animals or plants ~ everything we do has repercussions

[1:13] Nature is my Heart of Passion
[2:17] Growing Awareness of Nature for Younger Generations
[4:46] Connecting to my Values Validates Me
[7:17] Connecting to my Self-Care
[9:31] Our Connections to Social Media
[10:22] Social Media is Addictive
[11:26] Connecting to our Online Version of Self
[12:49] Social Media Pressure on our Generation
[13:52] Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) via Social Media
[15:17] Access to Social Media ~ New Norm
[17:00] Video Gamers had Connection Infrastructure during COVID19
[18:36] Connection to Others
[19:47] Heart Connection in Connection to Others
[20:58] Younger Generations Connection to Spiritual Beliefs
[22:31] Connection of Science & Spirituality
[23:53] Connection Between all Living Things
[25:47] Connection to Knowledge Deficit Model
[27:34] Connection to our Heart Knowledge
[28:33] Heartfelt Passion & Purpose
[29:52] Connection to Mother Earth goes in two Ways
[32:10] Connection is Lacking Empathy
[33:27] Connecting to Optimism for Change

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Connecting to Self in Nature ~ Episode 108 ~ My Conversation with Shankar

In this conversation, we learn how important it is to connect to our body through daily practice of yoga. It connects us to our Chakra System and our subtle energy body. Having self-time in nature is deeply important to our well-being facilitating our connection to Mother Earth. As men begin to focus on their inner work they can heal and connect to self-love and acceptance.

[0:24] Connecting & Sharing my Story
[1:07] Daily Connection Routine
[2:21] Connecting to my Body ~ Happier & More Balanced
[4:00] Connecting to my Chakra System & Subtle Energy Body
[5:05] Connecting to our Shadow Side
[6:44] Connecting to our Hurt & Pain underneath the Anger
[8:04] Connecting to a Better Energy ~ Flows to Others
[9:50] Connecting to Our Heart Space
[11:40] Men Connecting to Our Painful Emotions
[13:17] Men Awakening & Healing into Wholeness
[14:26] Men’s Ego ~ not Connecting to Our True Self
[15:47] Men’s Suicide isn’t Looking Good
[17:59] Letting go of Judgement & Connect to Acceptance
[19:53] Connecting to the Oneness of Nature & Mother Earth
[20:51] Connecting to the ‘All That Is’ ~ Merging of Micro & Macro
[21:56] Connecting to our ‘All That Is’ ~ Healing Mother Earth
[23:28] Connecting Our Meaningfulness
[25:10] Men’s Mindfulness is in ‘Doing’
[27:00] Men taught not to Connect to Emotions
[28:15] Men’s Mindfulness ~ ‘At the Back of the Boat’
[29:23] Connecting to Flow-State ~ Contentment
[30:56] Connection to Ayurvedic
[32:32] Connecting to Self-Love

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Poetry my Connection to Expression & Healing ~ Episode 106 ~ My Conversation with Anamika Dutta

Connecting to poetry has enabled this writer and spoken word artist to heal. Poetry opens her mind and heart of expression of joy and pain. In sharing her poetry, she creates a safe place for poetry lovers, and to heal people through her storytelling.

[0:47] Home Schooling Opened the World of Poetry
[2:00] Connecting to Self in Poetry
[3:07] Connecting Deeply in Poetry
[4:30] My Poetry is a Spiritual Experience
[5:59] Connection to others in Sharing our Stories
[7:33] Connecting to our Archetypal Connections
[8:40] Connecting to Others Connects to My Purpose
[13:21] Connecting & Healing our Subconscious Wounds
[15:28] Connecting to the ‘All That Is’
[17:17] With my ‘All That Is’ I’m not Alone
[18:26] Discovering & Connecting to Your Purpose
[20:01] Depression is Complicated
[22:50] Connecting to the Flow-State of Memories
[25:13] Connecting with Our Cellular Memories
[27:00] Being in the Present
[29:23] Connecting to Deeper Levels of Happiness
[30:20] Connecting to our Happiness of Self-Love

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Connecting the Flow-State of Our Big Vision ~ Episode 103 ~ My Conversation with Kath Clarke

Kath is a magic finder and re-connector in the guise of digital marketing. And her goal is reconnecting people back to their big vision within and to express that vision out there. This is her mission;

~ “You don’t have to go it (or grow it) alone. I’ll show you the exact systems to up your prices + get in front of the customers your business deserves.”

[0:00] Connecting the Flow-State of Our Big Vision
[0:46] Connecting People to their Inner Magic
[2:34] Connecting People with their Hearts
[4:27] Connecting to Our Flow-State
[6:34] Connecting & Pivoting through Being Stuck
[8:33] Coming Home to Ourselves during COVID19
[9:44] Connecting & Integrating our Shadow Side
[10:53] Self-Transformation Integrating our Shadow
[11:53] My Connection as an Empath
[14:38] Connecting to Responsibilities in Flow-State
[15:54] Connecting to my ‘All That Is’
[18:53] Connecting to our ‘All That Is’ ~ Our Mental Health Dissolves
[20:46] By-Passing the Brains Default Mode Network (DMN)
[22:27] Connecting to Pure Love of Flow-State
[23:45] Connecting to Total Acceptance
[27:47] Connecting to the Flow-State of my True Self

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Connecting to Infinite Silence ~ Episode 99 ~ My Conversation with Philip Wade

Meditation is a subtle gift. This conversation is a powerful story of such a gift. From a life as a civil chartered civil engineer he heard inner calling ~ his nature of the true self. He refers to as the Infinite Silence and now shares this profound gift with the whole world through direct experience, spirits inquiry, infinite touch.

[1:17] Connecting to Infinite Silence & Touch
[2:12] Connecting to Meditation
[5:40] Heart Inner Wisdom Connection
[6:56] Meditation connections are liberating
[8:38] Connecting to Emotions & not Becoming them
[9:42] Being Connected to my Sensitive Self
[10:48] My Connection to Others
[15:17] Connecting to our Eyes of Awareness
[16:57] Infinite Touch a Releasing of Blocked Emotions
[17:42] Connecting to the Infinite Silence
[19:30] My ‘Gaps’ of Infinite Silence are Always There
[20:53] The Heart our Entry point to Gap of Infinite Silence
[22:29] Connecting to the ‘All That Is’
[24:28] ‘All That Is’ ~ Infinite Silence Transform our Mental Health
[25:11] Connecting to Peace of Heart ~ Peace of Mind
[25:32] Our Heart Pain is an Emotional Overlay
[27:23] Making It Okay for Men to Connect
[30:04] Connecting to Surrender & Trusting our Heart
[32:13] Noticing our Interconnectedness in Infinite Silence

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Connecting to Aussie Action Abroad ~ Episode 97 ~ My Conversation with Graeme Kent OAM

From managing the Duke of Edinburgh Award to creating a charity called Aussie Action Abroad is this conversation about connection. It’s a charity that’s connected to providing 100% focus on supporting projects in Nepal.

[0:40] Connecting to the Duke of Edinburgh Award
[2:12] Connection to the Nepalese Communities
[5:45] Connection to Humanity
[7:03] How do we create Inequalities
[9:04] Managing my Triggers to Inequality
[11:16] Connecting to Agency’s Mission
[12:55] Connecting to the Heart of Change
[14:54] Is the Heart of Youth & Community Work Missing?
[17:30] Noticing the Changes in Youth Work Over the Years
[19:21] Connecting to Collaboration or Tendering Separateness
[21:41] Connecting to Mutual Cooperation in Nepal
[23:28] Does organisations need to ‘let go’ for Mutual Cooperation?
[25:10] Connecting to Blissful Moments in Nepal
[26:27] Connecting to the ‘All That Is’
[28:21] Connecting to the Heart & looking Inwardly
[29:29] Loving Unconditionally
[30:34] Men Connection is about Opening Up More
[31:59] Men becoming more Open Hearted
[34:07] Connecting to our Hearts for Charities
[35:59] Connecting Aussies Action Aboard

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Connecting to Your Online Business ~ Episode 96 ~ My conversation with Janet Kafadar

The corporate world and raising a family for many women are not always in parallel alignment. This was Episode 96 guest’s experience and as a career exiting strategist she found the freedom to be the mother she wanted to be. How she did this was to develop online businesses and now mentors other to do the same.

[0:28] My Connection to Career Exiting
[2:01] Experiencing & Noticing my Disconnection
[3:07] Corporate World, Women & Children
[5:29] Connecting to the New & Exiting Old Careers
[7:33] Connecting to what I Love
[8:32] Missing the Collegial Connection
[10:12] How I connect to myself
[11:54] Keeping Connected to your High Energy
[13:26] Connecting to my Down Time
[16:42] Putting my Connection Out there Online
[17:57] Difference in Women & Men’s Connection
[19:05] Women Openly Connect to Vulnerability
[20:04] Being Up Front with Connecting to Men
[20:41] Women have more Trust in Connections
[21:44] Connections to Others Enlivens Me
[23:59] Accepting our Deep Need for Connections
[24:59] Developing Self-Care Post Corporate Life
[25:31] Connecting to my ‘All That Is’
[27:12] My Connection to God & Church
[30:24] Connection to God & Church Lifts my Heart
[31:27] My Advice for Younger Janet ~ Patience

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Connecting to our Heart’s Depth ~ Episode 95 ~ My Conversation with Guy D Craft

This conversation is about one person’s journey into self-development wanting to better himself by coming home to his deep true self ~ his passion & purpose. The journey takes into the depths of his heart & mind and the deep learnings meditation has opened him to.

[0:24] Connection to Podcasting
[1:54] Connecting to Oneself
[4:20] Letting Go
[5.42] Connecting with an Ego-Death
[7:03] Men’s Ego Defence Shields
[10:46] Connecting with our bodies
[12:03] Connecting to our Kundalini energy
[14:32] Connecting to our Cell Regeneration
[15:45] Non-attachment Process
[16:26] Connecting to my Spaciousness
[17:16] Connecting to our Shadow Work
[18:33] Connecting to Meditation Practice
[19:44] Noticing my Analytical Mind
[20:44] Connecting to my Flow-State
[21:34] World Peace if Men connecting to Heart of Flow-State
[22:25] Connecting to our True Home
[23:24] Connecting to my ‘All That Is’
[26:51] Connecting to the Beauty of Western Australia
[28:07] Disconnecting from my Body in my Analytical Mind
[29:28] Men Connecting to their Vulnerability
[31:10] Aligning with Our Higher Self
[32:33] Connecting to my Passion & Purpose

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Connecting to the Heart of Families ~ Episode 94 ~ My Conversation with Sharon Chemello

We are connecting to the energy of a teacher, a mum who loves to coach families. She has a deep passion and care for our environment creating a community called the Plastic Crusaders. This group works to stop the spread of plastic in our oceans and across the landfill. Her generosity connects to supporting families in the COVID19 pandemic.

[0:42] Connecting with Families in Coaching
[2:47] Crusaders against Plastic my Connection to Community
[3:33] My Journey to the Heart of Relationships
[6:36] Connecting to Meditation
[8:26] Connecting to my 5 Gratitude Statements
[10:24] Recognising my Disconnection to Reconnect
[11:39] Attending to Memories Arising in Meditation
[13:22] Connecting to Whatever Needs to Connected Too
[14:58] Healing our Relational Triggers
[16:18] Connecting to our 3 Universal Fears
[17:16] Connecting to Change
[18:29] Connection to Others the Positive Neuro-Chemicals
[19:59] Connecting Beyond our Survival Needs
[21:58] Young Men Connecting Through Gaming
[22:54] Connecting from the Heart
[24:25] Being Clear & Authentic with our Boundaries
[25:30] Connecting to the ‘All That Is’ ~ takes me Deeper & Deeper
[27:19] Connection to Nature – Overwhelmed in Joyful Energy
[28:40] Connecting to ‘All That Is’ ~ we are connected wider
[29:55] Connecting to the Power of Collective Energy
[31:28] My Advice for a Younger Sharon
[32:15] Connecting to my Gift of Healing Myself

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Connecting to Leadership ~ Episode 93 ~ My Conversation with Robert Re

A fascination and connection to Leadership and Self-Leadership have been a life-long journey for this guest. Robert Re has been leading leadership workshops and has now written a book putting all his life’s research into a great resource to implement into our own life’s.

[0:34] My Fascination with Leadership
[1:12] Connecting to Self-Leadership within ourselves
[2:02] Step One ~ Becoming Aware of Oneself
[3:46] Connecting to our Voluntary Self-Enquiry
[5:15] The Blocks of our Effectiveness
[6:47] Acceptance of Vulnerability in Organisations
[8:51] Have Organisations Lost their Hearts to Profit?
[10:24] “Spiritual Capital” is Good for Business
[11:40] Connection Across All Stakeholders
[14:21] Leading People to Connect to their Self-Leadership
[17:00] Connecting to Change through Feedback Loops
[18:42] Connecting to Organisational Flow-States
[19:31] Flow-states are called Perfect Alignment
[21:00] Organisation Vertical Structure Block Flow
[23:53] Six Practices to Improve Effectiveness
[24:46] Finding our Organisations Purpose
[26:22] What is our Organisational Why?
[28:03] Implementing the 6 Proven Pathways into My Life
[29:38] Connecting to my Purpose
[30:53] Connecting to the Ikigai Concept

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