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Increase your calm, focus and happiness so you can be more relaxed, contented and satisfied with your life. For business, entrepreneurs, educators, parents. Hosted by Bruce Langford.
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Sunday May 03, 2020
Sunday May 03, 2020
Aubree Nichols is an avid writer, calling herself a feminine feminist. Her writing for The Week, Observer, and Elite Daily have made her a resonant voice in the self-love movement, which she believes is the ultimate love story. She believes simply, that love changes the world. Aubree has a degree in Organizational Change, and cultivates community and ignites creativity within organizations with her proprietary workshop, Stoked! Her spirit animal is the Black Swan.
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Contact Info
- Website: AubreeNichols.com
- Writing: aubreenichols.com/writing
- Book: Darkness Before Light by Aubree Nichols (contributor)
- Instagram: @aubreenichols
Most Influential Person
- Glennon Doyle Melton, author of Love Warrior
Effect on Emotions
- “I have an intense emotional life so, I would say it has made me more steady and less reactive.”
- “It has given me pause in between thoughts and actions.”
Thoughts on Breathing
- “Breathing is the power that we all have within us. It tells our body that everything is just fine.”
Suggested Resources
- Book: Darkness Before Light by Aubree Nichols (contributor)
- Book: Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There by Tara Schuster
- Book: Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
- App: Insight Timer
Bullying Story
- “I think have always been my own worst bully. People could be saying good things about me but in my brain, I would just think that they are all lying. My internal chatter was so against me.”
Friday May 01, 2020
Friday May 01, 2020
Keep Calm and Meditate With Your Kids is a Facebook Group put together by two mothers, Tahmina Watson and Jigna Patel. They feature live meditations on weekdays at 3:00 PDT / 6:00 EDT. I was honored to be a guest meditator and am now making the meditation available to you, Mindful Tribe.
The idea of a Gratitude Tree is not new, but you'll see I've taken this concept and added some of my personal creativity to it.
Although this meditation was originally presented for children and their families, as an adult you will probably enjoy it too.
Thanks for listening to The Gratitude Tree Guided Meditation by me, Bruce Langford.
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Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Adam Lewis Walker is a Leadership & New Media Speaker and 2 x Best-selling Author. He hosts the top-ranked podcasts ‘The TalkXcelerator' and ‘Awaken Your Alpha' interviewing the world’s elite minds in over 400 episodes since early 2014. A former teacher and international pole-vaulter, Adam was attempting to reach the Olympics in 2008 when his career was cut short by a freak accident. Adam gave the TEDx talk Awaken Your Alpha, How to Rise Up and has been featured in The Huffington Post, ESPN, PodFest, Influencers Radio and many more. In 2018 “Awaken Your Alpha – Tales & Tactics To Thrive” also became an international bestseller on it's release.
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- Website: www.TalkXcelerator.com
- Website: www.AYAlpha.com
- Instagram: @AdamLewisWalker
- Podcast: TalkXcelerator: How To Get A TedX Talk
- Podcast: Awaken Your Alpha: Tales and Tactics To Thrive by Adam Lewis Walker
Most Influential Person
- Seneca – Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist.
Effect on Emotions
- “Adversity happens to us all so for me, it's not a shock when it happens. I'm more aware now.”
Thoughts on Breathing
- “I'm a big believer of move and breathe. I'd like to walk to the gym and practice my breathing with my steps.”
Suggested Resources
- Book: The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday
- Book: Awaken Your Alpha: Tales and Tactics to Thrive by Adam Lewis Walker
- App: Pomodoro Apps like Focus Planner Focus Keeper
Bullying Story
- “I was a very little guy in school. I was the smallest guy, by far. One guy would always come up to me and punch me in the arm. I did not punch back.”
- “They also force me to swear but I did not do it because it is uncool to not swear.”
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Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Stacy Bahrenfuss has uniquely integrated mindfulness and meditation practices into her real estate company, Catalyst Group. She uses her Limitless Mindset practice as a tool to help people learn how to become a magnet for success. Stacy started her real estate company at the early age of 19, sustained through the housing crisis of 2007-2010, and continued to build the business to be a 7-figure operation and one of the top real estate teams in the state of Idaho. She has personally funded a development project consisting of 11 upper-tier new luxury homes while still operating her real estate team. Stacy also brings over a decade of experience in meditation, personal development, and results coaching.
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Contact Info
- Company: Catalyst Real Estate
- Website: LimitlessRealtorCircle.com
Most Influential Person
- Preethaji and Krishnaji of the O&O Academy
Effect on Emotions
- “It has allowed me to manage my emotions. Be aware and allow them to exist, not to change them.”
Thoughts on Breathing
- “It fuels everything.”
- “It's very important because it's always with you. You can take it wherever you go and lean on with it.”
Suggested Resources
- Book: The Four Sacred Secrets by Preethaji and Krishnaji
- App: The Breathing Room
Bullying Story
- “What's interesting about bullying is where that bully child is coming from. Quite often, it's a scream for help or it's the way to cope with emotions that they don't understand.”
- “Being aware of that is what I have to offer.”
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Jack Canfield is well-known for one of the most successful series of books of all time, The Chicken Soup For The Soul books. Although I would call him a mindset expert, he didn’t grow up around a self-help mentality. His mother was an alcoholic and his father was a workaholic. Later, through his determination, Jack became familiar with certain principles of success that he used in the late 1980s to create the Chicken Soup For the Soul series, even after being turned down by 144 publishers. Jack shares the same principles of success that he used to succeed back in the ‘80s, in his book, The Success Principles: How To Get From Where You Are to Where You Want To Be. Now Jack’s most recent book, The Success Principles Workbook, is available as a powerful companion guide to the original publication.
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Most Influential Person
- Dawa Tarchin Phillips, Tibetan Buddhist lama and mindfulness teacher: www.DawaTarchinPhillips.com
Effect on Emotions
- It's kept me much more calm and much more neutral. Sometimes people think I don't have any feelings.
- The truth is, I've learned that most of my feelings come from thoughts and if I'm aware of the thoughts and can deal with them at that level, then I don't have to have the emotional outbursts.
- I still cry when I see cats and skunks playing together on YouTube. I love interspecies things and I cry at movies. I don't cry so much about loss. I cry more at the joy of beauty and love.
Thoughts on Breathing
- I do breathing exercises as part of my yoga and my meditation practices in the morning.
- My wife and I just spent a month in India; the whole month of February. We had a private yoga instructor who started with 30 minutes of breathing exercises and then 30 minutes of yoga.
- I studied Kundalini Yoga with a yoga teacher back in my '30s [and learned] to do that breath of fire real fast.
Suggested Resources
- Book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Books: Anything by Thich Nhat Hanh (Here's an example: The Art of Living)
- App: I'm not a huge app guy, other than the CNN Newsfeed on Facebook
Bullying Story
- My dad was an alcoholic and he got violent when he got drunk he would rage and if I wasn't careful I would get beaten, so I would literally hide inside the radio.
- I would wait till he went to bed so he couldn't find me because he was violent. So I got bullied by him. He was a verbal bully as well as a physical bully.
- I got bullied as a kid too [in school]. They always teased the new kid that came in and I was the new kid.
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Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Johnathan Grzybowski, is the co-founder of Penji, a platform that gives you on-demand access to the top two percent of designers in the world. Penji has been named as a “top startup to watch” according to Philadelphia Magazine and acknowledged as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America according to Inc. Johnathan has also founded multiple marketing-related startups and his daily life is peppered with mindfulness practices.
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- Company: Penji
- Website: Penji.co
- Podcast: Blind Entrepreneurship
Most Influential Person
- n/a
Effect on Emotions
- “My goal now is to more to take a step back and be mindful of the other person's time and attention and not react as quickly as I once did.”
Thoughts on Breathing
- “It isn't a technique but it's something that I'm mindful of because sometimes I forgot breathing even when I'm meditating.”
- “I need to get better at it.”
Suggested Resources
- Book: Never Get A Real Job by Scott Gerber
- App: n/a
Bullying Story
- “I was called “gay” and the “F” word in any type of egocentric situation in high school.”
- “If it wasn't for those moments, I wouldn't be able to handle some of the situations that I'm in as an adult.”
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Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Jerry Yudelson is the Earth Day co-founder and author of the upcoming memoir, The Godfather of Green: An Eco-Spiritual Memoir. In The Godfather of Green: An Eco-Spiritual Memoir, Jerry shows how the serious practice of meditation and mindfulness can go hand-in-hand with practical and radical ecology. The message is simple: change yourself before you try to change the world. This edict is close to Jerry’s heart and he has become known worldwide as “The Godfather of Green.”
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- Website: www.JerryYudelson.net
- Blog: www.ReinventingGreenBuilding.com
Most Influential Person
- My first teacher, Swami Muktananda
Effect on Emotions
- Occasionally you might have a blip of anger or sometimes you might think someone is being a little unfair. It's at that time that something kicks in.
- There's nothing to be angry about, instead how can you understand what this person is trying to say or what they are doing.
Thoughts on Breathing
- Breathe in deep, breathe out long.
- I have this app on my Apple watch and every now and then it pops up and says breathe. For 60 seconds you can stop and breathe and it will give you a tap on the shoulder.
- You begin to see this connection between mind and breath as a pathway into meditation but also as an awareness [asking] am I breathing now, am I calm and centered? Because if you're breathing deeply in and out, you're going to be calm and centered. It's impossible not to be.
Suggested Resources
- Book: Play of Consciousness: A Spiritual Autobiography by Swami Muktananda
- App: Breathe (on Gerry's Apple watch)
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Jennie Bellinger is a Certified Professional Coach and is known as The Direct Sales Domme. Her mission is to guide aspiring direct sales leaders in growing personal sales through focus, motivation, and accountability. Jennie is trained in NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming), and uses these techniques to help clients transform their mindsets so they can become more positive and forward-moving. Jennie is the host of the Badass Direct Sales Mastery podcast and helps direct sales moms whip their business into shape. Jennie is a Certified Professional Coach, so her methods aren't painful, but are very effective.
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- Company: Badass Direct Sales Mastery
- Website: BadassDirectSalesMastery.com
- Podcast: Badass Direct Sales Mastery
Most Influential Person
- Jack Canfield
Effect on Emotions
- “It definitely keeps things calmer. It doesn't allow freak outedness”
Thoughts on Breathing
- “It is something that I'm working on getting better at.”
Suggested Resources
Bullying Story
- “Bullying doesn't stop in school. I was bullied online in a professional setting by someone who is threatened by my presence in the workplace.”
- “Mindfulness truly helped because every time the person does something, I put my phone down and walk away.”
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Tom Schwab is fully immersed in the podcast industry as CEO of Interview Valet; a concierge-level podcast interview marketing service. Tom is an avid mindfulness enthusiast and is passionate to point out how podcast guesting can help you thrive during this COVID19 pandemic the world is currently experiencing. Tom teaches how being a guest on podcasts can get you long-term return on investment (ROI) that beats blogging, advertising, or social media postings. You can use podcast interviews as a virtual book tour, as a powerful SEO strategy, to propel your own podcast, and to create huge brand awareness.
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- Company: Interview Valet
- Website: www.InterviewValet.com/mindfulnessmode
- Blog: www.InterviewValet.com/blog
- Book: Podcast Guest Profits: Grow Your Business With A Targeted Interview Strategy by Tom Schwab
- Podcast: Coming Soon
Most Influential Person
- Jen Groover, Author of What If? and Why Not? How to Transform Your Fears Into Action and Start the Business of Your Dreams
Effect on Emotions
- Mindfulness has helped me enjoy the highs and the lows instead of being painful in the highs and the lows.
Thoughts on Breathing
- I've learned from running that if I can control and slow down my breathing, that makes the difference as to whether it's a happy run or where I'm panting for life.
- It's the same thing in stressful situations.
Suggested Resources
- Book: Podcast Guest Profits: Grow Your Business With A Targeted Interview Strategy by Tom Schwab
- Book: Thou Shall Prosper: 10 Commandments For Making Money by Rabbi Daniel Lapin
- App: Focus
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