Today’s episode on Gateways to Awakening is with Elisabeth Weinstock, a multifaceted entrepreneur and dedicated philanthropist based in Los Angeles. Elisabeth's philanthropic journey is deeply rooted in her commitment to social justice and rehabilitation. She regularly visits prisons to offer guidance and support to inmates, educating them about the choices they can make to transform their lives, helping them overcome chemical dependency, embrace educational and rehabilitative programs to reintegrate into society and more.

We talk about the following and so much more:

1- Key programs or initiatives she has developed within the prison system and their primary goals

2- Some of the most significant challenges she has faced in her work, and how she has overcome them

3- What initially inspired her to get involved in the prison system and working with those coming out of prison and exploring rehabilitation

4- The most effective strategies for rehabilitating inmates and preparing them for reintegration into society

5- How she measures the impact of her programs on inmates, and success stories that highlight their effectiveness

6- How she addresses mental health issues for those who are getting out of prison, and what types of support does she believe are crucial for inmate well-being

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Today’s episode on Gateways to Awakening is with Darryl Anka - known as "Bashar", who has given seminars around the world for 40 years on the subject of metaphysics via Bashar Communications, Inc. which is owned and operated by April Rochelle. Over 20 books, based on his seminars, have been published in the United States and Japan, with more books on the way. Recordings and additional information can be found at www.bashar.org.

We talk about the following and so much more: 

- What we are doing here on this earth. 

- What is time? How he would describe the concept of time, and 

   how can understanding this concept change our perception of 

   reality

- Do we have control over our reality? 

- Parallel realities and how individuals can navigate them

- How we should handle challenges and obstacles in our spiritual 

   journey

- How does Bashar’s concept of “following your highest 

  excitement” work, and what impact can it have on one’s life? 

  - How is AI going to impact our future as humans? What are       some of the themes that we should be aware of? 

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On today’s episode, I sit down with Mariana Fresnedo -  an engineer and passionate about Quantum Mechanics. She was a true skeptic about all the mystical energetic world; until she found spirituality - or like she says: “the Spirirt found her”  through the bridge of science, quantum physics and spirituality.  She is also a hypnotherapist by Healing Hypnosis Foundation. She has postgraduate degree in Bioneuroemotion® at the Enric Corbera Institute. 

She is a facilitator of The Work® of Byron Katie, a method of self-inquiry and questioning of beliefs.  She is a facilitator Mindfulness Meditation from the Mexican Institute of Mindfulness; YogaBody® Breathing Techniques Coach and Rising Star® Energy Healing Therapy Facilitator. 

She is a speaker and develops mental health programs for big corporates and has one of the largest online plataforms with workshops for Spanish speakers.  She is the Founder of the QuantumQuip® platform, and the Co-Founder of Quantum Leap Training™, a method of thought-emotion  inquiry, returning to balance, reprogram the mind and establishing the conscious observer.

We talk about the following and so much more: 

✅ Why is understanding your mind an important skill set 

✅ Why are so many people stuck in the same negative loop? 

✅ How she worked with Bruce Lipton

✅ How to retrain your awareness 

✅ Why knowledge by itself is not useful 

✅ How she applies  the knowledge of quantum physics to the physics of our life

✅ The quantum leap training method

✅ Some of the biggest themes she’s heard from her audience when it comes to limiting beliefs about money and abundance? 

✅ The importance of becoming a different version of ourselves 

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On today’s episode, I speak with Carista Luminare who has more than 40 years experience as a counselor, consultant and educator to individuals, couples and families. In her private counseling practice, she integrates her lifelong research on how our early bonding patterns profoundly impact our self-identity and adult relationship dynamics. Her powerful life-changing programs bring participants into direct experience and embodiment of their True Self. Carista has developed a comprehensive holistic parenting methodology, a leading-edge evolutionary leadership program, and a practical approach for couples to rewire insecure bonding into a secure functioning relationship. After graduating from Harvard University in Psychology and Social Relations in 1978, and completing her post-graduate degrees, Carista pioneered educational programs on early attachment that focused on preventing and repairing childhood developmental trauma. She has been certified in both the Gottman Method and Stan Tatkin’s PACT Institute. As President of Luminary Leadership Institute, she coaches leaders how to be pro-relational. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Why are so many people confused about love? ✅ What are some of the 4 attachment styles? ✅ What is codependency? Why does it occur? ✅ What are some ways that we can heal codependency? ✅ What is narcissism? Why does it occur? How can you tell when someone is a narcissist? ✅ What about people-pleasers? Why are they the greatest victims of naracissists? ✅ What are some ways to heal narcissism? ✅ What is enmeshment and how does it start? ✅ Can you talk to us about your own journey in healing co-dependency? If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s show, I speak with Estella Bingham, who has been described as ‘The Heart Whisperer’. She has been supporting others to find more Love, Purpose & Connection in their lives for over 20 years. Fourth generation psychic and a meditator since the age of 6 years old, having learned ™ (Transcendental Meditation) the journey of the Soul has been an integral part of her life since the very beginning. She is committed to helping others Heal, express Truth, and embrace and embody their true Joy and Potential. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to “live in your heart”? ✅ Some of the ways Estelle helps people reconnect with their hearts and inner wisdom ✅ What it means to be an intuitive and how she evaluates and heals people ✅ What it means to have radical self-acceptance and self-love? ✅ Why we are here on this earth? Is there such a thing as karma? I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected

Today’s episode is with the prolific Gary Malkin, an Emmy award-winning composer, performer, & public speaker whose work redefines the role of music as a transformational resource to catalyze greater awareness, compassion & empathy. Gary’s passion is to create transformative ways to musically enhance spoken messages from the visionaries of our time to help us embrace life’s transitions with greater gratitude and Grace. The globally acclaimed listening resource, Graceful Passages, co-produced with healers Michael and Doris Stillwater, is considered the most effective work of its kind and includes beautiful stories with Desmond Tutu and Thich Nat Han. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ How does music have the power to heal? ✅ How we can harness the power of music to alleviate grief and or support the end of life process for loved ones finding it difficult to accept, show up, and allow the process to organically unfold? ✅Some of the ways he is using music to help with other things like childbirth, bonding, and other major life events? ✅ Working with Desmond Tutu and Thich Nat Han and the alchemical wisdom from the work created ✅ How we can learn to integrate the power of the heart in all the things we do and say In Fall 2022, he’ll be launching the second season of his popular Gaia TV contemplative film series, “Islands of Inner Peace”, streaming to 130 countries. A contributing author for the best-selling book, “Womb to Thrive”, revealing conscious birthing innovations, Gary and his collaborator, Lisa Rafel, are currently finishing an original musical theatre project entitled “Can You Hear Me Baby?” about the power of birth, bonding, and the miracle of life. WisdomoftheWorld.com I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about developing intimacy and stronger connections with Lisa Kalfus, a heart-led Human Connection Facilitator, Experience Designer and Coach, and the founder and Chief Connector of Firestart Connections. She is deeply passionate about helping people create strong, authentic relationships by quickly elevating conversations from small talk to real talk to ignite a more connected life and workplace culture. As the creator of Connection Hour™, a powerful experience that ignites meaningful conversations to deepen relationships, she is on a mission to help professionals and teams have better conversations to connect better with anyone. Lisa is a Certified Facilitator of the Xchange Method, which centers around choreographing conversations that drive exponential outcomes, and specializes in leading conversations that empower you to maximize any interaction by guiding ways to powerfully connect below the surface with ease and confidence to overcome fear, discomfort and feeling misunderstood to feel more seen, fulfilled and deeply connected. You can learn more about Lisa’s work here: https://xchangeapproach.com/xchange-guide/lisa-kalfus/ We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Some of the biggest misconceptions people have about connection and developing intimacy ✅ Why we have so much breakdown in feeling understood and also trying to understand others ✅ Some practical tips for people who want to develop stronger intimacy with others ✅ What kind of questions should we be asking others to feel seen and heard, and how do you connect with others who have very little self-awareness or might seem vastly different from a cultural context? ✅ Some of the ways she coaches corporate teams. ✅ The Connection Hour I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today's show, I speak with Dominick Quartuccio, the founder of The Great Man Within, a community of masterminds for men working on personal leadership, cultivating depth, and finding purpose. The Great Man Within is also a podcast with over 300 episodes on high-performance habits, redefining masculinity, and intentional lifestyle design. Dominick is the author of two books: 1) Design Your Future: 3 Simple Steps to Stop Drifting and Start Living and 2) On Purpose Leadership: Master the Art of Leading Yourself to Inspire and Impact Others. His work has been featured in the NY Times, NPR, and the TEDx stage. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Some of the biggest misconceptions women have about men ✅ What it means to be an embodied male ✅ How he coaches men to find their purpose ✅ How men can show up as their best selves in their relationships ✅ What it means to show up authentically in relationships ✅ What it means to be a great leader, and how you coach men on showing up as leaders ✅ What some of the major misconceptions men have about women I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about inner voice v mind-chatter with Adriana Reid. Her area of expertise focuses on public and human relations through human development. Her mission is to walk people through the wonder of new possibilities, by helping them discover and solve their inner fears by becoming responsible for their actions and deeds despite any circumstance -their background, nationality, and/ or invisible wounds. Her experience working with unaccompanied immigrant children, veterans of war, and victims of crime and domestic violence, through guiding them to overcome symptoms of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), as well as in the field of education working with children and adolescents of school age in emotional health issues, behavior, prevention, and rehabilitation of addictions make her sensitive to the processes of adaptation, social rehabilitation, and acculturation processes. You can learn more about her and her work here: https://be2be-coaching.com/ We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What is mind chatter and how is that different from the inner voice? ✅ How are our feeling-level decisions stored in our subconscious? ✅ How do we go about working with our child, adolescent, parent, or ego. ✅ How do we cultivate a healthy dialogue with ourselves? ✅ What is the “emergency meeting”? ✅ What the spiral model technique is and how it works I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about Sound healing and how to build a template inside yourself with Nacho Arimany. Nacho is Neuro-composer (musician for the brain) multi-instrumentalist and international speaker. Nacho Arimany is a master ethnic percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer whose music career began at age six as a classical piano student and singer with the Spanish National Choir and Orchestra. He possesses a highly unique blend of talents and diverse capabilities as a producer, performer, and musician for the brain. Creator of the Arimany Method, an innovative voice and movement technique that promotes peak performance and brain coherence through body and brain waves entrainment with natural harmonic patterns, and Co-producer and composer of “ InTime”, a fully orchestrated rhythmic based sound therapeutic listening program designed for brain health and brain performance co-produced with Sheila Allen and Alex Doman for Advanced Brain Technologies distributed in 35 countries for the treatment of Autism, Brain damage, ADD, ADHD, Alzheimer’s and depression. I have personally worked with Nacho, and first learned about him through Summit. He is a profound healer, and I highly recommend him and his sound healing philosophy. You can listen to the entire episode here: We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What sound means to Nacho ✅ How sound impacts us on a physical, spiritual, and emotional level ✅ The most important sounds and why ✅ What the Arimany method is and how it works? ✅ What the golden ratio is, and why is this important? ✅ How do we create our reality? How does sound play into this? ✅ What are some of the musical instruments he enjoys playing and why? I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about how to own your thoughts and create your reality with Althea Montgomery, the owner of Creative Clearings. She's a Quantum Energy Healer and Intuitive Business Strategist She simplifies the subject of energy healing making it practical, fun to maximize positive results in people's personal and professional lives! I have personally worked with Althea and she is an incredible healer who has helped me a lot. Her website is: www.creativeclearings.com We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to create your life and your own reality ✅ What energy and vibration mean. ✅ How do our thoughts create our reality? ✅ How can we change our thoughts? ✅ What is quantum healing? What does it mean and how does it works? I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about living a creative life and the wisdom of the tarot card deck with the prolific Kim Krans, a visionary artist, author, and creator of the New York Times bestseller The Wild Unknown Tarot. Kim is a visionary artist, author, and creator of the New York Times bestseller The Wild Unknown Tarot. A prolific creative influenced by a range of mystical traditions, Kim has published three oracle decks and guidebooks, one memoir, an interactive journal, notebooks and a notecard set, and five children's books. Kim is also known for her work as a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and musician. Kim is widely known as the Queen of Tarot, and is completing her New York Times bestselling deck collection with The Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck, which debuts in June. I absolutely love her decks, and it’s been so fascinating to learn more about her and her creative process. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to live a creative life ✅ What does it even mean to be “creative”? I think this term is loosely defined ✅ What the tarot is and why Alchemy is important? ✅ What inspired her to create each deck ✅ What is different about the newest deck, The Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck? I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode, I speak with Terri Cole, a licensed psychotherapist, global relationship and empowerment expert, and the author of Boundary Boss-The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free. For over two decades, Terri has worked with a diverse group of clients that includes everyone from stay-at-home moms to celebrities and Fortune 500 CEOs. She has a gift for making complex psychological concepts accessible and actionable so that clients and students achieve sustainable change. She inspires over 450,000 people weekly through her blog, social media platform, signature courses, and her popular podcast, The Terri Cole Show. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What are boundaries and how we can establish clear boundaries ✅ What enmeshment is and how does it start? ✅ What is repetition compulsion ✅ What is the resentment container? Why is this an important part of the work? ✅ What does it mean to be codependent? Why does this occur? ✅ What is narcissism, and how does it occur? ✅ How you can tell when someone is a narcissist? ✅ Some of the ways we can relate to each other in healthy ways in a relationship ✅ The most effective ways to deal with conflict in a relationship I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is with Melissa Berton, an Academy Award-Winning Producer. Eleanor Roosevelt Global Women’s Rights Recipient. Forbes 50 Over 50 Honoree. The Pad Project, Founder | Executive Director.

Melissa Berton, lifelong advocate for girls and women, has taught English at Oakwood Secondary School in Los Angeles for over a decade. As faculty advisor for Girls Learn International, a program of The Feminist Majority Foundation advocating for equal access to education across genders, she has thrice participated as a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, leading the largest student delegation from a single high school. 

In 2013, following that first U.N. trip, Melissa inspired her students to produce a documentary to raise awareness about menstrual health and education worldwide, leading to a 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, Period. End of Sentence. The Oscar win sparked a global conversation about period poverty and menstrual equality?

We talk about the following and so much more: 

✅ How does she address cultural taboos and misconceptions surrounding menstruation as a teacher

✅What role can schools and educational institutions play in destigmatizing menstruation and promoting menstrual health

✅ Why she created the documentary Period? 

✅ What inspired her to start the Pad Project and become an advocate for menstrual hygiene and education

✅ How access to menstrual products and education about menstruation can impact the lives of individuals and communities

✅ Some of the biggest challenges she has faced in advocating for menstrual equity, and how have she worked to overcome them

✅ Memorable stories or experiences from your work with the Pad Project that have particularly resonated with her 

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On today's episode, I’ll be speaking with Maureen St. Germain, who has over 25 years of experience in the area of mystical and sacred traditions. Known as the Practical Mystic, Maureen is a prolific teacher and facilitator of spiritual knowledge for contemporary life. As an Internationally acclaimed Ascension teacher has been granted access to a dimension that has been closed to most of humanity for eons and is a direct channel to Source. Her latest book Mastering your 5D Self follows on the heels of the award winning, best-selling Book Waking Up in 5D and Beyond the Flower of Life. Maureen has taught in person in 24 countries, as well as the American Centers Kripalu and Omega Institute. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to master our energy ✅ How you can remove other people’s energy from your space ✅ What it means to be a higher dimensional being ✅ What does 3D v. 5D mean? ✅ Some of the ways that people can raise their energy and vibration ✅ The Akashic Records, and how can we open them (and she gives me an Akashic Records reading live) ✅ How we can learn to trust our Higher Self ✅ How we are creating our own reality - and how to change it I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Beth McDougall, MD who has been in medical practice since 1998 and is founder and medical director of the Integrative Medical Clinic, CLEAR Center of Health, serving the San Francisco, Bay area since 2002. Dr. McDougall is the co-founder and medical director of the cutting edge, bio-optimization Lab, Jyzen Labs opening May 2022. Dr. McDougall is currently architecting a new medical paradigm at the intersection of medicine and contemporary physics. Her new book, Your Pristine Blueprint, explores her life journey and professional experience that led to her current understanding about the energetic basis of health and disease rooted in our degree of resonance with the Unified field. I was introduced to Beth through Dr. Francesca McCartney from the Academy of Intuition Medicine. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What she means by “the field that connects us all”. ✅ How matter emerges out of the Unified Field? ✅ How to determine our pristine blueprint ✅ How sound impacts our lives ✅ How to heal dissonant signatures in our energy field ✅ The “human biofield”, and how other people’s energy or stuck energy show up ✅ How thinking affects our physiology and Dr. Pert’s work on emotions. ✅ What she measn when she says we must “know” ourselves ✅ She talks about relationships and what the essential factors that allow a relationship to become a vessel for profound transformation I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about how to heal your body through ayurvedic wisdom. Dr. Vatsala Sperling, MS, PhD, PDHom, CCH, RSHom, was the Chief of Clinical Microbiology services at a children’s hospital in Chennai, India, when she published extensively and conducted research with WHO, Denmark. On moving to the USA to start a family, Vatsala pursued an education in Homeopathy with Misha Norland’s school. She is an author of ten books including her latest is The Ayurvedic Reset Diet. She can be reached via her website: www.Rochesterhomeopathy.com We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What the word Ayuverdic means? And what is the “Ayuverdic perspective”? ✅ What it means to live and eat with the seasons ✅ Some of the major principles of the ayurvedic reset diet ✅ What the doshas are and why they are important to understand ✅ If we can start immediately and lean into ayurvedic principles ✅ Some of the challenges we might have when starting an ayurvedic diet ✅ Some of her daily go-to herbs I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about thriving through uncertainty, and creating the work you love, with Tama Kieves. Tama is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School who left her law practice to write and help others create their most extraordinary lives. She is the bestselling author of: This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love, Inspired & Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in your Life’s Work!, and A Year without Fear: 365 Days of Magnificence. Her most recent book is Thriving through Uncertainty. Featured in USA TODAY, Forbes, Oprah Radio, and more she is a sought-after speaker and visionary career/success coach, who has helped thousands world-wide to discover, launch, and thrive in the life, calling and businesses of their dreams. www.TamaKieves.com We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ How we deal with and hold uncertainty and why its a superpower ✅Why finding faith and taking a vow is critical. ✅How we cultivate our own authentic life path, and how we stay true to ourselves ✅Why she says that we shouldnt take advice, or that we should think twice before we do ✅How we become fully alive in our lives. How can we become wildly successful in our work I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode, I speak with Mona Sobhani, a cognitive neuroscientist, researcher, and author with over 15 years of experience. You can purchase her book, Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist’s Discovery of the Mysteries of the Universe here: https://tinyurl.com/4axcpbnt We speak about the following and so much more: ✅ In her book, she says, the “old me” would have hated the “new me”, and what she means by that ✅ Why she decided to study neuroscience ✅ In her book she says that “the brain is a storyteller” and it's not always based in truth, because of the left brain interpreter. She talks about the “split brain experiment”. ✅ How our fears impact our perception and how do our current beliefs impact our perception ✅ How the work of Laura Lynn Jackson and Brian Weiss’s Many Lives, Many Masters influenced her ✅ At what point she started to move away from the idea of a random meaningless universe to one that perhaps had some order, and purpose? ✅ How science and spirituality coexist I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with Pierre Tham, a celebrated chef, restaurateur, author, entrepreneur and environmental activist. His TED talk “A forgotten ancient grain that could help Africa prosper” moved me, and I felt his story was so powerful that we had to have him on the show. Big thanks to our mutual friend Nicole Patrice who put us in touch. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ How his journey bringing West African and Senegalese cooking and food started ✅ What the food industry means to him ✅ What people misunderstand about this food ✅ Which African food is under-appreciated in the western world ✅ The experience in bringing Sengalese food to NYC and what the reaction is so far ✅ How Pierre’s journey impacted the people of Africa I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I’ll be speaking with Nicole Marie, the pedagogista at Evergreen Community School, a progressive social constructivist preschool in Santa Monica that’s been educating children, teachers, and conducting teacher research for over forty years. She was a founding member and a mentor teacher for the PilaGlobal, which has been a hub for discourse in early childhood, and currently builds and supports educational spaces for young children displaced by poverty world wide. An educator and writer, she was the lead writer for Patagonia’s award nominated book Family Business: Innovative On- Site Child Care Since 1983. Her work training and consulting with schools has taken her into educational spaces all over the country and world. A long time Buddhist meditator and practitioner of Soulmaking Dharma, there is a strong connection between her understandings of human consciousness and imagination and what it means to serve young children and their families. In 2022, Nicole and Evergreen Community School will be publishing “The Pencil is Me: a Collection of Poetry by Young Children,” which is a selection of poems collected from over a decade’s poetry written by two to five-year-olds. We talk about the following and more: ✅ Why understanding children is so important? And how have we misunderstood them? ✅ How the view people have of children and childhood impact and structure children's live ✅ Where most people get stuck or misunderstand young children ✅ What the value of children and childhoodmeans in the wider culture ✅What children have to teach us about the role of imagination in a well lived life ✅ What happens to schools and our perspective on what education is, when we shift the question from what makes a "good education" to what do young people need to learn live a fulfilled human life? I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with best-selling author, artist, and creativity leader SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy. SARK began by creating her iconic How To Be An Artist poster in her Magic Cottage in San Francisco, and has now operated her highly successful creative business for over 30 years. SARK is both a verb and a noun and everything in between – you won’t want to miss this episode! I left the conversation feeling energized and inspired. Her books has sold over three million copies. Her art, programs, products and services have sold around the world. She is an acclaimed teacher and mentor, and her wisdom has touched and transformed the lives of millions. She has a new book called Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing with your wild self. It’s the 25th anniversary edition. We talk about the following and more: ✅ How we develop succulent wild love and the six habits ✅ What the creative process means to her ✅ What it means to tend to and transform your feelings ✅ What “succulent wild communication” is and how we can tap into it ✅ Succulent wild relationships and how we can have them I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I’ll be speaking with Peggy Fitzsimmons who holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and has worked in the fields of counseling and healing for over 25 years. She also lived and worked at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in New York and was a consulting producer on Oprah Winfrey's Emmy-winning TV series Super Soul Sunday. Peggy has utilized her expertise to help many people “get their houses in order” through intensive decluttering. In her book Release: Create a Clutter Free and Soul Driven Life, she shares spiritual and practical insights with readers who want to free themselves from clutter and live in alignment with their true soul nature. We talk about the following and more: ✅ The types of clutter do we often carry in our life ✅ How she works with people to help them declutter ✅ The process she walks people through when it comes to decluttering ✅ Mental clutter, emotional clutter, energetic clutter, relationship clutter, physical clutter, and more. ✅ How some of the people she’s worked with changed their lives by decluttering I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about how to heal through seasonal herbs and listening to the body wisdom with Marysia Miernowska, an herbalist, teacher, author, Earth activist, gardener, and green witch rooted in the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Marysia and some of her students, and she is an incredible teacher and healer. She teaches herbal medicine, regenerative farming practices, Earth magick and holistic healing and is the creator of The School of The Sacred Wild. Her work and devotional practices are centered around the mission of supporting a deepening of the love and regenerative relationship between Earth and People, for the mutual healing of both human and plant communities Marysia makes herbal medicine, runs a yearly apprenticeship program, consults on regenerative land care, designs gardens, formulates for natural healing companies, curates educational events, writes, speaks and teaches internationally. She has authored the book, “The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary: Rituals & Recipes for a Year of Earth Magick and Sacred Medicine Making”. You can follow Marysia on instagram @Marysia_Miernowska. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ What the seasons have to teach us for our own wellness ✅ What it means to live with the seasons ✅ What it means to eat with the seasons ✅ What some of her favorite rituals are ✅ Some of her daily go-to herbs and why ✅ Some of the herbs we should be eating or drinking per season and why ✅ What it means to be a “Wise Woman”? I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode on Gateways to Awakening, I speak with Brandy Gillmore -  a researcher and mind-body healing expert who has been captivating audiences worldwide with her incredible ability to demonstrate radical healing using only the mind. She has even shown proof of the incredible healing results using medical thermal imaging. 

Due to the breakthroughs that she’s made, her case studies have been published in a prestigious medical journal. She has also delivered a mind-expanding TEDx talk and has been featured in several documentaries. Brandy's groundbreaking discoveries stemmed from her own debilitating injury. After an accident in 2003 left her disabled, in excruciating pain, and without hope of recovery, Brandy began searching for a cure. 

When most people think of healing with the mind, they typically associate it with a meditative process. However, Brandy has found that the key to achieving these incredible results requires more than just meditation. In her new book, Master Your Mind and Energy to Heal Your Body, Brandy shares the hidden research that is the key to her success!

Brandy has also become a friend and I am deeply in admiration of her gift as a healer. 

We talk about the following and so much more: 

✅ How can people heal themselves through mind-body technique 

✅ How she guides listeners in identifying and challenging their own limiting beliefs

✅  How she approaches working with clients who may be experiencing resistance or blocks to their healing process

✅ Some practical strategies listeners can use to overcome self-doubt and build confidence in their ability to heal and thrive

✅ How she encourages listeners to take responsibility for their own health and well-being through self-care practices and mindset shifts

✅ Common misconceptions people have about mind-body healing, and how she addresses them in her work

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On today’s episode, I speak with Thornton Streeter, the founder of the Center of Biofield Sciences, now based in Panaji in his own research center after 18 years at the UNESCO, MIT, World Peace Center. He focuses on investigating the anatomy and physiology of the human biofield. In addition, he has also founded the Energy Medicine Exchange and he is a collaborator on the subtle energy imaging system, the Biofield Viewer. Dr. Streeter has spent over twenty-five years specializing in research of the Human Biofield and encourages research worldwide that is designed to integrate modern medicine with the traditional understanding from Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ The different ways that we can look at matter, and some of the misconceptions people have about the human body ✅ What energy medicine is and why it is so important ✅ How the heart and other major organs continue to the importance of the energy field ✅ Our hormonal glands and their importance to understanding energy medicine ✅ What the biofield is and why understanding the biofield is so important ✅ How we can change our own biofield and chakras if they are out of balance ✅ What “wave state medicine”, and what “frequencies” are I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

In today’s episode, I speak with Eden Amadora, a speaker, coach, mentor and spiritual guide. She is a featured author in The New Feminine Evolutionary, Sacred Body Wisdom and Divine Reunion. She is an ordained 13 Moon priestess, a divine feminine mystery school teacher, an archetypal channel, a mystic and a muse. Full disclosure, I am actually several months in her 13 month priestess training and it has been one of the greatest blessings that has entered my life. I’ve learned about the divine feminine archetypes and so much more. I decided to join right after our interview a few months ago, as I was so moved by our conversation. Eden serves the great awakening on Earth by holding a clear compassionate mirror for all, uplifting, inspiring and supporting us to return to the center of our essence beauty to fully embrace ourselves as nothing less than unique. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Why understanding the divine feminine is important ✅ Why the feminine has been suppressed for so long ✅ How we connect with our feminine when so much of the working world rewards masculine charachteristics? ✅ What she means by “feeding the feminine first”? ✅ How we can balance both our masculine and feminine sides? ✅ What archetypes and why they are important to understanding how to embody the divine feminine ✅ What tantra is, and specifically the difference between white tantra and red tantra? I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s show is incredible and frankly, I can’t wait for you all to listen. On today’s episode, I speak with Ulisse Di Corpo who holds degrees in experimental psychology and a PhD in statistics and social research. He works in the field of social research and provides methodological support and software tools to researchers. In 1977 he developed the vital needs theory, which was the subject of his theses in psychology and statistics and stems from the conflict between syntropy and entropy. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What syntropy and entropy means ✅ What it means to “diverge” vs. “converge” ✅ What it means exactly to have brain and heart coherence ✅ The results of some of the experiments he worked on ✅ How we can get into the state of brain and heart coherence and how it relates to our intuition I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen.

Today’s episode on Gateways is with Judith Newman, a globally known spiritual guide. She spent her early childhood in Sri Lanka and migrated to Australia. For as long as she can remember, she’d ask the questions: Who Am I ? and ... Why Am I here? She was drawn to meditation & yoga briefly in her 20's, and in 2004, she had a Profound heart opening and kundalini awakening. She went on a himalayan trekking with Sages & Guru's. She says that Post realization comes with its own challenges, but also wonderful grace & blessings. From her own experience, she would say a guide is vital on this path, and that's what she now offers to those who are ready for their "True Self" , the simple recognition of who they are. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to be a self-realized being? ✅ What it means to be a human and what does it mean to be consciousness? ✅ What our true nature is at our core. ✅ Why we are here ✅ What it means to be an “effortless being”? ✅ How to deal with conflict or suffering I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Greens, who have created AG1, one of the most innovative packets of supplements, including 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help you start your day right. If you purchase today, you’ll get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/yasmeen. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

Today’s episode on Gateways to Awakening is about Lucid Dreaming with Robert Waggoner. Robert has had more than 1,000 lucid dreams. His two books, Lucid Dreaming - Gateway to the Inner Self and Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple (with co-author Caroline McCready) have been translated into French, German, Chinese, Korean and other languages. Robert teaches lucid dreaming internationally and online at www.lucid-dreaming-advice.com to help people access creativity, heal wounds and discover their larger self. We talk about the following and much more: ✅ Why its important to understand our dream state ✅ What it means to lucid dream and the five stages of lucid dreaming ✅ How lucid dreaming is a way to get in touch with the inner self, or the inner observer. ✅ Why he uses a counter-intuitive technique to ignore the dream figures and objects ✅ How we learn and understand what our dreams really mean ✅ How we can use lucid dreaming as a tool for personal growth and transformation Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

You won’t want to miss today’s conversation. On today’s episode, I speak with the incredible Connie Zweig Ph.D., a retired therapist and writer. Known as the Shadow Expert, she is co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality. Her new bestselling book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won both the 2021 American Book Fest Award and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul. We talk about the following and much more: ✅ What the shadow is, and why the shadow is something we often don’t talk about ✅ Why she started the book Romancing the Shadow with the story of the Portrait of Dorian Gray ✅ How our family dynamics, and societal dynamics contribute to the development and later the suppression of our shadows ✅ What the family shadow, the family soul and the sibling shadow are and how they play out ✅ Why she says there is “gold in the shadow”. ✅ What usually happens when people start to romance their shadows. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

Today, we are talking about Jiddu Krishnamurti and his teachings. For those of you who dont know of him or his work, Krishnamurti was a great philosopher of the 20th century. Khalil Gibran considered him the manifestation of “the God of Love”. George Bernard Shaw said, “He is the most beautiful person I have ever met.” Today’s episode is with Michael Korhnen, who was born in Germany at the end of World War 2. Growing up in post-war Germany disillusioned him in regard to social, collective efforts. He studied world religions, like Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and more. In 1975, through the recommendation of some friends from Ojai, he assumed the position of chef at the school there - the newly founded Oak Grove School, even though he had never cooked before. Part of his duty as school cook turned out to be preparing luncheons for JK and his guests during the three-month period that JK stayed in Ojai, California. Thus, he got to know JK in a personal, casual setting, and they became good friends. After JK's passing in February 1986, he started composing a memoir, based on his times with the philosopher. It was a labor of love and was published in 1995 under the title "The Kitchen Chronicles - 1,001 Lunches with J. Krishnamurti". Michael has continued working for the KFA (Krishnamurti Foundation of America) in various capacities. For the past twenty years he has been the Librarian at the Krishnamurti Library in Ojai, which is where we met. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Who Krishnamurti is and why his work is important ✅ What Theosophy is and how Madame Lavasky’s work influence the journey of Krishnamurti’s life ✅ What brought JD to Ojai, and what he thinks his greatest legacy has been on humanity ✅ How he came to meet Krishnamurti and what his experience was like after spending so much time with him ✅ Why JD urges listeners not to accept what he tells people at face value and why he was so different than other philosophers and mystics Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

Today’s episode is with Payal Kadakia, the founder and executive chairman of ClassPass, a monthly membership program that provides people of all fitness levels access to the best boutique fitness classes, gyms, and wellness experiences across the US and abroad. Since its launch in 2013, ClassPass has facilitated almost 100 million reservations across 22,000 partner studios in over 20 countries. Payal is also the founder and artistic director of The Sa Dance Company, founded in 2009 with the mission to increase awareness of Indian Dance in the mainstream. Payal has been listed as one of FAST COMPANY’s 100 Most Creative People, and was named to FORTUNE’s 40 under 40 list. Her book LIFEPASS: Drop Your Limits, Rise to Your Potential - A Groundbreaking Approach to Goal Setting debuted on February 15th, 2022. We talk about the following and more: ✅ Why she created Classpass and how the company transformed her ✅ How her experience of growing up Indian American influenced her journey ✅ How she deals with fear on her journey ✅ What it takes to set goals and commit to them ✅ In her book, she talks about “finding your gift and giving it away” ✅ The importance of setting clear boundaries as an entrepreneur ✅ How she deals with adversity and change as an entrepreneur Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected. As always we appreciate reviews on Apple.

Today’s episode is about how frequency, vibration and perception can change your life with respected clairvoyant empath, visionary, author, and popular lecturer - Penney Peirce. For many years, Penney has taught and counseled thousands of people internationally, in all walks of life. She is one of the early pioneers in the intuition development movement, specializing in expanded perception, inner energy dynamics, dreamwork, and transformation. She helps leaders, professionals, artists, and those on a spiritual path discover the hidden dynamics of what makes for true success. Penney’s website is www.penneypeirce.com She is the author of ten books, including, Transparency: Seeing Through to Our Expanded Human Capacity. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ How she defines intuition ✅ What the terms frequency, vibration and energy mean to her ✅ In the book Frequency, she talks about finding your “home frequency”, and what she means by that ✅ The different brain wave states and why are they important to understanding vibration and awareness ✅ The importance of the heart when exploring our personal vibration and intuition ✅ How much of our reality we actually have control over ✅ Why attention skills are so important in this practice Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Have you ever wondered what happens after we die? Today’s episode is with James Van Praagh, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of over a dozen international best-sellers, including his debut, Talking to Heaven and his latest, most transformative book, The Power of Love: Connecting to the Oneness. He is considered one of the most widely-recognized and accurate spiritual mediums working today. A “survival evidence medium," Van Praagh provides evidential proof of life after death via highly detailed messages from the spiritual realm. He is hailed throughout the world as a pioneer of the mediumship movement. For over three decades, his messages have brought comfort and peace to millions grieving lost loved ones or fearing death and the unknown. Throughout his career, James Van Praagh has appeared on countless national radio and television shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, Dr. Phil, 48 Hours, The View, The Joy Behar Show, Chelsea Lately, Coast to Coast AM and many more. We talk about the following and more: ✅ When he was able to connect with the other side ✅ What it means to have spirit guides, and what kind of spirit guides exist ✅ Where spirit guides reside and specifically what the astral dimension, the etheric dimension, the spiritual dimension, and the celestial dimension are. ✅ What it means to connect with the other side, what it feels like ✅ Some of the greatest lessons he has learned from this work Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode , we’ll be featuring our guest, Lauren Armstrong -  a highly-skilled Human Design Guide who went through the International Human Design School and has earned certifications through various other renowned institutions in neuro-linguistic programming, time techniques, clinical hypnotherapy, reiki, and trauma-informed practices. She offers bespoke solutions that help individuals and businesses alike to achieve their goals leveraging their unique designs. 

On her website, LaurenArmstrong.com, you can find valuable resources and information about the benefits of Human Design and how it can help you live more fully as yourself. Whether you're looking to improve your personal or professional life, with recognition, Lauren is your guide.

We talk about the following and so much more: 

✅ What exactly is Human Design? Where did it come from?

✅ A high level overview of each Design Type. 

✅ How can people find their chart? 

✅ What does each profile number represent?

✅ When someone walks in for a reading of their design, what is the process like? 

✅ Some interesting designs she’s seen and why. 

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Today’s episode is with Ethan Kross, one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he is the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. Ethan has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed about his research on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to have an inner critic ✅ Why we have an inner critic, and how you would guide people to deal with their inner critic ✅ How he came up with this concept of dealing with the inner critic ✅ What he has learned about self-control ✅ Why some people benefit from turning inwards to understand their feelings, while others are apt to fall apart when they engage in precisely the same behavior? ✅ Why some people have louder inner critics than others? https://www.ethankross.com/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is with David Bingham, a leading voice in the world of consciousness. His interview on Consciousness TV was a major inspiration for Rhonda Byrne’s creation of The Secret, which she publicly talks about, and is how I first heard about David. After interviewing David, I felt a wave of peace wash over me, as he has a profound way of speaking about our true nature in a way that changed my entire perspective on reality. David was a spiritual seeker for nearly thirty years, before realizing his True nature in 2005, while listening to a podcast of the American non-duality teacher, John Wheeler. Gradually, following Realization, he started speaking one to one with people seeking to realize their True nature. Effortless Being is the core aspect of his approach. He has assisted over two thousand people to become Self realized. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to “wake up” and what the experience was like for David ✅ What it means to be a human and what it mean to be consciousness ✅ What it means to be “awareness” ✅ The difference between self-realization and consciousness ✅ How he defines the concept of “self realized” ✅ How he deals with conflict and suffering ✅ The role that love plays in our reality ✅ How we can change our self-concept Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I sit down with Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., a psychologist, writer, speaker, and Jungian analyst who has published 19 books including, The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance and Love Between Equals: Relationship as a Spiritual Path. She hosts the popular podcast ENEMIES: From War to Wisdom that provides a fresh look at human hostilities and what to do about them. She is a lifelong Buddhist practitioner and a Mindfulness teacher. I learned about Polly through a past guest, Katherine Woodward Thomas, who spoke so highly of her work, and I’m excited to dive in. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What does ”love between equals” mean? ✅ What is projective identification and why does it feel like such a terrible offense? ✅ Why does it recreate the conditions that we so often want to escape? ✅ Why we often get stuck in loops in our relationships - it seems like we often get to the same impasse. Why does this happen? ✅ Why we are so unprepared to be in equal relationships? And what she has seen in her workshops on how we can become equipped to become equal. ✅ What the self-esteem trap is ✅ How we free ourselves of self-importance? Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with Barbara Huson (previously known as Barbara Stanny), who is the leading authority on women, wealth and power. As a bestselling author, financial therapist, teacher & wealth coach, Barbara has helped millions take charge of their finances and their lives. Barbara's background in business, her years as a journalist, her Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, her extensive research, and her personal experience with money give her a unique perspective and makes her the foremost expert on empowering women to live up to their financial and personal potential. Barbara is the author of 7 books including, Prince Charming Isn’t Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money, Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to up Your Earnings and Change Your Life, Overcoming Underearning: A Five-Step Plan to a Richer Life, Finding a Financial Advisor You Can Trust: A Guide for Investors and Those Who Want To Be, We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ Why is wealth a topic so many women do not talk about? ✅ What does it mean to be “wealthy”? ✅ Why so many women have so much difficulty making or managing money ✅ The three levels of financial development ✅ Why she said “problems with money are never about money”. ✅ Why so many women are underearners Barbara Huson has been featured on Good Morning America, The View, Extra, The O'Reilly Report, and many times on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, PBS and NPR, as well as the New York Times, and USA Today. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Enmeshment and healthy boundaries are a topic of interest for many of us, as our family dynamics often contribute to our inability to show up in our romantic relationships. In today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Kenneth M. Adams who began his professional career in 1981 treating children, adolescents, and their families. Dr. Adams created and facilitates the Enmeshment Workshops: From Guilt and Ambivalence to Passion and Purpose to help those struggling to break free from enmeshment. In 1985 he began a private practice with the Children of Alcoholic Parents program, an outpatient program for the treatment of adults who had grown up in alcoholic families. It was there that he began to notice that many of these clients had addictions and enmeshment issues, two of his primary specialties today. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What is enmeshment? ✅ Why does it happen, and how often does it happen? ✅ When does it start? ✅ How enmeshment is different between parents and children v romantic partners ✅ The difference between enmeshment and codependency ✅ Some ranges of healthy enmeshment v unhealthy enmeshment ✅ How he works with people who need to create boundaries and step out of their enmeshment patterns ✅ Guidance for parents as well as children who are in enmeshed relationships Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is with Deepak Chopra, founder of The Chopra Foundation, and Chopra Global, a modern-day health company at the intersection of science and spirituality, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Deepak made a major impact on my life when I was in my 20’s in NYC and started listening to many of his recordings, which transformed my life. He is the author of over 90 books translated into over forty-three languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. For the last thirty years, Chopra has been at the forefront of the meditation revolution and has written over 92 books on success, fulfillment, wholeness, and plenty, offering practical advice on how to cultivate a sense of abundance in times of fear and insecurity. TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” www.deepakchopra.com We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to be a human and what it means to be pure consciousness? ✅ What the words “pure potentiality” mean. ✅ What it mean to be “aware” ✅ Why he thinks we are here ✅ How he deals with conflict or suffering ✅ The nature of reality ✅ What our biology has to do with our spirituality and how they function together ✅ The meaning of “naive realism” Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with ​​Karla Mclaren, M.Ed. an award-winning author, educator, social science researcher, empathy expert, and workplace consultant. Her work revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. Her applied work, Dynamic Emotional Integration®, is a groundbreaking process that reveals the genius and healing power within the emotional realm. She is the author of many books, including The Power of Emotions at Work, Embracing Anxiety, and The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You, and she’s the developer of the online learning site EmpathyAcademy.org. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ Why understanding our emotions is so important ✅ Why so many people do not understand their emotions ✅ Why “Restoring the intellect to it’s rightful position” ✅ In her book “The Language of Emotions”, we talk about the need for a balanced psyche, and incorporating the elements of air, earth, water and fire. ✅ Some of the dominant emotions she speaks about in her work, specifically, anger, guilt & shame, fear and then boredom - and how to move through them. ✅ What happens when someone represses their anger? And why she says that dealing with your emotions (like anger) should be a restorative act. It was a pure delight to connect with Karla and I think you’ll enjoy this conversation tremendously. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

I am so excited about today’s conversation! Today’s episode is about exploring the magical world of mushrooms and fungi with Giuliana Furci. Giuliana is foundress and executive director of the Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy, Co-Chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee, and author of several titles including a series of field guides to Chilean fungi and chapters in publications such as Fantastic Fungi. Giuliana has worked in the non-profit sector for the last 17 years and has held consulting positions in U.S. philanthropic foundations as well as full-time positions in international marine conservation NGOs, and Chilean environmental NGOs. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ How her path from childhood to undergrad to adulthood brought her to the world of fungi ✅ What mushrooms are and why they are called fungi ✅ The dominant types of mushrooms ✅ Why mushrooms are so important to our ecosystem ✅ Why mushrooms, which have so many benefits, have been so understudied and why there is such a renewed interest in mushrooms today ✅ How mushrooms affect us from a health perspective ✅ Her experience with other types of mushrooms that have gained popularity and some of her discoveries in this space It was a pure delight to connect with Guliana and I think you’ll enjoy this conversation tremendously. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with both Dr. Christopher Germer and Dr. Kristin Neff. Christopher Germer, PhD is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program with Kristin Neff in 2010 and they wrote two books, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program. MSC has been taught to over 200,000 people worldwide. Kristin Neff is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, conducting the first empirical studies on self-compassion nearly twenty years ago. She is author of the bestselling book Self-Compassion, and her newest book is Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ What self-compassion is in their words ✅ How self-compassion is different from self-esteem ✅ The steps to connect with yourself through the lens of self-compassion ✅ Why the idea of a “shared or common humanity” is so important in the work of self-compassion ✅ How they teach people this process Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode, I interview Patricia Albere, the founder of the Evolutionary Collective, internationally known contemporary spiritual teacher, visionary, bestselling author of Evolutionary Relationships: Unleashing the Transformative Power of Mutual Awakening and recognized leader in the emerging field of post-personal development. Her unique experience of a sustained dual awakening over 20 years ago led to the discovery of the essential components that create an awakened ‘we space’ that is transforming our understanding of what is possible in the space between us. Patricia has a free, self-paced Introduction to Mutual Awakening e-Course available at www.evolutionarycollective.come/intro-course-yt We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ The new evolutionary dimension of embodiment and what it means to be in an evolutionary relationship ✅ Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how she applies it to the world of relationships ✅ How the need for connection has changed in the last ten years and especially in the last year of the pandemic ✅ The Mutual Awakening Practice and why its important Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with Teal Swan, a New Thought Leader and a Bestselling Author who is an expert in human development and relationships, with a following of over 1M on all social media platforms. She has over a decade of experience working with people of all walks of life with a mission to reduce human suffering.

Today, she's also become an International Speaker, having facilitated retreats and life changing workshops in large venues worldwide. Teal was ranked 15th on The Watkins Most Spiritually Influential Living People in 2023.

We talk about the following and so much more: 

✅ What she spends most of her time thinking about and why.

✅ Some of the ways our audience can cultivate deeper feelings of self-love.

✅ The importance of authenticity and living in alignment with one's true self. 

✅ What advice she has for individuals who are struggling to find their authenticity and purpose?

✅ The concept of "shadow work" and the importance of embracing all aspects of ourselves. What shadow work is and how it can lead to personal growth?

✅The completion process - and why she created this process? 

✅ What her book The Anatomy of Loneliness is about 

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In today’s episode, we’ll be speaking with Parker Palmer, a writer, speaker, activist, and founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal. He has reached millions worldwide via his ten books, including the best-selling Healing the Heart of Democracy, Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, and A Hidden Wholeness. His latest bestseller is On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old (2018). Palmer holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, and 13 honorary doctorates. In 1998, the Leadership Project, a national survey of 10,000 educators, named him one of the 30 “most influential senior leaders” in higher education and one of the 10 key “agenda-setters” of the past decade. I first learned about Parker Palmer through Krista Tippet, as I was a part of the On-Being weekend at 1440 Multiversity many years ago, and was moved by his books. -------- We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ His book, “Let your life speak” and what he means by the phrase: "living the life that wants to live in me." ✅ How he made the decision to create his own path as a teacher and a leader ✅ How he knew that he was not going to go down the conventional road ✅ “Age itself,” he says, “is no excuse to wade in the shallows. It's a reason to dive deep and take creative risks.” ✅ How he decided to take creative risks ✅ In his book, Let Your Life Speak, he talks about how leaders can cast both shadow and light, and a few shadows are: insecurity about identity and worth, and the belief that the universe is a hostile battleground. ✅ His time with the Quakers and how it shaped him ✅ How his journey through the depths of depression shapes his life You can learn more about Parker Palmer here: https://couragerenewal.org/wpccr/parker/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode, I speak with Brenda Dunn, who was Laboratory Manager of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory from its inception in 1979 until its closing in 2007. She now serves as President and Treasurer of ICRL, International Consciousness Research Laboratories www.icrl.org. With Robert G. Jahn, she is coauthor of Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World, Consciousness and the Source of Reality: The PEAR Odyssey, Quirks of the Quantum Mind, and Molecular Memories. She also served as coeditor of Filters and Reflections: Perspectives on Reality and Being and Biology: Is Consciousness the Life-Force. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ Her experience and observation of how intuition works ✅ Her book, “Margins of Reality”, and what she means by “sensors and filters” ✅ What the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) “PEAR” is, why it was created, and her role in the program ✅ Some of the major experiments that were conducted at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Lab in remote viewing, and human intention ✅ Her book, “Quirks of the Quantum Mind” and what they are ✅ The International Consciousness Research Lab Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

In today’s episode, I speak with Brett Fleisher, a life long pursuer of the expressive arts and authentic expression. Brett has traveled down many paths; as an actor, writer, musician, filmmaker, youth educator, somatic and reiki practitioner. After many years of feeling out of balance physically, emotionally and mentally, Brett discovered the power of somatic release and began to heal through old traumas that were causing him lifelong pain and discomfort. He instantly resonated with this approach to integrating the mind, body and belief systems and began studying the Point Holding Process and Somatic Release Technique with his beloved teachers Catalina Ureta and Judith Johnson. Brett founded The Yummy Heart in the fall of 2018 and loves working one on one with people to help guide them back into their bodies, as well as educating people on understanding the function of trauma through workshops and community gatherings. In addition to his work with The Yummy Heart, Brett is a long standing facilitator with Sacred Sons and is currently a lead mentor of the Sacred Sonz Youth Program. We dive into the following and so much more: ✅ What it means to play as an adult ✅ What somatic embodiment work is , and why he decided to invest in this methodology in his practice ✅ What the Yummy Heart organization, why did you create it, and why did you choose that name? ✅ What Sacred Suns is , and why he decided to join this organization -- and how he’s become a mentor for youth ✅ What it means to show up as a conscious and embodied male in your words ✅ Some of the trends he has seen when working with young men You can find Brett at https://www.theyummyheart.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thephoenixassembly/ https://www.sacredsons.com/ https://beheadedforgreatness.com/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.