Welcome! I'm grateful you are here. This podcast holds a safe space to host heart-centered conversations exploring all topics reflecting the human & spiritual experience. Our inspiring guests from all walks of life & I expand on our lessons, awakenings, relationships, careers, healing, feelings, transformations, & beyond. These honest & vulnerable conversations intend to touch your heart, mind, & Spirit. I have always deeply felt that in sharing our truth we cultivate community & foster grow ...
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Vanessa Bennett Is Grateful To Heal Intergenerational Trauma: The Unconscious, Radical Responsibility, & True Intimacy
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When we embark on our healing journey (which is a journey of a lifetime!), it is so important to acknowledge the truths that we are not only healing from our own personal experiences but we are also healing from intergenerational trauma and from collective wounds. Our special guest Vanessa Bennett - LMFT, Author, Facilitator, Podcaster of the Cheap…
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LaNia Roberts Is Grateful To Know God: Rewriting Your Story, Being Real With Yourself, & Trusting Life
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When we dream to live an unconventional life, we must fully accept that it requires us to walk an unconventional path. And unconventional paths are paths that require us to fully embrace the unknown, practice radical acceptance, and deeply trust along the way that we are being led to where we dream to be. For LaNia Roberts, her unconventional dream…
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Sabrina Flores Is Grateful To Heal Over Time: Unrealistic & Realistic Expectations For Healing & Healthy Relationships
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Do we need to be fully healed to experience a healthy relationship? What is required of us to experience a healthy relationship? Are our partners at all responsible for our healing? What if we have different attachment styles? How do we know whether or not we should walk away from a relationship? These are all questions (amongst others) that we exp…
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Jocelyn Is Grateful To Embrace The Unknown: Living In The Present Moment & Expecting The Unexpected
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When we talk about living in the present moment, we also have to talk about embracing the unknown because the present moment is the unknown. This is one major reason why most people don't live in the present moment. Rather than living in the present moment, most people live in the past (is this you?) because the past is familiar, and therefore, fee…
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Justin Tristao Is Grateful To Be Of Service: What Is Healthy Masculinity & How To Heal Unhealthy Masculinity
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Living in a society that encourages unhealthy masculinity creates a society that suppresses feminine energy, which is the energy of surrender, of trust, of nourishment, of intuitive knowing. We are living in a time now where the masculine and feminine energies that exist within us individually and collectively are being awakened and balanced. Espec…
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Arielle Estoria Is Grateful To Feel Everything: Returning To Your True Self, Defining Home, & Life Unfolding
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What if all of life is a journey of unfolding into your true Self? And what if there were phases to this unfolding? Our guest, Arielle Estoria, shares with us the five phases of our life unfoldment, which she expands on in her latest book, The Unfolding: An Invitation to Coming Home To Your True Self. Actor, Poet, and Author, Arielle, observed her …
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Madeline Popelka Is Grateful To Embody Compassion: Healing From PTSD, Generational Trauma, & Validating Yourself
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PTSD symptoms don't always show up right after a traumatic experience. Sometimes the symptoms arrive years later when you least expect. For our special guest, Madeline Popelka - who is the Founder of one of the largest healing communities on Instagram and Author of the recently published book, You're Going To Be Okay - she didn't experience her PTS…
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Imagine being able to look back at your life and say, “I was present for all of it.” I don’t know about you but I desire to be able to genuinely say that. Being present has been my main mental, physical and spiritual practice for the past year now and, as time passes, I continue to expand my conscious awareness as to why being present is so powerfu…
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Shaman Redwood Is Grateful For Family: Finding Your Purpose, Being Present & Shamanic Healing
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"I can really trust I am fulfilling my purpose, as long as I am Being present," shares Shamanic Healer, Spiritual Teacher, & Author, Shaman Nabeel Redwood, as he expands on finding your purpose. For Shaman Redwood, "finding your purpose" is less about pursuing and fulfilling a destination and more about Being fully in the present moment. Inspired b…
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Hating on our exes honestly makes no sense to me. I wouldn’t have the healthy relationships I have now without my exes. I wouldn’t be who I am today without my exes. The acknowledgement of these two truths alone is like… why wouldn’t I be grateful for my exes? And I'm not just referring to past lovers and partners. I'm referring to all my exes - ex…
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Leah McCloud Is Grateful For Dreams Coming True: What Is Human Design & How Does It Help You Manifest
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"Human design helps us get back to our energy," explains our special guest, Human Design Expert, Leah McCloud. What is human design? Who is human design for? What are the essentials when reading a human design chart? How does it help us manifest our dreams? And why does it return us to our (true) energy? These are all questions we answer in this ep…
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Réyel Byrd & Jocelyn Are Grateful For Their Saturn Return: What Is Saturn Return? Why Is It Life-Changing?
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This episode is everything you need to know about Saturn Return, which is a deeply transformative experience we all grow through. While our returning guest, Afro-Indigenous Medicine Woman and Spiritual Teacher, Réyel Byrd, is commencing her Saturn Return on March 07, 2023 - ya girl, your host, is ending her Saturn Return. In this conversation, Réye…
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Sarah Kim Is Grateful For This Season: Being In Transition, Owning Your Passions, & Becoming A Mom
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Being in transition is hard. Owning your passions is hard. Becoming a mom... is hard. But just because it's hard, doesn't mean you're incapable. Just because it's hard, doesn't mean you're doing it wrong. Just because it's hard, doesn't mean you should give up. In this conversation with Founder of By Way of Us, Sarah Kim, we expand on various seaso…
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Jocelyn Is Grateful To Manifest Healthy Relationships: How To Attract Who & What You Deserve
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Over the course of the past year, I have been deepening and developing relationships that feel like answered prayers (and they totally are). It's no coincidence that the year I begin to manifest healthy relationships in my life that are good for my mind, body, and Spirit, followed the couple of years I spent turning inward. Though I still have so m…
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Crystal Streets Is Grateful For What She Has Manifested: Being An Alchemist, Embracing Death & Rebirth
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An alchemist is someone who can transform any normally disempowering experience into an empowering one. An alchemist is someone who sees the medicine and the message in any mess. An alchemist is someone who doesn't run from the shadow and instead welcomes it, understands it, and loves it into light. This conversation is all about being an alchemist…
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Some are for discipline. Other are against discipline. And for a while, I wasn't sure whether I was for it or against it but I've come to the clarity that I am absolutely for it. I not only believe that a successful life is a disciplined life but I believe that discipline is a part of nature, and if nature weren't disciplined, all of life would cea…
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Hilary Jackendoff Is Grateful For Self-Inquiry: Turning Inward, Honoring Your Energy, & Being Your Own Teacher
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When life gets tough, most of the time, people just want easy answers. So they seek for answers outside of themselves - online, in relationships, at work. And while some external findings do bring forth temporary clarity, it's never the clarity that brings forth long-lasting results. The answers most of us are seeking are answers that are only foun…
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I wasn't planning on publishing an episode specifically about 2023 but I had a change of mind, as I felt called and inspired to record a conversation we can all return to through the year and replay when we feel the need to be gently reminded and encouraged that this year is our year - regardless of external circumstances, current situations, and/o…
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Mishko Is Grateful For Their Mental Illness: Self-Awareness, Getting Treatment, & Alchemizing Darkness
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Getting to the point where you can say you are grateful for your mental illness is a journey and in this conversation, we explore that journey with Mishko. With the help of their mom leading the way, Mishko received the diagnosis' of bipolar disorder, adhd, and anxiety and has felt that since gaining this self-awareness, they've been able to alchem…
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Jocelyn Is Grateful To Allow Her Self to “Start Over”: Pivoting In Relationships, In Career, In Life
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One of the most important perspectives I gained in regards to "starting over" and pivoting in life is that... when we intuitively feel called to start over and pivot, it's a sign that we've completed a cycle and it's time to move onto a new one. This perspective of completion gifted me a sense of wholeness, which encouraged me to move onward and up…
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It’s ya girl, your host, Jocelyn, y como siempre (and as always), I am so grateful you are here. Welcome to my Starting with Gratitude podcast! This is a safe space, intended to host heart-centered, meaningful conversations exploring all topics of the human and spiritual experience. This space also intends to reflect healthy, honest communication. …
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🎙 "If my 28-year-old Self were to give a gift to my 29-year-old Self, I feel like that gift would be an open heart. I feel like that gift would be readiness. I feel like that gift would be a calm, regulated nervous system and a strong spiritual foundation." - Jocelyn When I turned 28, I published an episode expressing my gratitude for my 27-year-ol…
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Jamila Reddy Is Grateful For Answered Prayers: Being In The Feeling & Manifesting Your Dreams
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🎙 "Being in the feeling is imagining something so vividly that my body feels it." - Jamila Reddy A conversation that encourages feeling and inspires willingness, Jamila Reddy shares with us this season of her life where she is experiencing the beauty of answered prayers and the season that came before, which was full of grief but ultimately contrib…
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Réyel Byrd Is Grateful For Gods Timing: Liberating Your Self, Being Spirit-Led & Opening Your Heart
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🎙 "If we don't have our heart open, our blessings don't come." - Réyel Byrd From the deep desire to expand and experience higher potentials to reprogramming the subconscious to opening your heart and beyond, this conversation with Afro-Indigenous Medicine Woman and Spiritual Teacher, Réyel Byrd, walks you through the spiritual, the awakening, the h…
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🎙 "If you have to suppress a truth in order to keep the peace in a relationship or in an environment… then is the peace really present? Where is the peace in that?" - Jocelyn This is basically a conversation about why expressing the truth is awesome - even when the truth you're expressing feels uncomfortable. Not long ago I had a moment where I fel…
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Andy Nguyen Is Grateful To Be Blessed: Allowing Your Self To Change, Pursuing Big Ideas, & Learning From Failure
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🎙 "If I stuck to my original goals, I wouldn't be where I'm at. I'm in a completely different field that I would've never imagined ten, twenty years ago." - Andy Nguyen From real estate to streetwear to the food industry (and multiple other seemingly random ventures in-between), successful Serial Entrepreneur and Co-Founder, Andy Nguyen, has experi…
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🎙 "Had I known that we all grieve differently and that you don’t really move on from grief, especially not when it’s a grief of a dear loved one, I feel like that would’ve lifted a lot of weight off my already weighted shoulders." - Jocelyn Grief is an inescapable part of the human experience. There is no escaping the experience of grief. That said…
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Brian "Z" Zisook Is Grateful To Be Alive: Staying True To Your Values, Confidently Pivoting, & Success In Business
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🎙 "The faster you move, the more mistakes that you make." - Brian "Z" Zisook Although staying true to your values and honoring your intentions may, at times, call for taking the longer route, it's worth it. It also contributes to you experiencing your true success! Brian "Z" Zisook Co-Founded two incredibly genuine (and successful) companies that i…
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🎙 "Anything that you suppress will eventually feel like a burden, whether it’s an idea or an emotion or an experience or a thought." - Jocelyn In our last one-on-one conversation (episode 71), I touched on being someone who has a lot of ideas and being someone who is grateful to have a lot of ideas. Ever since I can remember, I have always had a lo…
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Tone Levels Is Grateful To Release: Overcoming Yourself, Being Comfortable With Discomfort, & Divine Feminine Healing
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🎙 "How can we expect to enter the Temple of God when we can't even take care of the Temple that God gave us?" - Tone Levels I'd like to preface this description by saying that the substance and depth of this conversation is a pure reflection of the substance and depth my Self and my guest have explored within our Self. These beautiful, open, awaken…
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🎙 "The best thing the Creator creates is the Creator." - Jocelyn We all have an inner-Creator that seeks to be liberated and empowered by pure love and pure passion. And I sincerely believe we are all being called to honor this truth and embrace, as well as unleash, the Creator within us. For the past almost couple of years I have been diligently a…
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Andrés Tardio Is Grateful To Have Creative Outlets: Living The Dream Life, Tuning Into Spirit, & The Power Of Passion
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Have you ever had a conversation with someone who is living the life of their dreams? Well, this episode is that conversation with an artist whose wholeness expands into various creative expressions! So, if you are someone who has many passions and dreams, how do you manifest them all? What does it take to live your dream life? Does spirituality pl…
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Jocelyn Is Grateful To Be Healing Her Sense Of Self-Worth: Reflections, Affirmations, & Declarations Of A Worthy Life
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🎙 "When you don’t wholeheartedly know what you are worthy of, you will settle for less." - Jocelyn I know I'm not alone in healing my sense of self-worth, in reflecting on my worthiness. What really triggered this for me was the pandemic. "Losing everything" had me feeling like I also lost my worth and my value. But this didn't wholeheartedly feel …
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Christine Hernandez Is Grateful For This Life: Heart Opening Cacao, Remembering Your Roots, & Being A Healer
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What began as a pursuit into the yogic path led to the introduction to cacao medicine and ceremony, which then led Christine Olivia Hernandez to a heart opening journey of spiritual, divine unfoldment. Christine did not know all that cacao would lead her to but she knew when she first experienced its medicine that she was called to deepen her relat…
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🎙 "Don't count your Self out just because you think the Universe hasn't counted you in." - Jocelyn Is it just me or do you also feel the cosmic, Universal encouragement to take a step back & see the bigger picture? Is it just me or have you also felt called to expand your perspective & not be so fixated on what you see right in front of you? This e…
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James McCrae Is Grateful For Nature: Soul Development, Collective Healing, & The "True" Spiritual Journey
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🎙 "The purpose of our limitations and our struggle is to trigger our expansion." - James McCrae If you're on social media and you find your Self on a spiritual path, you've more than likely come across one of James McCrae's memes. They're relatable. They're humorous. They're spiritual. And they're deep. And in this episode, we're getting deep with …
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Jocelyn Is Grateful For Strengthening Her Discernment: Knowing What & Who Are For Your Highest Good
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We are living in a time where practicing discernment, tuning into your intuition, and trusting your true Self are progressively, incredibly important. With wellness, healing, and spirituality becoming more and more capitalized and colonized, a strong discernment is necessary for your alignment to truth and divinity. I am so grateful to have been st…
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Jen Casey Is Grateful For Sisterhood: Learning Who You Are Not, Embracing Spiritual Gifts, & Healing Relationships
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A beautiful, honest conversation on how spirituality and awakening changes your whole life, Psychology-Based Business Coach, Jen Casey shares with us the breakdown of her journey. From having a voice in her head that was not kind nor uplifting to unidentifying with that voice to changing that voice into one that empowers her, the truths she awakene…
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Jocelyn Is Grateful For Solitude (Part 02): How Solitude May Change Your Life & Lead To Your Awakening
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🎙️"Gentle reminder that you are worthy of approaching solitude as an intentional, spiritual practice that not only brings you closer to your Self but to the divine." - Jocelyn We are continuing the conversation on solitude. In episode 61, I expanded on my own personal journey through solitude. In this episode, I am getting straight to the point on …
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Didier Sylvain Is Grateful For Continually Renewing: Being Consciously Aware, Becoming A Leader, & Fear of Success
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🎙 "Most of my life has been spent in the passenger seat or the back seat of the car of my life, so to speak. So, I would say it only was within the past six years, maybe, where I felt increasingly conscious and more invested in being as fully conscious as possible of my own reality..." - Didier Sylvain Are you in the drivers seat of your life? or a…
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Jocelyn Is Grateful For Solitude: How Solitude Changed Her Life & Led To Her Awakening
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🎙️"In solitude no one can influence or distract you - other than your Self. And at that point you have to ask your Self, 'Why am I distracting my Self? What am I distracting my Self from?" - Jocelyn At the end of 2020, I decided to move into my own apartment, alone, with the intention to fully process and heal from all the losses I had recently exp…
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Doug Stevenson Is Grateful For Unanswered Prayers: Life Transitions, Letting Go, & Divine Alignment
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🎙 "This wasn't just letting go of acting in Hollywood, this was letting go of who I thought I was." - Doug Stevenson Being in a state of transition isn't always easy, comfortable, or even desired. Sometimes we don't want to transition from where we are. Other times we have no idea where we're transitioning to. And for Doug Stevenson who recently tr…
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🎙️"I realized that when we are in tune with our true selves, we are in tune with Spirit. For me, now, my true Self and Spirit are one in the same." - Jocelyn Lately I have been reflecting a lot on just how grateful I am to have simply rekindled my relationship with Spirit. I will never forget the moment I thought to myself how disconnected I felt f…
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Erin Claire Jones Is Grateful For Her Journey: Human Design, Trusting Yourself, & Honoring What Makes You Different
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🎙 "Those moments of really just trusting and not needing to know where it's all going but knowing that my body just knows more than I can conceive with my mind... I think those have been some of the most special moments of my life." - Erin Claire Jones Over the past couple of years, human design has grown popular as a tool for self-realization, und…
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🎙️"More than likely, if you don’t have a good relationship with your body, you also don’t have a good relationship with your intuition." - Jocelyn I've spent most of my life being insecure. Within the last few years, I've grown confident in my body and therefore myself, and experiencing life with this newfound confidence has made me realize just ho…
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Ana Lilia Is Grateful For The Family Her Soul Chose: Family Healing, Femininity, & Being Your True Self
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🎙 "[Healing] does require someone to take the first step and that's scary." - Ana Lilia Our souls chose our families for a reason and that reason is to assist us in learning lessons our souls need to learn so that we may heal, grow, and ascend into new cycles and higher timelines. But no healing journey is the same and when you're seemingly the onl…
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🎙️"...I feel it’s actually very healthy for us to do that, to think of and refer to ourselves in third-person because, again, it allows us to take the seat of the observer, to practice non-attachment." - Jocelyn Referring to myself in third person has been incredibly healing for me because it's allowed me to practice non-attachment. In referring to…
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Ben Hagarty Is Grateful For Longevity: Creating Community, Abundance Mindset, & Prioritizing What Matters
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🎙 "It's all possible. It's just about how are you gonna get in the right room, how are you gonna allow that room to give you the key, and then what do you do with the key once you have it." - Ben Hagarty Grammy-Winning Director (he won that Grammy with Beyoncé by the way) and Black with No Cream (BWNC) Community Founder, Ben Hagarty, has been passi…
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Jocelyn Is Grateful To Expand Her Conscious Awareness Of Who She Is & To Not Limit Herself To Identities
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🎙️"When we identify with these societal and cultural and overall human identities, we are not only our limiting our perception but limiting the abundance and expansiveness of who and what we truly are." - Jocelyn Initially... this episode was going to be dedicated to my expression of gratitude for experiencing Jocelyn - and yes, I mean to say that …
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Enkrypt Is Grateful For God: Experiencing Success, Not Giving Up, & Being An Over-Giver
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🎙 "Tell me who you kick it with and I'll tell you who you are." - Enkrypt The journey from the streets to Head IT Technician of one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world to touring Photographer/Videographer and successful Film Director wasn't an easy nor linear path for Enkrypt but she made it happen. And now, in this season of her li…
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