Awareness

“The emotions are just like a little kid – they’re gonna keep coming at us wanting to say what they need to say until they’ve been heard and acknowledged.”

Victor Pierantoni is a top-rated Results Coach who’s worked with hundreds of clients. He’s the founder of Zen Stoic – a method of emotional mastery that blends the timeless wisdom of two ancient schools: Zen Buddhism (from the East) and Stoicism (from the West).

This methodology was developed as a result of Victor’s life experiences. 

After Victor’s mom died of cancer when he was just seven, Victor learned that everything you love can disappear in a flash. When his dad was diagnosed with melanoma, Victor felt called to help him not suffer mentally. 

The Zen Stoic path empowers people to savor the present moment while simultaneously preparing to lose everything. It’s a beautiful methodology that can lead you to unshakeable inner peace combined with the strength to take on anything. 

In this beautiful episode, Victor and I explore: 

• Why do we need the sledgehammer instead of the whisper? 
• The reason that we struggle to feel our emotions. 
• How a question to a friend pulled Victor into the coaching world. 
• Redefining leadership.
• How Victor responded to his Dad’s cancer diagnosis. 
• Strategies for unraveling belief systems. 
• The intentions & delusions of Zen Stoicism. 
• Transcending limiting beliefs and cultivating ones that serve you. 
• Setting ourselves free from the fear of uncertainty. 
• Finding peace with Zen Stoicism. 
• And more…

Victor’s specialism is empowering people to resolve their most painful emotions. In this episode, he shows us how to reframe our relationship with challenging emotions to ensure they don’t hold us back. 

If you’re someone who struggles to feel and you’re ready to alchemize the feelings that get in your way, then this episode is for you. 

“When I think about creativity, I don’t think about myself as a creator, I think about myself as the vessel for creation.”

Lindsay Sukornyk is a bubble of energy. She’s an infectious soul with a massive personality and an even bigger zest for life. It’s impossible to not feel differently after a conversation with her – so get ready to feel uplifted, energized, and vibrantly inspired. 

Lindsay is a TEDx speaker, transformational leadership coach for game changers, blogger at the HuffPost, and mama of 4. She’s the founder of Alive + Awake, where she guides leaders to a place of recharge, reset, and relaunch. Thanks to this path, Lindsay’s clients can discover and share their authentic selves to reach their peak potential and performance. This is because they find their edge, clear out their vessel, and learn to lead with a clear purpose, vision, and values. 

In this delicious conversation, Lindsay and I explore how creativity is a gateway to clearing out our connection to source so we can listen to the whispers of the universe and live life in alignment.

I resonated deeply with many of the stories shared. We go deep into the limitations of perfectionism and how a desire for high-performance can chip away at our natural flow. 

We also talked deeply about the spiritual path through life and what it takes to follow the callings of your soul and trust that everything’s happening for you. 

Tune in now to hear us discuss: 

• The spiral of healing, growth, and evolution. 
• Navigating life through the lens of curiosity. 
• Letting go of the fear of being judged. 
• It’s all made up!
• Understanding how we’re imprinted. 
• What’s behind the desire to fix someone else. 
• Overcoming perfectionism. It’s OK to be average. 
• How to liberate yourself from high-performance addiction. 
• Navigating the fear of our mortality. 
• Redefining what it means to live at the edge. 
• And more…

If you’re looking for a shot of energy and a conversation about what it takes to navigate the crucible moments to live an exceptional life, then this is the episode for you. 

“It’s a new experience of learning to live with my full body and accessing intuition and connecting with truths that are present inside my body and my whole soul, my everything.” 

February was a month of potent growth for me. As I explore my emotional triggers to lean deeper into my healing journey, I’ve been able to integrate aspects of my shadow and expand my knowing of who I am. 

Looking back, February was about subconsciously living through the lens of full-body leadership. 

This looked like making decisions and moving through life with my whole body – not just my mind. It meant leveraging the wisdom of the heart, soul, gut, and sacrum in addition to my intellect. This shift in being has felt so powerful. 

Experiencing a full-body life has exposed me to expanded realities where everything is magnified and on fire. I’m excited to share these experiences with you in this week’s reflection episode. 

As usual, your old friend Georgina is here to hold space for us as we navigate all the highs and lows of what was a powerful month. 

Tune in to hear us explore:

• Full body leadership and accessing the wisdom of all of you. 
• Sparking growth through the quest for expansion.
• Healing the entitled victim.  
• An example of how your childhood experiences drive your adult beliefs and mindsets.
• Understanding where you’re the common denominator in your triggers. 
• What does it take to be radically honest with your truth so you can heal? 
• How self-soothing can heal the inner child. 
• Everything is happening for me. 
• Healing through dreams. 
• And more…

Full body leadership inspires all areas of your life – your relationships, business, the pursuit of art and more. Through this leadership approach, you create an opportunity to access the infinite wisdom that is ALL of you. In turn, you can expand, grow, and lean into the deepest levels of impact and fulfillment. 

I’m excited to share more about this principle in this week’s powerful reflection episode.

“Our ego was created to protect us. It comes up as a protection mechanism.”

Part of our journey through life is to learn to navigate and work with the ego. The ego is a powerful force that can keep us trapped in a victim mindset, unconscious ways of being, and stories and narratives that aren’t conducive to the way we want to live. As a result, it’s tempting to try to ‘kill’ the ego. 

But what if a more powerful path is to learn how to befriend it.

In this episode, I’m talking with Rob Sirstins. Rob is a coach and teacher who helps people find their warriors within so they can change the narrative in their own heads and get on the path of their fullest potential. He’s also a published author whose latest book Ego of The Warrior, empowers people to partner with their ego instead of trying to fight it. 

I read the book, it greatly impacted my life, and I’m pumped that you can now tap into Rob’s brilliance through this episode.  

I’ve known Rob for a number of years now. He’s a dear friend and we attend many of the same healing communities together. Rob inspires me because he’s so deeply committed to the work. He’s someone who took his healing journey into his own hands – despite the challenges he’s faced. 

He was abandoned as a child, he experienced racism and a rock bottom that almost drove him to take his own life. His courage to discover who he really is created a space where the past no longer controlled his future. Today, Rob is a fierce leader who empowers others to claim their fullest potential. 

Tune into this episode to hear Rob and I explore: 

• Understanding the origin of the victim mindset. 
• Why our egos keep us trapped in disempowering realities. 
• Finding an awareness that dismantles the victim mentality. 
• The power of having people call you out on the things you can’t see.
• Why self-love is a fundamental aspect of dismantling the victim. 
• Why your identity fears self-forgiveness. 
• Developing tools to navigate your ego. 
• Asking for help. 
• And more…

Tune in now to discover some practical tips and suggestions – inspired by Rob’s personal experiences – that will help you dismantle your victim mindset and learn to befriend your ego. 

Consciousness doesn’t let wonderful things be marginalized.

The energy of intimacy is a powerful way to connect deeper with life. In turn, a quest for intimacy can transform your relationship with everything including yourself, your partner, your work, and the world. 

I met this episode’s guest at a retreat for people seeking greater levels of intimacy with themselves and their significant others. Stuart Sovatsky was a guest speaker and he blew my mind. When he spoke, EVERYONE listened to his every word. 

Stuart’s career has spanned over 4 decades. His experience and wisdom in the relationship, intimacy, and erotic art space make me want to bow. He’s been a marriage counselor for 44 years and was the first choice to co-direct Ram Dass’s prison ashram and the first in the US to bring yoga to incarcerated youth and the homeless mentally ill in the 1970s. He’s served at the office of the Dalai Lama and has taught spiritual practices and modalities across the world. He’s the author of multiple books including Advanced Spiritual Intimacy and Words From The Soul. He’s practiced kundalini yoga for 24 years and is the director of two psychotherapy clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area. He teaches at JFK University and the California Institute of Integral Studies. 

The way Stuart moves through life is so inspiring because he instills the concept of devotion and tantra at the core of everything. Stuart meets every person and treats every experience as if God is inside, which means his appreciation and reverence for life is far beyond what most people know is possible. 

In this episode, Stuart and I explore: 

• What is devotional love?
• Tackling polarity with shared human experiences. 
• The intense power of eye gazing as a devotional practice. 
• Defining tantra.
• The simplest secret for letting love in. 
• Balancing emotions through alternate nostril breathing.
• Experiencing the power of reverence. 
• Stay grounded by appreciating yourself. 

Tune in for a beautiful conversation about cultivating a profound reverence for life. It’s time to discover the power of finding a level of depth and potency in the everyday moments.

“When we choose to go into the darkest aspects of ourselves, change is exponential.”

For me, the first month of 2022 (really the last 5 months) has been infused with shadow work. I want to emphasize that I’ve been fully supported through my journey with mentors and coaches. Shadow work is deep and can be very uncomfortable. It pulls you through emotions and memories that can be hard to hold (which is why I always recommend you do this work with the right support).  

Shadow work has sparked exponential shifts for me, but it’s been confronting. This work sits at the intersection of tension, conflict, and resistance. It requires you to step into the discomfort and explore the darker side of your psyche. Where you feel entitled. Where you switch on victim mode. Where you’re attached to egoic beliefs about yourself. 

Shadow work is a practice to feel feelings you don’t want to feel. You cycle through pain and triggers. 

But when you surrender to the pain, confusion, and chaos into love, a new edge appears. It’s the edge of infinite potential.

And it’s at this edge that your quality of life expands exponentially.

The personal development world is very comfortable embracing modalities that spark an upward spiral. But if you never explore the darker aspects of self, you hit a glass ceiling that you can’t breakthrough. 

Shadow work explores the downward vortex, which is just as valuable and often unexplored. It’s the inner work I believe society needs to do – especially as we feel resistance to doing so (assuming we have the right support). 

Here’s an overview of what we explore in this important episode. 

• Creating a depth of insight from a mundane activity. 
• Why nuance is key as your healing journey unfolds.
• Redefining what it means to stay grounded. 
• The problem with spiral up positivity for our personal growth and healing. 
• Why relationships are powerful containers for growth. 
• Exploring the shadow side of overnight success. 
• Leveraging radical honesty as a gateway into shadow work. 
• The importance of learning how to communicate. 
• And more…

I’m pumped to share these experiences with you in this January reflection episode. As usual, your old friend Georgina is here to guide our conversation. Tune in, enjoy, and get a sense of the depth of transformation that’s available when you choose to dance in the dark.