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EP 254. Jayson Gaignard: The Impact of Leading with Vulnerability

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“Vulnerability to me is an expensive gift, and you shouldn’t expect it from cheap people.”

“I mean, the quality of your life comes down to the quality of relationships. If you want good quality relationships, you have to be able to embrace vulnerability and that uncertainty sometimes.”

Jayson Gaignard is a rare breed of entrepreneurial leader because of his willingness to be visible when vulnerable. The old way to succeed was to wear a mask and pretend to have it all figured out. Jayson challenges that paradigm and proves how being vulnerable with others about your struggles, hardships, and even failures can lead to greater levels of impact in a world hungry for connection & belonging.  

Named one of Forbes’s “Top Networkers to Watch” because of his ability to curate highly coveted events, Jayson is the founder of Mastermind Talks – an exclusive community that serves as a container of support, inspiration, and deep belonging for entrepreneurs who value impact and collaboration alongside business. Jayson has been featured in the likes of Entrepreneur, Lifehacker, and Tim Ferriss’s Tools of Titans. 

Jayson believes entrepreneurs are “community made” rather than self-made. But what does it take to be a person who can guide, support, and empower others? In this episode, Jayson discusses some of the teachers who have taught him on his journey. Teachers include his daughter, who Jayson explains pulls him into his highest expression, as well as the power of vulnerability to encourage self-love and celebrate your unique beauty while honoring others. 

Jayson is a man who cares deeply about people and the land while doing his best. As you’ll hear in this episode, when people are mission-driven, they can sometimes be clouded in doubt. This conversation is a beautiful example of what’s possible when you leverage community and vulnerability as mirrors for your highest expression. 

Key takeaways:

  • The quality of your relationships is indicative of the quality of your leadership. 
  • How tormentors can become mentors. 
  • Exploring the mirrors of your relationships. 
  • An artist who uses business as a canvas. 
  • Leveraging empathy as an edge. 
  • Finding purpose. 
  • Reclaiming the freedom we lost. 
  • How Jayson models self-love to his daughter. 
  • The pattern of being hard on yourself. 
  • Allowing yourself to know you are enough and you’ve done enough. 
  • The art of shifting from DOing to BEing. 
  • And more…

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EP 250. Raj Jana: My Eight Year Journey To Self Love & Liberation

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“Even though on paper I had all the markings of someone successful, I didn’t feel it. That really confused me.”

As a 250th episode special, I wanted to share all the lessons I’ve learned from investing multi-six figures and thousands of hours into my personal journey to create a life of alignment and liberation that I feel so grateful to be living today.

When I started this podcast, I had no idea about the journey I was about to take. The journey to internal liberation isn’t easy. My life has changed entirely since releasing my first episode in 2017, but the path to this point has been riddled with the most extreme highs and lows.

The game of BEING is confusing because it’s filled with guesswork, detours, and setbacks.

But hindsight brings clarity.

As I reflect over the past eight years (and the thousands of dollars and hours I invested), I’m clear on what worked and what didn’t. I’m now confident about what levers to pull and where to focus my time, energy, and resources so I can keep experiencing unshakeable confidence, freedom, clarity, and self-love.

No one should have to invest as much as I have into healing our minds, bodies, and souls in order to experience wholeness. I believe it’s our birthright to feel good about who we are. We shouldn’t be living in a constant state of anxiety or fear. We should be learning how our nervous systems are wired from an early age so we can properly tend to it as we grow through life. It’s why I’ve decided to share my journey so far with you — with no stones left unturned – so that you can see how a dedication to the “inner work” can lead to permanent shifts in your mental & emotional well-being.

Key takeaways:

  • How a book transformed my perspective of what’s possible.
  • My quest to seek missing feelings through entrepreneurship – only to fall short of what I wanted.
  • How a drive to infuse meaning & purpose into my side hustle birthed Stay Grounded.
  • Forcing change through the game of DOing.
  • External success will only take you so far. You’ll eventually hit a wall.
  • Opening to my emotions through plant medicine. Breaking open to build myself up.
  • Discovering what’s under the hood. Moving into the realm of root cause exploration.
  • Differentiating between MY vision for my life and the vision that others had for my life.
  • Unlocking mirror work through community-based healing. My Journey groups.
  • Working with hypnotherapist Grace Smith.
  • Ending a nine-year relationship and confronting uncomfortable truths about myself.
  • Inner work has the answers, but it’s hard, expensive, and time-consuming.
  • Inner work shouldn’t be for the privileged few with resources. It should be accessible and effective for EVERYONE. And that’s what I’m excited to share with you all.

On October 5th, I will be doing a teaching a live masterclass about a data-driven, heart-centered, and personalized approach to the inner work that removes confusion from the process altogether. Please visit www.rajjana.com/masterclass to join!

EP 249. Trey & Grace Stinnett: Finding Flow Through Conscious Parenting

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“So much of our desires are culturally programmed desires. If I can begin to understand who I am, then I can begin to stop doing the things that are not for me and are not me. ”

Trey and Grace Stinnett are the founders of the Academy of Conscious Entrepreneurs – an organization that helps people grow a company without sacrificing time at home by aligning business with personal flow. Informed by mental models and personality profiles such as Wealth Dynamics and Human Design, Trey and Grace empower clients to elevate their consciousness at home and work. 

What I loved most about this episode was hearing how Trey and Grace have integrated their work into all aspects of their live, creating a path for conscious living. These philosophies have informed their parenting, too, empowering their children onto the path of authentic, self-aware living from a young age. 

Creating a life of flow and alignment can be part of our legacy, and in this episode, Trey & Grace share how to make that vision a reality. 

Key takeaways:

  • What does flow mean? 
  • How Wealth Dynamics profiles help you get into your flow. 
  • Removing things I shouldn’t be doing so I can be more authentically me. 
  • The concept of deconditioning. 
  • The power of using frameworks and tools to know who you are. 
  • Empowering children through profiles and archetypes. 
  • Immersing children in an environment that cultivates a growth mindset
  • Creating an emotional platform for children to thrive. 
  • Changing the narrative around traumatic experiences to empower people to navigate them. 
  • The four phases of flow. 

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EP 248. Raj Jana- August Reflection: Burning Man – The Frequency Of Liberation

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“Infinite possibility lives in the unknown. Can I trust the frequency of truth and presence over the ego hits that my mind is craving?”

I’m just back from my first ever Burning Man experience, and it was life-changing. In this month’s reflection episode, I share the raw integrations and lessons from my time in Black Rock City. 

Stepping out of the constraints and conditions of everyday life into an environment with zero judgment and radical inclusion, driven by a gifting economy, was wildly transformative. For the first time in my life, I got to experience the frequency of liberation — where I could feel the infinite possibilities of the human spirit and potential. 

Burning Man allowed me to experience a life that side-steps the ego and follows the calling of the heart. In the infinite expanse of the desert landscape, I felt safe to calibrate to the speed of my soul. 

There’s so much to talk about and reveal. I’m grateful to have Georgina El Morshdy with me to guide the conversation.

Key takeaways:

  • My raw integrations and lessons from Burning Man. 
  • What is Burning Man in a nutshell (in case you haven’t heard of it). 
  • The possibilities for living inside a judgement-free space. 
  • How a new environment can change your life – radically. 
  • Side-stepping ego and allowing intuition to guide my decisions and experiences. 
  • The power of a gifting economy. 
  • Burning the man and the temples. 
  • Burning my perfectionist tendencies to experience liberation. 
  • Owning my soul gifts. 
  • How to integrate profound shifts so they remain a permanent part of who you be and do. 
  • Tapping into energetic frequencies as a gateway for creation.

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EP 246. Justin Sharpe: Practicing Conscious Awareness

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“Words are like magic and sentences are like spells. They can take on multiple meanings. They can put things in motion. They are so powerful.”

Justin Sharpe is the serial entrepreneur with several companies and a wide range of lived experiences.

Listen to this conversation, and you’ll get an insight into how a deep-thinking entrepreneur processes his thoughts, experiences, and personal stories. It’s this depth of thinking that first drew me to Justin. I was inspired by his insatiable commitment to scrutinize himself for the purpose of knowing his truth.

This episode dives deep into Justin’s personal life philosophies. We learn how his mother’s origin story led to an incredibly difficult childhood and how Justin chose to see his life through a more empowering lens and create a beautiful life for himself.  You’ll hear about the tools and practices Justin uses to go inwards and create his realities. We also explore definitions of purpose and how who you are can matter more than what you do.

Key takeaways:

  • How Justin brings conscious awareness to his unconscious operating systems. 
  • Integrating the wisdom of the mind, body, and soul. 
  • How words are magic and sentences are spells. 
  • Redefining our ability to navigate fear. 
  • Setting ourselves up to have deeper questions. 
  • How the higher self communicates to us through our body. 
  • Unpacking the programming of our subconscious. 
  • Remembering that we have the power to CHOOSE. 
  • Leading with intrigue and curiosity. 
  • Why the context of Justin’s mom’s story matters. 

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EP 245. Craig Villani: How To Hold Space For Transformation

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“The process of enlightenment may be realizing that reality in life exists for us and that we have the capacity to transform it and our relationship to it just by perspective alone.”

Craig Villani has been in the yoga space for decades. A teacher since 1999, Craig has guided thousands of facilitators and instructors through one of the world’s most challenging hatha yoga teacher training programs. 

For Craig, yoga is about creating space for transformation, connection, exploring oneness, and knowing self. In this episode, Craig shares how the gift of witnessing and participating in human transformation empowered him to “midwife it, facilitate it, and assist it.” 

Craig’s insights about transformation, combined with his lived experience, make him a must-hear guest. I’m rarely blown away by people because of the amount of work they’ve done on themselves. Craig is the exception.

Key takeaways:

  • Why is the word ALLOW so powerful.
  • What is bliss?
  • Witnessing humans in transformation.
  • The layered definition of yoga.
  • Exploring the different aspects of self.
  • Why we choose to forget.
  • The role of death on the path to liberation.
  • The gift of holding space.
  • Unfolding the veil that separates our selves.
  • Experiencing wholeness and fulfillment in our lives.

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