Stay Grounded with Raj Jana

“I realized that joy is about working through your emotions, releasing your emotions, and also being intentional about your joy.” Loka Pandya is a motivational speaker, serial entrepreneur, a DeLorean collector, and a passionate life enthusiast who’s dedicated to deep healing work.  In his work, Loka is on a mission to awaken the inner child joy that lies within all of us. Loka’s passion for...

“Your intimate relationship is the most profound mirror for you to actually connect to that foundation of love within yourself.”  The last time I recorded a reflection episode was at the end of August - just after returning from Burning Man. As an experiment, I decided to wait a couple of months before publicly reflecting again. It’s been interesting to see the arc of change over a two-month...

“I master my fate and captain my soul… I need to take radical responsibility for my life. I can create anything that I want out of my life.”  Like many entrepreneurs, Andrew Kroeze achieved massive success through the hustle-and-grind culture only to find the tactic wasn’t sustainable.  After experiencing burnout, Andrew had no choice but to reinvent himself. But the changes didn’t fully...

“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 vulnerabl...

“ I think our culture has tricked ourselves into thinking there are cute things that we can do that will make us automatically on the other side of the doorway, and there isn't. You have to walk through the doorway.”  Although darkness is an inevitable aspect of life, our culture offers few pathways through it. In many ways, modern life has distanced itself from indigenous rituals that have b...

“Doing the work is the journey of questioning. Once you question and you become aware, it's making choices.”  Over the last four years, I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours on my inner work journey. I chose to turn myself into my own research project, and this time in my life has been a period of massive growth, reflection, and expansion.  In this episode, I...

“We can learn something from everyone. Mirrors exist everywhere. All of nature is contained in the fractal pattern of a single leaf or a single feed”  About 4 years into my personal growth journey, it became clear that there was only so much inner work I could do on my own. My solo efforts often gave me a breakthrough, but my deepest inner work always came when engaging in community.  Co...

“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...

“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...

“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 i...

“I think identity alchemy is finding who you are at the core.”  How do you identify and define yourself when you have multiple interests, multiple talents, multiple ways you see yourself interacting with the world?  For Nick Onken, the answer is Identity Alchemy - the creative art of deconstructing who you are [and who you’ve been] so you can discover the essence that sits at your core.&...

“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 stori...

“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 prog...

“I believe every morning when I wake up, and I give gratitude for the fact that my family's still alive and my kids are healthy that I'm living my dream every with my eyes wide open.” This episode brings the Feast It Forward series to a close with a doozy of a conversation with visionary thinker Katie Hamilton Shaffer. Katie is the founder and visionary behind Feast It Forward - an intentional cul...

“True liberation is found in the journey of self-love”  After my experiences during July 2022, I’ve come to believe that the entire game of life is about discovering how to love yourself. The month started with a vulnerable conversation with Gina about codependency and outsourcing the responsibility we both have to self love. What followed was a month of expansive exploration round what it me...

“I'd watch so many people find their way through painful experiences so that when I experienced mine, I had this deep sense of knowing that I wouldn't get lost in it, that I would meander out eventually.”  Dr. Sherry is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, yoga teacher, mental advocate, and bestselling author who’s just published her latest book - Touching Two Worlds. Through her comp...

“Resistance is a doorway and on the other side of that doorway can be a lot of power.” It was such a joy to meet Jetta Blaine at the Feast It Forward Festival. Jetta is a lifestyle integration coach that specializes in using the plant medicine Kambo to facilitate shadow work, catharsis, and rapid transformation. Jetta has a gift for holding space for medicine journeys that guide people to a place...

“You never want to be the person that accepts your situation and complains when you get there.”  It was such a buzz to record this episode live at the Feast it Forward Festival. Kosha Dillz is an improv artist and freestyle rap teacher who performs in the street all over the world. He’s been rapping for over 20 years, and one of his songs, “Cellular Phone” - was featured in a Bud Light Superb...

“This month has been doing the work, having the journeys, experiencing the energetic upleveling, and clearing my own beliefs about myself and the way the world is supposed to be and stepping into my power as a creator.”  Welcome to my June reflection. This one’s a big one! Hands down, June 2022 has been one of the most powerful months of growth and evolution I’ve ever experienced in the 4-5 y...

“You will find music that will speak to what you are going through at any time in your life.” I recorded this conversation with Christian Swain LIVE at the Feast it Forward Festival. Christian is the founder, producer, and host of the Rock n Roll Archaeology Project. He’s also involved with Pantheon Podcasts. He’s the lead vocalist of Tinman and has been playing with his band for the last 17 years...

“You have the power to manifest anything you want, you just have to put it out there. If you can put it out there and feel it as if it's occurred, it's on its way, it's going to happen.” My conversation with Steve Little - AKA “The Activator” was the catalyst for some amplified personal growth this month.  Steve is the CEO and managing partner of Zero Limits Ventures, a M&A advisory, inve...

“I just made a decision in the seventies when I went to culinary school to change my life and this career and everything that I've done in my career has supported those changes. It's just given me a place to be so grateful because it's been successful.”  Chef Rick Moonen is a multi-award-winning celebrity chef and restaurateur known as the “Godfather of Sustainability”. He’s currently the Mas...

“When you're triggered, how the hell is your triggered mind supposed to understand the wisdom of the universe?” This episode is my May reflection. As usual, some BIG stuff has been moving through me. The constant challenges and up-levels result from choosing to walk my own unique path through life. When you’re looking for the lessons and practicing a lifestyle of awareness, it’s impossible to NOT...

“In order to serve our family, to serve our friends, to serve the community, we have to serve ourselves.”  Self-care is no longer a luxury, It’s a necessity. What’s more, as a culture, we desperately need to transform our definition of self-care. It’s not all luxury massages and delightful bubble baths! Instead, self-care is about asking for help and getting support from your ‘village’ so you...

“When you place your awareness on your body and on your sensations and allow–through the depth of your presence with that sensation, the sensation actually expands, the sensation deepens and more feminine wisdom is revealed.” As human consciousness evolves, we’re beginning to discover the true power of energetics as a creative and manifesting force. In a world where masculine energy has dominated...