Words of Love with Dr Dwayne

In this enlightening episode, we delve into the intricate dance between coaching, mentorship, therapy, and personal growth. Reflecting on personal experiences as an athlete, our host navigates the complex roles of motivation and external guidance in achieving self-awareness and growth. The discussion highlights the transformative impact of recovery and professional mentorship on one's perspec...

Julia Armet, PCC, ELI-MP is the Founder of Higher Playbook, a people and culture consultancy with a mission to re-humanize our workplaces. With a professional trajectory that spans industries including media, technology, coaching, and leadership consulting, Julia believes meaningful professional relationships are the source of business sustainability. As a neurodivergent leader, workplace facilita...

Burnout: Finding Balance Through Honesty, Simplicity, and Willingness This podcast episode introduces a new series focusing on burnout, exploring how executives and surgeons alike can manage stress through principles of honesty, simplicity, and willingness. The discussion contrasts external solutions, like executive coaching by RxFaith, with personal responsibility strategies guided by the 12-step...

In this conversation, Dr. Dwayne engages with stress expert Dr. Annika ( https://askdrannika.com ) as she reflects on her life experiences, aspirations, and the challenges of navigating the second half of her life. They discuss the importance of embracing things outside of our control, being honest about what truly brings joy, and celebrating one's proven ability to effect change in both pers...

Dr. Dwayne discusses the difference between coaching and therapy. Coaching is focused on raising awareness and making conscious choices, while therapy is focused on seeking answers from an expert. Coaching helps individuals leverage their talents and abilities to overcome roadblocks and achieve higher levels of performance. The coaching relationship is co-creative and provides support and guidance...

In this episode, Julie Barlow RN BSN and her transformation coach Dr. Dwayne discuss her challenges connecting emotionally with patients due to her introverted nature. She reflects on a protective persona she developed following a major personal loss and discusses her ambition to grow empathy and improve emotional connections with others. Listen how to how coaching helps Julie recognize her achiev...

Summary Dr. Kimberly Gillens, a recently graduated OB-GYN resident, discusses her struggles with temperament and finding the right words to express herself. She recognizes the need to change and align how she shows up with how she wants to show up. Dr. Dwayne encourages her to give herself grace and acknowledges her growth and achievements. They discuss the importance of perception and how others...

Moms can find all kinds of information and recommendations on how to care for their newborns. But there’s something about new motherhood that not many sources are talking about, and my guest Tessia Watson is trying to bridge the gap. Tessia is an author, spiritual teacher, and devoted mom of two boys with wisdom infused from her multicultural upbringing. Her life’s work is advocating for and facil...

Think that veterans, refugees, and abuse victims are the only ones who experience trauma with far-reaching, ongoing effects on their lives? Trauma isn’t just for those who have experienced things like PTSD or domestic violence. Trauma-related experiences exist for the majority of us–70% of the masses, according to my guest Dr. Helen Sairany. She’s a coach, speaker, author, and war survivor who’s w...

Healers aren’t without their own wounds to work through. But even in the process of doing so, they can actively work to assist and guide others in healing themselves...as long as they’re willing to offer it. My guest Brittanie Van Zant has something to offer people in search of something more in their healing journey. She’s a trained historian, holistic healer, and student of the metaphysical scie...

While individual spiritual paths might have similarities to each other, everyone still walks on a spiritual path that’s uniquely their own. My guest Troy Hadeed has traveled the world in his. As a yoga teacher and spiritualist, he sees the way for humanity’s conscious evolution through the lens of love. He embodies this himself by trying to live up to the name of love (which is also the title of h...

When you see or hear of a child being abused, your instinctive reaction is one of condemnation, right? We see abusive dynamics play out and hurt untold numbers of people on a national scale. Yet unlike with an abused child, too many in this country not only tolerate it but condone it. Highlighting this issue is long overdue and my guest Phillis Leavitt is bravely taking it on. She’s an author and...

Most people living outside places like Tulsa, OK have a certain assumption about the visibility of queer people here…and not a flattering one. So it might surprise you to know that it’s teeming with artists in the queer community. And as someone who grew up here, my guest Chris Vanndy is leading the charge as a creative and community leader to make their work visible. In this episode of the Words...

What do you think when you hear the word “guru”? For many people, nothing flattering comes to mind. Sanal Bhanu Rajan used to get hung up on the term, recognizing that people don’t like those who proclaim themselves as such. Regardless of the descriptive term anyone wants to use to describe what he does, he’s a spiritual teacher and thought leader who prefers to focus on helping people make change...

Do you feel trapped in a cycle of anxiety, trepidation, and always feeling like you’re just waiting for the next shoe to drop? You’re inside an invisible spiritual prison--energetically stuck, burned out, and unfulfilled. After 20 years of working in an organizational psychology career, Gabrielle Pimstone found herself desperately unhappy in the job. She knew she had to be changed, so she got back...

If your two-years-ago self could see you now, how surprised would they be? I’ve come a long way in two years, and now I couldn’t imagine my life now back then. But the substance of my growth and evolution–the foundation, if you will–is faith, and how people tend to misuse or misunderstand it, either. In this episode of the Words of Love podcast, you’ll learn why faith is the foundation of getting...

You won’t find the devastation of Black Wall Street in history textbooks. Most of the country didn’t know about it until a few years ago. Like the district itself, it was erased, and it’s only one example of such historical neglect. It’s why my guest Dr. Amy Aldridge Sanford was so adamant about including chapters on history and activism within her book From Thought to Action because knowing that...

Last week, you heard about how my alter ego Nagasaki was about to go off on someone over the phone ...until I decided to just hang up. This week, I’m letting you in on a session with my peer coach Jessica Matchett, that ties into a repeating theme I want all listeners of this podcast to embrace for themselves. In this episode of Words of Love , you’ll hear about showing up unapologetically and doi...

This episode is quite a departure from what I'm used to delivering to you and what you're used to seeing from me. This episode, though, is so essential. It has stimulated so much growth for me because it was the necessary work that I needed to learn how to make space for all of my humanity.  Sometimes, shit happens that threatens to bring your alter ego out hopping mad. One early morning...

You can do much to greatly impact people with just a few hundred dollars...or a high school education. John Giordano has contributed profoundly to the wellness industry. He’s an addiction expert and specialist in holistic mental health and trauma recovery. He’s appeared on many TV and radio stations and written 80 scientific peer-reviewed research papers. And he did it all with a 9th-grade educati...

Tattoos used to be taboo (except among the bikers and rock stars). Back in the day, you wouldn’t dare show them in the professional workplace. But we’ve come quite a way since then. From neighbors to high society celebrities, we see people from all stripes of life with body art in the form of tiny tattoos, sleeves, and even the full body. My special guest Friday Jones has seen firsthand how societ...

From mythology to Godzilla’s King Ghidorah to that funny meme online, the three-headed dragon is such a popular motif. Yet, those heads can also represent the shadows you need to fight to get out of the low points of your life. What if, for example, the three dragon heads represented divorce, death or a loved one, and depression? My guest Jeremy Murphy had to fight back against those three Ds to e...

Within all of us are spiritual and universal truths we recognize before we’re born. Some of us remember those truths while we’re still here in physical form. And while these journeys can share similarities, we also have unique attributes we bring to the table. Take Mark Weisman, for instance. He went from being a minister to a modern-day Shaman and sworn Ulfhednar to his ancestral Norse gods. His...

Is there a disconnect between what you do and the results you want to get? Do you feel like you’re not making the difference you want in the world? My guest Dr. Joe Sherman has always enjoyed helping out and getting to know other people beyond superficial levels. They were the seeds that put him on the road to becoming a pediatrician. At some point, though, he realized he was burned out and teeter...

Have you ever heard someone with such a powerful and inspiring story that you just had to know what happened next in their journey? Well, it's time to celebrate and welcome back Dr. Swati Kumari to be part of the conversation again. She is a Nepali-trained physician and fertility specialist who practiced in Nepal and is doing her OBGYN residency in the U.S. Now training for the third time, he...