ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner

Brooke Axtell's own story - and the heartbreaking and stunning way she tells it - helps give voice and hope to all other victims of abuse and human trafficking. Brooke's own story and voice rang out across the globe in her appearance on The Grammy's with Katy Perry in 2015 - where her gifts as a writer, poet and activist stunned the world: "After a year of passionate romance with a handsome, chari...

STORY SHAPES REALITY... it keeps us evolving, pushing forward, wanting to grow, desiring to explore … So declares Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Story Alchemist Kylie Slavik - who also warns that we are in danger of becoming "a people without a story." Kylie shares how power of storytelling has evolved dramatically - from the days when only scribes and royals possessed - and restricted - the po...

Ever feel like the clouds are closing in on you - and you just can't seem to break through to see the blue sky of your true potential - and your power to choose happiness? Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest and renowned Zen master Joseph Emet - author of FINDING THE BLUE SKY: A Mindful Approach to Choosing Happiness Here and Now - shares powerful mindfulness techniques that allow us to choose happin...

In our 24-7 global economy, REST feels like a luxury at best and a weakness at worst. We see work and rest as competitors - but what if they're actually partners in a productive, balanced life? Indeed, knowing how to rest well turns out to be the secret to how many writers, scientists, and artists managed to be creative and prolific, while having less harried and busy lives than ours. Julie Ann's...

What if you are perfect exactly as you are? Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Jeff Foster - author of THE WAY OF REST: Finding The Courage to Hold Everything in Love - invites each of us to rediscover that you are perfect even in your imperfection .. and that even your pain, confusion, and exhaustion are saturated with intelligence and sacredness. Discover how radical self-acceptance can be the ke...

So often, we look at life as a game to win, or a journey to get from where we are now to that magical, far-off destination where, finally, we get to live a good life. Except, it doesn’t work that way. There is no there there, there is only here now. When we look at living a good life as some faraway “place,” we end up losing so much of the grace that comes from the practice of day to day life. Eve...

What if the world as we know it operates on a false premise - a premise that everything is separate from everything else? What if ultimate reality is something different than what we believe in the mainstream? What if we can create Heaven on Earth by simply living as who we really are? Global Oneness Day was created precisely to address these things. Join Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Steve Fa...

Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs When is the work of two people together greater than what either could do on their own? As long as we’ve been interested in creativity, we’ve been preoccupied by the myth of the lone genius. Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT Guest Joshua Wolf Shenk - author of THE POWERS OF TWO - busts this fantasy apart, and draws on new scientific research to show how...

Some believe authenticity is about being genuine and real. Others say it’s about being true to yourself. Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest Jason Moffatt - author of THE ART OF AUTHENTICITY: Tapping Into the Uniqueness of You - says his version of authenticity "is a bit different. A little less self-centered." "I believe authenticity is not so much about you. It’s about the people around you and how...

What if everything we think we know about how the world works ... ... from our ideas of love, education, spirituality, work to happiness and love ... ... are based on Brules (bullsh*t rules) that get passed from generation to generation and are long past their expiration date? Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Vishen Lakhiani - CEO of Mindvalley and author of THE CODE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY MIND: 10...

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Chade-Meng Tan - author of "JOY ON DEMAND: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within" (the long-awaited follow-up to his New York Times bestselling book SEARCH INSIDE YOURSELF) - shows us how anyone, no matter where they are, can access this source of happiness. “If you have been unhappy, or you are happy and aspire to be even happier, know that your happiness s...

As both a jazz saxophonist and a theoretical physicist, Stephon Alexander struggled to reconcile his passion for music and physics with the ancient realm where music, physics, and the cosmos were one. Playing the saxophone and improvising with equations, Stephon uncovered the connection between the fundamental waves that make up sound and the fundamental waves that make up everything else. In his...

No matter how famous you are, how much money you have, or how successful you have become ... you are not immune to tragedy. Steve Mastroianni (aka VØID) - who toured the world with KISS, wrote with legendary songwriter Desmond Child and created some of the most popular guitar courses used by thousands of guitar students - had tragedy strike close to home. Steve’s father, Anthony Mastroianni, was d...

A leader is anyone who can see a better future and rally people to reach it. Inspiring change takes creativity, tenacity, and very thoughtful communication. Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Nancy Duarte - award-winning author of ILLUMINATE: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols - has discovered the proven patterns in how the world’s most legendary leaders communicated d...

Autism is revealing the increasingly toxic world we live in - that is threatening the health of every one of us. Autistics are more sensitive to our toxic world - like the miner's canary, whose sensitivity alerted miners to a toxic atmosphere, the dramatic rise in autism points to underlying toxicity in our world that ultimately - and far more than we realize - affects the health of everyone. It i...

ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner featuring E.R. HAAS / THE EXCELLENCE HABIT We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle What if there were a way to make it easier for ordinary people to produce extraordinary results? Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, E.R. Haas - CEO of ThinkTQ.com and author of THE EXCELLENCE HABIT - reveals that intentional excellen...

Frustrated with the slow pace of natural human evolution, scientists, researchers, and biohackers across the globe are pushing the boundaries of sensory perception in bold new directions. The results are fascinating - as Julie Ann and her ConsciousSHIFT Guest, award-winning science journalist Kara Platoni, author of WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists are Tr...

We are all, every single one of us, heroes. We are all on what Joseph Campbell calls “a hero’s journey;” we are all on a mission to step into our true nature and fulfill the assignment our souls were sent to Earth to fulfill. This is the message Dr. Lissa Rankin - 3-time ConsciousSHIFT guest, NYTimes-bestselling author (Mind Over Medicine), and author of her latest book THE ANATOMY OF A CALLING: A...

Across the ages, there have been notable hotbeds of creativity - from ancient Athens, to the Song Dynasty in China, to the Renaissance in Italy, to today’s Silicon Valley. As Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Eric Weiner - author of THE GEOGRAPHY OF GENIUS: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places, from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley - discovered, there is a pivotal connection between our c...

WHAT IF ... there was A WAY to walk with intent and radiate inner joy every day, not based on circumstances, but from within? As Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Derek Lin, author of "THE TAO OF HAPPINESS: Stories from Chuang Tzu for Your Spiritual Journey," explains - from the Taoist sense, real happiness is a “process” and a lifelong journey that doesn't rely on external factors. The key to tru...

There is a major shift emerging in our global economy that is radically changing the criteria for business and economic success in the 21st century. Today's top companies are creating and recreating their businesses from the 'inside out' to create more impact, more meaning, and more happiness for everyone involved. There’s no doubt, business is poised to be the ultimate lever for making a differen...

War. Famine. Politics. Religion. With all of the global challenges we face today, how can any one person feel like they are making a difference? We are all connected. We are a global village. Be the change you want to see in the world. Anyone attuned to the various humanitarian and environmental movements in today’s world has heard these and similar phrases … But what do they really mean - and how...

Perhaps one of the most surprising - and promising - trends in business today is the rise of mindfulness in the workplace. From small companies to multinational corporations, more and more people are meditating on the job, and with good reason: mindfulness can make us more focused, more effective, and happier. At first, the notion of yoga and meditation in the office seems like the province of Sil...

WHAT IF ... there was A WAY to walk with intent and radiate inner joy every day, not based on circumstances, but from within? As Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Derek Lin, author of "THE TAO OF HAPPINESS: Stories from Chuang Tzu for Your Spiritual Journey," explains - from the Taoist sense, real happiness is a “process” and a lifelong journey that doesn't rely on external factors. The key to tru...

If you've ever turned down the volume on your dream ... cared so much for eveybody else that you've caught yourself living someone else's life ... or even secretly yearned for a second chance, a second act, a second wave ... ... here's your invitation to transform loss into living your true legacy. Blending just the right balance of inspiration and irreverence, Jennifer Boykin, founder of Life Aft...