ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner

ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner featuring MARY ROCKWOOD LANE / HEALING WITH THE ARTS Ever gardened in a community garden? Sung a song to lift your mood? Painted a mural with your neighbors to cover graffiti? Each of these acts has the power to heal your body and your community. ART — including visual arts, dance, writing, and music — along with spiritual practices and guided imagery - gives u...

ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner featuring MINA TRINITY CHANG / WHEN THE WORLD HURTS From the Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram (#BringBackOurGirls) to those hurt by natural disasters and crushed by poverty worldwide, Mina Trinity Chang and NGOs like Linking the World speak up, step in, and lead a global revolution for sustainable growth. Attending the May 2014 World Economic Summit in Ab...

Mike Dilbeck believes COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP - when someone moves beyond their fears and intervenes in a situation - is a revolution ... a movement. A movement away from the shame, regret and guilt we all feel from being bystanders to any injustice or wrongdoing. A movement towards a whole new world where we are standing up, stepping in, and speaking out against inappropriate, abusive, and unhealth...

Our choices are critical - for the food we eat, and for the way food is processed on this planet ... Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT Guest Ocean Robbins, co-author of "VOICES OF THE FOOD REVOLUTION" with his father John Robbins, makes the case that we can heal our bodies and our world - with food. In fact, what you eat can avert further climate change (yes, really!), eradicate global hunger, express yo...

What does it mean to be a global citizen? 15-year-old filmmaker Kasha Slavner is traveling the world this Spring to document the answer to that question, by filming people who wake up every day with a desire to make the world we live in a better place, not only for themselves, but for their communities and all life that shares this planet. At 8 years old - after seeing Craig Kielburger, the founde...

How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change It began with a question to a small boy, begging on the streets of India. "What do you want most in the whole world?," Adam asked. "A pencil," the boy replied. Adam Braun reached into his backpack, handed the boy his pencil, and watched as a wave of possibility washed over the small boy. Adam saw then the profound power and promise brought thr...

Everyday Addictions - you know, the little ways we all get "addicted" - from our roles (as "mom" or "caregiver" or "boss") to "being the one to do it all, to our food, our work, our relationships, and more - the small, but ultimately insidious ways we allow ourselves to stay tethered to energy-sucking patterns that fail to serve us, and ultimately hold us back from expressing our best self. Julie...

As an entrepreneur, you’re heeding the call to bring something new into the world ... building something that matters ... doing something larger than yourself ... that makes YOU a hero. Yet, so many of us suffocate in our cubicles; we’re afraid to become the hero of our own life story. We need modern-day guidance for the innovator whose creativity is stifled, the job hunter losing hope, the spirit...

For some time now, people have been saying that they prefer spirituality over religion. They no doubt think about religion in the usual way as a belief system to join, a set of rules and customs to adopt, a particular place to go, and a community and leadership to follow. Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Thomas Moore - author of Care of the Soul and his latest book, A RELIGION OF ONE'S OWN, who s...

Most women today juggle multiple schedules: full-time jobs, meal planning, fitness, spirituality, shopping, dinner parties, soccer for Jenny, and t-ball for Johnny. Their lives are so full of commitments that many don’t ever find time to focus on their own dreams and desires. We all yearn to have time for personal needs and creative dreams — after all, this is our life to make the most of. And we...

The world of work is no longer predictable. As it becomes increasingly rare to have a stable career in any field, we're left with patchwork resumes and piecemeal lists of accomplishments. More and more of us are blending big company jobs, startup gigs, freelance work, and volunteer side projects. We take chances to expand our knowledge, capabilities, and experience. But how do we make sense of our...

WHAT IF - instead of another tired New Year's resolution ... you started 2014 with a New Year's REVOLUTION? That's why Julie Ann invited Mark Bowness to ConsciousSHIFT to share an entirely new approach and pathway to authentic, real - positive - life change. So, why a REVOLUTION - instead of a resolution? As Mark shares: "New Year's resolutions fail as a result of 3 main causes. First, there is no...

DIANNE COLLINS / DO YOU QUANTUMTHINK? THE “QUANTUM” DISCOVERY IS THAT MIND DOES MATTER. The science that gave rise to the Industrial Age saw the universe as machine. The more accurate science today views the universe as mind. When we learn how to use and master the natural creation faculties of our own mind, life becomes easier, more exciting and ever more fulfilling. This level of mastery in livi...

ACCEPT THE APOLOGY YOU'LL NEVER RECEIVE When we are touched by loss, injustice, and even personal attacks - how, and why, may we choose a conscious, life-expanding response ... instead of an angry, combative reaction? When we lose our jobs, we face bankruptcy and foreclosure. Some of us are dealing with a divorce, others of us are facing life-threatening illnesses such as cancer. Culturally, we se...

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest Marnie Pehrson believes that Light Bearers are rising to lead the way. As Marnie shares on the show, a Light Bearer is "a wise, intuitive Inspired Creative who lovingly lights the way for others. A Light Bearer is passionate about assisting people in breaking free from bondage to ultimate freedom (whether the chains are of one's own making, generational or inflicte...

Join Julie Ann and Michael Bungay Stanier, the Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less Good Work and more Great Work - a natural fit for ConsciousSHIFT! Michael was banned from his high school reunion for “the balloon incident," was sued by one of his Law School lecturers for defamation, gave himself a concussion digging a hole as a labourer, was fired on his f...

In 1979, Dr. Bernie S. Siegel, a successful surgeon, took a class from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross that focused on crayon drawing for healing, especially with patients facing life-threatening disease. Siegel incorporated into his practice these techniques — many of which were laughed at by others in the medical community. But his Exceptional Cancer Patients “carefrontation” protocol facilitated healings...

What could a graffiti artist, eminent neurologist, star athlete, celebrity chef, fashion designer, rocket scientist and Grammy award-winning musician possibly have in common? Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Rana Florida, author of UPGRADE: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary, shares their formula with you, giving you the tools to achieve unimagined success in work and life....

There are two basic approaches for finding happiness, according to Jonathan Robinson, NYT-bestselling author, and creator of FindingHappiness.com. The first is the “more money and control” method. In this approach, you aim to get greater control over the people, the situations and the environment you’re in. That way, you can supposedly make things be the way that pleases you. Our culture teaches u...

Tom Shadyac was the hugely successful Hollywood director of such films as Ace Ventura, Liar Liar, The Nutty Professor, Bruce Almighty and Patch Adams. Then in 2007 he moved out of his 17,000-foot mansion and into — surprise! — a mobile home. He began giving away his income. The luxuries of his former lifestyle had taught him one thing: "I was no happier," he says. Not long after, he was hit on the...

Ever wonder if that recurring dream meant something? Do you see certain shapes in the clouds - maybe a loved one’s face ... or hear an extremely relevant song playing on the radio related to a friend you've lost ...? Have you experienced serendipitous events and brushed them off as a coincidence? Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, spiritual teacher Ann Bolinger-McQuade, author of EVERYDAY ORACLES:...

Ever wonder if that recurring dream meant something? Do you see certain shapes in the clouds - maybe a loved one’s face ... or hear an extremely relevant song playing on the radio related to a friend you've lost ...? Have you experienced serendipitous events and brushed them off as a coincidence? Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, spiritual teacher Ann Bolinger-McQuade, author of EVERYDAY ORACLES:...

We've been led to believe that when we get sick, it's our genetics. Or it's just bad luck - and doctors alone hold the keys to optimal health. For years, Lissa Rankin, M.D., believed the same. But when her own health started to suffer, and she turned to Western medical treatments, she found that they not only failed to help; they made her worse. So she decided to take matters into her own hands. T...

In a moment of despair, Derek Mills discovered a way to live his life differently - and even cured his stuttering. Out of this came a unique approach that changed everything, irrevocably. Over the next four years he turned his life and business around, made his first million - and people began to ask him how he did it. When you hear Derek Mills, it will be hard to imagine him as anything but chari...

Givers vs. Takers: The Surprising Truth about Who Gets Ahead Why some people rise to the top of the success ladder, while others sink to the bottom? Is it "survival of the fittest" - the strongest, and most selfish, win? Surprisingly, as much as it may seem so - no. It turns out that success involves a blend of effective networking, collaboration, influence, and leadership skills - plus an increas...