Grow the Goodness In You

*This episode was recorded as a live talk on Instagram. Please forgive me for any sound quality issues! I just returned home from an absolutely magical, healing and insightful 7-day silent retreat in the Rocky Mountains. On retreat, I developed a deepening sense of ease and lovingkindness, as the spaciousness of the natural world supported my mindfulness practice. A few big experiential realizatio...

Hi friends! Been out of the podcast game for a bit but feeling inspired on this one. Bit of a different format here - this episode is a reading of an article I just wrote and released on the following concept: I believe that we live in a Western world with a baseline of subtle, often “functional”, but ultimately disempowering, addiction. Binging watching tv, normalized alcohol abuse, social media...

Excited to share this episode with you...and a bit about my journey with my body, from childhood obesity, to a "healthy" weight, to realizing that looking leaner didn't necessarily make me happier, to finally finding that self-love and confidence within! If you dig this episode, please leave the podast a review, follow it, and, if you really want to GIVE (and FEEL GOOD about it), sha...

There's a lot to learn from music festivals - home to some of the best heart opening and life-celebrating moments of my life, I believe its worth integrating these deep loving and learning experiences into our daily lives. This episode shares some of my favorite sentimental and silly take aways from my days as a festival-goer. The invitation and encouragement is to practice living each day wit...

Coming hot (and grounded) off of a silent retreat, its a pleasure to share with you the goodness I've cultivated in this experience-of-a-lifetime. I attend retreats regularly and they. make. life. better. Period. If its even remotely on your radar, I want to inspire you to take the leap and just fucking do it! You won't regret it. In this episode, I share stories of my first retreat, how m...

It takes a village to become who we are - there is no such thing as the self-made [hu]man. Because we are truly a reflection and compilation of all the people who have impacted, and continue to impact us, along the way. When we let the village in, it brings out the best in us. In this episode, I share a story about a recent camping trip, how I was having a hard time and isolating myself, until the...

**Please forgive me for the slight reverberation of the gong throughout the episode - I have learned my lesson!** In this episode, I speak of catching myself spending too much time in my head, preoccupied with the "destination" of my current goals. I address how we must balance future thinking with present actualization and how this life is really 99.99% a journey that we've got to h...

Self-Compassion Is The Secret Sauce...to health, well-being, healing and even change. It's the acceptance, love and care we can learn to offer ourselves that brings us peace. And weirdly enough, it's also this acceptance of ourselves that creates the space and energy for true change - to create the life we truly desire living - and to let it be enough. I bring you this episode from the thi...

This week I speak to the cultural phenomenon of the knee-jerk "sorry" - how often in public we default to apologizing anytime we cross paths too closely with another. I argue that this tendency is an extension of people pleasing, a minimization of self and a reflection of the belief that we don't deserve to share space. Exploring the topic can give rise to more self-(and other-)aware...

In this week's episode, I speak about our concept of "work-life balance". I propose that this suggests an inherent, unhealthy separation between work and life - that our work is ultimately just a means-to-an-end, a space to bury our heads and get through, so we can get to living on the other side of our work day. The problem is that if we assume an average 40-hour work week, work acc...

This week I lean into discomfort, in an effort to face hard conversations with honesty and mindfulness. I address the recent incident between the Dalai Lama and a young boy, a moment that can be taken any number of different ways, and which I believe offers a beautiful teaching moment where we can learn to discern the difference between impact and intention. This is a relational conversation and h...

Here we go!! Welcome to the first episode of the podcast! In episode 1, we are just getting the gears turning. I introduce the title of the podcast, as well as the format behind it, including mindful moments, topics to inspire the best in you, reflection questions and actionable takeaways to help you make the content your own. If you like the episode, please subscribe, share with friends and/or co...