Refractive

Guests Chad Hattrup & Todd Hollow-Bist, founders of Pathwise Leadership, join host Johnny G to discuss tapping into the unconscious for growth. Leveraging their backgrounds (both are experts in psychology and in adult learning), they share with listeners how to observe, respect, and befriend the unconscious mind, thereby embracing growth and living more intentionally and more skillfully. The e...

Jodie King is a successful artist who has made it her mission to empower others as they grow through creativity. She joins host Johnny G to discuss how creativity takes many forms- from art, to cooking, walking, procreation, exercise, and even just having a conversation. Jodie and Johnny dig into why creating feels so nourishing and how to lean into the deeply spiritual act of embracing your creat...

Erin Diehl joins Refractive host Johnny G to discuss the power of perspective in creating a happy life- specifically that when I love me the world loves me too. Erin, an author and motivational speaker who uses improv to help people clear barriers and live authentically, shares her wisdom and experience with Refractive listeners. She and Johnny G discuss creating our reality, opening the heart, an...

Author Michael McPadden and host Johnny Guidry discuss the Spiritual Wisdom of Genesis. Pulling from his book, “Genesis to Revelation,” Michael shares his insights on how the stories in the book of Genesis are layered through with spiritual and metaphysical significance. He discusses his perspectives on heaven and hell, the creation story, Abraham, and more. He then weaves connecting threads throu...

Mariko Sakai, aka Mistress Mariko, joins host Johnny G to discuss the spiritual side of romance and intimacy. Mariko, a coach and expert in field of relationships, intimacy, and sexuality, presents listeners with a hard-hitting question: are we REALLY willing to get honest about who we are, what we want, and how we can get there? Whether in romance, sexuality and intimacy, family life, or business...

Deborah Eden Tull, lovingly known as Eden, joins Refractive with the message of embracing the shadow self. She encourages linsteners to see our inner darkness as sacred and perfect, a necessary part of the whole of creation rather than as a defect. Eden shares her journey of awakening, including 7 years as a Zen Buddhist monk and decades of leaning towards unconditional love, healing, and self-acc...

Dr Gary Lawrence, lovingly known as Dr G, joins host Johnny Guidry to review the harmful emotional patterns created by rejection experiences, and why we continue to put ourselves in the path of rejection. Dr G offers us a new, broader definition of rejection, including any number of painful emotional experiences and behaviors: agression, isolation, passive-aggressive tendencies, dishonesty, and mo...

Best of Refractive: Host Johnny G shares one of his all-time favorite episodes, originally aired in May 2022. We spend so much of our lives scrounging and begging for scraps when there is a banquet laid out at the next table, and it’s been put there JUST for us. The truth is, we humans often trade our birthright of magnificence for a life of scratching and clenching and snatching and wishing. Fort...

We hear about self love, and self care, but what about self like? Guest Alan Questel, author of “Practice Intentional Acts of Kindness” talks about the importance of learning to like yourself. In this episode, Alan talks about his journey through life challenges and interpersonal relationships that led to struggles with how he saw himself. He shares how he has been able to heal those wounds and ho...

You know the saying: some people are a blessing when they walk into your life, and others are a blessing when they leave! Why do some people feel energizing to be with while others are draining? And more importantly, does it feel good to be around YOU? Host Johnny G discusses how to manage the energy you put out to those around you. We end every episode of Refractive with the same phrase: “aim you...

For the Best of Refractive, turn the dial back to February 2020 for an all-time favorite episode- powerful, raw, uplifting. Enjoy “Surrender to Greatness.” Magnificence is our birthright. The illusion of struggle, expectations, status, and what’s “fair” causes us to actually fight against our own greatness as we desperately seek to control our existence. We can begin to see life as a series of thr...

The fear of abandonment is one of the most common and most damaging types of anxiety. It involves an overwhelming worry that people close to you will cease to be available (physically or emotionally). Whether through walling yourself off, sabotaging relationships, or developing unhealty forms of attachment, it can seem nearly impossible for someone with a fear of abandonment to develop healthy rel...

This episode of Refractive offers insights, experience, and guidance on Finding Perfection in Darkness and Tragedy. Host Johnny G offers suggestions on how to learn to see the world as completely perfect, even as we find so much suffering and chaos around us. This episode challenges listeners to recognize the blessings contained in our own shortcomings, and to have compassion and empathy for those...

In this episode, “Trusting Your Gut,” Executive Coach Matt Hogan Joins host Johnny Guidry to share inspiring stories of self-discovery and practical guidance on learning to follow your intuition towards a more satisfying life. One fateful day, following a period of darkness and intense struggle, Matt decided to end his life. To his horror, he later woke up in a hospital with a bullet in his head a...

In this episode, host Johnny G wraps up the Heal Yourself series by sharing how to design a joyful life. Johnny discusses the difference between happiness and joy, the building blocks of joy, how joy relates to love and passion, and offers a tactical exercise for redesigning your life around joy and contentment. The book referenced by Johnny G during this episode is “The Velvet Rage” by Dr. Alan D...

This episode in Refractive’s ongoing “Heal Yourself” series welcomes Hally Brooke, Certified Functional Medicine Nutrition Counselor and Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. She joins host Johnny G to discuss Nutrition and Nourishment, how the foods and substances we intake are respnonsible for the great majority of chronic illnesses today, and offers suggestions on simple ways to...

In part 1 of the Heal Yourself: Inner Peace episode, host Johnny G discussed how security affects our level of serenity. Now, in part 2, he focuses on how our concept of satisfaction can either enhance or diminish inner peace. Johnny reviews 3 primary factors that affect how satisfied we feel with our lives: fears, expectations, and intuition. Grab a pen and a journal and prepare to go on an inner...

Why is inner peace so elusive? How can we find serenity in a world that feels so chaotic? In the second episode of the Heal Yourself series, host Johnny Guidry explores acceptance and inner peace. He presents the building blocks of inner peace, common roadblocks, and a series of exercises to help you identify where you are sabotaging your own serenity. This topic is broken into two pillars, each w...

Are you ready to heal yourself? Refractive Podcast welcomes you to a special series designed to help you recover from the pain, sabotage, and self-imposed limits that keep life small, chaotic, and draining. This first episode, Rebalancing Your Life with Luke Iorio, offers practical tools and methods for evaluating where your life may be out of balance and then re-establishing harmony, flow, and se...

What would you do if, in a vision and guided by God, you were told to sell your home and your belongings, move across the country, and start helping people heal? Didn’t that sort of experience end with the Old Testament? Clearly not! Jennifer Standish shares her inspiring story of faith with Refractive’s Johnny G, who also had a revelation to leave his old life and follow a new, God-driven path. J...

After experiencing severe psychological abuse at the hands of her stepmother, Lisa Goodpaster couldn’t help but see her parents through a highly distorted lens. While it took decades of exploration, healing, forgiveness, Lisa founded The Stephood Project, an organization dedicated to changing the way children experience divorce. Lisa shares with her methods for defining, processing, and healing pa...

Jonathan Robinson has spent years interviewing over 100 of the world’s most fascinating spiritual seekers. From Mother Teresa to the Dalai Lama, from Oprah to Byron Katie, Jonathan condensed these life-changing conversations and learnings into a single book, The Enlightenment Project. He joins host Johnny Guidry on Refractive to share some of the profund lessons he picked up from these living lege...

In honor of reaching season 4 of Refractive — can you even beleive??? — host Johnny G shares one of his all-time favorite episodes, truly among The Best of Refractive: The Ancient Truths of Acceptance and PLINKO . Johnny explains that the key to serenity is letting go of any judgments of the present moment. This episode blends personal experience, spiritual concepts, and everyone’s favorite game f...

Certified Ayurvedic Health Counsellor Natasha Sidhu sits with host Johnny G to talk All about Ayurveda. Natasha gives context and background into the concept of Ayurveda, the many ways it can be practiced, how people use it to heal and enrich their lives. Having dedicated most of her life the ayurvedic way of being, she offers practical tips and guidance for those who are seeking to make more spac...

Career Coach Becca Ribbing joins Refractive to talk about an essential part of a life that feels right: finding a career that fits. Host Johnny Guidry and Becca discuss the challenge faced by college students in making life-long career decisions, as well as some practical ways to start a pivot if you find yourself in a career that feels misaligned to your interests, gifts, or sense of purpose. Lis...