Stay Grounded with Raj Jana

“it's a new experience of learning to live with my full body and accessing intuition and connecting with truths that are present inside my body and my whole soul, my everything.”  February was a month of potent growth for me. As I explore my emotional triggers to lean deeper into my healing journey, I’ve been able to integrate aspects of my shadow and expand my knowing of who I am.  Look...

“Our ego was created to protect us. It comes up as a protection mechanism.”  Part of our journey through life is to learn to navigate and work with the ego. The ego is a powerful force that can keep us trapped in a victim mindset, unconscious ways of being, and stories and narratives that aren’t conducive to the way we want to live. As a result, it’s tempting to try to ‘kill’ the ego.  B...

“Consciousness doesn't let wonderful things be marginalized.” The energy of intimacy is a powerful way to connect deeper with life. In turn, a quest for intimacy can transform your relationship with everything including yourself, your partner, your work, and the world.  I met this episode’s guest at a retreat for people seeking greater levels of intimacy with themselves and their significant...

“Your shadow work, your mindset, those subconscious programs, is what governs everything in your body. It's the control center. It's the thermostat to the house.” Shadow work is a huge focus in my life right now and I’m excited to share more in the podcast. In these shadow themed episodes, I’m bringing on people to talk about their experiences of different shadow emotions.  In this episode, J...

“When we choose to go into the darkest aspects of ourselves, change is exponential.”  For me, the first month of 2022 (really the last 5 months) has been infused with shadow work. I want to emphasise that I’ve been fully supported through my journey with mentors and coaches. Shadow work is deep and can be very uncomfortable. It pulls you through emotions and memories that can be hard to hold...

“I don’t think I’ve found any greater amount of growth than I’ve found as a result of choosing to look into the shadow.”  Do you have emotions that you struggle to feel? Is there a dark shadow to your character that you’re reluctant to explore? Have you noticed an undercurrent of anger, shame, or guilt that bubbles to the surface every now and again?  If so, you’re human.  Most of u...

“Good CEOs think their feelings play a role, great CEOs know their feelings drive the ship or drive the bus.” How do you make exceptional decisions? Can you leverage fascination to find your flow? What steps will ignite your mind and intuition to spark creative problem-solving?  This episode’s guest is Rian Doris - the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at The Flow Research Collective. Pa...

“When it comes to healing the body, one of the most fundamental things that we need to do is whatever action we take, if we don't believe that it's going to work, it will not work.”  How can you heal from the challenges that keep you from expressing and experiencing your fullest potential? Jena Sophia is a world-renowned Subconscious Specialist and Healer who’s helped thousands of people - in...

“I actually don't want to try to be divine. I want to try to be as human as possible.”  Welcome to the first interview of 2022! Traditionally, this time of year is potent for goal setting because January represents a fresh start.  In the past, I’ve been used to setting clearly defined goals and I’ve had a lot of success with the process. However, as I feel more deeply into a more holisti...

“I knew what I wanted, and I was so afraid that I wasn't going to get it. But when I let myself surrender and just feel the disappointment of not getting it, I ended up getting it.”  This first episode for 2022 has been an entire year in the making. Welcome to my 2021 reflection - a culmination of hours of intentional reflection to extract and share the lessons and insights that life has been...

“It doesn't matter if you're closing out a year or 10 years, the act of closure feels the same.” When I think about my pace of growth, I’m so clear it’s because I’ve cultivated a lifestyle of awareness. This means I intentionally carve out time to reflect on the things that are happening in my life - and how I move through them.  For me, hindsight is 20/20 vision. Reflection reveals all the l...

“The reaction to the trauma doesn’t necessarily stop with the people who experienced it.”  Do you have symptoms that you can’t explain? For example, are you overly anxious for no obvious reason? Do you instinctively push people away or intentionally disassociate from difficult feelings in your body? Do you have irrational fears or thoughts about what could happen that don’t make logical sense...

“I would say mindfulness, as a practice, as a whole, is about waking up to the true experience of life.”  Sara Raymond was in her early 30s when she realised she was drifting through her life aimlessly. Up until this point, her life had been guided by what she felt she ‘should’ do. The feeling of being in the status quo inspired Sara to reinvent her life. This feeling was the beginning of The...

“Growth, to me, is a self-defined concept, because the hardest thing for you might not be the hardest thing for me.”  One of my favorite rituals is the deep-dive reflection I do monthly. I love looking back over everything that happened to pull out the patterns, lessons, and learnings. Best of all, I get to share the highlights with you in this episode. The theme of this month was finding and...

“I think we can use our challenges or our pains to go into gratitude with that lens of like, “How can I be grateful for it?”.”  This week’s episode is the recording of an impromptu conversation between me and my sweetheart - the incredible Gina Worful. Here’s the backstory… It was Thanksgiving morning and Gina and I got talking about all the things we’re grateful for. We went deep; rememberin...

“I started to recognize that the human system, the rhythm of a human is: grow and then rest, repair, grow again.”  Rewind to 2012, and Dawn Breslin’s life broke apart. She’d been at the peak of her career - enjoying red carpet events, speaking on some of the biggest stages in the world, and authoring bestselling books.  Then suddenly, the success was gone. A series of unavoidable life ev...

“If you’re not aware that you’re telling the same stories, then you’re never going to look for a different story to tell. So I think awareness is key.”  What if the stories you tell yourself about who you are aren’t even true?  What if you could rewrite old narratives and gift yourself a more empowering identity inside which you can spark exponential growth and craft a life that lights y...

“The reason I’m willing to go into the deepest aspects of myself is because my soul, my heart is really craving safety.”  This episode of Stay Grounded is my reflection for the month of October. Looking back, this month was themed in two core halves. During the first two weeks, I found myself exploring ways to elevate my communication skills. After some triggers in my relationship, it became...

“This past year has been a masterclass in surrender.”  How would you navigate your way through an experience where you lost your core business overnight? Earlier this year, Dom Quarticcio accidentally sent an email about porn he’d written for his men’s group to his corporate clients.  That email made his reputation toxic to the point that all his contracts were cancelled and deposits wer...

“I’m trusting my own spirit over my mind and over what anybody else thinks.”  Reflection is a fundamental practice that runs through everything I do. Recently, I’ve been finding a lot of value in revisiting old conversations - especially those I’ve had on this podcast. It’s why I knew I had to re-release this episode with Makhosi Candiss Pitts.  Makhosi is an Abundance Activator & Au...

“We don’t give kids enough credit for how brilliant they are and how they really do learn from observing the world.”  The pandemic has been tough for kids. With routines disrupted, the pressure of homeschooling, and the difficulties that arise from navigating a new way of living, thousands of young people are learning to process different emotions and overcome different challenges. It has not...

“If we could all just remember that every single person on this planet is seeking the same level of intimacy, the whole world would change.”  As we kick-start Q4, I’m excited to bring the first ¾ of 2021 to a close with this powerful reflective conversation. This one is even more poignant for me because it’s episode #200 so I’m also holding space to acknowledge and appreciate the journey that...

“I actually am more brother and sister with people that are across incredibly diverse paths and walks of life than I had ever imagined.”  I feel super pumped to re-release this powerful episode almost three years after I first recorded it. But as I listened back, it struck me how relevant this conversation is to the world we’re experiencing now.  I first met Matthew Abrams when he was fa...

“Life isn’t experienced in the thinking of—it’s experienced in the being of.” It’s easy to attach your identity to your achievements. After all, they’re measurable and tangible. No wonder we’re quick to use them to define our worth! But what if success as we know it is a construct of the mind?  If we identify with the mind alone, we can’t explore the full spectrum of the human experience.&nbs...

“You can be with one person for a lifetime, but within that lifetime, you will have many different relationships with many different contexts throughout that time period.”  Because we’re not taught how to craft them, most people are ill-equipped to cultivate great relationships. Most modern relationships don’t model the Disney fairytale fantasy! Instead, we get stuck on codependency and disap...