The Empowering Process Podcast With Gail Kraft

Episode 128   Sabrina Victoria is a return guest and reminds us of her struggle with being shunned by family and escaping a 13-year narcissistic abusive relationship. She adds her experience with alcohol as a co-dependent tool her partner utilized in order to manage and manipulate her. Part of leaving this relationship also meant leaving alcohol behind. She is now the founder of Human Better 365 |...

Episode 127   In this episode Sheila has a breakthrough early on as she becomes curious about her early choices and childhood. At a very your age she was diagnosed with Scleroderma , a deadly autoimmune disease. She was given five years to live.   Well, Sheila survived longer than expected and came across a High School Teacher who offered the concept of the power of the mind and its ability to hea...

Episode 126 Join me and my guest, Kuti Mack, as we talk about his earliest challenge in life, Culture shock after coming to the United States as a young UK Black kid of Nigerian descent. He discusses the concept of grappling with the functional intersections (& occasional dissonance) of perception & reality. This challenge of competing perception and his actual reality and learning to beco...

Episode 125 If you have ever been responsible for the care of another and needed help, then you have been faced with the task of selecting the right resource for the care of your loved ones. Jacci Ryan shares a piece of her story moving back to her home state to oversee the care of her father and then mother as they aged. Childcare, teen care, or elder care, how do you know if your loved one will...

Episode 124 The Universal Law of Relativity states that everything is relative. This means that everything materializes in the physical world when we compare it to something else. For example, you cannot define darkness unless you use light or the absence of light as a point of reference. Comparison is how we define what is and what is not. Imagine living with your comparison, your twin. Bonnie Di...

Episode 123   Meena Ruchi joins me to discuss growing up and fulfilling a role she was expected to play. Pleasing the family, pleasing her mentors, pleasing society, and never discovering who she really was. Experiencing anxiety became her sole source of motivation for most of her life and living was a huge struggle for her. She secretly held a deep fear of being unsafe which drove her to create a...

Episode 122 Dot Com to Dot Gone… You’re on the cutting edge of technology, you’ve built an amazing business, it’s trending perfectly, and then… The Dot Bomb happens. What happens when investor income dries up, your clients can no longer get served, your employees let go, and those that trusted you are left with no results? Tom Ruwitch shares his approach to picking himself up and taking his lesson...

Episode 121 In this episode of The Empowering Process Podcast Dr. Doreen Downing joins me in a discussion around tapping into your Essence. She talks about her journey of going within to discover more of how she got to be the way she is, and who she truly is at the deepest, most beautiful, and fabulous level. Doreen describes our journey into independence as leaving the house through the front doo...

Episode 120 Come join me as I get to speak with David Doerrier about growing up with a narcissistic mother. The world centered around her needs, and he was invisible. As a kid, He never talked. and that's still something that's difficult. David always had fears. He was the oldest of five kids that was picked on by his siblings. He had become the target and believed he could not come home with anyt...

Episode 119 Allison Dagney, author of When Tears Leave Scars, joins me to discuss what happened when you fall in love, get married, and then lose yourself in the web of control. She talks about learning to believe she was incapable of making good decisions, of managing finances, of taking care of her home, herself, or her family. Every decision that she made was not the right choice and she began...

Episode 118 In this episode of The Empowering Process Podcast is a conversation with Howard Brown about beating the odds. It is a story of rising up, getting knocked down, rising again, getting knocked down, and still rising again. Three health miracles that are all about faith, trust, and being open to possibilities. As a two-time stage IV cancer patient and survivor 30 years apart, Howard Brown...

Episode 117 In this episode of The Empowering Process Podcast my guest, Kaitlin Young, shares her struggle in loving and trusting herself. She recalls her first belief that she didn’t matter was at the age of six when, after being bitten by a dog, she was told her mother was too busy to be there for her. Kaitlyn did not matter. She was unworthy, the lowest in the family, and, being home schooled,...

Episode 116 Tammy Cho, CEO of Path To The Heart, joins me in a conversation about abandonment, self-love, and healing through the mind/body/soul connection. She shares her realization that she, and other high achievers, who experience chronic overwhelm, exhaustion and burnout think it’s only about more rest, prioritizing, or systems when in reality it is rooted in self-confidence. Tammy shares her...

Episode 115 We don’t realize what impacts our image of who we are and when that really began. Uncovering this and discovering who we are takes intention. Listen as Beverly Price shares feeling blame and shame as an infant/toddler as her mother’s scars present evidence that maybe Beverly shouldn’t even be here. Her feeling of worthlessness followed her as she created a life of failures as she belie...

Episode 114 Russian born Anna Ditchburn found her family abandoned by her father at the age of 4. She watched as her mother struggled to provide for the family until a miracle happened. Their savior arrived. At the age of 10 her mother married and er stepfather and now provider came into her life. Anna and her brother quickly learned the consequences of not following the rules. They did whatever i...

Episode 113 Listen as Laurie-Ann Murabito talks about the process of moving from the shy quiet little girl into a speaker, business owner, and teacher of stage presence. “Sometimes we literally have to jump and just like hey, the parachute's gonna appear you just gotta find the cord.” Laurie shares what it was like observing her parents and learning the being shy was normal. Then there came the da...

Episode 112 Scott Schwarz shares his story of trying to make a loveless marriage work, focusing on having the trappings of success, and navigating the emotional chasm of depression. He went from a job with the “corner office” to literally walking dogs and scooping up poop. He realized that his physically demeanor walking the dogs mirrored how he felt about himself, head and eyes down. And he began...

Episode 111 Change is happening all the time and it is constant. So, what does a serial entrepreneur do when the bubble bursts and s/he loses everything? Steve Feld talks about giving himself permission to mourn after losing everything and then, pulling himself together and looking for where there is a gap and where he can add value. Steve has lost and rebuilt businesses and himself and shares his...

Episode 110 Athin Cassiotis joins me in discussing his journey as a high school dropout determined to show the world he was going to succeed. His dad and teachers told him he was someone who couldn't study and, therefore, wouldn't be successful. He entered the workforce determined to prove them wrong. He focused and worked very hard proving himself and climbed up the ladder of success. When there...

Episode 109 Rich shares the story of living with death due to CMG – immune system deficiency since birth and growing up with many physical deficiencies, including a stutter, delt with childhood trauma not being good enough. Rich overcame his obstacles seeing these as things that just needed to be overcome. Rich began working in media with a lifelong stutter that friends, family, and co-workers tho...

Jeff was looking inward and asked, “Where did I get myself worth? From where did I get my beliefs? Where did I get my thoughts from? And the gap between him and those he loves grew. Jeff Brekken spent much of his life going in circles: success, then loss, then success again until the day when he was finally sick of it. He asked himself why and through a lot of self-reflection he found much more th...

Episode 107 Mike Skrypnek shares his falling into 10 days of his deepest darkest moments and how he climbed back out to move ahead. Climbing out meant facing a secret he held for 40 years and the emotion, shame, guilt, fear of being found out and so much more had been holding him back his entire life. Mike was frustrated by the limits or negative effects from subconscious patterns in his life and...

Episode 106 Nick shares his perspective on setting yourself free. Letting go of what you can’t control frees you to focus on what you can. That redirection of energy alone can create massive changes. In our conversation Nick shares how easy it is to hold others accountable for your problems. To always point your finger anywhere else but at yourself. He knows everything is a learning experience and...

Episode 105 Sabrina Victoria shares three major struggles she had in her life Raised in a Jehovah's Witness family, she did not celebrate holidays, did not receive medical advice, and was restricted from dating boys. After getting pregnant and getting kicked out of her community, Sabrina struggled to find her and her child’s place in life. 1 – She left her community, her religion, which was all sh...

Episode 104 Brad Dempsey of Mindset Sports joins me on the subject of forgiveness. He shares his perspective and how this is key to his work with young teens in sports. You know you have forgiven someone or yourself when you feel freedom from it. Brad emphasizes that you have to face it and work through it. He says that facing your emotions allows you to take on the challenge that leads towards me...