The Empowering Process Podcast With Gail Kraft

Episode 103 Elaine grew up in a household of rules, rights, and wrongs. “Don't feel that way. Don't be so loud. Don't be this. Don't be that” and so she followed the rules, became a people pleaser, and did all the things she thought she was supposed to do. After 25 years in corporate, being the people pleaser, and following the rules, Elaine stepped out on her own. Having that that sort of foundat...

Episode 102 Siddiqi Ray is a Visibility Mentor, Speaker, and Photographer. She shares her success stories with you and talks about trusting her intuition and always going with the flow. When Siddiqi took action on what she felt to be the right move amazing opportunities opened up for her. Things like working with the Navy Seals, the Kennedy’s, and the Dalai Lama, all which came when least expected...

Episode 101 Brenda Adelman shares her story of having an almost magical childhood. She grew up adoring her mother and loving her dad. Life was pretty amazing. And then she got the call. Her dad had shot her mother and mom was dead. While she was still reeling from this reality, a few months later her father married her aunt, mom’s sister. How do you get past this? How do you get your world back to...

Episode 100 Julie Hatfield, Owner and Founder at Strong Women U tells us about her biggest struggle in life, regret. Regret came on the heels of her best friend’s death. Regret that she did not say YES to going to see her when she knew her friend was dying. The regret that the reason was because she was so overwhelmed, anxious and trapped in the pressure of life, work and motherhood. Looking back...

Episode 99 Carrie Lee Klaiber shares  how her life was saved when she found her tribe. " Our community is our immunity" a mantra that offered a guiding light when darkness fell . For Carrie Lee , it is from within that inner space where we allow sharing with another that wholeness arises. Finding her tribe literally saved her life. “I came into this world, very reactive and responsive to my e...

Episode 98 What happens when you turn a chronic condition into a persistent advantage? Frank King , was a writer for the Tonight Show for 20 years, and has been a full time comedian for 37 years, with 8 TEDx Talks on mental illness, who has come close enough to dying by suicide, that he can tell you what the barrel of his gun tastes like, discusses how he discovered he could choose to live with Ma...

Episode 97 In this episode Lisa Adams joins me in a vulnerable conversation around learning about real friendship and getting smart and being discerning around relationships. After realizing her friendships were based on her position and connections and were not built on trust and vulnerability, Lisa spent the time to determine what she wanted for close friends. Things like trusting that confident...

Episode 96 Scott Mason shares his story of losing his connection with formal religion, moving to NYC, and discovering how he is the central and most important point in his life: the nexus of energy, religion, myth, and what we call reality. He shares his connection of abandonment in his life to that being a common theme in both mythology and the bible. This  Nexus of myth and religion where t...

Episode 95 Join me as Stef Gavin shows his vulnerable side and talks about living with depression, He was a corporate accountant and was doing well by outside observer’s perspective. Yes, he was miserable. While others envied his success what they didn’t see were the tears on Sunday afternoon because he knew he had to go into work the next day. He was stuck. As he held onto his pain, his body star...

Episode 94 So many of us struggle with taking  accountability for our life and find it easier to place blame. In this episode of The Empowering Process Podcast, Mistie Layne shares her story of a life altering incident that took a life and changed her life forever. “We just need to learn to take accountability and make the changes we need to make to make ourselves happy, not so much to people...

Episode 93 For Laurie Ann shyness was a learned behavior. Listen to this episode where Laurie Ann shares growing up watching her mother avoid contact with people she recognized in public places. The little girl observed and learned that this behavior is what you're supposed to do. You see somebody you know; you turn around. Laurie Ann learned how to blend in. In her first job in High School Laurie...

Episode 92 “Everything is energy and that's all there is to it.  Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.” Albert Einstein. In this episode,Franco and I talk about who we are as energy, spirituality, global consciousness and change.  As you watch or listen, we ask that you suspen...

Episode 91 Farah Ismail talks about carrying on like a super woman, fearlessly and then changing the trajectory of her life. Farah shares about choices she made, the stories she was telling herself and how she was able to rewrite these stories with purpose and steadfast courage. Ending a marriage is often viewed as a loss and Farah's perception was tainted by this view. She put up a brave front an...

Episode 90 After two hard marriages, Lori Monaco realized she was selecting the same type of man, one who controlled her emotionally and financially and who lied throughout their relationships. In her second marriage she had invested all totally and it came crashing down and it sent her into a tailspin. When she discovered that her spouse had been cheating throughout their marriage it sent her int...

Episode 89 Join my guest Nicole Majik and me as we talk about judging ourselves, feeling judged by others, and holding back on who we are and what our gifts to this world might be. “There's no judgment when we look at this to grow and expand. We're stepping outside of the judgment zone because it doesn't exist. Judgment does not exist when you truly know yourself… I grew up in a very Christian hou...

Episode 88 Erin talks about her journey out of addiction and into the world of healing others. “…the journey of facing yourself is your own journey is a personal journey. It is, and it's hard… People hear me and say, Oh Erin, you made me shift my perspective where this happened. It was never from me. I mean, sometimes if they were in a coaching package with me, it was from me actively coaching the...

Episode 87 Tashina Beckmann-King, Competitive Dancer, Choreographer, Dance Instructor, and Founder of Empowered To Greatness is a Mindset & Confidence coach for Creative Female Entrepreneurs and speaks on The Empowering Process Podcast about the dance world mirroring life and working with her clients to find trust. “I think partner dancing is an incredible avenue and tool to learn so much abou...

Episode 86 Are you defining success through perfectionism: · Perfect employee · Perfect wife · Perfect parent · Perfect children As a way to show your love? Who are you hurting with your perfectionism? Rita learned how to let go of her success script around perfection and accepted help, prioritized her needs, and let go of resentment. Listen as Rita shares her story of releasing perfectionism and...

Episode 85 Jenny Harkleroad, mindfulness enthusiast, shares her story of living her life with chronic physical pain, broken back, liver failure, pain pill addiction, unhappy marriage, bad temper, and low self-esteem and how she finally gave into the process of listening to her body and relying on her subconscious mind. Jenny’s dramatic story of healing began due to breaking her back on a mountain...

Episode 84 Kate Lyn, founder and Executive Director of Sound Sense, joins me today to discuss using the past as a lesson, letting it go, and trusting the gift from this experience to move forward. Kate and I discuss different perspectives of using your past and how, based on how you approach your past, in both cases you can grow and trust who you are, the choices you make, the direction you are he...

Episode 83 Michael Whitehouse talks about ADHD, Focus/lack of Focus, Systems, Delegation and life as an entrepreneur.  By not being able to find a "safe path," he was forced to ultimately follow his own calling. “I'm rarely able to get into that really hyperfocus state because I have so many things on my calendar, which is one of my challenges, which is why I like working Saturday morning. I...

Episode 82 “It started back in 2006. At that time, I was doing healing work with a very gifted channeling healer who had a number of modalities to her list of things that she did and she was outstanding. She was helping me release multiple layers of pain, shame and abandonment and all kinds of issues that I had as a little boy in a very violent home and how it all manifested into my life as troubl...

Episode 81 “When I think of breakthrough ideas, I'm thinking you come up with this idea and you say, “Wow this is something that would have a huge impact on me, my family, and the community to us. …As a mom, I hear that a lot in our moms’ communities where people will reach out to me and say, oh, I've got this really great idea, you know, someone should make it happen. My whole philosophy is why w...

Episode 80 “I'd always wanted to write books, and as we were living and working as property managers in Los Angeles, I got deathly ill. In retrospect it was an emotional reaction to the feeling like everybody else was living their life and I wasn't. I was stuck in this place where we were doing property management. You're living there and you're working there, and it turned out to be terrible for...

Episode 79  Dawn and I discuss breakthrough ideas from the perspective of self-efficacy . Self-efficacy is your belief in your ability to achieve a goal or complete a task. It is dependent on whether you believe you can! "It could be an internal breakthrough idea up to where you have brought the idea/dream/goal into reality. You believed in yourself, and you made it happen." When I first saw...