The Empowering Process Podcast With Gail Kraft

Episode 78 Everyone’s experience is different within corporate America. I just had a different experience where I was not seen or heard or valued, which is very difficult because when you give your heart to your job, and you work very hard and take pride in what you do [you get discouraged when invisible]. There are people that unfortunately become part of a corrupt atmosphere, and it's a very, ve...

Episode 77 Sandra McKechnie is a singer turned cultural awareness and sensitive coach. She joins me in this episode for a frank discussion on facing and healing the shame of bias. She shares her perspective on the virtue of humanity. In her book, Braving The Wilderness, Brene Brown says, “This ability to opt out of suffering and injustice or pretend everything is okay is the core of privilege.” Sa...

Episode 76 How do you even know your child is depressed when, by all accounts, they seem happy? Our topic for this segment is when your adult child receives a depression diagnosis and the parent/child dynamic. There has been greater understanding and a lot of retrospect that may be helpful for others. Changed the way we communicate and provide support. We should touch on helping children with voca...

Episode 75 “…Growing up in the environment that I grew up in, continuing to just kind of bury all of those things in my childhood past… when I was younger, I went through a lot of **** and as I got older I didn't want anybody to know about it. I kept saying to myself if my friends know what I went through as a child, they're not going to want to be friends with me. If my husband knows the things a...

Episode 74 Heather is owner and founder of Prosperity & Possibilities Presentations Inc. and Abbott Wealth Education. In this episode Heather explains how she developed coping mechanisms in order to stay in an abusive relationship, hanging on to something destructive. “He was so attentive and spend the first few months just flattering me, doing everything he can and getting me to open up. I wa...

Episode 73 Lois shares her story of facing deep rooted shame trauma and changing her life forever. “… In 2020. my mom died right after my brother who, bless his heart, was an alcoholic and they were two of the biggest intense shame filled figures in my life since birth, and when they died It woke me up. THEY HAD TO DIE TO WAKE ME UP! Which was really heavy for me because all of a sudden, I realize...

Episode 72 After totaling his car and getting his DUI, Kris entered a substance abuse class. “I leaned into this program. We had 20 different types of papers we had to write…I got real with myself. Did I really at that moment think I’ll never go drink and drive again? Did I really at that moment think that “Oh, this was my wake-up call?” No, I kind of had had enough personal development to go: “If...

Episode 71 Jane M. Powers talks with me about carrying shame in our lives… Shame affects the power of everything we do, and you know it's the number one topic that many people avoid because it feels crappy. Shame disguises itself as anger, blame, sadness, depression, anxiety, everything that's running around. If we're not running around bold and confident speaking our truth confronting what needs...

Today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about what it means to me when I talk about living in limbo or that limbo state, that is the space between what you know and what you don't know or the space between where you are and where you're going. It is that space between, and this is where we could either take a leap of faith on purpose and very strategically and intentionally jump, which is some...

Episode 69 Liz Erlandson, owner of Renovate Fitness, shares her experience of feeling lost in life, going through the motion of the American dream. In reality, with a great job, financial security, promotions, family, and home, she felt like she was wasting her time at a desk all day long. And then she had her AHA moment and began making different choices in her life. Liz takes her lessons into he...

Episode 68 Sarah talks about her journey of going along and doing the right thing. She strived to do good and to do things the right way. Then, to her surprise, she found herself getting a divorce and this is one of the things she was afraid would happen. She did not want her life to turn out like everyone else’s, after all, she was doing all the right things, so it shouldn’t. Then she tells us ab...

Episode 67 What I think about is transition, because a lot of times this meantime experience is expressed when we are in some type of transition. And we transition everyday throughout the day. It's not always the big transitions like, oh, I'm going to move across country. It's also the little things like I'm moving from this part of my day to the next part of my day and in the middle of from here...

Episode 66 Think if your amygdala as a very frightened 4-year-old child that needs guidance. Developing your emotional intelligence acts like a Big Brother or a Big Sister to quiet that response down and better enables you to feel anxiety change to innovation. This allows you to move through your emotional response towards what you’re trying to achieve as opposed to allowing that anxiety to keep y...

Episode 65 There are many times your subconscious mind tries to keep you safe because all it knows is what you've experienced thus far, and if it even remotely thinks what you're about to do is going to put you in harm's way, it's going to find ways to keep you stuck. It's going to make you stop because you're moving toward those fears that come up. “Oh my gosh you can't do that because if you do...

Episode 64 Fear is a part of life and it's a part of business and we get stuck in a lot of things that are in our head that are not necessarily a true reflection of reality. And there are also a lot of times it's your subconscious mind trying to keep you safe because all it knows is what you've experienced thus far, and if it even remotely thinks what you're about to do is going to put you in harm...

Episode 63 Nikki Haritatos shares her experiences with Gail Kraft and lessons around recognizing being stuck in your life and what she does to be sure she shows up, creative, excited, and all in for her dreams and her life. “For me, I think what happens is I don't always see it. My body has a really good way of telling me things, so there had been a few times in my life when I was thinking I want...

Episode 62 “It was when we were talking about the subject of what's holding you back that I narrowed it down to exactly what. Until the day came that I could say to myself, but more importantly, publicly, “I am holding me back.” Not Gail not anybody in my life. You know we can go down the list, but in the end, we are the ones that either take the steps forward or stay in our heads and keep thinkin...

Episode 61 Gail Kraft speaks with Amanda Zwanziger, author of "The Paralyzed Movement," a movement to get you heading in the direction God intends for your life. It is a journey focused on how God can help rehabilitate your life. Listen as we talk about stretching outside the comfort zone, a bit every day, and dissolving beliefs that no longer support you. Amanda talks about how her life changed a...

Episode 60 Making your dreams come true requires living past fear and Doing What Must Be Done.  Join me with guest, Christian LeFer as we discuss finding the right help to move your dream into action. So many people have amazing ideas and then don't follow through because they don't know what to do and they're afraid to ask for help.  Think about it. This is the future turning into somet...

Episode 59 Join me as Lisa Barnett, Akashic Healer, and I hold a conversation around healing through your soul connection via the Akashic records (your library on your life). Lisa talks about becoming more conscious, aware of your soul’s journey, stepping into integrity with using your personal power, and gaining mastery through your healing. Lisa talks about observing more people becoming curious...

Episode 58 In this episode of The Empowering Process Podcast my guest Tashina King and I talk about fearing the potential vs relying on your innate capabilities. • The pain you anticipate is bigger than the pain you are in. It’s comfortable living in the knowing. Sometimes lack the belief that you are deserving, lack self-worth and fear of being on your own. You can’t see what could be in front of...

Episode 57 - Aree Bly, Alignment Coach, talks about knowing that fear is something that you can learn your way out. · What are the worst cases and can you live with them · Not being perfect can be the other thing really holding you back · We look at the people around us and you know how they're going to react, and we put more weight on that rather than what that change is going to mean for us Aree...

Episode 56 Imagine taking all of the things you love and aspire to have and create in your life and then watching that manifest before your eyes. The day came when I committed to pay attention to whatever is missing in me and stop looking outward for answers, and I became stronger. I know who I am. Join me and my guest, Lorrel Elian, a Life-Mastery mentor. Lorrel’s focus in on discovering your nex...

Episode 55 What happens when you are focused on struggles rather than opportunities in your life? What does it mean when you are going through the steps while slowly losing touch with who you are? What can you do when you are struggling to find balance between optimism vs reality? Gail and her guest, Patty Block, discuss moments in their life where these questions were real and how they navigated...

Episode 54 The Empowering Process guest, Anne Wright, speaks with Gail Kraft about navigating the tough times in life and making a choice, become bitter or become better. Ann talks about “The times that have been the toughest are probably the times that I have grown the most” and together we toss around questions about surviving life’s little heart stabs. • What the heck is mindset? What is it tha...