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  • Practical Woo: Healing Without Losing Yourself
    2025/11/03
    🕒 Timestamped Show Notes

    00:00–03:00 — Kim introduces her work as an intuitive healing coach, blending mindset and energy healing to address the deeper causes of burnout.
    03:00–06:00 — Nikki and Kim discuss “practical woo”—balancing spirituality with grounded personal responsibility.
    06:00–09:00 — The danger of spiritual bypassing and the importance of taking action rather than waiting for divine intervention.
    09:00–13:00 — Pendulums, Ouija boards, and finding humor in how people seek relief during hard times.
    13:00–17:00 — Limiting beliefs: how we create invisible ceilings and mistake discomfort for impossibility.
    17:00–21:00 — Nikki opens up about her trauma and rebuilding her mindset after years of hardship.
    21:00–25:00 — Kim explains emotional needs (certainty, uncertainty, significance, connection, growth, contribution) and how they drive self-sabotage.
    25:00–29:00 — Learning to manage internal boundaries and triggers—healing through awareness and repetition.
    29:00–34:00 — The myth of quick healing: both share stories about long, messy progress and bad therapy.
    34:00–39:00 — Kim’s early experiences with unhelpful therapy and her turn toward holistic healing, yoga, and mindfulness.
    39:00–43:00 — Reframing self-beliefs and understanding “the ghosts in our heads.”
    43:00–49:00 — How old voices and past judgments shape our identities and how to rewrite them.
    49:00–53:00 — The pain–relief–pleasure spectrum: why comfort zones can quietly become cages.
    53:00–57:00 — Transition to business: the mindset behind delegation and control in entrepreneurship.
    57:00–1:05:00 — Nikki and Kim unpack mistakes and lessons learned in hiring and trusting others.
    1:05:00–1:13:00 — Systems, boundaries, and communication—why good delegation mirrors self-awareness.
    1:13:00–1:17:00 — Final thoughts on accountability, feedback, and celebrating small wins in both healing and business.

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    1 時間 21 分
  • When Healing Hurts First: The Honest Path to Emotional Balance
    2025/11/03
    🕰️ Show Notes (Timestamps & Highlights)

    [00:00–02:00]
    Linda introduces her work with Wellness and Harmony and why stress resilience begins with daily, personal self-care practices.

    [02:00–04:00]
    Defining the body’s stress response — fight, flight, or freeze — and how chronic stress reshapes emotional capacity.

    [04:00–09:00]
    Nikki shares her story of trauma, unmanaged anger, and the long journey toward therapy and balance. It’s raw and grounding.

    [09:00–13:00]
    Linda reflects on the weight of childhood trauma and how unlearning suppression becomes an act of healing.

    [13:00–20:00]
    Nikki opens up about being unseen and neglected growing up. Together they unpack how safety and validation are non-negotiable for emotional healing.

    [20:00–27:00]
    A lively exploration of rage rooms, journaling, and guilt-free emotional expression. Linda reframes anger as energy that needs release, not repression.

    [27:00–31:00]
    Nikki introduces the “jar” metaphor — big rocks vs. sand — for managing emotional bandwidth. Linda links it to self-awareness and boundary setting.

    [31:00–35:00]
    They discuss personal accountability, emotional responsibility, and the fine line between self-care and selfishness.

    [35:00–41:00]
    Society’s conditioning on gender and care: women told not to be selfish, men told not to be soft. Both pay the price.

    [41:00–56:00]
    Business talk: DIY, Done-With-You, and Done-For-You models. Nikki brings humor (IKEA nightmares), and Linda connects it to knowing your limits.

    [56:00–59:00]
    Nikki introduces her upcoming tech-support service for entrepreneurs who want balance instead of burnout.

    [59:00–1:00:00]
    Linda shares about The Empowered Goddess Tribe, a trauma-informed community and training for healers and practitioners.

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    1 時間 1 分
  • Building Bridges, Not Walls: How Karl Dakin Connects Investors with Purpose
    2025/10/28
    🕓 Timestamped Show Notes

    00:00–04:00 — Karl introduces himself as “The Capital Coach,” explaining how he connects innovators and investors, using his “middle school dance” metaphor to describe his matchmaking approach.
    04:00–07:00 — The art of translation: Karl explains the gap between technical inventors and outcome-driven investors, emphasizing the need for de-risking and readiness before funding.
    07:00–10:00 — The “ugly baby” analogy and how objectivity is key for creators; the importance of teams and the dangers of over-attachment.
    10:00–14:00 — Visibility and reputation: Karl shares his evolution from SBA speaker to daily newsletter and livestream host, and how constant visibility builds trust.
    14:00–18:00 — Misconceptions about investors: Karl debunks the myth that wealth equals wisdom and describes how he assesses investor goals—between speedboats and soup kitchens.
    18:00–21:00 — The circus of entrepreneurship: clowns, lions, and the band. Karl’s take on the messy magic of innovation and the entrepreneurs’ unrelenting drive to “make things better.”
    21:00–41:00 — Nikki shifts to mental health care without insurance: community clinics, telehealth, and the value of having any therapist over none. Personal stories of medical care gaps and moving across states.
    32:00–36:00 — The dangers of AI in mental health: Nikki and Karl discuss privacy, consent, and the limits of empathy in machine learning.
    37:00–41:00 — Personal safety, comfort, and choosing the right therapist. The value of feeling safe, not judged.
    41:00–49:00 — Trauma triggers and anxiety: Nikki’s stories of memory, panic attacks, and the body’s hidden timelines. Karl parallels emotional memory with financial risk aversion.
    49:00–53:00 — The importance of control and preparation: Karl on contingency planning in business and life; Nikki on mental resets and the difference between personal and professional resilience.
    53:00–54:00 — Closing reflections: redefining “balance” as friendly competition between business and personal life. Both agree that “equal merit” matters more than equal time.

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    56 分
  • Order, Energy, and Enough: Making Space for What Matters
    2025/10/20
    Show Notes (Timestamped)

    00:00–02:30 Meet Miriam. Digital and physical organizing share the same roots. “Know where you keep things” matters more than perfection.
    02:30–05:30 Order in the chaos, the noisy keychain story, and why designated spots matter more than perfect labels.
    05:30–07:30 Travel, transitions, and why routines matter when life is in motion.
    08:00–10:30 Miriam’s Venn: home, work, and spirit combine to create joy, love, and possibility. You belong at the center.
    10:30–14:30 How she helps clients “sneak up” on the dream when they can’t yet see it, using questions that unlock intention.
    14:30–17:00 Starting a business the sustainable way: part-time ramp, savings, and curiosity instead of rigid milestones.
    17:00–19:30 Building a presence: LinkedIn, Alignable, local meetups, and being nominated for Small Business Person of the Year.
    19:00–21:30 What she actually does: a “simplicity expert” connecting organization, productivity, and money mindset for home, office, and aging-in-place.
    21:30–23:30 Hoarding versus situational clutter, why TV-style fixes rarely last, and why real change needs follow-up.
    23:30–24:00 Mid-roll channel reminder and pivot to emotional triggers.
    24:00–29:00 Triggers segment: lived experience with PTSD and early trauma, therapy, coping, and the survival rule of “don’t fall apart in public.”
    29:00–34:30 Identifying triggers like “being talked down to” and the long, patient work of regulating emotional responses.
    38:00–41:30 “What other people think of you is none of your business.” Naming emotions and not assuming tone over text.
    53:00–56:30 Practical sensory strategies: earplugs, sunglasses, fabric choices, and “microdosing” exposure to tough environments.
    59:00–61:00 Progress over perfection, staying in conversation, earning trust over time, and practicing the “be better” mindset.
    Wrap Miriam’s website: morethanorganized.net

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    1 時間 8 分
  • From Rescue Streamers to Resilient Hearts: A Scientist’s Guide to Surviving Life
    2025/10/14
    🕰 Timestamped Show Notes

    [00:00–04:00]
    Rob introduces himself as a scientist and inventor from Honolulu, best known for creating the Sea Rescue Streamer — a life-saving device used worldwide and even on SpaceX missions. He shares how his wife’s paralysis from MS forced him to balance caregiving, parenting, and running a business, a journey that shaped his view on resilience and purpose.

    [04:00–08:00]
    Rob recounts his marriage and the early shock of his wife’s diagnosis. He and his wife built a strong foundation as friends first, which helped them endure 19 years of paralysis. He shares the financial and emotional toll — “from earning to spending,” yet keeping their family anchored in love.

    [08:00–12:00]
    Humor and creativity became survival tools. Rob describes hiding his wife’s wheelchair at social gatherings so she could just be seen as herself, and how they kept their intimacy and connection alive through creativity and laughter.

    [12:00–16:00]
    He reflects on years of caregiving — hiring 183 helpers, navigating burnout, and finding humor even in exhaustion. Through it all, he modeled for his children what commitment, love, and problem-solving under pressure look like.

    [16:00–19:00]
    The conversation shifts to survival mindset. Rob connects his military-approved inventions to his philosophy: “You take what’s at hand and make it work.” He attributes his resourcefulness to his Depression-era parents — artists and tinkerers who taught him to “rig things” and value function over form.

    [19:00–23:00]
    Rob shares his philosophy on nature as medicine — that time outdoors is essential to mental reset. He insists people are losing connection to real life through screens, calling smartphones “the worst invention ever.” His focus: do more, watch less.

    [23:00–28:00]
    A passionate critique of social media culture. Rob describes his push-button phone as a badge of freedom. He warns that constant scrolling is creating “fat, lazy, and distracted” generations — especially harmful to young people who need real-world experiences to form character.

    [28:00–32:00]
    Rob’s parenting philosophy: raise adults, not children. He reflects on teaching responsibility through earned trust, letting his kids make mistakes early, and modeling self-reliance. His key lesson: “Show responsibility, get more. Show more, get more.”

    [33:00–34:00]
    He encourages reflection over reaction — pause before responding in anger, write things down, seek advice, and learn from failure. “Life is gray, not black and white. Sometimes setbacks are your greatest teachers.”

    [35:00–42:00]
    Nikki and Rob pivot to workplace chaos and clarity — how scientific thinking applies to onboarding and operations. Rob’s approach: zoom out (macro), then focus in (micro). Keep the inbox clear and your mind open for creative problem-solving.

    [42:00–47:00]
    The two discuss transparency, workplace mentorship, and emotional honesty. They agree that venting early prevents toxicity. “Outbursts aren’t bad — they’re feedback,” Rob says.

    [47:00–52:00]
    They explore the loss of real communication in virtual culture. Rob connects social cues, empathy, and face-to-face interactions to leadership. “You can’t manage people if you can’t read people.”

    [52:00–57:00]
    They unpack education and structure — Rob calls for a return to respect, discipline, and accountability. Teachers, he says, “should be the most celebrated people in the world.”

    [57:00–1:07:00]
    The episode ends with a shared truth: relationships and resilience are survival skills. Rob’s closing thought: “When something makes you that mad, don’t bury it. Let it out, then move forward. We survive by adapting, not avoiding.”

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    1 時間 9 分
  • Boundaries, Burnout, and the Business You Actually Want
    2025/09/29
    Show Notes (fully timestamped)

    00:00 — Meet Dr. Jaime Reza, career and stress coach helping people navigate transitions without burning out.
    01:00 — Fifteen years in mental health, the burnout formula, and the car accident wake-up call that led to a three-day coma and a hard reset on work.
    03:00 — Why “I’ll just pull one all-nighter” is a trap, and how to design systems that don’t rely on heroics.
    04:30 — Boundaries that hold: start with call windows, project scope, and saying “no” when capacity is full.
    05:30 — Corporate boundaries: don’t check email after hours, and know your on-call rights and pay structure; advocacy starts with knowing the law in your state.
    07:00 — HR reality check: HR protects the company first; document everything and escalate with clarity.
    09:00 — On-call vs emergency time: what counts, what to ask for, and how to ensure you’re paid fairly.
    11:30 — Delegation as stress relief: when repetitive clicks steal your focus, hire task help so you can think.
    14:00 — Procrastination as a signal of overwhelm, not a character flaw; lighten the load to reduce avoidance.
    15:30 — Audit your task list: what’s truly necessary vs “past me promised future me.”
    17:30 — If you have an assistant, talk daily; boredom means misalignment, overwhelm means you need more support.
    19:30 — Owner mindset: you’re the iron that fuses the pegs, not a peg yourself; stay at the macro level.
    21:00 — Work on the business: your time belongs to vision, partnerships, and strategy, not inbox triage.
    24:00 — Seeing the system: connect marketing, sales, and ops so information and priorities flow.
    26:00 — What’s under perfectionism: fear of letting go, and the next, scarier role after you delegate.
    27:30 — When to bring in help: coaches, ops partners, and consultants to make the pivot less scary.
    28:00 — Jaime’s CRM story: drowning at 900 contacts, hiring help, building automations, and getting time back.
    29:30 — Health is data: headaches, stomach pain, or numbness are signals; ignoring them raises the cost later.
    32:00 — Listening to your body: advocate for care, even when others minimize your pain or symptoms.
    36:00 — Panic, seizures, and stress responses: why early attention matters and how to de-escalate your life load.
    40:00 — Weekly reset blocks: two to six hours just for you; decompress, offload, then do something you enjoy.
    42:00 — Jaime’s Rule of Threes: every 3 hours move, every 3 days change your environment, every 3 weeks leave your city, every 3 months leave your county, every 3 years leave the country if you can.
    43:30 — Travel builds perspective; you don’t need international flights to expand your world.
    48:00 — Coping toolbelt: therapy, routines, and trusted people for the hard days.
    50:00 — Final takeaways: trust your signals, act on them, follow through, and build a business that protects your health.

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    53 分
  • Health, Healing, and Entrepreneurship: Allison Steinke Joins the Conversation
    2025/09/08
    🕑 Timestamped Show Notes

    00:00 – Introduction
    Allison introduces herself as a holistic nutritionist and health coach, sharing her journey as a mother of 11 and leaving an abusive marriage.

    01:00 – Entering Coaching
    How a physician friend inspired her to pursue certifications and the challenges of balancing motherhood with career ambitions.

    02:00 – Shifting Paths
    Her attempt at copywriting, realizing it wasn’t fulfilling, and how a client pushed her back into coaching.

    03:00 – Overcoming Hurdles
    Biggest obstacle: mindset, refining her message, and identifying her ideal client.

    04:00 – Reframing Mindset
    Moving past limiting beliefs, embracing imperfection, and using tools like ChatGPT to bridge tech gaps.

    06:00 – Embracing the Journey
    Shifting focus from perfection to progress, enjoying the climb rather than obsessing over the mountain peak.

    08:00 – Real vs. Perfect Online
    Why authentic posts about struggles resonate more than polished, unrealistic influencer content.

    10:00 – Individual Paths to Health
    Helping clients find unique approaches to health and fitness that align with their energy and preferences.

    13:00 – Mental Health After Trauma
    Processing grief, discovering self-worth through faith, and choosing to be a healthy parent for her children.

    18:00 – Building Healing Habits
    Prioritizing sleep, exercise, nutrition, and reframing “me time” through movement and dance.

    21:00 – Working With Energy
    Recognizing neurodivergence, aligning work with energy flow, and why authenticity matters more than rigid schedules.

    22:00 – Energy vs. Time Management in Business
    Discussion on structuring work based on energy levels versus strict time management.

    30:00 – Personal Struggles With Sleep & Scheduling
    Host shares personal sleep challenges, and Allison reflects on adapting energy flow throughout the day.

    37:00 – Finding Balance
    The importance of combining time and energy awareness for productivity without burnout.

    41:00 – Social Energy & Networking
    Allison describes how social interactions can drain energy, learning to protect and honor her limits.

    44:00 – Closing Thoughts
    Authenticity, energy awareness, and healing as keys to building a healthier life and business.

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    45 分
  • Healing Journeys and Digital Tools: A Conversation with Sam Morrison
    2025/08/25
    ⏱️ Timestamped Show Notes

    [00:00] Sam introduces herself and Safe Park Connections, a community built around healing and self-love.
    [01:00] Her turning point after leaving an abusive marriage in 2015.
    [02:00] How Safe Park Connections grew from local dinners to a global online community.
    [03:00] First steps for new members: self-love assessment and introduction posts.
    [05:00] Community engagement levels—from “wallflowers” to active contributors.
    [06:00] The importance of connection: testimonials from members.
    [07:00] The “Overflow Effect”: giving from abundance, not depletion.
    [09:00] Breaking toxic patterns of giving and learning to receive.
    [11:00] Balancing Christian faith with inclusivity and love.
    [12:00] Reclaiming emotions after years of shutting them down.
    [13:00] Daily practices for creating a life you love.
    [15:00] Moments of gratitude that reshaped her perspective.
    [17:00] The “gray room” exercise and choosing to live fully.
    [18:00] Host shares parallels on depression and healing.
    [20:00] Sam’s Seven Minute Gratitude Blueprint—morning gratitude, daily focus, nightly wins.
    [22:00] Listener offer: free access to Self-Love Now with mention of the podcast.
    [24:00] Transition into AI discussion—benefits and ethical concerns.
    [25:00] How they both use AI for writing, brainstorming, and business.
    [27:00] Teaching AI to match your voice and avoid filler words.
    [29:00] Editing strategies and using AI for support without losing authenticity.
    [31:00] Plagiarism concerns in education and proper AI use cases.
    [32:00] Sam’s book journey and how AI helped her organize her draft.
    [36:00] Tools they use: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Canva, Leonardo AI.
    [39:00] Funny AI quirks—too many fingers, odd eyes, and flawed outputs.
    [41:00] Canva as a go-to tool for content creation.
    [42:00] Closing reflections: intentional choices, gratitude, and responsible AI use.

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    43 分