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  • Ep 250: Transformational Embodiment: Transforming Your Life, Business, and Relationships by Revealing and Expanding Into Your Truest Essence with Natalie MacNeil

    Ep 250: Transformational Embodiment: Transforming Your Life, Business, and Relationships by Revealing and Expanding Into Your Truest Essence with Natalie MacNeil

    Natalie is an Emmy Award-winning media entrepreneur and founder of The Embodiment Coaching Institute. She was listed on the Levo 100 as a “Transformer of Our Generation” and featured by Inc. as one of “27 Women Leaders Changing the World.” She has also written five books; The Rituals: Simple Practices to Cultivate Well-Being, Deepen Relationships, and Discover Your True Purpose, She Takes on the World, The Conquer Kit: A Creative Business Planner for Women Entrepreneurs, Conquer Your Year: The Ultimate Planner to Get More Done, Grow Your Business, and Achieve Your Dreams and The Conquer Kit.

     

    Creating the Success You Wanted

    Natalie is no stranger to the business and coaching world. 13 years ago, her online coaching space called She Takes On The World for women entrepreneurs started noticing patterns present in almost everyone she’s worked with. She realized that the key to creating the success you wanted is diving into your layers to reveal the truth of who you are. Weave that truth into your business to create a strategy that’s rooted in the truest of your essence.

    She studied meditation, mudras, sound healing, Reiki, NLP, and EFT, a.k.a. Tapping Tantra, and eventually incorporated these transformational tools into her coaching. And that’s how she formed Embodiment Coaching Institute.

     

    Small Pot in the Living Room

    She compares her transition from living in Canada to relocating to the US to a small pot in the living room. It’s beautiful, comfortable, and has a lot of stability, but she felt the need to grow, and for the small pot to grow, it needed to be repotted for its roots to have a place to expand.

    “Everything was going to be burned away. That for me to live from my highest potential, for me to to be living in the truth of who I am, that the life that I was living at that moment was all going to be burned away and what was going to be created was something very, very different.”

     

    Toolbox of Embodiment Practices

    Her embodiment practices allow her to be in the centre of the storm. There can be all this chaos spinning around her, yet she can stay in that calm eye. She applies the same toolbox of embodiment practices that create transformation in her own life to the lives of the people that she works with.

    Natalie is devoted to expanding human potential and inspiring people to live meaningful lives through her books, videos, interactive films, coaching experiences, and live events.

     

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  • Ep 249: Stripping Down with The Real and Raw Mompreneur Ali Levine

    Ep 249: Stripping Down with The Real and Raw Mompreneur Ali Levine

    Fashion expert, mommy influencer and mompreneur Ali Levine got real and raw with us in this week’s episode. Born and raised in New York, Ali has worked for some of the biggest names in the Fashion Industry. She relocated to Los Angeles, California and became a household name as a celebrity stylist. Ali makes regular appearances on local to national television including Bravo’s hit show, “Stripped” along with her husband.

    Mother to two girls, Amelia and Arley, motherhood made Ali see things on a whole new level. It brought her the realization that there are much bigger things in life past the glitz and glamour of the fashion world. It peeled off all the layers of who she was and revealed her authenticity; an Ali version 2.0. A more vulnerable, better and empowered woman.

    “I want to be a space where people want to come together. I want to be a community for others, especially mothers. I want people to know that we’re all truly doing our best and we’re all hopefully being as vulnerable as we can be not just for others but for  ourselves in order to grow.”

     

    Topics Discussed in this Episode

    • A glimpse into her personal life
    • Behind the scenes of being a fashion expert
    • Her view on fashion
    • Quick tips on how to be fashionable even when you’re working from home
    • How her podcast was born
    • Motherhood journey: the good, the bad, and the ugly

     

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  • Ep 248: The Mind Behind the Voice Assistant That Helps eSport Gamers To Be Victorious with Alisa Chumachenko

    Ep 248: The Mind Behind the Voice Assistant That Helps eSport Gamers To Be Victorious with Alisa Chumachenko

    Alisa Chumachenko is the leading female expert in online and social gaming. In 2010, she founded and was the CEO of “Game Insight”, a company that creates free-to-play games for Android, iOS, Facebook, and the web, until she stepped down in 2015. And in 2017, she founded GOSU.ai Data Lab, a company using machine learning to provide data to gamers and game companies. By 2018, GOSU Data Lab had raised $2.3 million.

    The mother of two is unstoppable, and she’s even named as Forbes Top 50 Women in Technology.

    But before all that, she first had a career in Circus which she shared in this episode. 

    Who would have thought that a choreographer and art director household would raise a successful serial gaming entrepreneur? “You will never have a second chance to make a first impression. And going first time to raise money speaking with the VCs, with angel investors, with private investors, it’s not about raising money. It’s about making connections and making networks that you’re gonna use for the rest of your life. And the first impression that you make, at this moment, when you meet people first, for the first time is super important.”

     

    Topics Discussed in this Episode:

    • How her passion for online gaming ignited
    • Her life before social gaming
    • How GOSU.ai started
    • Navigating fundraising
    • Importance of allowing space to transition

     

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  • Ep 247: Picture This: A Dad and Daughter Duo Filling Our Hearts with Hope and Joy Through Their Music with Mat and Savanna Shaw

    Ep 247: Picture This: A Dad and Daughter Duo Filling Our Hearts with Hope and Joy Through Their Music with Mat and Savanna Shaw

    How often do you hear a dad and daughter singing, not just in one song but in an entire album?

    Mat and Savanna Shaw are a daddy-daughter duo from Utah that rose to prominence during the COVID-19 quarantine. Savanna, eager to keep in touch with her music friends, started a music social media account. Usually, a shy and private teenager, she was nervous about singing her first song by herself, so she asked her dad to join her in singing “The Prayer.”

    What started as an ordinary day of singing for Savanna and a day of gardening for Mat turned out to be a fateful one.

    Their video went viral, and the duo continued releasing duets on social media and streaming platforms, charting in both the US and UK. They have since appeared on Good Morning America, Inside Edition, The Kelly Clarkson Show, and more. “In whatever you do, just be real, be yourself and people will love you for it.”

     

    Story Behind Picture This:

    Savanna played the harp for six years before deciding to focus on her voice. She has always loved singing, humming tunes nonstop around the house–though her shyness kept even some of her closest friends unaware of her talents until her videos went viral.

    Mat also grew up singing. He sang in High School and College but set aside his performing aspirations to start his real estate career and his family.

    The song Picture This tells how that one moment of courage, making that first step towards your dreams that always seemed scary and uncomfortable, can make a huge difference. Both are so grateful that through each other, they have found their voices.

    Mat and Savanna’s uplifting song choices and harmonies have inspired people all over the world. Intending to share hope and spread joy through their music, they released their first album last October 23 called Picture This.

    “That is what music has become for us, an opportunity to share hope and spread joy. I think that everybody can find their ways to do that, and I think that as you do that, you’ll find that you fill your own heart, with that same hope and joy that you try to spread in others.”

     

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  • Ep 246: Scaling Your Life’s Work By Launching Your Dream Online Program with the Business Boss Destinee Berman

    Ep 246: Scaling Your Life’s Work By Launching Your Dream Online Program with the Business Boss Destinee Berman

    Destinee Berman is a modern marketer and a seven-figure launch strategist for experts and educators. With 15 years of marketing experience in Silicon Valley with clients like Twitter, HP, and Microsoft, Destinee left all that behind to step into her calling more profoundly. She has since helped entrepreneurs multiply their income through online courses, and launched dozens of digital schools, generating 15M+ in revenue for the last five years.

    Apart from that, she’s also an expert in leveraging love for their personal and career successes. She and her husband learned to integrate personal and spiritual growth into their day to day life. Being in a tech digital marketing scene long enough definitely helped them navigate balancing business and personal life masterfully.

    Destinee isn’t just running a million-dollar business; she also possesses a million-dollar mindset. “Regardless of what circumstances you come from, I do believe that you still get to articulate, and you still get to define what is it you want for you.”

     

    Topics Mentioned in this Episode:

    • How she’s able to make 75 launches that generated 16.5 million in just a  span of 5 years.
    • Strategies when creating online courses
    • Common mistakes business owners make
    • Why 90 days is a good time frame when launching your business
    • Paid traffic or Organic traffic?
    • Paid traffic strategies
    • Her advice to aspiring entrepreneurs
    • How she leads a life with intention and healthy boundaries
    • Turning points that shaped her mindset and perspective to the woman she is now

     

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