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  • Ep 245: Rhymecology: Helping People Express, Discover, and Recreate Themselves Using The Power Of Hip-Hop with Jeff Walker

    Ep 245: Rhymecology: Helping People Express, Discover, and Recreate Themselves Using The Power Of Hip-Hop with Jeff Walker

    Jeff Walker is a Rhyme Master, Rap Coach, and Qualified Mental Health Professional with a Masters in Educational Psychology and Counseling. Jeff uses his unique healing techniques with clients across the world for over 15 years. He is the creator of Rhymecology, which uses the power of hip-hop lyrics and culture to help people express, discover, and re-create their stories.

    “I allow the positive signs from the universe to be way bigger than my self-made fears.”

    He has worked with various talented artists such as Black Eyed Peas, Will I Am, Jamie Foxx, Randy Jackson, and the list goes on. On top of that, he’s also released three books called Rhymecology: Using Hip-Hop To Heal, Rhymecology: The Art of Hip-Hop Lyrics, and The Book of Rhymes. So, it comes as no surprise that he’s been featured on different shows such as ESPN, 60 Minutes, Fox Sports, Inside the NBA, HuffPost, and more.

    His talent and passion for lyrical rap have opened plenty of opportunities for him. In return, he wants to use Rhymecology as a platform to write, perform, and teach the art of hip-hop across the world. Writing has pulled him out from the dark times, and he hopes it’ll do the same for others.

    Of course, we wouldn’t let the episode end without hearing a piece from the Rap Coach himself.

     

    Jeff’s Impromptu Spoken Word
    Poetry

    The road less traveled

    Might have more gravel

    But if you stick with it

    It’s like winning the raffle

    Everyday joy can

    Spin around like a tire

    That’s what happens

    When we live life on fire

    I FOUND it’s real that

    words and sounds can heal

    In fact, maybe you should get on a track

    And start dropping a verse about entrepreneurs

    I’m shocked with words cuz I spent my life

    Trying to find the right ones

    Words can be used for spite, to fight or to IGNITE FUN

    People just might need some guidance

    I’ve helped migrant clients go from indictments to assignments

    From defiant to reliant just with some refinements

    Cuz where some see black holes and coal, I see diamonds

    We gotta keep trying…Cuz life’s not a bitch

    she’s a goddess and we should hold her

    This is Jeff Walker from Rhymecology

    Connecting with Jules Schroeder.

     

    Topics Discussed In This Episode:

    • What Rhymecology is about
    • How he brought the science of Psychology and his passion for rhyming together
    • What it’s like growing up in a free metaphysical minded family
    • His methodology
    • More of his spoken word poetries
    • How Rhymecology has helped his clients move the needle forward

     

    Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

    • Therapy, spoken word poetry by Jeff Walker that started it all
    • Restless Soul album releasing on October 22

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  • Ep 244: SV Delos: Sailing The World with Brian Trautman

    Ep 244: SV Delos: Sailing The World with Brian Trautman

    I’ve done many interviews, but I don’t think I’ve talked to anyone LIVE from their sailboat!

    Our guest for today’s episode embodies what unconventional living is. For the past ten years, they’ve traveled the oceans powered by only the wind and the sun on their 53” sailboat named SV Delos. Living off the grid majority of the time, they make their own electricity, water, and even moonshine on board!

    Brian Trautman, along with his brother, Brady, wife Karin, and two kids, have sailed to 40 countries spanning six continents, crossing the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans in the process, and have traveled enough miles to circle the globe three times.

    “There’s been a lot of decision points in my life, and I found that the ones that were the most rewarding are the ones that put the biggest pit in my stomach.”

     

    The Key To Keeping Your Community Engage and Committed

    • Consistency. Continually releasing videos engaging the audience by telling a story so that people become vested in you as a character.
    • Hard work & Patience. It can take years before you can grow your audience to size or become financially sustainable.
    • Be Genuine & Passionate. Find a niche that you want to make, not what others might be interested in.

    The Trautman’s continue to document their travels through a series of videos they film and edit themselves.

     

    Topics Discussed In This Episode

    • How their incredible lifestyle started
    • How he reframed his frame of orientation
    • How they fund their adventures through a mixture of income from crowdfunding and social media
    • What a typical family day looks like living in a boat
    • Weird questions asked by their audience and strange things they’ve tried
    • How he met the love of his life while sailing.

     

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  • Ep 243: Glimmer: A New Network for Comprehensive Sexual, Mental, and Physical Health Services for LGBTQ-BIPOC with Grace Stephenson

    Ep 243: Glimmer: A New Network for Comprehensive Sexual, Mental, and Physical Health Services for LGBTQ-BIPOC with Grace Stephenson

    The lack of freedom and versatility in the nonprofit world pushed this young entrepreneur to take on a path less traveled. The gap she saw in the service is the beginning of Glimmer.

    “If you have a vision and you want to do something, do it. If I can do it, I feel like anyone can do it.”

    Grace Stephenson comes from the sex education and nonprofit world, with experience in womxn’s health, LGBTQIA+ community services, and HIV/AIDS prevention and education. She turned her vision into a massive free online community for womxn, QTBIPOC, and the LGBTQ+ community.

     

    Glimmer of Hope

    Glimmer allows its members to have a community that makes them feel powerful, loved, and understood. It provides members the ability to explore inclusive education, virtual events, shops, and art.

    Their goal is to increase access to personalized mental and sexual health services by finding the right therapists. They hope to take away the “hard parts” of accessing comprehensive and affirming sexual health, mental health, sex education, and physical health services.

    They go through therapists or mental and sexual health professionals’ directory and interview them to make sure that they’re affirming and empowering. They will then match them to their clients based on their personality, insurance, and location.

     

    It’s A Space For Us

    As they move forward, they hope to encourage the lifting up of other womxn, QTBIPOC & queer-owned professionals, artists, and businesses. They set their eyes on the future with more collaborative education, presentations, and podcasts that feature the therapists they have on Glimmer that people can tune in for free. From there to eventually build physical spaces worldwide.

     

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  • Ep 242: Discover The Magic of The Menstrual Cycle and Awaken The Feminine Path To Power with Alexandra & Sjanie

    Ep 242: Discover The Magic of The Menstrual Cycle and Awaken The Feminine Path To Power with Alexandra & Sjanie

    Who said menstrual cycle talk is only for women? Alexandra & Sjanie, co-founders of Red School, and co-authors of the iconic and hugely celebrated book from Hay House, Wild Power, had an in-depth discussion about the importance of cyclical life the magic of the menstrual cycle that awakens the feminine path to power.

    They are pioneering the newly emerging menstrual field, creating a new lexicon and approach to women’s health and well-being, creativity and leadership, and spiritual life based on our menstrual consciousness’s power.

     

    Inner Seasons of the Menstrual Cycle

    How old are you when you discovered inner seasons? Today years old?

    Alexandra & Sjanie, their 45 years of experience, helped unravel the four different menstrual cycle phases. It is in determining where you are in the ever-changing landscape of menstruality. If you are not a fan of popping painkillers monthly, let alone surgery, restoring knowledge of and the practice of menstrual cycle awareness is the answer.

    “As a woman, we are coded for power, and the journey to realizing the fullness and beauty of that power lies in the rhythm and change of your menstrual cycle.”

    Men Can Integrate Cyclical Life Into Their Own Life

    This is a conversation all gender can hop in. An in-depth understanding of the menstrual cycle will give you a different level of respect for the changes in energy and mood that you notice with your partner.

    Chart your life according to her rhythm because often, the woman’s rhythm will organize the family. When you come into sync with that, you create much more ease and intimacy into your relationship.

    Because even though you don’t have a menstrual cycle, you are a cyclical being, and just honoring cycles, in general, is just so powerful.

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  • Ep 241: Translate Your Unique Gift Into A Career with The Walking MRI Machine Dr. Olivia Audrey

    Ep 241: Translate Your Unique Gift Into A Career with The Walking MRI Machine Dr. Olivia Audrey

    She is a Board Certified Naturopath, author, speaker; Dr. Olivia Audrey is our walking MRI machine. Since three, she has displayed her gifts of precognition, medical insight, and quantum intuition. That has led her to work with various clientele, such as the British Royals, celebrities, celebrity athletes, CEOs, fortune 500 business owners, and companies. She recently wrote this children’s book called Arthur fantastic, co-authored by the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson.

    “If you have a desire, if you have a thought that this is what you want to do with your life and with your profession, then that means it’s a done deal already. And you just have to align yourself with the path as it rolls out for you.”

     

    How She Discovered Her Gift

    At six years old, she pointed at this woman at a baby shower with her mom and said Breast Cancer. It bothered the woman enough that she went and had a screening, and it turns out she had stage two fully interventional breast cancer that was able to be treated and saved her life.

    Further on, she also detected a heart disease in a 22-year-old man. And believe it or not, she’s the first one to see my struggle with Epstein Barr even before I found out about it.

    When it comes to an understanding what’s happening with our emotional, physical, or spiritual system, Dr. Audrey can go right to the heart of the matter. One of her extraordinary powers is bringing awareness to mystery illnesses. Dive in as we discuss topics on holistic health, mental health, and the immune system.

    In this episode, she shed light on Epstein Barr and the viruses and autoimmune conditions that originate and piggyback on the “granddaddy of all autoimmune.” As well as how you can translate your unique gift to a full-time career.

    “Education is key. And so I always advocate that you have a conversation with your body first.”

     

    How To Translate Your Calling Into a Full-on Career

    1. Honor your calling by trusting yourself. Acknowledge and embrace the unique gift bestowed upon you instead of dismissing it.

    2. Check with yourself how it feels. If it resonates as truth for you, step forward and bring it out to the world professionally.

    3. Build it by clearing away any resistance that may be preventing you.

    “The less sense that it makes me in my cognitive brain, the more sense that it’s going to make to the other person.” If there’s anything she wants us to know is to embrace the weirdest parts of ourselves because those will end up being our superpowers.

     

    Resources

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