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  • Ep264: Choosing Peace Amidst Chaos, with The Angel Coach, Emily Rivera

    Ep264: Choosing Peace Amidst Chaos, with The Angel Coach, Emily Rivera

    To say that 2020 was a rough year would be an understatement, and 2021 hasn’t been exactly the year where the rainbow has appeared after the storm, however with everything that we’ve lost we’re encouraged to not just cry over the confusion and pain brought by the pandemic but also value that which stayed—treasure the things that 2020 didn’t take away.

    “Love and gratitude are the same frequency; they’re just labelled differently by the human mind,” that is according to influencer and Angel Coach Emily Rivera. Having met her first master at the age of five, she is constantly visited by Divine manifestations who show her visions and messages that she shares with others. She is now teaching others to listen to the guides—she refers to as the Saints of Light—to see beyond the panic and experience clarity in their life.

    Being also a mother to a daughter with a disability, her strength was tested when her child had a medical episode that stopped her breathing and sent Emily to intense panic.

    As the medical staff moved to make an incision on the girl, Emily saw the moment slow down to almost a halt and felt energy shower her at that moment.

    “I felt very lost in that moment,” Emily said, “like I can’t survive this and that energy moved down and I remember hearing this beautiful whisper: ‘You can choose to feel the peace that’s here now’. And at that moment I was being reminded that even though there was chaos—and I felt the chaos and I was in that chaos and I was witnessing the chaos and feeling it and being completely in it—I still had a choice to see the peace”

    As she took her daughter’s hand to her heart and said that she chooses peace, the doctors declared a miracle and the girl started breathing again.

    She learned from her guides that people are far more than what we see; more than just humanity “We are this vastness of light and impossibilities” and everyone shares the same divinity as them.

    “They’re just a reflection of who we are, that if I can take my human skin off and I could just be free from the idea that I’m human, I would see the same presence that was standing in front of me as myself.”

    Using her platform, Awakened Superhuman, she collaborates with other educators and teaches others to listen to their guides and be more comfortable in saying “Yes” because as it was told to her, “You are inevitable.”

    Despite how dark these past days may have been, Emily still encourages people to constantly be grateful, listen to their guides, and trust what they feel is right.

     

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  • Ep262: Enjoying the Freefall Through Life, with Australian Freediving Record Holder, Adam Stern

    Ep262: Enjoying the Freefall Through Life, with Australian Freediving Record Holder, Adam Stern

    Freediving is basically a sport where people hold their breath and see who can sink the deepest. In detail, it combines physical training and lung endurance, with mental focus to create the most effective and safest way down.

    For Australian record holder Adam Stern, freediving isn’t just a sport. Sharing with us his passion and love of everything it has taught him, Adam has taken the competition out of the water and made it his way of life.

     

    Diving-bum Days

    In his younger years, like many of us wasn’t too excited about being a worker or a corporate employee, or to be under any boss. After earning his degree in theatre, Adam spent years backpacking across Asia and the Caribbean.

    One day in Koh Tao, Thailand, he came across a sign that offered freediving lessons which then led to the athlete and Youtuber who we know now as Adam Freediver.

    Living affordably in Asia, he could afford to train full time and dedicated his life to training in various waters in different parts of the world. Though despite his dedication to the sport, going professional in the sport wasn’t enough to support him financially, but the sheer passion of Adam kept him going.

    “I would go home—absolutely broke—and I would get some horrible job in like a factory or something that was gonna pay really well,” Adam narrated, “so I could make a lot of money in a short period of time, and go away again to a new place to train and dive with new divers and learn from them. I wasn’t making any money out of freediving, I just loved diving, I love training, and I was just happy to be doing that.”

     

    Choosing to Freefall

    Describing each dive and training session as a form of meditation, Adam takes in every instance of life as he would do underwater.

    He describes that a freediver will let the air escape him and his lungs will then compress to start sinking. Here he would stop paddling and let the intoxicating feeling of sinking down take over—the freefall.

    For one to really enjoy and make the most of that one breath that we have, you have to be in a state of total relaxation and understand that you are in full control of how this dive will go.

    As Adam put it, “I can be in control of my body—I can be in control of myself—even if I’m in a situation that might be adverse. How I respond to things can be absolute and so no matter what’s going on in life, as long as I’m in control of myself, I’m fine.”

    For him, the unconventional life means to always be in control of himself—liberating freedom wherein he can choose to do what he is passionate about, and he is also wishing that people also have the courage to take that brave step of taking control and make the most of that one breath we all have.

     

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  • Ep260: WFH. Living Life On Your Own Terms, with Badass Digital Nomad host Kristin Wilson

    Ep260: WFH. Living Life On Your Own Terms, with Badass Digital Nomad host Kristin Wilson

    “WFH”—an acronym that was almost non-existent until 2020— is now the most popular trend globally with the pandemic affecting the lives of every nation and social class, forcing us to Work From Home. After decades of investing millions into the tech industry to make smaller computers, powerful smartphones, and whatever the heck 5G is, there is a sort of beauty to humankind’s obsession with tech now that we can work remotely.

    It sort of a delight in a way when you think about it: years of competition and advancement has prepared us for a pandemic of this magnitude. But even before the word COVID-19 was carved into our minds, entrepreneur, writer, influencer and surfer Kristin Wilson has been working from home and advocating remote work for the past 18 years.

    Now, Wilson is lending her knowledge to help people, relocate and live better lives without being stuck in an office space. An “advocate” of WFH years before the pandemic, she has worked as a digital nomad and has preached its benefits through her writing in Medium, and Quora, as well as her YouTube channel Traveling with Kristin, and podcast, Badass Digital Nomads.

    Though it has affected travel for most of the world, she acknowledges that this pandemic pushed the lives of everyone almost a decade into the future. “Well you changed, literally overnight,” Kristin said, “because before the pandemic happened, I was estimating that it would be at least another 10 years before the majority of companies accepted the possibility of remote work and work from home for their employees.”

    “I was kind of acting as a remote work advocate to not only help individuals work remotely but also to prove to CEOs and companies and small business owners that their employees could work from home and that it would be a win-win for everybody. When the coronavirus happened, I was like ‘Okay my work here is done.’”

     

    Making Your Own Path

    Even back in her middle school years, she knew that she was not meant to be stuck in an office space.

    “In middle school, the personality tests and the career tests, well I actually would fail those,” she said, “like I would get the results back and it would say, like, ‘Error message, could not fit you with a job’ and then all my classmates would be like, ‘Oh, I’m going to be a doctor, I’m going to be a firefighter,’ you know, all of the like cliche jobs and mine was just like, I had too many different interests to fit into any job profile. So fast forward to when I was in college, the anxiety of choosing a major was like the same thing. And the only thing I knew that I liked to do was to travel.”

    Now that she’s achieved the work-life balance that she has dreamed of, Kristin has made it her life duty to help others see the beauty of life outside the workplace and even assist them in moving to new places.

    “I’m just on this path to share everything I’ve learned about creating your own job, working remotely or living in foreign countries, and just living life on your own terms.”

     

    Building Your Roots

    Though technology has closed the distance of communication, this globe-trotting entrepreneur acknowledges that our electronic monitors are not a good enough alternative to genuine human connection.

    Which is why she wants people to make connections and build communities, through “slow travel” which means staying in a foreign country for more than a just week or even a month.

    “I even had the T-shirts that say Slow Obsessed With It,” Kristin said, “because when you travel really quick, you meet a lot of people, but the relationships are all on this acquaintance level and it can feel really shallow, sometimes, but also you can go really deep with people quickly and have like this soulmate-connection.”

    She predicts that when the travel bans are lifted and the effects of the pandemic have simmered down, she foresees that there will be a “global migration” and people will realize what they’ve missed while being away from the office.

    In the end, Kristin emphasizes that other than sightseeing our most important experience in our global journeys is the connections with people that we make, and at times our realizations may overwhelm us, that she has this to say:

    “As human beings, you still need that core group of friends that you can rely on and that core community,” Kristin says, “and if you start to feel like you’re disconnected or that you’re really alone in the world, [you] just kind of step back and go back to your roots a little bit. [this could mean that] maybe it’s time to go home.”

     

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  • Ep258: Golf and the Universal Principle, with Development Coach Thane Marcus Ringler

    Ep258: Golf and the Universal Principle, with Development Coach Thane Marcus Ringler

    There are three golf balls on the moon. How’d they got there? It was all because of astronaut Allan Shepard who thought a little harmless fun wouldn’t bother anyone in that empty floating cheese ball in space. A person’s single decision made the unimaginable, a reality.

    Golf itself, if you watch it on TV, the first 10 minutes really isn’t what you would call entertainment. It consisted of details and intense focus from the players, all of which weren’t as entertaining to an average television enjoyer who would prefer a slam dunk rather than a clean downswing. However, it was this sport’s attention to detail that sparked the inspiring vision of Development Coach Thane Marcus.

    Thane said that it was a sport that matched his stubbornness as a kid. Being competitive, he wanted to make the most of each play without having to rely on a team, coach, referees and anyone else but his talent and determination.

    “It’s a bit naive and childish to think that that’s a good thing,” he said, “[but] the older you get, the more you realize you have to take full ownership for the failures just as much as the successes and so that’s really what gravitated me towards golf.”

    Thane played golf up until college at the Master’s University in California, and four years professionally before moving on to teach people how to take ownership of their lives. Also the host of The Up & Comers Show, he shares ideas and inspiring stories from people who are being a leader to themselves.

    He says golf and personal development invoke similar ideas, as the outcome is solely dependent on the individual. Golf requires training and being aware of his needs and strengths– which he says is necessary for our lives.

    “We need to transfer from universal principles to individual principles,” Thane noted, “what works best for me? Based on how I’m wired, my strengths and weaknesses, and how I operate in different environments. That takes self-awareness.”

    “Being a good leader always starts with being a good leader of yourself,” he added. For Thane, the best way to take charge of your life was to let go of what you can’t control, and instead, change how you perceive yourself in that situation.

    Learning from Nassim Taleb’s book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, he notes that our definition of fragile are objects that break when you shake the box, but when an object doesn’t break, it’s durable. He says the idea of antifragile is that when you shake the box, things get better.

    We may be clinging on to the control of our environment and not realizing that we’re only holding ourselves back from being that best version of ourselves. For Thane, one needs to accept the constant that is ‘change’ and be open to its challenge.

    “Never settle” a mantra of his, tells us that we are meant to achieve more– not just land on the moon, but maybe even over it.

     

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  • Ep256: Challenge Your Fear by Seeking Unique Experiences with the Host of Fearless & Far Mike Corey

    Ep256: Challenge Your Fear by Seeking Unique Experiences with the Host of Fearless & Far Mike Corey

    Mike is a Marine Biology graduate turned award-winning filmmaker, host of Fearless & Far YouTube channel and BBC Travel Show. Mike crafts his compelling story with entertaining action and cinematic flair, but his greatest strength is breaking down cultural barriers and connecting with locals worldwide.

     

    What else can’t this man do?

    Mike Corey never backs away from an adventure, no matter how strange it may be. He has been travelling the world for eight years on a global quest to challenge fear by seeking unique experiences in weird and beautiful destinations worldwide. Mike aims to inspire others to fight their fears by plunging headfirst into beautiful, unknown locations and participating in undocumented cultural celebrations.

    “The more you learn about something, the less scary it is.”

     

    Dancing with Fear

    Mike used to fear public speaking, but he’s now doing the very thing that he was terrified to do for most of his life. His exposures to, what for him, profoundly uncomfortable and uncharacteristic things opened the door of opportunities.

    His realization that our fear response holds us back from being happy pushed Mike out of his comfort zone. It taught him leaps and bounds forward in personal growth, happiness, and changed him for the better.

     

    Topics Discussed in this Episode

    • How he overcame his fear in public speaking

    • 2 of the most uncomfortable things he’s done that made him look fear in the face

    • Fear and fear response

    • Adventures and wild things he chased

    • His goal to demystify spooky things that people often judge

     

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