May Through August 2013 Radio Show Recap

Posted on September 13, 2013 by djwlifecoach

Having launched a weekly talk radio show in January 2013, it’s a toss up which I love more: writing or radio. The transformative power of touching lives all over the world by broadcasting via the Internet just blows me away! I am so grateful to have a platform through which I can share my message of hope and possibilities more broadly, while supporting my guests in doing so as well. I cover all the costs of producing my show—appearing as a guest and listening to episodes is FREE.

Here’s a recap for May through August of this year. Each overview includes a direct link to listen to the episode recording online or download it to listen on the go.

May 2013

Finding Your Voice: The Power of Radio
Episode 17 on May 1, 2013
Do you have an important message to share with the world? Are you seeking a way to communicate that message with a passion you know will inspire others? If finding your voice is essential for getting to the next level in your life and career, then this show is for you. Join me as I welcome VoiceAmerica Senior Executive Producers Randall Libero and Nathan Jett who have helped many hosts create inspiring and successful shows. We’ll discuss what it takes to become a successful talk radio personality and how a radio show is developed, launched and managed. Nathan and Randall will share the evaluation and selection process for new hosts and their one of a kind media strategy that helps hosts build their audiences and promote their brands. I’ll also share my personal experience with hosting an engaging and enlightening weekly talk radio show on the network, as well as coaching other potential hosts in finding their unique voices and stepping into their greatness. Click here to listen

You CAN Make A Living Following Your Bliss
Episode 18 on May 8, 2013
Are you convinced that earning a living and following your passion are mutually exclusive? What if you’re mistaken? What if fulfillment and joy in life flow from being fully authentic, beginning with recognizing, respecting and expressing your most deeply held values and talents? Join me for an exhilarating episode with my guest, Jeannette Koczela–artist, author, spiritual life coach and founder of the International Association of Professional Life Coaches™. Learn how she went from a starving artist, past a series of failed business ventures, to a career and lifestyle that she never dreamed possible. Her life journey is an inspiring example of how knowing what you want and realizing that your biggest blocks are not external but internal–your own fear-based limiting beliefs–can help you transform your life into one you love living. When you embrace and leverage your unique talents and passions, you allow transformation to come in unexpected ways that support your direction. Click here to listen

The Power of Your Story: Becoming a Transformational Author
Episode 19 on May 15, 2013
Imagine a world united in love, where every person feels safe to be who they are, share their authentic voice, free themselves from old patterns that bind them, and step into their true brilliance–no matter what has gone before. Transformation Catalyst and best-selling author, Christine Kloser has guided tens of thousands of visionaries and messengers to step into their brilliance by sharing their essence and message on the pages of a book. During this show, Christine will take you into the world of transformational authorship and inspire you to believe that your greatest challenges really can lead to your greatest gifts. If you dream of writing and publishing a book that will transform your life, your readers, your business, and the world, visit Transformational Author. Learn how to write, publish, and promote, your book with the help of 18 bestselling authors, transformational leaders and industry experts through Christine’s renowned Transformational Author Experience. Click here to listen

Feeding Your Sense of Creativity: The Power of Love and Gratitude
Episode 20 on May 22, 2013
What do you get when you cross Indiana Jones with a rocket scientist: Sheila Hughes, born to be wild! After 18 months of non-stop global professional travel, while caring long distance for an aging parent, it’s no wonder Sheila ended up feeling confused, angry, depressed and abandoned. Still action-oriented at heart, when she finally got fed up with never making the top 10 of her to do list, she recognized that not valuing herself and starving herself creatively were at the root of her disenchantment with life. Join us to learn more about the transformation that resulted when she hired a coach, stopped looking outside herself for validation and instead committed herself to unconditional self-love, trusting her intuition and embracing her creative gifts. The result: birthing RubySlippersClique—an Internet platform through which she helps others discover and celebrate their creative geniuses. Sheila says enjoying life is all about love, baby steps, celebration and gratitude. Click here to listen

Feeding Your Sense of Touch: The Power of Massage
Episode 21 on May 29, 2013
Do you find life physically, mentally and emotionally demanding? Would you like to learn to relax and recharge–to feel happier, stronger and more flexible with more consistent energy for work and play? Join me for an inspiring episode where my guest Kristin Dorrance shares how she used her experience with scarcity, upheaval, insecurity and burnout as a springboard for creating a life of passion, purpose and joy. A Bodyworker and certified massage therapist, Kristin specializes in fostering healing and wellness through therapeutic massage. Based in Aurora, Colorado, she helps her clients feel better, live healthier, and take back control of their own bodies. Kristin’s 3-pronged approach includes body awareness, proactive wellness and pain reduction. Through her work in the world, she helps others understand that pain and stress are optional–you can regain control of your body and your life. Massage is not a spa luxury for the few–it’s an essential wellness tool for all. Click here to listen

June 2013

The Wizard of Us: Transformational Lessons From Oz
Episode 22 on June 5, 2013
Time to uncover your inner hero and become the person you were always meant to be. Answer the call to transform yourself and your world: expand your thinking, open your heart, and build the courage to truly connect with your own Hero’s Journey. Visit with my guest Jean Houston to explore the insights offered in her newest book, “The Wizard of Us.” Jean harnesses the power of the beloved story, The Wizard of Oz, to reveal the Hero’s Journey that awaits each of us. Discover how Dorothy’s adventure in a magical land inspires our lives today, offering valuable tools to guide us through our own challenging times. Learn how to thrive rather than merely survive. By interpreting the deeper messages within The Wizard of Oz, Jean leads us along the Hero’s Journey that awaits each of us. On this profound adventure of self-discovery and awakened potential, Jean’s lessons propel us into greater self-understanding and a connection to the larger world story as we explore Oz like never before. Click here to listen

Liberation: The Journey from Fear to Love
Episode 23 on June 12, 2013
What would you do if your spouse of many years decided she didn’t want to be married to you any longer and insisted you leave the home where you had been the committed, stay-at-home parent raising your four children? When this happened to Eugene Dale Holden, initially he hit rock bottom–including deep depression and attempting suicide. But, ultimately, with time and unflinching reflection came healing. Eugene embraced his agony as an opportunity for personal growth. Like the oyster who encounters sand inside his world, Eugene was able to transform his pain into a precious pearl. He awakened to his authentic purpose, reclaimed his personal power and recaptured his zest for living. With faith, hope and love, he shifted from victim to victory, breakdown to breakthrough, creating an authentic life he loves–one filled with peace, joy and gratitude. He found his calling as an inspired and inspirational minister of transformation–a teacher, musician and lover of life. Click here to listen

Using Your Intuition to Find Your Life Purpose
Episode 24 on June 19,2013
What if you already possessed within you an internal roadmap that points the way to living out your life calling? Most of us question our own instincts and turn to outside guidance for direction in life. Yet behind all of this is a fear of trusting ourselves and being seen for who we really are. If you are ready to discover your own internal guidance system, this show is for you! Intuitive Guide and Life Coach Kendra Goheen will discuss why the solution to our challenges comes through awakening our internal guide–an infallible spirit–the one that believes we are worthy of our highest aspirations and can lead us to live fearlessly. We’ll explore how each of us is capable of this gradual awakening, and how it can help us live out our life purpose. Kendra will also introduce Caroline Myss’ concept of the Sacred Contract–a tool that helps us demystify the events, relationships, challenges and opportunities we encounter in this life. Click here to listen

How to Stop Struggling and Start Living the Life You Deserve!
Episode 25 on June 26, 2013
Sharon Wilson is a Certified Spiritual Counselor and co-author of three books: Intentional Change, Living an Extraordinary Life, and Coaching with Spirit. As the Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of the Coaching from Spirit Institute, over 15 years ago Sharon created a highly successful spiritual coaching business while raising a newborn baby. She has gone on to coach thousands of people to create balance and success, personally and professionally. As a former corporate executive, she has extensive experience in sales training, marketing, management, and organizational development in both the profit and not-for-profit sectors. Sharon specializes in using a leading edge approach that she calls Emotional Management Coaching to help her clients achieve amazing results. Click here to listen

July 2013

It’s Never Too Late to Follow Your Dreams
Episode 26 on July 3, 2013
Do you remember what your aspirations were when you were young? Did you pursue them, or has life taken you on a different path that has left you feeling you are not using your gifts and not living up to your potential? Kim Clausen of Ready2Go Marketing Solutions, had BIG aspirations when she was young, but for more than 40 years she waivered, wandered, and did everything BUT her heart’s call. When the frustration and despair finally became too much to bear, she made a change. Despite being a single mom with two children, no job and minimal financial resources, she found the strength and courage to pursue her life-long dream. In this interview Kim is going to share her story of how she rekindled a faded dream, took massive action despite overwhelming fears, had the courage to keep going even when the obstacles seemed insurmountable, and how you can too. Come join us as Kim shares her inspiring story, and offers tips and insights to others who yearn to pursue their heart’s call. Click here to listen

11 Days in May: Searching for Meaning and Purpose to Life
Episode 27 on July 10, 2013
Imagine being at the epitome of success–a powerful executive and self-made millionaire. From the depths of the ocean as a submariner to the heights of corporate jets as CEO, your life’s filled with luxury. But, at the height of your life, you shatter your neck and with it, the glass barrier that conveniently sheltered you from the meaning and purpose of life. During the process of rehabilitation, you leave your body, converse with God, and acquire powers supposedly not possessed by mortals: experiencing prophetic visions and receiving powerful insights. Your conclusion based on your near death experience–we don’t have a soul, we are a soul and we have a unique purpose in life. JD Messinger discusses how everything that happens fulfills your purpose, helping you discover who you are and why you’re here. Discovering and understanding your soul purpose is the most important question you can answer in life, and it will change everything, resulting in greater peace and fulfillment. Click here to listen

Follow Your Heart: Unlock the Secret to Successfully Writing and Publishing the Book Inside of You
Episode 28 on July 17, 2013
Imagine holding your first copy of your book in your hands. Envision having a positive impact on the lives of others with your book. It doesn’t have to be only a dream–you can make it a reality, and we’ll show you how. Whether fear, self-doubt, or confusion is holding you back, you’ll learn how to unlock the writer within yourself to fulfill your dreams of becoming a published author. Sandy Powell, the Director of my publisher Balboa Press, and I will discuss how to get started writing and overcoming your inner critic. You’ll learn four essential questions to ask yourself before deciding on your publishing path. We’ll also discuss the key aspects to writing and publishing a professional book, so that you can take the next step to fulfill your dream of publishing. Click here to listen

Diving Deep with Delight: Laughter is the Best Medicine
Episode 29 on July 24, 2013
Laughter is the most contagious and universal language in the world. We all love-and need-to laugh. Laughter is a key to improved mental and physical health and overall well-being. Experience the liberation of laughing for no reason in a safe environment with Laughter Inc’s Certified Laughter Yoga Leader, Mary Rives, MS, CPC. No painful or awkward body postures required–only gentle stretches and simple breathing accompanied by guided relaxation and laughter activities, laughter meditation and, you guessed it, actual LAUGHTER. You’ll receive the same benefits whether your laughter is real or fake. Because laughter is contagious, even fake laughter quickly becomes real in the cozy context of Laughter Yoga sessions with Mary. Click here for more information on Mary’s work in the world. Click here to listen

Secrets from the Relationship Whisperer: 5 Ways to Know You’re Making Progress
Episode 30 on July 31, 2013
Even if you read a ton of self-help books and articles, seek out therapists, coaches and gurus, how do you know if you are making real progress on your journey to more meaningful relationships and a more fulfilling life? Relationship Whisperer Tracy Crossley joins me to share some of the key indicators that you are moving forward into a life you love–a life of generous, effortless, gracious flow filled with faith, hope, prosperity, peace and joy. Tracy knows firsthand that our abilities are honed as much by adversity as achievement–it took losing her job 9 times in 10 years for her to wake up to her calling as an intuitive coach. When she began respecting her ability to help others achieve their dreams, she started experiencing the career fulfillment she longed for. Now she infuses each new day with passion through coaching, writing and speaking–sharing with others the secrets to creating a great life filled with great relationships. Click here to listen

August 2013

Be The Best At What Matters Most: The Only Strategy You’ll Ever Need
Episode 31 on August 7, 2013
Leading performance expert, Joe Calloway, and I discuss the principles from his newest book, “Be The Best At What Matters Most: The Only Strategy You’ll Ever Need”. We live in a time when people can become obsessed with being different just for the sake of being different, we stop focusing on creating true value. We can get caught in the trap of MORE. But success and fulfillment don’t come to those who try and do everything; they come to those who do the most important things. Joe believes a focus on quality, consistency, and relentless improvement is the only strategy you’ll ever need. The reality of business and life is that, when you win on the basics, you win at everything. When you innovate and improve the basics, you become so good that you ARE cutting edge. Joe’s book is a study of what creates and sustains true success–simplicity, clarity, and focus. Click here for more information on Joe’s work in the world. Click here to listen

Healing is Believing: Embracing the Power of Intent and Belief
Episode 32 on August 14, 2013
Dr. Jeri Mills is a versatile and innovative physician and healer who blends the practice of bioenergy and conventional medicine to produce extraordinary results. In her book, “Healing is Believing,” Jeri shares her courageous journey of following her heart and stepping beyond the confines of Western medicine to embrace the world of energy healing–a world where anything is possible, where the only limitations are those created by our minds. Her combination of thought provoking and heartfelt stories, with a heaping dose of practical exercises, is just what the doctor ordered: an invaluable guide for those embarking on the path of energy healing, animal communication, or self-discovery. Jeri’s personal experience provides proof positive that energy is shaped and directed by our consciousness and can be applied to heal and transform our physical bodies. Click here to learn more about Jeri’s work in the world and click here to read her blog. Click here to listen

Living the Dream
Episode 33 on August 21, 2013
Imagine being at the pinnacle of your career and living a good life. Suddenly your spouse is struck with a potentially deadly disease. How do you negotiate this life crisis and turn possible tragedy into something filled with promise? Imagine also that you’ve had a dream to write fiction, one you’ve deferred for years. After your wife’s treatment, you decide you are finally ready to live out your dreams. You change the course of your life and begin writing fiction with your wife as editor-in-chief. Mark Rubinstein will share how he transformed everything about his life–including writing two novels (Mad Dog House and Love Gone Mad) with another two on the way–and is now living the dream. Click here for more information on Mark’s life and books. Click here to listen

Life, Love and Leadership
Episode 34 on August 28, 2013
According to Maya Angelou, “People will forget what you said. People will even forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” Nowhere is that idea more relevant than in business. The smartest, most successful business people are those who recognize the very human side of business. In a recent blog post, my guest, and leading performance expert, Joe Calloway said, “Great leaders prepare people to succeed, they don’t pressure them to succeed. That means being a teacher, being tough when you need to be, yet always having the team know that you believe in them, you’re on their side, and are their biggest supporter. Whether in sports, business, or any other endeavor, a weak leader has players who doubt themselves and are afraid. A strong leader has players who believe in themselves and each other, and are confident that they can, and will, win.” What’s love got to do with it? Everything! Join us for a thought provoking exploration of life, love and leadership. Click here for more information on Joe’s work in the world. Click here to listen

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January Through April 2013 Radio Show Recap

Posted on September 6, 2013 by djwlifecoach

For your convenience, I am starting to provide a compilation of each months’s shows here on my blog site. Each episode overview will include a direct link to listen to the recording online or download it to listen on the go. The first two posts will include recaps for four months each to help bring you up to date more quickly. Once we’re caught up, each month I’ll post the recap for the previous month.

January 2013

What’s Love Got to Do With It? Everything!
Episode 1 on January 9, 2013
What’s love got to do with it? Everything! If, despite a lifetime of diligence and hard work, you still search for something that remains just beyond your grasp, you are stuck in the hamster wheel approach to life. You may think you want a better job, more satisfying relationship or healthier body. But, in reality, your restlessness isn’t about your income, your relationships or your looks. It’s about feeling incomplete. On this episode, my guest, Rev. Dr. Patricia Keel, and I will share stories from our own lives and the lives of our clients. The lessons are a treasure map to help you discover the possibilities buried within your authentic self. A guide to turning those possibilities into realities that will restore you to Wholeness. Every day, people just like you are moving forward into lives they love. By exploring their stories and the lessons they’ve learned, you can apply the same powerful insights to bring about the changes that will move you forward into the life you dream of. Click here to listen

Dancing with Your Divine: From Breakdown to Breakthrough
Episode 2 on January 16, 2013
Why do some of biggest life lessons come from what feel like monumental breakdowns: financial reversal, divorce, death, job loss, illness, financial reversal and other unmet expectations? My guest, Rev. Dr. Patricia Keel, and I will explore how the power of the Divine has worked through those challenges to fuel our next stages of growth and personal development. Breakdowns would lead to breakthroughs in ways we couldn’t know at the time. Patricia will share insights gained on her own Journey to Wholeness, including overcoming addiction, co-parenting as a single parent and finding her purpose. Having experienced that healing, today she is more able to relax into Life’s challenges and embrace them as opportunities. She relies on a Presence greater than herself that connects her to all that is. Awareness of what is, not what was or could be, is one of Life’s greatest gifts. It shines the light on fear and worry, allowing her to live in the present and trust her inner divine. Click here to listen

My Wild Ride to Finding Flow
Episode 3 on January 23, 2013
This week I sneak preview my upcoming book being released by Hay House/Balboa Press in Spring 2013. A Near Death Experience at birth was the perfect initiation for the 55-year roller coaster of triumph and burn out that followed. My book shares how that wild ride led to finding my life purpose more than 5 decades later. It’s a story of Hope and it could be your story as well. Feel the power of loving yourself unconditionally through insights and tools based on my personal Journey, including a sustained 80-pound weight loss, freedom from depression and finding my purpose guiding others on their Journeys. We’ll explore Living in Flow—a life of Being NOT Doing—and The Discovery Framework™ that grew out of my experience. I’m living proof: when you fall in love with yourself, everything else in your life finally falls into place, personally and professionally. When love transforms your relationship with yourself, it transforms your personal life, your work and the World. Click here to listen

If You Could Talk to the Animals
Episode 4 on January 30, 2013
This week, my guest, Sandi Ausman, and I will continue to explore the many ways in which we Journey to Wholeness. What is it about a Near Death Experience (NDE) that can awaken us from the fog of Fear in which we’ve been imprisoned for so long? That’s how it was for Sandi, when a 1996 NDE served as the catalyst for her own personal journey from victim to victory, breakdown to breakthrough. The result? Finding her calling as a Lightworker, including 7 years of in-depth training with Laurie Grant in Hawaii and Boulder, CO. As a Certified ARCH Master Healer, Ordained Minister and Reiki Master, Sandi’s work in vibrational medicine for the past 16 years has incorporated Reconnective Healing, The Yuen Method, Spirit Channeling and EFT. Join us to explore the possibilities inherent in the many energy modalities Sandi employs, including her newest passion of serving as an Animal Communicator through which she provides a Voice for the Animals by channeling Animal Soul Readings. Click here to listen

February 2013

Your Personal Emotional Trainers
Episode 5 on February 6, 2013
Personal Emotional Trainers, or PETs, include beings of all species, human and not. Relationships are the Doctoral Program of Personal Growth. Just when we think we’ve started to get the hang of unconditional self-love, the Universe raises the bar a few notches by sending us relationships. In this episode, Energy Healer and Animal Communicator, Sandi Ausman, and I explore the basics of spirit channeling and the role that relationships play in learning some of life’s most difficult and important lessons. I’ll reveal more about my acclaimed “Coaching Cats” and lead you on a deep dive into the principle of “Compassion,” the third of four attributes of unconditional Love as revealed in the Discovery Framework™ in my upcoming book, “Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life,” being released by Hay House/Balboa Press in Spring 2013. Click here to listen

Choosing Your Fuel: The Role of Core Energy
Episode 6 on February 13, 2013
When you fuel all aspects of yourself with Love, Respect, Curiosity, Compassion and Gratitude, you begin living in Flow. Your life becomes a fluid Journey to Wholeness – a generous, effortless, gracious existence filled with Faith, Hope, Prosperity, Peace and Joy. It starts with embracing the amazing and liberating possibility that the love of your life might be YOU. Those who fall in love with themselves are actually less likely to behave selfishly. Their joy and peace are contagious. They show up with a spring in their step and a zest for living that carries them, and those around them, forward in new and exciting directions. In past episodes, we’ve begun exploring how establishing and maintaining constructive Core Energy forms the firm foundation for a life of Flow. This week, we take a much deeper dive into the Core Energy aspect of my Discovery Framework™, when we sneak preview additional content from my upcoming book being released by Hay House/Balboa Press in Spring 2013. Click here to listen

Creating a Life You Positively Love
Episode 7 on February 20, 2013
Ever been around someone who’s completely in love with life, someone whose very presence inspired you and made you feel alive? Perhaps it was someone in your family, a friend, a teacher, a colleague or even a boss. Whoever he or she was, they became a main character—The Positive Protagonist—in your life’s story. One of the aspects you likely picked up was that you simply felt better, happier, more joyful or energetic in their presence. Want to be the source of causing such feelings for yourself? YOU CAN by creating a life you positively love! Join me for an energizing and engaging interview with the President and CEO of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), Luke Iorio. Learn what’s really at the core of creating happiness, engagement, and positivity; the four key components to creating a life you love; and how to become that main character who creates a powerful ripple effect on the lives of those around you. Click here to listen

Creating Balance: Feeding Your Nine Senses
Episode 8 on February 27, 2013
In past episodes, we’ve begun exploring how establishing and maintaining constructive Core Energy forms the firm foundation for a life of Flow. This week, we take a much deeper dive into the Sensory Balance aspect of my Discovery Framework, when we sneak preview additional content from my upcoming book being released by Hay House/Balboa Press in Spring 2013. Like the framing in a home, our Outer and Inner Senses build on our energetic foundation to provide the day-to-day infrastructure for a Life of Flow securely grounded in Constructive Core Energy. Sensory Balance involves feeding all of our senses in healthy, balanced ways so that no one sense takes over trying to fill voids it can never hope to fill. This begins with mindfully feeding our five Outer Senses through which we celebrate our world. And it extends to intentionally feeding our four Inner Senses of Creativity, Vitality, Spirituality and Belonging through which we imbue our experience with meaning. Click here to listen

March 2013

Creating a Place Where People Love to Work!
Episode 9 on March 6, 2013
What if you could create a place where people love to work? Your people loving their work has its roots in how you choose to lead them. Successful leaders lead from their core. By bringing forth their own greatness, they automatically encourage their people to shine as well. Join me for a fascinating conversation with Zack Lemelle, Managing Partner of Corporate Engagement Services at the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. Hear first-hand about Zack’s experience and iPEC’s proven methodology for creating places where people love to work. We’ll explore 5 different leadership styles and why a value-based, inside out approach is skyrocketing the most successful organizations of all sizes and types. Boost your commitment to your own work as Zack shares the 5 leverage points for true engagement and sustainable performance: intrinsic motivation, a sense of purpose, connection to a bigger vision, a feeling of contribution and confidence in your abilities. Click here to listen

Finding Meaning by Feeding Your Senses of Creativity and Vitality
Episode 10 on March 13, 2013
We continue providing a sneak preview of my upcoming book being released by Hay House/Balboa Press in Spring 2013. In the past, we’ve explored the importance of Sensory Balance in fostering a generous, effortless, gracious life of Flow filled with Faith, Hope, Prosperity, Peace and Joy–a fluid Journey to Wholeness grounded in who you are BEING not what you are DOING. As magical as our 5 Outer Senses are in celebrating our world, to achieve genuine, comprehensive sensory balance, we expand our perspective to include the 4 Inner Senses with which we imbue our experience with meaning. Using the terms of the Discovery Framework™, as the roof and outer walls on our home, the Outer Senses are essential but will collapse if not supported by more than just our foundation of Core Energy. For long-term stability, they require the infrastructure and support of the 4 Inner Senses of Creativity, Vitality, Spirituality and Belonging. In this episode, we focus on Creativity and Vitality. Click here to listen

Teach Your Children Well: Are We Breaking Down or Breaking Through?
Episode 11 on March 20, 2013
What if we could expand, not limit, what’s possible inside our education systems? How do our assumptions and thinking limit the creativity, drive and learning potential of our kids? What might be possible if we escaped our limiting beliefs that excellence is only available to those our systems deem traditionally “gifted?” What if we’re all gifted? Join me for a thought-provoking interview with iPEC’s Chief Operating Officer, Susan Gonzales, as we explore the cultural transformation that will put our students, not our students’ test scores, first. How can school administrators, principals and teachers better connect with the kids and to each other? How do they face real issues head on? And how do they summon the courage to recognize their contribution to the breakdown? Hear Susan’s holistic “people-first” approach to increasing leadership engagement and student achievement based on creating cultures of engagement inside education systems around the world. Click here to listen

Finding Meaning by Feeding Your Senses of Spirituality and Belonging
Episode 12 on March 27, 2013
We continue providing a sneak preview of my upcoming book being released by Hay House/Balboa Press in Spring 2013. In the past, we’ve explored the importance of Sensory Balance in fostering a generous, effortless, gracious life of Flow filled with Faith, Hope, Prosperity, Peace and Joy–a fluid Journey to Wholeness grounded in who you are BEING not what you are DOING. As magical as our 5 Outer Senses are in celebrating our world, to achieve genuine, comprehensive sensory balance, we expand our perspective to include the 4 Inner Senses with which we imbue our experience with meaning. Using the terms of the Discovery Framework™, as the roof and outer walls on our home, the Outer Senses are essential but will collapse if not supported by more than just our foundation of Core Energy. For long-term stability, they require the infrastructure and support of the 4 Inner Senses of Creativity, Vitality, Spirituality and Belonging. In this episode, we focus on Spirituality and Belonging. Click here to listen

April 2013

Creating a Life of Wellbeing
Episode 13 on April 3, 2013
As Managing Director of the 7th Level Wellbeing Division of The Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), my guest Tambre Leighn knows that leading a fully integrated, extraordinary life of high performance doesn’t result from just getting by or accepting second best in any area. That kind of passion for excellence only results from transforming yourself from your very core. It’s about recognizing the Highest Good, knowing you deserve it and actively seeking to make it a reality in your life. Join us to explore the five key steps to making wellbeing a reality in your life too. Why settle for less when you can have a life you love in all areas? What have you got to lose other than your fears and limiting beliefs? Click here to listen

Achieving Equanimity: Your Personal Board of Directors
Episode 14 on April 10, 2013
Join us for the final building block of my Discovery Framework™ when we continue sharing a preview of my upcoming book being released by Hay House/Balboa Press in Spring 2013. If you are like many, every time you start to transcend thoughts of self-imposed limitation and lack, you encounter a rather nasty Voice in your head. The one that puts you back in your place by reminding you that you’re not good enough and never will be. Good news! Help is on the way. Your Personal Board of Directors–Sage, Guardian and Muse–is a 24/7 team of experts who can help make giving in to that Voice a thing of the past. When your Board members collaborate respectfully, they leverage their vast collection of competencies, seamlessly drawing on your constructive Core Energy and feeding all of Your Senses in a balanced way. When fueled by Love, your Board Members are capable of synthesizing their diverse strengths and talents into a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts. Click here to listen

Poetry in Motion
Episode 15 on April 17, 2013
How do you go from stuttering and debilitating depression to spoken word champion? Join us as award winning Slam Poet Theo E.J. Wilson and I discuss his transformational poetry, his life and the lessons he’s learned so far. The son of a Vietnam veteran, Theo learned at an early age the toll that psychological trauma can take on a family. Watching his father overcome PTSD gave Theo the strength to find a way to overcome his own depression without the help of western medicine. Through his poetry, Theo put his own inner turmoil to good use getting himself off the hamster wheel while inspiring others. Tune in to enjoy his poetry and his amazing journey of hope and possibilities. Click here to listen

What Animal Companions Teach Us About Trusting Our Intuition
Episode 16 on April 24, 2013
What if you can trust the Universe to guide you on your authentic path when you choose love as your Core Energy in each moment? This week, Animal Communicator and Reiki Master Rebecca Blackbyrd and I will explore the transformative power of choosing love as your fuel and trusting your intuition. She’ll share the powerful shifts that occurred in her life when she chose to embrace her calling and the profound wisdom that results from being fully present during end of life transitions. Through client experiences and her own personal journey, Rebecca will help us adjust our perspective to the “God’s eye view” by understanding that we are never alone and are much bigger and more powerful than we realize. Whatever our circumstances, whatever lies and illusions fear may be generating, by remembering who we are and Whose we are—unique cocreative expressions of the Divine—we will understand those are the very moments when we are called to step even more deeply into our greatness. Click here to listen

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You Matter!

Posted on August 30, 2013 by djwlifecoach

Have you ever felt that you had nothing to offer—that you don’t have any special gifts or talents?

During times of frustration or despair, it’s common to feel “ordinary.” It can seem that you don’t matter and that everyone else is far more brilliant, beautiful and worthy of consideration.

In times like these, remember that you are a unique cocreative expression of the Divine. You are the only you we’ve got. You are a precious natural resource not to be taken for granted.

You see, nobody looks at the world exactly the way that you do, nor thinks in exactly the same way. When you engage your unique combination of body, mind, heart and soul, you allow your unique creativity to shine, creating a beacon of hope, inspiration and possibilities.

You may be sitting on the one solution that no-one else can imagine or you may hold just the right words to bring comfort and understanding to a tense situation. You never know until you value and trust your unique spirit and apply all of your perspective, gifts and talents to the matter at hand.

Sometimes, you don’t even need to express your thoughts. Consider the leader who sits with her team encouraging their ideas until their own brilliance bursts forth. By simply listening, caring and encouraging, you can change a life—you can change the world.

When you harness the transformative power of unconditional self-love to step into your greatness, you can’t help but transform your personal life, your work and the world.

Click here to visit the portal for my book, Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life (Balboa Press 2013). Explore options to purchase the book online in softcover, hardcover and three digital formats, order an autographed softcover copy, read book reviews and sign up for my book insider club.

Click here to visit the portal for my weekly 60-minute Internet radio show on the VoiceAmerica EmPOWERment channel. Access recordings of all past episodes, browse descriptions of upcoming episodes, sign up for my radio insider club, explore guest testimonials and submit a proposal to appear as a guest on my show.

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It’s Always Time for Creativity!

Posted on August 23, 2013 by djwlifecoach

By Guest Blogger, Kathy Pennell Cooperman of KC Leadership Consulting LLC

It's Always Time For Creativity! This time of year, I’m personally inspired by all the hype about “back to school”. I have fond memories of shopping for school supplies to start a brand new school year. My favorite memory about “back to school” was purchasing that 64-count, built-in sharpener Crayola crayons box. Just the thought of it makes me want to create something brand new.

How would you rate your own level of creativity in your current role . . . or even in life, overall? It’s easy to fall victim to the old “that’s not the way we do things around here” syndrome.

Test yourself on the following creativity quizzes (no peeking at the answers before giving it a try):

Plant 10 trees in 5 rows with 4 trees per row.
1. Use a dot to represent one tree
2. The rows must be straight
Brainstorm for one minute:
1. Make a list of as many uses for a brick as you can think of.

Answer to quiz #1:

A 5-‐pointed star with dots at every point and every intersection.

Answer to quiz #2:

How many did you get?
Now go back and see if you had not only a large quantity of ideas but also a lot of different uses for the brick such as:
1. Building a wall
2. Art decoration
3. A weapon
4. Place in the tank of toilet to conserve water
5. Weight-‐lifting
6. Paper weight
7. Door stop
8. Crushed, use it for art supplies
9. Etc., etc.

You’re close to a genius (slight hyperbole) if you listed a large number of ideas PLUS a variety of different uses (not all building, for example).

In the next week, challenge yourself to see things differently. A great book to learn more about thinking creatively is Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques. Have fun with it!

Author’s content used under license, © 2013 KC Leadership Consulting LLC

Click here to visit the portal for my book, Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life (Balboa Press 2013). Explore options to purchase the book online in softcover, hardcover and three digital formats, order an autographed softcover copy, read book reviews and sign up for my book insider club.

Click here to visit the portal for my weekly 60-minute Internet radio show on the VoiceAmerica EmPOWERment channel. Access recordings of all past episodes, browse descriptions of upcoming episodes, sign up for my radio insider club, explore guest testimonials and submit a proposal to appear as a guest on my show.

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Running Out of Time?

Posted on August 16, 2013 by djwlifecoach

Have you ever felt that there’s just not enough time in the day? Most often, when we feel we’ve run out of time for projects or pursuits, the reason is that we’ve invested a lot of time lost in limbo.

The good news? Feeling you are running out of time is actually a fear-fueled illusion. Fortunately, time is not a scarce resource. That’s right: time is not scarce. We have all the time we need for the things that matter. Our sole responsibility in each moment is to discern, using intuition and reason, what matters most right now, to focus, and to follow through.

When you’re supremely clear about your goals and priorities—where you’re going and what you want to accomplish—you don’t “waste” time. Decisions are easy to make, actions are easy to take, and you get a lot accomplished in a short period of time with little sense of effort. No force, only flow.

Here are three simple steps for eliminating the experience of feeling you are running out of time.

Plan your work. Take a few moments to determine where you’re going and how you plan to get there. You don’t have to know all the steps or details; just write down the basic outline as you can see it and the first few baby steps to move you in the right direction.

Gather your resources. Get your tools in order so you don’t have to stop once you begin because you are missing something important. What do you need to do this job right? Provide easy access to all of the essential resources.

Set a time and work your plan. Give yourself a timeline. How long will you work on your project? Then follow your outline step-by-step and focus only on the task at hand. Do not check email, answer the phone or have a conversation with a friend. If you get lost or distracted, come back to your outline and see what’s next.

Before long you will have a finished your project and have plenty of time to celebrate your accomplishments and renew and empower your body, mind, heart and soul with rest, reflection and play to provide the optimal fuel to continue building the life you dream of.

Click here to visit the portal for my book, Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life (Balboa Press 2013). Explore options to purchase the book online in softcover, hardcover and three digital formats, order an autographed softcover copy, read book reviews and sign up for my book insider club.

Click here to visit the portal for my weekly 60-minute Internet radio show on the VoiceAmerica EmPOWERment channel. Access recordings of all past episodes, browse descriptions of upcoming episodes, sign up for my radio insider club, explore guest testimonials and submit a proposal to appear as a guest on my show.

© Copyright 2013 DJW Life Coach LLC. All rights reserved.

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Jean Houston: “The Wizard of Us—Transformational Lessons from Oz”

Posted on August 9, 2013 by djwlifecoach

Time to uncover your inner hero and become the person you were always meant to be. Answer the call to transform yourself and your world: expand your thinking, open your heart, and build the courage to truly connect with your own Hero’s Journey. Click here to listen to a recording of my June 5, 2013 radio episode with my guest Jean Houston as we explore the insights offered in her newest book, The Wizard of Us. Jean harnesses the power of the beloved story, The Wizard of Oz, to reveal the Hero’s Journey that awaits each of us. Discover how Dorothy’s adventure in a magical land inspires our lives today, offering valuable tools to guide us through our own challenging times. Learn how to thrive rather than merely survive. By interpreting the deeper messages within The Wizard of Oz, Jean leads us along the Hero’s Journey that awaits each of us. On this profound adventure of self-discovery and awakened potential, Jean’s lessons propel us into greater self-understanding and a connection to the larger world story as we explore Oz like never before.

PRAISE FOR JEAN HOUSTON

“Jean Houston plays midwife to the next phase of our evolutionary journey…We are literally drawn from the smaller, personal self to the larger, universal possibility.”

—Marianne Williamson, spiritual activist and author

“With elegant simplicity, Jean Houston shows you how to unleash the genius that lies in the depths of your being.”
—Deepak Chopra, MD, bestselling author

“Jean Houston’s mind should be considered a national treasure.”
—Buckminster Fuller, renowned inventor and philosopher

“Jean Houston is the great producer of events and new possibilities as she orchestrates the voices of the new consciousness.”
—Margaret Mead, American icon and anthropologist

Jean Houston is a visionary thinker, teacher, and philosopher who pioneered the Human Potential Movement during the late seventies and developed the Social Artistry leadership model used by the United Nations Development Group. Over the course of her work, Jean has developed a worldwide network of social leaders, educators, and philosophers such as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Helen Keller, and Margaret Mead, giving her unique insight into human potential. Jean reaches millions of people throughout the year via her teleseminars, lectures, and symposiums. According to Evolving Wisdom, the author is the single most successful teleseminar giver (with the exception of Oprah) in the industry. Jean has worked with UNICEF, the United Nations, NASA, and others. She has written over 26 books in her lifetime. Her latest book is THE WIZARD OF US (Beyond Words/Atria). Visit www.jeanhouston.com for more information on Jean’s books and life-changing programs.

ABOUT THE WIZARD OF US

In THE WIZARD OF US: Transformational Lessons from Oz (Atria Books/Beyond Words; November 20; $24.00), visionary thinker, teacher, and philosopher Jean Houston helps readers discover the powerful, unique skills and qualities embodied by the beloved characters of Dorothy, the Wizard, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion that live within each of us. With specific, easy-to-follow exercises and incredible “aha!” insights, you’ll begin to expand your thinking, open your heart, and build the courage to truly connect with your own Hero’s Journey.

Click here to visit the portal for my book, Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life (Balboa Press 2013). Explore options to purchase the book online in softcover, hardcover and three digital formats, order an autographed softcover copy, read book reviews and sign up for my book insider club.

Click here to visit the portal for my weekly 60-minute Internet radio show on the VoiceAmerica EmPOWERment channel. Access recordings of all past episodes, browse descriptions of upcoming episodes, sign up for my radio insider club, explore guest testimonials and submit a proposal to appear as a guest on my show.

© Copyright 2013 DJW Life Coach LLC. All rights reserved.

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Motivation: Are Your Fueling Yourself With Love or Fear?

Posted on August 2, 2013 by djwlifecoach

Whether you often find yourself struggling for motivation or feel you are typically highly motivated, it’s always a good idea to check the octane of the fuel in your motivational tank: is it love or fear.

As I share in my book, Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life (Hay House/Balboa Press 2013), my first big realization on the road to recovery was that my utter and complete burnout was clear evidence that I had not been loving myself. I was not nurturing, encouraging or motivating myself in healthy ways physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually. I was disrespecting my body, mind, feelings, and values. Working myself nearly to death with no regard for illness or despair. If I had treated another being that way, human or feline, I would have been jailed long ago.

When I became serious about uncovering the roots of my imbalance and trying to set it right, I concluded that there are two fundamental types of core energy: love and fear. When I examined the primary energy underneath any thought, feeling, word, or deed, I found love, fear, or some combination of the two.

Love is constructive and moves you forward. Fear is destructive and holds you back. Love is the author of truth and reality. Fear is the author of lies and illusion. At first, I didn’t always recognize them as love or fear because they didn’t always show up in my life with those specific labels. I found the terms to be nebulous, tricky, and easy to misunderstand. With awareness, persistence, and unflinching honesty, over time I was able to recognize love and fear masquerading under lots of other masks.

In trying to get a more concrete grasp on what healthy self-love might look like, I realized I understood its opposite, fear, much better because I had fueled myself with it for so long. With mindfulness and curiosity, I recognized that the many faces of fear could be synthesized into a four-part pattern that captured the most common guises in which fear showed up in my relationship with myself—contempt, judging, shame, and lack (figure 4). I then employed one of my favorite writing technologies, the Microsoft Word thesaurus function, to find their opposites—respect, curiosity, compassion, and gratitude. With the help of the insight and clarity provided by those particular attributes of love, the light dawned, and I began to make real progress. Focusing on these four constructs helped me more easily answer the eternal question in every situation: “Is this what unconditional self-love looks like, and if not, what would bring me closer to that intention?”

Fear festers in dark and isolation. The moment you expose fear to examination in the light, you begin to dissipate its power. Nowhere is this more true than when fear shows up as its relentless ugly cousin, judging.

When I talk about judging or judgment, I’m not referring to having good or bad discernment. I’m talking about judging yourself, other people, and situations in dualistic terms such as good or bad, right or wrong, okay or not okay. When we judge things by such simplistic, restrictive polarities, we limit our options, get stuck, and block ourselves from the highest good. When we can neutralize the judge, we get unstuck, expand our possibilities, and increase our ability to grow and move forward.

One of the great miracles in life is how even a small change in your perception can dramatically expand your perspective. When a ship at sea changes course by just one degree, one hundred miles later it is in completely different waters than it would have been without that small modification in direction. Internal shifts are even more profound. It is downright miraculous how even a small change in your perception can dramatically expand your perspective.

Becoming conscious and claiming your personal power to neutralize the judge will yield immeasurable benefits. You will literally be able to redefine your world, because there is no absolute reality, only the story you tell yourself about what is happening and what it means. Every being, encounter, and experience that comes my way is filtered through a conglomeration of lenses that results in my unique perceptions.

These lenses cause me to see my world in a certain way. They are influenced by my unique and complex mix of myriad factors: the family, cultural, and societal norms I was taught; my physical and mental abilities; my personality and natural talents; my birth order; the patterns I deduced from all my past experiences; and the assumptions I’ve presumed concerning what’s likely and possible in the future. I create my reality in each moment by choosing what I will think, believe, feel, and do based on what my lenses allow. I can choose to look through the lens of fear and remain weighed down and self-imprisoned, or I can choose the lens of love and embrace a life of freedom and flow. No outside event or situation, no other person can dictate my attitude.

However unconscious the process may feel at the time, I am manifesting the world I choose to see. This is the reason the game of golf can be perceived as any or all of the following, depending on your lenses:

a delightful afternoon immersed in nature
an exhilarating and rewarding competitive event
a fun way to exercise with friends
an endless day of humiliation and torture

Let’s look at my own experience with golf to access this insight more deeply. When we lived on the East Coast, my husband and I owned a vacation home in the Blue Ridge Mountains. When my son, Matt, was eleven years old, we enrolled him in kids’ camp to help him enjoy his time there even more by spending it being active outdoors with his peers. One weekend in August, he signed up for a daylong sports camp that provided tennis instruction in the morning and golf in the afternoon. He returned home at the end of the day utterly smitten with golf.

We were so thrilled by Matt’s enthusiasm that we enrolled in a family golf clinic so the three of us could learn and play together. We were all beginners, out there to have fun and enjoy the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We passed many a delightful afternoon playing nine holes. With a tee time late in the day and no one behind us on the course, we could take our time, observing the privilege of unlimited mulligans (do-overs) and stopping to harvest lost golf balls in the woods. Advancing the little white ball down the fairway to the little white cup was always secondary to having a good time.

Until I switched to a consulting firm where golf was not a hobby but a responsibility. One of the benefits—nay, expectations—of being a partner in this firm was that I would play golf with my colleagues and clients. In fact, I would be expected to woo prospective clients on the golf course. To do that, I was expected to be a moderately good golfer, not an embarrassment to my firm and myself.

Gone were the leisurely afternoons on my beloved Blue Ridge golf course. Now my games with family became practice for the performance my partners expected me to deliver. While swearing was not the norm for me, now when I missed the first two shots off the tee, I swore. Now when I hit a shot into a sand trap, I threw my club down the fairway while swearing. When this happened, I’d explain to my companions that my father had been in the merchant marines. They’d say, “Did he swear a lot?” “No,” I’d reply, “evidently it skipped a generation.”

Because children don’t do what we say but rather do what they see us do, it’s unsurprising that, in short order, my eleven-year-old was also throwing his clubs and swearing like a sailor. That’s when I finally got a grip. Matt and I agreed that when either of us behaved badly on the course, we had to take a time-out together in the golf cart until both of us had returned to civility. As a result, Matt and I went through a period where we spent more time in the golf cart than on the course. This may have been just as well, because we were living proof that anger is not necessarily a performance enhancer.

One day, weary of swearing, throwing clubs, and spending time in the cart, the two of us sat there, arms crossed, scowling. After a few minutes of reflection, I said, “Babe, this has got to stop. Neither of us is having any fun anymore. I think I’ve figured out my problem. I’m imagining the potentially angry, ridiculing voices of my partners in my head, and I can’t relax and have fun when I’ve put them in there to beat me up. What’s going on in your head?” He looked at me with all the disgust of a kid who believes his parent has gone ’round the bend and said, “I have no idea. I don’t even know your new partners!”

The only person controlling your life is you! Choose your energy and change your life. If you enjoy making yourself miserable, limiting your options and contaminating the energy of every relationship and situation you encounter, you are free to continue doing so. But if you are intrigued by the possibilities inherent in learning to recognize and neutralize the fear-fueled judge in your head, consider reading my book Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life!

Click here to visit the portal for my book, Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life (Balboa Press 2013). Explore options to purchase the book online in softcover, hardcover and three digital formats, order an autographed softcover copy, read book reviews and sign up for my book insider club.

Click here to visit the portal for my weekly 60-minute Internet radio show on the VoiceAmerica EmPOWERment channel. Access recordings of all past episodes, browse descriptions of upcoming episodes, sign up for my radio insider club, explore guest testimonials and submit a proposal to appear as a guest on my show.

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How I Discovered That Even Marketing is an Opportunity for Personal Growth

Posted on July 26, 2013 by djwlifecoach

Those of you who visit my coaching website frequently will notice yet another shift in the images and language used on my welcome page. Experts in such things have taught me I have four seconds to capture or lose the attention of visitors to my website. So, what and how I communicate in the opening section of that page is potentially the most important online marketing I’ll ever do. Yes, all the details about services and benefits and the many value-packed free downloads I offer do count, but if I lose you in the first four seconds of your first visit to my welcome page, I may never have another opportunity to woo and wow you with all the other cool stuff on my site. NO PRESSURE, DEBORAH—JUST GET IT RIGHT IN THE FIRST FOUR SECONDS!

Because humans are dynamic beings who can become easily bored and distracted, that means getting it right over and over in new and ever more interesting ways. So it makes sense that marketing my coaching brand, or any brand, is best perceived as a journey and a relationship not a destination or a transaction.

Given that Hay House/Balboa Press just released my first book, Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life, in June 2013 and I am knee-deep in collaborating with my HHBP publicist on a 12-week global publicity campaign to reach 5,000 media outlets worldwide, it also makes sense that we’d be taking a fresh look at my branding and marketing communication and coming up with some new approaches. In the process of that review and reconfiguration, I discovered an opportunity—a place where my own fear-based, judgmental limiting beliefs were blocking me from employing the full range of marketing assets at my disposal.

Because my personal journey to wholeness included a sustained eighty-pound weight loss, many of my colleagues suggested, quite logically, that I brand myself as a weight loss coach, but I resisted. (They also suggested, based on my 30-year career in organization transformation consulting, that I brand myself a corporate or executive coach; my initial resistance to that logical suggestion is a story for another blog.)

As I share in my book, it’s true that my Journey to Wholeness started with regaining a sense of control over my physical care—what I ate and how I exercised. Losing eighty pounds—and keeping it off—is the part of the story that many people respect and even envy. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. If all I accomplished were to change my body through healthy eating and exercise, I would have stopped far short of the wholeness I was seeking.

While a healthy diet and significant daily exercise were necessary factors, they were only the price of admission to attaining the life of deep peace, lasting joy, and meaningful relationships I desired. Once I understood that excess physical weight is often just a symbol for excess spiritual weight, I realized finding wholeness is not primarily about losing body fat. It involves caring enough about myself to create an environment in which I nurture and cherish all aspects of myself. In essence, that is the core message of hope and possibilities I set my intention to share through my coaching and my book.

This past week I’ve been focused on preparing the materials to support a 10-hour book signing I’ll be hosting at my local gym, Fitness 19 in Aurora, Colorado. In preparation, I created a large poster featuring before and after pictures of me, along with an image of the front cover of my book. It’s the first time I’ve leveraged those weight loss images to drive home the magnitude of the change I experienced. The response has been overwhelming. People who knew my story, and knew my sustained 80-pound weight loss was also accompanied by freedom from a ten-year bout of debilitating depression and finding my purpose guiding others on their journeys, have been blown away by seeing the before and after pictures of me. Their imagination of how different I looked 80-pounds heavier didn’t come close to the reality. Their idea of what the heavier me must have looked like didn’t begin to capture the impact of the absence of light in my eyes and room-brightening smile that are now my norm.

As I explored the implications of the added encouragement my before and after pictures were having and how it might affect my ongoing marketing, I wrestled with whether using the pictures more freely would mean I was selling out. Hip deep in that dilemma, I realized that I had decided that every aspect of my transformative experience, except my physical weight loss, was worthy of respect, emphasis and promotion. And that’s where I found the fear in my motivation—I was rejecting a part of my experience as not worthy based on a fear that others might label me superficial and vain for focusing on weight loss. I’d forgotten that morbid obesity isn’t just a matter of vanity, it is a serious health risk that limits the quality and longevity of the lives of millions every day. Obesity is now at epidemics levels in our culture. Millions continue to struggle daily with ever more extreme diets without achieving significant, lasting weight loss. Who was I to decide what part of my experience the Universe was allowed to use to encourage and inspire others with hope and possibilities? Talk about arrogance.

In that moment I knew it was time to bring out the big guns (or big thighs) and share my pictures in the context of reminding my audience that persistent excess external weight is often a symbol of untreated internal weight. As I learned on my journey and share in the Discovery Framework in my book, the key to living a life you love is to feed all of your senses in a balanced way, so no one sense will take over, trying to fill voids it can never hope to fill. Sensory balance doesn’t just apply to the five outer senses through which we celebrate our external world but also to the four inner senses of creativity, vitality, spirituality, and belonging, through which we imbue our experience with meaning.

The major reason many of us can’t sustain the positive results of diet and exercise is that most programs do not get to the root issue—an imbalance in the care and feeding of our souls. I learned to pay attention to how I am feeding all of my senses—content and frequency—and whether each is being starved, smothered, or healthily sustained. While my weight loss certainly involved more mindful and nutritious eating as well as regular exercise, the degree of success and ability to sustain a healthier, happier, more harmonious lifestyle was much more dependent on balanced feeding of all nine senses.

The journey that began with transforming my own life shifted naturally into meaningful work as a life coach, radio host, author, writer, speaker and singer, through which I help others discover that health, peace, and joy are possible for them as well. If it’s possible for me, it’s possible for anyone. If any of us is worthy of such a life, we all are.

Below you can read the new introductory copy from the welcome page of my website and click the pic to view the 40-second video featuring pairs of images that illustrate eight of the many ways choosing your energy can change your life physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The fifth pair of images features me before and after. Enjoy!

You probably came here today because you are searching for something

Many people seek a life coach believing they need help losing weight, solving a complex problem or breaking an unwanted habit. But, often, that search is not really about weight, problems or habits. It’s about discovering our true selves, honoring our self-worth and restoring our zest for life.

Click here to visit the portal for my book, Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life (Balboa Press 2013). Explore options to purchase the book online in softcover, hardcover and three digital formats, order an autographed softcover copy, read book reviews and sign up for my book insider club.

Click here to visit the portal for my weekly 60-minute Internet radio show on the VoiceAmerica EmPOWERment channel. Access recordings of all past episodes, browse descriptions of upcoming episodes, sign up for my radio insider club, explore guest testimonials and submit a proposal to appear as a guest on my show.

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Oprah and Deepak FREE Miraculous Relationships Online Meditation Program Launching August 5, 2013

Posted on July 19, 2013 by djwlifecoach

A well-known Teacher once said, “I have so much to do today—if I hope to accomplish everything on my list, I must meditate twice as long.”

Most of us are more likely to say, “I have so much to do today, there’s no way I have time for meditation or anything else!” I used to say that myself until I figured out that I have all the time I need for the things that matter most. My role is simply to discern exactly what matters most in each moment.

The funny thing is that people from spiritual traditions throughout the world have long reported that regular meditation actually results in greater efficiency, productivity and abundance. They discover the power of FLOW: a generous, effortless, gracious way of living grounded in Being NOT Doing.

For those who might want to give it a try—or for those who are already committed to meditation—I wanted to share a great opportunity with you. Four times a year, through the Chopra Meditation Center, Oprah and Deepak offer a NEW completely FREE series of 21 guided meditations. I love the programs in this series and use them myself. Their newest program, Miraculous Relationships, will launch on August 5, 2013.

This program is a simple daily web-accessible recording with each meditation lasting about 15 minutes.

Whether you’re a seasoned meditator or you’ve heard that it might reduce your stress, improve your creativity and increase your sense of well-being, this program has a great deal to offer. For those new to meditation, it eliminates the perceived barrier of “too much silence” by easing you into a healthy new habit through a theme that ties the 21 sessions together with lots of speaking and guidance, very little pure silence.

And, for the seasoned meditator, it’s a great way to expand your options and approach. All meditation paths have merit because at their core they are all about the myriad ways we can hold ourselves in mindfulness. Doing the dishes, walking the dog, feeding the cat—all become meditative when entered into with focus and awareness. We are human beings, not human doings. Just me, just here, just now, just be.

Here’s what The Chopra Center has to say about these programs:

“Studies have shown that it takes 21 days of consistent behavior to change a habit or create a new one, such as establishing a regular exercise routine, eating a healthier diet, or taking time each day for self-care. In just 21 days, you can also establish a fulfilling meditation practice that will give you a lifetime of rewards. You may have dipped your toe in the water with limited success, but this time, you will have daily support and guidance that will enable you to move beyond any past obstacles and experience the many gifts and benefits of meditation.”

Discover new ways to transform your relationships with love through the power of meditation in this FREE 3-week online interactive experience. In this particular series, Deepak Chopra himself will be your daily meditation guide. You’ll receive a daily email with a link to access the day’s meditation. Track your progress in a private notes section. It’s open to everyone—worldwide! You can even purchase the program for ongoing support of this healthy habit in your life.

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Thoughts on Organization Transformation

Posted on July 12, 2013 by djwlifecoach

When I began to get clarity concerning the pervasive constructive impact of loving yourself unconditionally, a number of self-appointed advisors arose, warning that the falling-in-love-with-yourself paradigm might resonate with potential personal coaching clients but it would never fly with serious business professionals.

I’ll admit, I took notice at first. My response was that I didn’t care, that if all I ever accomplished was to help people transform their personal lives, I would have served a high calling in this lifetime. While that lofty-sounding answer was true, it had fear as its underpinning and therefore fell far short of my potential opportunity to foster real, extensive, lasting change on a global scale. The Universe let me go about my business until I was ready to get honest with myself about the fear, examine it with curiosity and respect, heal it with compassion, transform it with love, and accept the full scope of my calling with gratitude.

On that day, I remembered what I always knew in my heart: there is no substantive, sustainable organization transformation without individual personal transformation. I don’t care how compelling the business case, comprehensive the systems, streamlined the processes, clear the roles, elegant the communication, comprehensive the training, or valuable the rewards. There is no meaningful, enduring organization transformation without personal transformation. This is equally true whether the organization is professional (a small business, government agency, or Fortune 500 company) or personal (a marriage, family, or friendship). Significant organization transformation always begins with each individual being fully committed to personal transformation.

All of the destructive and dysfunctional thoughts, feelings, and behaviors we humans exhibit in life personally and professionally have their roots in fear. Fear is the absence of love. If every one of us knew that we were Divinely Sourced and knew that we held limitless intrinsic power, worth, and resources, all of the backstabbing, territorial squabbling, and sabotage would end, along with the raping and pillaging of our environment, the scarcity-based greed, and the cheating, lying, and stealing.

When the energy we have invested in those destructive fear-based endeavors is freed up to be focused on constructive love-based endeavors, the shift will be phenomenal. When genuine self-love takes the place of fear-based self-obsession, what wonderful lives we will create for ourselves.

That’s the type of organization transformation consultant and coach I am. One who helps individuals free themselves from self-imposed, fear-based limitations and harness the power of love so they can step into their greatness and, in constructive, co-creative collaboration with their fellow human beings, change the world.

I’m sometimes asked if, as a life coach, I coach business situations. Yes, I coach everything, because life includes everything. I hold multiple professional coaching certifications, including board certification. I’m also retired from a thirty-year consulting career specializing in human resources and organization transformation, including serving as a senior partner in four of the world’s largest and most prestigious global professional services firms. By virtue of my experience and expertise, I am well qualified to coach executives and professionals at all levels concerning a multitude of business situations.

Going beyond qualifications, the real answer is that life is just life. Despite our best efforts to separate our work and personal lives, those boundaries prove artificial, superficial, and highly permeable. Whether a client comes to me wanting help with a work situation or a personal relationship, inevitably, the lines blur. Wherever you go, there you are. How you do anything is how you do everything. When you fall in love with yourself, everything else falls into place, personally and professionally. Choosing love as your core energy changes your perceptions, opportunities, relationships, and priorities. You release the illusion of separation and embrace the truth of oneness. When love transforms your relationship with yourself, it can’t help but transform your personal life, your work, and the world.