Replay: Healthy Boundaries for Kind People with Randi Buckley

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Do you struggle with building solid friendships? Do you find it difficult to say “no”, even when you really want to? Have you ever been told that you’re just “too nice”?

Having strong, healthy boundaries is key to living a magical life but traditional boundary advice can be hard to stick to when you’re a very kind person.

In today’s conversation, master coach Randi Buckley shares tried and true methods for figuring out where you end and others begin. For more than 25 years, Randi has worked with prestigious organizations such as AAMPAS (the Oscars organization), Sundance Film Festival, Omega Institute, Stanford University, the Dallas Cowboys, Spa Nordstrom, NBC University, and Youth for Understanding International. In her private practice, Randi guides women through sticky situations and big decisions with kindness and humor (and healthy boundaries too).

For mindset shifts and practical tips, join us!

What you’ll hear in this episode:

  • Randi’s classes: Healthy Boundaries for Kind People and Maybe Baby, and more!
  • The profound difference between NICE and KIND
  • Why traditional boundary advice won’t work for kind people
  • Signs of weak or nonexistent boundaries
  • The Shape of You—“Where you end and others begin”
  • Practical boundaries for the best YOU
  • Common boundary issues
  • Feeling unseen or unheard
  • How to put boundaries in place with people who think you have none!
  • Does your garden have healthy soil?
  • Doubts and ambivalence
  • How to honor your integrity
  • Changing your mind vs. keeping your word
  • Being selfish: Good or Bad?
  • Following your North Star
  • Tools for making decisions with confidence
  • Being fearless vs. being brave
  • Fear = a messenger

Resources:

www.randibuckley.com

Replay: Straight Talk on Energy Healing & Intuition with Megan Potter

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What is energy? (And I don’t mean what you remember from high school science!) How about intuition? Does EVERYONE have it? How do you use it in your daily life? Is it possible to stay grounded when life is a steady stream of curve balls? Can you really stay balanced amid the ups and downs? Today’s guest answers these questions beautifully. She also gives helpful tips about finding the right energy healer and how understanding the Chinese five elements can help you celebrate your strengths and find compassion for your weaknesses.

Meet Megan Potter, a writer, teacher, diviner, oracle, and Chinese Face reader. Megan describes herself as being devoted to expansion, growth and magic. Megan doesn’t just throw around buzzwords, she gives practical advice and simple explanations. She wants you to embrace yourself fully for who you are—without judgment.

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What you’ll hear in this episode:

  • Energy in the spiritual realm: What is it?
  • Different words in different languages for different kinds of energy
  • Drawing from your “energy well”
  • Getting “unstuck” energetically
  • Flowing water—the metaphor for flowing energy
  • What to do about those people who “dam up” your energy
  • How to find the place of love
  • What it means to “work with energy”
  • Finding an energy worker who has integrity:
    • Go with your gut and ask questions
    • Watch out for fear, judgment, and guilt
    • Feeling empowered when you leave
  • Energy healer = Midwife
  • Intuition: Can you hear it?
  • Acknowledgment: The first step in hearing your intuition
  • The difference between intuition and fear
  • For guidance, try a stillness ritual
  • Need grounding? Visualize yourself as a tree
  • Foods that can help ground you
  • An introduction to Chinese face reading and the Five Elements of Chinese medicine
  • The 9 Star Ki:  An ancient system to deepen your understanding
  • Tools in Chinese medicine that tell you about your “blueprint”

Resources:

www.limitlessliving.ca  (Megan offers a FREE intro class to help you get started!)

 

2 Women, 2 Non-Profits, 2 Messages of Change & Hope with Sonya Passi and Christa Gallopoulos

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Have you found your passion? Do you feel like you make a difference? Do you know what sets you on fire and lights you up inside?

Each of us yearns to be useful, important, and relevant. We all have a unique spark—a gift to share with the world. Your gift can be shared in your circle of family and friends, or on a world stage. Bigger isn’t necessarily better. What matters is how YOU feel. My two guests for this episode have each found their spark, their gift, and their purpose—and I’m delighted to introduce them to you. I ask that you do more than listen with your ears; I ask that you listen with your heart. Listen for inspiration, for motivation, for those quiet inner whispers guiding you on your own personal journey.

Sonya Passi is filling a gap in the world for survivors of domestic violence. She is the founder and CEO of Free From, a nonprofit whose mission is to make safety affordable for ALL survivors of domestic violence. Free From has been called “a groundbreaking and transformative approach to a nationwide epidemic.”

Christa Gallopoulos is a writer, photographer, painter, mentor, coach, and founder of the Silethokuhle Foundation in South Africa. She followed her heart from the US to the KwaZulu-Natal region and the community of Ngwenya, located in NE South Africa. Listen as she shares the beautiful unfolding of her dream.

Hold on to your seats and prepare for a BIG dose of inspiration as you listen to these two amazing women share what it means to be fully committed to your passion!

What you’ll hear from Sonya:

  • How her journey has unfolded, with a long involvement in the world of domestic violence
  • How she merged her law degree and financial experience to create a nonprofit
  • Three Foundational Strategies of Free From: legal services, policy reform, and entrepreneurship
  • Domestic violence costs in the US: $8.3 billion annually!
  • The abuser should pay!
  • It’s a crisis epidemic, with ONE in FOUR women affected!
  • The need: emergency relief to long-term stability
  • Get safe and stay safe—but how long does it take?
  • Statute of limitations: Why they differ in each state
  • Survival skills translate to business success
  • The 12-month plan for survivors to become entrepreneurs
  • 500Founders campaign to fund training programs—YOU can help!
  • The HUGE reward from magically aligning purpose, passion, and skills!

What you’ll hear from Christa:

  • Why Christa left “the dream life” in Washington, DC for South Africa
  • A lifelong obsession with Africa
  • The community she loves and serves
  • The Silindokuhle Preschool—opening NOW!
  • The need to learn English and computer skills
  • The Foundation’s goals: preserving Zulu culture and teaching necessary skills
  • Those who help share the dream with Christa: Sanele and Crystal (update: Michele is no longer with the foundation)
  • Christa’s big dream? Building an eco-friendly lodge on Ghost Mountain to be a training facility with profits for the community (You can help and share the dream!)

Resources:

www.freefrom.org

www.webringthegood.org

Find Christa on Facebook and Instagram (@ChristaCreates).

Plants and Herbs to Heal and Restore Your Skin with Adam Klaus and Phoebe Stewart

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Have you given much thought to the skin care products you use and where they come from? How about the items in your medicine cabinet? Are they safe? Are they healthy and nourishing? Awareness is rising about the toxic chemicals in many products that we use regularly in and on our bodies. Herbal products are becoming more popular, but how can you know if they’re safe and effective?

My guests today are Adam Klaus and Phoebe Stewart, herbal alchemists and founders of Some Love Herbs. Though each of them came to understand the healing benefits of plants in different ways, they’ve combined their passion for organic gardening, herbal medicine, and eastern holistic health into creating products that are safe and effective for the whole family. They love teaching others about restoring balance using the healing properties of plants and herbs. Are you ready to learn more? Join us!

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What you’ll hear in this episode:

  • Connect to our earth with HERBS!
  • Their individual journeys into the world of plant medicine
  • Natural skin care
  • Pharmaceutical based medicine: potent, concentrated, focused on treating symptoms
  • Plant based medicine: a holistic, symbiotic relationship between plants and people
  • Supporting health vs. crisis intervention
  • How herbal and western medicine are complementary
  • Aloe Vera: a good place to begin
  • Your stomach—the great destroyer, and your skin—the friendly, naïve, and welcoming neighbor
  • Safety tests for skin care products: Do you trust them?
  • Using herbs: tea vs. topical
  • Dangers of plant medicine
  • Culinary herbs are medicines, too!
  • Fresh is always best
  • How to get kids involved
  • Some Love products, including balms, salves, and sunscreen
  • Food and medicine: perfect holistic partners!
  • How what’s natural has become “alternative”.
  • Plant superpowers!
  • Getting to know common plants and their stories

Resources:

Healing With Medicinal Plants of the West: Cultural and Scientific Basis for Their Use by Jim Adams

Medicinal Herbs of the Pacific West by Michael Moore

Making Plant Medicine by Richo Cech

www.ewg.org (The Environmental Working Group: The Skin Deep database, Clean Fifteen and Dirty Dozen)

www.someloveherbs.com

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