Illumination Podcast With Nick And Kisma

In today’s episode, we are talking about Leonard, our Boston terrier and the five lessons that we learned from The Bestest Boston Terrier Ever. If you're looking for a little bright space on the internet, go find 00:48  Our Boston Terrier I wonder how this episode is going to go because we're talking about Leonard, our Boston terrier. KISMA Sadly, Leonard has left us. He's crossed the rainbow bridge as they say. He was a really good dog. He was so amazing. Nick 6:29 Everyone Loves a Boston Terrier That brings me to lesson number one, everybody loves a Boston terrier. Nick Everyone loves a Boston terrier. They're just so freaking cute. KISMA Everywhere I walked with that dog, people would stop and they were like, “Oh my gosh, it's a Boston”. Or they were like, “Is he a Frenchie or is he a Boston?”. You know, and they were always just so taken with him. Nick 8:00 Making Friends So, the second lesson is that you can make friends easily. These are all things that I've learned really just by observing my dog. Nic

Difficult times can bring out the best (and the worst) in people. We're sharing our personal insights and best advice to stay in your best and remain connected to what matters most in your world. Kisma talks about how to navigate all the lack mentality showing up through panic-buying and hoarding, while Nick shares his thoughts on healing mentally, emotional, physically and spiritually so that worry, anxiety and fear don't get the best of you. Please, whatever you're going through, if you need help, reach out. We're here to help without any kind of judgement for whatever you're experiencing. Be Well, Nick and Kisma

This week's episode has a special guest: Laura Belgray. Laura,  the founder of Talking Shrimp and co-creator of The Copy Cure, is a copywriting expert who helps entrepreneurs find the perfect words to express and sell what they do in a way that gets them paid to be themselves. Through her work with hundreds of clients (including online biggies like Marie Forleo and Amy Porterfield) she’s seen firsthand that putting “you” into your copy and all through your business is pure magic for getting people to love you up, share your ideas, and happily click your Buy button. In addition to online type businesses, Laura’s list of clients and credits include NBC, Bravo, HBO, TBS, Fandango, and many, many more. So if you watch TV -- and don’t skip the commercials -- you've probably seen her words on air. Hosts: Nick and Kisma Special Guest: Laura Belgray  3:59 Welcome Laura Belgray I'm just going to bring her on. Laura Belgray, welcome to Illumination Podcast with Nick and Kisma. I am so excited you're here. KISMA I am th

Today's episode is all about The Secret to Positive Thinking. We discuss the importance of letting go of attachment, as well as cutting your cords to manage your energy. 0:51  It's the perfect day to record the episode about the secret to positive thinking. KISMA Yeah, yeah. It is the actual perfect day for it. Nick 4:29 It’s the Attachment It's a really interesting moment where one can start getting super upset (and I know these are, alone, first world problems.) Nothing to really complain about. But it's the attachment. It's the attachment to it's going to be this way. And then when it's not that way, it's very easy for the mind to dip into a whole lot of anxiety, agitation and negativity. So the real secret to positive thinking is to not be attached to things having to be a certain way because the moment that it's got to be that way and it isn't, we feel out of sync if we don't have that intellect to check us. KISMA 8:03 It Always Comes Down to Being Attached Yeah. I mean that's all there is to. What is th

Today's episode is part two in our series, Open Your Mind to Receive. This series is based on the book, by Dr.Catherine Ponder, and in this episode we’re talking about the gift of release. if you would like to receive The Mystic Messages. 01:43 Acceptance Includes Release Last week the episode was about three ways to give. So if you haven't listened to that, go back and listen. But today we're going to talk about the gift of release. And Dr.Ponder says that once you've opened your mind to receive in a general way, then relax and experience greater good, and you will want to get definite and open your mind to receive some specific good for yourself.  So you've kind of let go. You've given, you’re prepared and now you want to receive some specific good. She said “there are many people who want or desire, a specific good in their lives, but they do nothing in a practical way to accept those wants and desires. And acceptance includes release.”  So release is an interesting word.  And she says “you have many gif

In today’s episode, Open Your Mind to Receive, Part 1, we discuss opening our minds to receive. I personally am very excited for this because it's based on one of my mentors book, Dr. Catherine Ponder, and the book is entitled that, . We talk about three types of giving that will allow you to be more receptive, so stay tuned on how to create more receptivity. Also, here is the we mention in this episode. 1:41  A Receiving Issue Here we are. We're going to talk today on opening our minds to receive. And for our listeners out there, the reason I wanted to bring this topic in is that so many people come to me and say, “Well, I know the law of attraction or this or that. I'm just not getting what I want.” And what I have found is it's oftentimes a receiving issue. In fact, I would venture to say it's usually always a receiving issue because if there's something that we desire and we don't have it, we are resisting it because it's there. And we talked a lot about this in our series working with the law, right? Th

In this week’s episode, Real Men Know Healing, we have a special guest. Well sort of. We're bringing in the Mystic Next Door to discuss the topic of what healing really is. 1:46 K.N.O.W. Healing This is something I know Nick, you've been working with men in your business as a healer coach and you know the topic is real men know healing, like K.N.O.W. They know healing. And  this is an interesting topic so I want to start it because it's really me asking you questions to share with our listeners. What is healing really? KISMA 2:09 Real Men Well before we address that, I want to talk about the real men part because it's sort of a play. I want everybody to know who's listening to this, I'm not the real man kinda guy. I'm just not. There’s always the idea that real men do this and real men do that. And that’s actually where a lot of really limiting kind of ideas about what it is to be a man come from. Real men don't cry. Men don't show their emotions. Men do this. Men don't do that. And it's limiting. The real me

In this week’s episode, The Big Leap, Part 4 - Einstein Time, we are wrapping up our series on with part four called Living in Einstein time. If you did not listen to episodes one, two and three around this, part one, two, and three, go back and listen. 0:56 Dealing with Time We could go on and on with this book. There's so much good stuff in it, but I felt like this was one piece that was really important to pull out just because all of us are dealing with time in some way. Nick 1:26 Bend Time We talk a lot about the feeling of ‘not enoughness’ and the lack of energy, which can show up through money, it also shows up through time. “I don't have enough time, I'm out of time”, even in my own head, that's what I'd be like, “how am I going to get this done? When am I going to do this?” And you got to take a breath and be like, wait, I'm going to bend time. KISMA 2:34 Relationship with Time He highlights right out of the box, for your life to work harmoniously, you need to develop a harmonious relationship with

In this week’s episode, The Big Leap, Part 3 we are continuing the journey with by Gay Hendricks and we are talking about the methods of self sabotage.  01:31 The Ultimate Life Tool I've been thinking a little bit about that zone of genius (as we have been discussing in this current series) and just how instructive can be for that. I was thinking about it for myself actually, and I was like, wow, you know, it really shows you so much of how you're built and what your natural styles are. And what I've noticed about that is everybody will have access to several different styles. But what's unique about it is you won't ever be in two styles at once. Nick 02:58 Upper Limiting So we're going to roll through these and just talk about them. It’s not an exhaustive list, but this is going to give some really good indicators of where to look when they start showing up. First one, worry. Worrying is usually a sign that we're upper limiting. It is usually not a sign that we're thinking about something useful. The cruci

This week’s episode The Big Leap, Part 2  we're talking about the hidden barriers to your zone of genius. In his book, - Gay Hendricks lays out four categories these barriers fall under and we are going to deep dive into them today! 01:57 Go Listen to Last Week’s Episode on SabotageJust to recap a little bit, last week we started our series on The Big Leap. if you missed it, we talked more about self sabotage. If you haven't heard it, finish listening to this one and go back. It’s very relevant. The sequence of this book is important. KISMA 02:22 The Zone of Incompetence The context of the book is that the idea of our life is to really discover and to share the gifts that we have. Those unique gifts as a human being. And in The Big Leap - Gay puts them into zones. People operating in certain zones and he gives four zones in the book. The first is the zone of incompetence. So this is basically just things that you're not good at. 03:43 The Zone of Competence The second is your zone of competence. So these are

This week’s episode we are covering a book that is really special to us called: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks .) It's all about self sabotage and overcoming our upper limiters. 01:57 - Big Leaping! 2020, the year of perfect inner vision. We are big leaping everyone. KISMA 01:16 - Covering The Big Leap You know that if we're covering a book, either it really meant something to us in our lives or it's something that we think would be super relevant to all of you or both. And this one happens to be both. Nick 02:23 - EEK! Self Sabotage Gay has such a way of really distilling this conversation around self sabotage and adding so much clarity to it. You know, cause I think it can be kind of a tricky conversation for people because it's the last thing that anybody thinks about. It is definitely more of a subconscious conversation. Nobody's thinking, hey, things are going really awesome. I think I'm going to totally screw it up right now. Nick 03:04 - The Subconscious Whisper It does become this subconscious whisper

This week’s episode is The Year in Review - How to Set Yourself Up For an Amazing 2020 and Beyond. Everyone's talking about the year 2020 being perfect vision. I like to look at it as perfect inner vision, perfect mind's eye vision, perfect intuitive vision and that is what we will be discussing in today’s episode. 01:31 - The Spirit of Presence It's so cosmic, but really getting into that place internally where we are clear and oftentimes the clarity comes from the review with what worked, what didn't work, what happened, what didn’t and all in a spirit of presence. Simply moving forward. KISMA 02:13 - Sometimes Things Don’t Work OutYou said something interesting I want to highlight because this is one of my year end practices and it's really important to me. I've seen it really help a lot of people as well when it didn’t work… You know, as we start to reflect on the year, inevitably there will be things that didn't work the way that we wanted inevitably and what we want to do in order to stop this energy is

Today we are wrapping up our extended series on Working with the Law - book by Raymond Hollowell and his 11 truth principles. This is part 11, wrapping it up with the Law of Obedience. 03:11 - OBEDIENCE, no thank you! This obedience word, it has a charge to it. KISMA 3:12 - I don’t like being told what to do… how about you? I don't like being told what to do. Anybody who knows me, knows I do not like being told what to do. However, in this context we want to break down what obedience is. Why? So you can make peace with that word obedience and, and if you're going to obey something, this is the thing to obey.  Nick 04:03 - The book of Jeremiah In the book of Jeremiah, it says, obey my voice and I will be your God and you shall be my people.  Nick 05:00 - Daily Practice of the Laws are NEEDED I think a big theme in this whole series is that these are not just some esoteric thoughts that it's nice to understand and hear about it. These are laws that operate in and through your daily life.  These invisible laws o

In today’s episode we are continuing the discussion of Working with the Laws - Chapter 10 by Raymond Holliwell. He opens the chapter for The Law of Sacrifice, by saying every man should have an ideal or a hero. If there is one who has none and desires none, do not trust him too far. A man who has no ideals, does not wish to be any greater than he is and will in time prove a detriment to others. 7:20 - What are you sacrificing? Yes, I have to give time. I have to sacrifice time to attain it. Yes, I have to sacrifice energy to work towards it. There is a gift that you're giving something to receive, always, always. You can't miss. So the question becomes, what are you sacrificing?  KISMA 8:24 - If you want it, work for it! If you want to cultivate something of excellence, you're going to need discipline. If you want to direct your energy, your mind energy, your heart energy, your entire energy towards something that is greater than you it requires discipline. It is not a dirty word. KISMA 8:59 Decision requires

This week’s episode is Working with the Law - The Law of Increase. This is part 9 in our series of Working with the Law. Be sure to go back and listen to the others in this series to benefit from the full teaching of Working with the Law. These podcasts are based off of the book: Working with the Law by Raymond Holliwell.  You can purchase the book here: 06:11 God responds to Praise We're coming from a spiritual background, God being the law, being the universe, spirit, source, whatever your word is, and what's important here. What this means to me is that God, universe, spirit doesn't need our praise. It's it. That Supreme essence is just fine. It does not mean anything. Yet it responds to us and we ourselves need to praise. We need that praise towards the universe, towards the laws so that it becomes, you know, we're close to it. It never goes away, but it becomes our perception of it, our feelings, our knowing. I feel like it's our knowing that becomes more real and more thick. KISMA 07:22 - Harmonizing t

This week’s episode is Why You Don't Have What You Want, Part 2.  We wanted to look at how one might stay in the past and this will create a form of resistance. Staying in the past means that we are in attachment to things that have happened. It also may mean that we are using a past mindset, a past energy. Which can keep us from what we want. Hosts: Nick and KISMA 02:33 The Reset Button There's a difference between truly having a retreat and having some space. When we're talking about hitting the reset button it is breaking up the energy, getting it out so that we can actually see some of the things that we've been doing. What you might be resisting in your life is super key because when you are able to get out of resistance, like so many people talk about wanting to have more ease in their life, well that is the opposite of resistance, right? There's something that has to change in what we are doing, it's really something inside of us that needs to change. Nick 04:22 Living in the Past Today in this part tw

This week’s episode Why You Don't Have What You Want, Part 1 is about understanding if you don't have what you want, you're resisting it in some way, shape or form. When we understand why we don't have something, our dreams, our desires, et cetera, we get to shift it. So let’s dive into the shift! Hosts: Nick and KISMA 03:28 Resistance Stops You So we want to understand why we don’t have what we want. Maybe somebody wants a new job, maybe those of you that are building businesses, you want to hit a certain financial place. Maybe some of you want a new relationship or a relationship where you are not resisting what you want.   When you clear out the resistance, because we have this beautiful universe and substance that we pour into. When you clear out the resistance, that very thing or the opportunities show up for you to acquire that dream.  Of course we have to take action. This is not about sitting on this sofa and just thinking our way through life. We're physical beings, but the opportunities are there fo

This week's episode has a special guest: Cathy Heller. Cathy Heller hosts the podcast Don’t Keep Your Day Job, which has 8 million downloads and features conversations with creative entrepreneurs like actress Jenna Fischer, blogger Seth Godin, and more. She’s a phenomenal coach and she’s sparking a movement for every soul to add their gift to the world. Hosts: Nick and KISMA Special Guest: Cathy Heller 01:59 - Let’s Get to Know Cathy You're very real.You're incredibly authentic and there's a rawness about you. I feel like it comes from your background as a musician and Nick and I both have backgrounds as musicians. So I would love to kick off this podcast with a little bit about that. And then of course you've got a book to talk about and other things, your podcasts, but would you share the story behind your being a musician and what it means to your life right now? KISMA 02:51 - Our Wounds Guide Us You I am raw maybe that connects to being an artist. I think that at the end of the day, most likely if somebod

This week’s episode is all about unpacking the 3 Ways to Overcome Obstacles.  This episode is very effective and relevant for coaches, healers and business owners who have people come in because their prospect faces what we would call an obstacle. We are going to discuss how to move past a problem to get the result. Hosts: Nick and KISMA 04:30 Something Came UpScenario: someone wants to purchase a training or course from you but then comes back and says: “something came up”. When a client focuses on the thing that they perceive as a problem, this creates the obstacle, it begins to grow in the negative when someone is only focusing on this obstacle rather than focusing on if there is an obstacle, then there's actually a solution. KISMA 05:44 Perception not Truth Became the Obstacle It's not hard to find reasons to back down. I just had this really interesting thing happen with me. A lady had reached out on my website about some pretty significant depression she described in a form she filled out. She scheduled

This week's episode has a special guest: Melanie Klein. A sought after empowerment coach, thought leader and influencer in the areas of body confidence, authentic empowerment and visibility. Melanie is also a successful and highly acclaimed writer, speaker and professor of sociology and women's studies. So without further ado, I am so excited for this episode with Melanie Klein. Hosts: Nick and Kisma Special Guest: Melanie Klein 04:40 The First Connection  I kind of want to give our listeners a little about story. Melanie, we met almost two years ago at an event. Melanie has this essence about her. She's very beautiful. There was something about her as a woman that was so captivating, a softness and a strength. Then I found out that you were very much involved in the yoga world… which made since to why there was a connection! Your yoga history, when did that start for you? Were you young or did it come about? Like in college? When did you find yoga? KISMA 05:02 - Perceptions  So I'm totally going to answer th