I'm Awake! Now What?

​This week I sit down with Life and Leadership Coach Sarah Moore to discuss her work and how she's helping women remove self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and learning to speak their truth. Sarah shares how modeling vulnerability and honesty to her clients, allows her clients to do the same in their lives. She also explains that wanting to be seen and heard, will look and feel different for everyone, and figuring out how we want to be seen and heard is just as important. Sarah ends with two vital skills for creating meaningful growth, the first is how to create values when you are in transition, and second the gift of asking for help and how this positively impacts both the receiver and the requester. To find out more about Sarah or work with her, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @moore.soul.sessions   Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast   

This week I sit down with Kimberley Pena, registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist, Dance Artist and Choreographer. Kimberley gives a historical account of how Dance Movement became a form of healing modality. She shares her story of transitioning from a dance career into using dance as a way to heal and restore the people who come to her for help. To find out more about Kimberley, click here. Follow her on Instagram @kimberleyrdmp   Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

David Hayward comes to the podcast to discuss his life journey from minister to full time author, artist, and shepherd of black sheep and free spirits. David walks us through how a book he read called into question the infallibility of the Bible, and this changed the trajectory of his life. He shares his deconstruction story and how questioning became the answer and finding a way to channel his experience through art, community, and connection. David ends with providing guidance and hope for those on the path of questioning and awakening. To learn more about David and partake in his art and community head over to his website and follow him on Instagram @nakedpastor    Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast   

​This week I sit down with Certified Medium--Michelle Clare. Michelle shares her wisdom from having had three near death experiences, and being reminded of the unconditional love that exists in all of us, in our human form. She also shares insights into pre-planning our lives and how we are constantly given opportunities to listen and act on our soul's purpose. Michelle tackles the question of the difficulty that can come from awakening, when the world around you is remaining largely unconscious and how this contrast actually supports your further enlightenment. Michelle also demystifies the transition from life to death and how what we believe in our human form brings us gently into full awareness of everything that is, when we cross over and that no one dies or lives alone. We all have a spiritual entourage, supporting us. To learn more about Michelle Clare or to work with her, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @medium_michelle_clare   To hear Michelle's full NDE Story, click here to lis

This week I sit down with author, teacher, and cosmologist Carmelle Riley to discuss her book "Super Manifestor" and her work helping people become agents of change in their lives by releasing fear, doubt, and lack. Carmelle says the first step of overcoming fear starts with a deep breath. She shares how healing and creativity are two energies that are always with us and how accessing a future state being is the most powerful tool for calling what we want. To find out more about Carmelle or if you want to work with her, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @supermanifestar   Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with parental alienation survivor and childhood trauma educator Lisa Goodpaster--Founder of  The Stephood Project. Lisa defines parental alienation and the effects of being impacted by this dynamic in a family. She shares the dangers of parentification of children in families of divorce and how the first step always starts with self-awareness and a desire to change. Lisa ends with tips, tools, and the wisdom that knowing what hurt us can help us heal it. To find out more about Lisa, head over to her website. To sign up to my her book, click here and follow her on Instagram @lisa.goodpaster   Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down award-winning author, yoga teacher and high performance and transformation coach Smita Joshi, to discuss her work teaching people how to cultivate a higher level of consciousness through listening to our still, inner voice. Smita provides guidance on how to release our past conditioning and tap into what is available to us, internally as a resource. Smita answers the question, I'm Awake! Now What? She shares what true freedom and liberation are and how we can experience them today, by taking intentional action with the life we are creating. To find out more about Smita, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @smitajoshi108.  To buy her Trilogy set Karma and Diamond books, click here.    Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with author and leadership and transformational coach Matt Thieleman. Matt works with leaders and change-makers to help them live more fully into their purpose and share their masterpieces with the world. He educates and trains coaches to be world-class in their fields and to help their own clients in reaching their maximum potential. Matt and I discuss the differences of Yin and Yang energy in the work place, confronting conflict and navigating interpersonal relationships without getting our ego involved. Matt shares his thoughts on why coaches need coaches and the beauty of being able to see other people's blind spots.  Pick up Matt's book "This is Coaching" on April 4, 2023 anywhere books are sold.  To find our more about Matt or to work with him, head over to his webiste and follow him on Instagram @thieleman1      Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with relaxation expert and co-founder of inHarmony technology Craig Goldberg. inHarmony technology is based on sound, vibration, and frequency that provides the seeker an immersive meditation experience, allowing for optimal relaxation and rejuvenation. Craig discusses his own life journey that led him to his own meditation practices and his personal ethos of unity consciousness.  He shares how with his co-founder they created this technology to help the distracted mind into a meditative state by losing oneself in the music. He shares the scientific and real world benefits of this new and innovative technology and how it can help the collective create a state of calmness, starting with the individual. To find out more about inHarmony technology click this link and follow them on Instagram @inharmonyinteractive.    Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast   

This week I sit down with Life Coach and Podcast Host of "I am this age," Molly Sider. Her podcast focuses on making changes at any age. Molly and I discuss her pivot from being a professional in the wine industry to a life coach and podcaster. She shares her passion for storytelling saying "we are all telling stories about the human experience and learning from one another."  She shares how storytelling is the first step in  cultivating tolerance and acceptance by seeing resonance in the lives of others and how they make sense of change, dreams, relationships, disappointments, and personal growth.  To find out more about Molly, head over to her website, follow her on Instagram @stories_from_this_age, and check out her podcast I AM THIS AGE.    Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast   

This week I sit down with the founders of Maui Rebirth Retreats Kelly Christmas and Crystal Bichalski. Kelly is certified holistic coach, author, and owner of The Rock Box Life, a spiritual boutique and healing arts center. Crystal as an author, astrologist, astro therapist and past-life regression practitioner. Kelly and Crystal are reimagining the retreat experience by creating an intimate, immersive, and interactive encounter with the self that is transformative and healing. Kelly and Crystal discuss their shared experiences of spiritual growth and healing, and how this inspired them to create a sacred space for people to become their own healer. To find out more about Kelly, follow her on Instagram @therockboxlife. To find out more about Crystal, follow her on Instagram @crystalbastrology.    Sign up for the Maui Rebirth Retreat Here   Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with the co-author of "THE POWER OF AWE: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose—In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day" Jake Eagle. Jake Eagle co-wrote this book with Michael Amster.  The A.W.E. Method is a five-to fifteen second, three step process that transports you into a heightened state of consciousness and wonderment that creates changes to the mind and body, while improving health and wellness.   Jake and I discuss the research studies that were built around this methodology and how it changed the participants who were frontline health care workers during one of the hardest moments in recent history--the Covid-19 pandemic. Jakes also shares with the audience, how using the A.W.E. method can reduce a persons' experience of loneliness, burnout, and shift consciousness. We also discuss the benefits of healing using the A.W.E method to help our nervous system feel safe, so long term healing and integration can occur.    Jake is a psychotherapist, mindfuln

This week I sit down with Rachael Jayne Groover Founder and CEO of Awakened School, which is geared towards helping people find inner peace and their outer purpose. Rachael Jayne is also the creator of The Art of Feminine Presence and has trained over 13,000 women to this modality. Rachael Jayne shares with the listening audience her definition of the feminine--how it's not a word, it's a physical and energetic quality that runs through your body and energy field. We discuss the power of vulnerability and creating internal safety that allows us to connect more deeply with the world around us. Rachael Jayne ends with how to become unshakeable and trilogy of inner peace. To find out more about Rachael Jayne, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @rachaeljaynegroover   Unwavering Stillness Online Retreat by Rachael Jayne   Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with world-renowned Vedic teacher from India, Acharya Shunya. She was recognized at the early age of nine as the future spiritual leader of a 2,000-year-old Vedic lineage in north India, which she was fortunate to be born into as the granddaughter of the lineages patriarch.  In our interview we discuss her many books, her wisdom school and her teachings on enlightened vulnerability. She also talks about Alchemy & Ayurveda. To find out more about Acharya Shunya head over to website and follow her on Instagram @acharyashunya Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with Author and Fertility Hypnotherapist Lynsi Eastburn to discuss her work helping people bring children into the world through the modality of HypnoFertility. Lynsi opens up about being a young girl and feeling heartache for women who could not conceive their own children and learning of something called a "test tube" baby that changed her life. Lynsi shares how hypnosis helps to unblock our unconscious and the importance of trusting our own intuition of being called to be a parent. Lynsi also discusses her third book, "Waiting in the Wings: Introducing the Pink Starlights"and how this generation of babies are arriving to imbue our society with unconditional love, kindness, and compassion. To learn more about Lynsi and the works she does, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @lynsieastburn   Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with author David Guy, to discuss his spiritual fiction novel called "Hank Heals: A Novel of  Miracles."  The book is about Hank Wilder, a divorced loner, unsuccessfully trying to establish a new Zen center when he accidentally cures an ex-girlfriend’s recurring cancer with his touch and discovers that he has healing powers. David and I break down the themes in the book about what faith is, being receptive to healing, what energy is, and finding interconnectedness and self-acceptance. To find out more about David and purchase his novel, head over to his website by clicking here.    Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast   

This week I sit down with Beebe Bahrami who is an award-winning travel writer and anthropologist. Beebe wrote a beautiful book called "The Way of Goose: Three Pilgrimages Following Geese, Stars, and Hunches on the Camino de Santiago." We discuss her book that is a travel narrative, adventure story, and a spiritual pilgrimage. Beebe opens up about the power of the Camino and its ley lines that she described as "imbued by the human imagination." She shares the transformational power of the Camino--how everyone walking it becomes an explorer and an alchemist.   Through her own camino's she found that the goose was very likely an ancient Eurasian earth-centered mother goddess who took many forms but the goose was among her most prominent forms. This ties into goose vision, which Beebe's states "is burning off base influences of the ego to bring up and reveal the luminous, gold of your spirit."  To learn more about Beebe head over to website and pick up her book here. You can also pick up her travel companion gui

This week I sit down to talk to transpersonal psychotherapist and non-dual teacher Bonnie Greenwell. Bonnie is a successful author who’s work focuses on spiritual awakening, Kundalini, and the inward journey. Bonnie walks us through her spiritual history and we discuss the many types of spiritual awakenings. She defines for the audience Kundalini and non-duality and how they are two sides of the same coin. We conclude with Bonnie sharing wisdom and advice for anyone who is on the path of awakening. Bonnie's book "When Spirit Leaps: Navigating the Spiritual Awakening Process" is core curriculum for anyone on the spiritual path. To find out more about Bonnie head over to her website. Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit with spiritual psychologist and forgiveness coach, Debbie Roth. Debbie and I discuss why she decided to set her focus on this area, what it has taught her and what she hopes to teach others. She also discusses a life changing moment, that tested her to "walk her talk." To find out more about Debbie Roth, head over to www.forgivingconnects.com  Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast 

This week I sit down with author Mary Firestone to discuss her book "Trusting the Dawn" , a personal account of post-traumatic growth, healing, self-love and self-discovery. Mary shares how  although our inclination is to turn away from our trauma and pain, it still finds a way out; she gives the reader and listening audience the courage to face the hardness of our wounds, head on. She talks about staying integrated throughout the healing process and changing the internal narratives we tell ourselves about who we are when something bad happens to us. She leaves the audience with the healing tools of curiosity, compassion, self-trust, and deep self-love. To find out more about Mary head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @firestonesisters @trustingthedawn2022   Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast