I'm Awake! Now What?

This week I sit down with martial scientist and MindBody Mastery Mentor Dane Dormio. Dane opens up with his first spiritual awakening experience and talks about bumping into enlightenment. He shares insights on managing consciousness through a daily mind, body, and breath practice and how having a daily practice is like energetic hygiene. Dane's work focuses on stress reduction and he shares how stress is an accumulation of choices that affect us, all the way back through our lineages and with choices we make in the present. He leaves the audience with some wisdom around clearing our minds, and using our brains for having ideas and not holding onto them. To find out more about Dane follow him on Facebook @MindBodyMasteryAcademy   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 Manifesting Expert and Coach Trish McKinnley to discuss her work helping people have seismic shifts in their self-worth and ability to manifest the life they always dreamed of. Trish opens up about her near death experience as a child, where she felt immersed with love and when she returned knew her life was to share that love with humanity. Trish talks about how manifesting in simple terms is about making the best cognitive choices for our life and breaking through the main block of unworthiness. To find out more about Trish, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @trishmckinnley   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 Coach, Meditation Teacher, Screen Writer, Producer and Author Tom Cronin to discuss his life's work and film "The Portal." Tom's purpose is to inspire people to embrace meditation as a modality of change to transform their lives. Tom shares that distraction is one of the biggest barriers to consciousness and to create change in our lives we must remove resistance that creates suffering in order to evolve and heal. Tom covers in detail the importance of interconnectedness and how it stabilizes us individually and collectively. He ends with imparting wisdom to the audience about unconditional love and explains what happens when we suspend our conditions. To learn more about Tom head over to his website and follow him on Instagram @tomcronin Watch "The Portal" 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 Publisher, Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneur Carrie Severson to discuss her new book "Unapologetically Enough: Reshaping Success and Self-Love." Carrie opens about going on a spiritual quest to figure out who she was at her core. Carrie shares her practice of writing love letters to her heart, her body, and the universe and how this dialogue allowed her to grow her own internal resources of self-love and authenticity. She ends by reminding the audience that this work of growth, expansion, and healing is for the rest of our lives and that is a good thing. To find out more about Carrie, head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @the_unapologetic_voice_house Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast

J​ust a heads up to you the listeners, this we​ek's episode deals with adult topics, not suitable for kids.  ​ ​This week I sit down with Sacred Sexuality Teacher and Coach Suzanne Najarian to unpack the complex and beautiful work of sacred sexuality practices with the self and in partnership. Suzanne defines what sacred sexuality is, how it is practiced, and how she incorporates this into her own life. She tells the audience, this work is transformative because pleasure is woven into it, helping the aspirant awaken, release, heal, embody and become fully integrated. We touch specifically on the sacred feminine in this practice and undoing old conditioning, messaging cascaded to us from our institutions, religions and familial circles. She emphasizes most women feel two things: fear and shame when it comes to our bodies and sexual experiences. She leaves the audience with an opening towards expansion, encouraging everyone to find partners and people who can hold the bandwidth of humanity with you, leaving no

This week I sit down with Embodiment Coach Alyssa Kuzins to discuss her work helping women heal by creating a body-mind connection, starting from the bottom chakra 's upwards. Alyssa discusses the importance of collaborating with the universe, through your deep inner knowing and cultivating a rich relationship with the divine. She shares important wisdom around trusting ourselves and trusting spirit as we take leaps of faith. To work with Alyssa head over to her website and follow her on Instagram @alyssakuzins   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, Podcast Host, and Psychic Medium Laura West to discuss her book "Guided," which is a roadmap to interacting and building relationships with your spirit guides and teams on the other side. Laura opens up about stepping into her abilities and sharing her gifts first, with the people closest to her and the world, and how it is normal to feel nervous or afraid to share your gifts. Laura walks us through how our guides can use our intuition to connect with us, what signs they send us, and how they love us unconditionally whether we interact with them or not.  ​To find out more about Laura, follow her on Instagram @guided_west and pick up her book 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 award-winning author, teacher, life-long seeker and speaker Mark Matousek about his book "When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living." Mark opens up about his early childhood experience of going inside to inquire and how he became interested in transformation. Mark and I discuss suffering, healing, and answering the question his sister posed to him many years ago "How do you live?" Mark articulates the lessons he brought forward to live brilliantly in his life, after encountering the possibility of death and why instead of running from our pain, we should trust it. To learn more about Mark, head over to his website. To find out more about The Seekers Forum click here and follow Mark on Instagram @mark.matousek   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 Laura Forbes. Laura is the founder of Quit Dating Idiots a coaching business focused on helping people overcome blocks in their dating life. Laura and I discuss conscious dating practices and navigating your own self development. Laura shares her passion for helping people and the importance of knowing yourself.  To find out more about Laura and work with her, follow her on Instagram @quit_dating_idiots 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 empowerment coach and podcaster Kaluwa Ghalikar to discuss her break away from religious beliefs and edicts--and how she found freedom in exploring her connection to the divine, in her own way.   Kaluwa discusses a transformative period in her life, where she lost her voice literally and figuratively and how this became a catalyst for change, healing, and integration. Kaluwa encourages the audience to lean into healing, being courageous to face the obstacles that get in the way of us knowing our true worth and value, as human beings. To find out more about Kaluwa, follow her on Instagram @kaluwarg and check out her podcast Breakthrough or Bust.    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 Purpose Therapist, Executive Director and Mission-Preneur Garrett Underwood to discuss his life journey, his passions, and his service-based purpose work. Garrett opens up about homelessness and the homeless communities in LA and how he felt called to add his own unique solution and voice to this humanitarian issue. Garrett talks about his work mentoring entrepreneurs by helping them align their purpose and passions. Garrett says the first step is creating a compelling origin story to share with investors that has depth, clarity and evokes emotion. Garrett also touches on the importance of healing when we become entrepreneurs, as many entrepreneurs' passions are derived in the mission of creating solutions for issues they struggled with in their ecosystems and answering the call of healing humanity, one person at a time. To find out more about Garrett follow him on Instagram @seedhouseproject | @saveapennyorg and click the links below to reach his organizations.    Save a Penny | Cha

This week I sit down with Energy Alchemist and Visionary Erlinda Vo to discuss her mission of "Vibing Up the Planet." empower others to live into their light, purpose, and soul's calling. Erlinda is also the founder of Spa for Your Soul. Erlinda shares a significant life event that became a catalyst for her growth and expansion, leading her to become a modern day alchemist. She articulates the importance of maintaining and cultivating a high energetic footprint for the benefit of the individual and collective--stating that our work here is to raise ourselves up first, so that world around us can rise too. To learn more about Linda or sign up for her courses, click here and make sure to follow her on Instagram @erlindavo   Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast

This week I sit down with Author and Coach Becca Ribbing to discuss her work helping individuals break out of cycles of uncertainty and becoming unstuck in their lives. Becca opens up about her early childhood experience being raised as Christian Scientist and what it meant to learn to not listen to her body and the wounding she incurred that allowed her to create expansive healing in other areas of her life.  Becca talks about how her work in simple terms is giving people permission and helping them gain clarity and focus--to lean into their strengths so they can clearly see their purpose and next steps. You can buy Becca's book by clicking here. Follow her on Instagram @beccaribbing   Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Written, directed, and

This week I sit down with Author and Coach Judi Turkheimer, to discuss her book "Finding Myself in a Nightmare: A mother’s healing journey through her daughter’s addiction." Judi discusses how her daughter's addiction became a catalyst for her own growth,  self-reflection, and healing. She shares the pains of going through the stages of grief and how she climbed out of denial and into dynamic acceptance--coming to terms with the possibility of losing her daughter to addiction. Recognizing that her daughter, like all of us, was walking her own path and Judi had to honor her experience, despite how painful, scary, and hopeless it seemed at the time.    Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by

Podcast Re-Release: This week I sit down with author James McCrae to discuss his book "Shit Your Ego Says." James walks us through major themes in his book like, mindfulness, your higher self, and your ego. He gives poignant advice about staying the course in your own life journey and listening to your intuition. To find out more about James head over to www.jamesmccrae.com and follow him on Instagram @wordsarevibrations Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your Andriod and iPhoneApp stores. Follow Saged on Instagram @sagedapp Podcast Production: Written, directed, and edited by Krista Xiomara Produced by LightCasting Original Music by Mr. Pixie Follow this podcast on Instagram @ianwpodcast

This Sunday I sit down with Author, Alignment Mentor, Breathwork facilitator, and host of the Bare Naked Podcast---Leah Pardee. Leah discusses her spiritual journey and how she found a direct channel to God. She shares intimate details about her healing journey that lead to authentic, self-love through the grace of self-acceptance and mindfulness practice. Coming through this healing journey, Leah created a healing journal for aspirants and seekers called "Heal Your Sh*T," to help give them a roadmap and tools for healing old wounds, trauma, and pain through writing. Leah is also passionate about helping people cultivate intentional and mindful relationships with their social media accounts--that support well-being and mental health. She shares how some of us may need a social media detox, from time to time and she leaves the audience with solution based tools to create a healthy relationship with social media that supports your business and your soul. Follow Leah Pardee on Instagram @itsleahpardee   Podcast

This week I sit down with Grounding and Energy Medicine Specialist Amelia Vogler to discuss her work in helping humanity heal trauma, connect to source energy, and navigate the bigness of life from a place of compassion. Amelia was born a highly sensitive and gifted person and at a young age began helping those around her through grief and pain. Amelia began to ask the question "How do we bloom as humans?" Using this question as her guiding light to do her work she's helped many people uncover the inheritance of their life allowing them to bloom into their best iteration. Amelia ends by sharing with the audience, the importance and practice of grounding ourselves, both emotionally and energetically. To sign up for Amelia's Hara Class, click here and follow her on Instagram @ameliavogler_healing   Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free from your

This week I sit down with international best selling Author and radio host of Magical Moments, Alena Chapman to discuss her new book "Hello Soul: Everyday Ways to Begin Awakening Your Spirituality." Alena is a soul nurturer and healer. At a young age she discovered the gift of bringing souls into the light, and has been living this calling ever since. Alena and I discuss how our societal domestication can keep us stuck in an illusion, instead of seeing the magic and power we all have within us, which is our birthright. She shares the wisdom of being supported in each step you take on your path of awakening, evolution, and enlightenment and how the beauty of going on this journey in search of answers is finding out we had the answers inside of us all along. To buy Alena's book, click here and catch her syndicated radio show Magical Moments on WOWO 1190 AM | 107.5 FM and follow her on Instagram and Facebook @alena_chapman   Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachin

This week I am joined by award winning producer, filmmaker, and author Penny Price Lavin. Penny's film "The Healing Field" which is about exploring energy and consciousness and has been viewed by millions and created a global movement of awakening, energy understanding, and healing. Penny tells us that as a young child she understood her psychic abilities and leaned into them early on, helping others. Her calling of bringing the light to the world through journalism and media began when she and a young friend started a newspaper, and her career in journalism has flourished since then having worked on Good Morning America, NBC, CBS and more. She is also the Associate Director for the international One Light Healing Touch School. Penny speaks directly to the audience about their own healing field, and how we are constantly taking energy in. She shares the importance of working with stuck energy and not letting fear stop us from evolving.     Watch "The Healing Field" on Gaia. You can purchase the companion boo

This week I am speaking with actor, director, and author, Angel Aviles. Who is best known for her role as Sad Girl, in the cult movie classic "Mi Vida Loca." Her book "To Happy to be Sad Girl: Surviving Sadness, Ditching Anxiety, and Learning to Thrive" is a beautifully written autobiography about her internal healing and integration story, and the lessons she learned along the way that can help you, the reader. Angel and I discuss the stigmas about healing and our Latino Community, and she offers candid advice for anyone afraid to address their own healing. Angel also shares her passions about creating true and authentic self-worth, healing your divine feminine, and thriving in every moment of your life. To find out more about Angel, follow her on Instagram @angelawakened Grab a copy of Angel's book here Podcast Sponsor: Saged is a spiritual app and resource center for Earth-based teachings and practices.  Stay aligned, connected and supported on your spiritual journey, with Saged. Download Saged for free f