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Health coach turned podcaster, Chase interviews industry leaders in fitness nutrition and mindset. Messages to help you live a life EVER FORWARD.
Chase Chewning, MS, ACE CHC
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Sean Dollinger is the founder of Vancouver-based PlantX, an online one-stop shop for all things plant-based, including meal delivery. The ultimate goal of the platform “is to educate people on the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle, eliminating the barriers to entry for everyone.”
He has been involved in the ecommerce space for over two decades, and has a growing portfolio that includes more than 15 companies.
Having been overweight growing up, Sean discovered the power of eating a plant-based diet ten years prior, which helped him lose 60 pounds of bodyweight. It was a transformation that not only completely changed his body, but his mind as well. Sean was inspired to create a platform to share what he had learned over the past decade and it developed into what is today PlantX.
Sean goes on to share how he found success as a serial entrepreneur, from why he sleeps only four hours a night, to how he scaled PlantX from $6 million to $1.5 billion in a year-and-a-half, to how he spots opportunity in times of crisis.
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Key Highlights
Why did Sean decide to start a business around plant-based products and services?
Is a plant-based diet something that people can realistically integrate into their lifestyle?
Why Sean feels best sleeping for only four hours a night.
How do you find and capitalize on an opportunity amid crisis?
Powerful Quotes by Sean
At the end of the day, PlantX’s job is to give selection and choice. We’re not here to make that decision for individuals. We’re here to make sure everything fits into the plant-based lifestyle. We like to give people freedom of choice.
What I always remind people is to think back to why they started the business. Why did you think it was such a good idea? Why did you take that leap of faith? Why did you make that investment in yourself to do it? Then keep going. [...] At the end of the day, what you’ve taken a chance on could be exactly what you’re looking for.
I believe that if you put that positive energy out there, you work extremely hard, and your dedication is towards making the Earth a better place, I always believe that opportunities will present themselves.
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Mar 25, 2021
EFR 454: Befriending Cowardice and Why Change is Our Most Defining Characteristic with Eliot Marshall
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Eliot Marshall is a martial artist, business owner, podcaster, bestselling author, and a self-proclaimed “ex-UFC fighter turned motivational speaker”.
Eliot points to change as the defining characteristic of his life and career. He looks at each new day as an opportunity for growth, and believes fully that he is a better man today than he was at any other point, regardless of past successes. In fact, even with a prolific run in MMA behind him, Eliot admits that “my UFC career was literally just me trying to hide all these insecurities I have.”
Today, instead of running away from the coward within, Eliot embraces that side. He made it a point to learn all about his fear, and to coexist with that fear. He goes on to speak about how love from those he cared about the most yanked him out of the literal death spiral of negative self-talk that enslaved him early on.
Eliot explains how anybody can reverse engineer their ideal life in order to start taking steps toward it. This includes going through the three Is that you need to write down to start calibrating your mindset for growth: your I ams, your I cans, and your I wills.
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Key Highlights
Eliot explains how and why he used his career as a professional fighter to hide the coward inside of him.
How was Eliot able to surround himself with a great community of people that he could trust in his darkest hours?
How good can our life become just by changing our mindset?
Eliot may no longer be in the UFC, but he is clearly still a fighter. He shares what he is fighting for today.
Powerful Quotes by Eliot Marshall
As your coach, I don’t want to see “perfect”. I want to see the mess. I want to see you when it all falls apart. I want to see as ugly and as bad as it gets. Once I see that, we get to plug the holes. I need to see what you’re going to do when the shit really hits the fan because you can’t hide who you are when that cage door closes.
There’s a coward in all of us. If you won’t say hi to him, then he comes out during really inopportune times. He comes to say hello. But if I say hello to him every day, knowing that he’s part of me, then he can come hang out, but he doesn’t get to mess things up.
Living by your values is not easy. It’s not comfortable. It’s not fun. There’s no fun about it. But if you say who you say you are, then you do it.
I never want to equalize outcomes; but I want to equalize the opportunity for every single human being that walks on this Earth to be able to find, discover, and harness their power.
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Mar 24, 2021
EFR 453: You Turn - Get Unstuck, Discover Your Direction, and Design Your Dream Career with Ashley Stahl
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Ashley Stahl is a counterterrorism professional turned highly sought-after career coach, TEDx speaker, Forbes blogger, podcaster, and author. In January 2021, she published her first book, You Turn: Get Unstuck, Discover Your Direction, and Design Your Dream Career.
She illustrates her approach to getting “unstuck” as traveling from one lilypad to another. The first lilypad is where most people start out: They have a dream (or at least the outline of one) but are too afraid to take the next step thanks to the myriad of what-ifs plaguing their mind.
Getting over to the second lilypad is all about creating a “river channel” by figuring out your unique gift and learning how to harness your primary skillset. It’s about acknowledging that the key to getting unstuck in your career is to not do what you love, but to do what you are.
The third and final lilypad is “a level of dharma” achieved only after consistently putting that skillset into action. Ashley explains that “when you’re vibing in the current of your gifts, what happens is, on the periphery, people start noticing where you’re talented.” When you work only where you thrive, and you own your unique gift, opportunities naturally arise and your career creates itself.
Ashley goes on to share how to get clarity on your best career fit, uncovering your identity, nipping resentment at work in the bud and finding your purpose, and the biggest myths that keep you stuck in your career.
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Key Highlights
Ashley explains how to get unstuck in life by hopping from the first lilypad to the second and to the third. She addresses the many challenges that everyone will encounter on their personal journey along the way.
What did Ashley carry over from her previous career in intelligence into her current work as a coach?
Ashley gives her thoughts on identity and why the search for who you truly are can be freeing or limiting depending on how you approach it.
How do you address burnout and regain a sense of purpose?
Powerful Quotes by Ashley
The ultimate message of my book is: Don’t do what you love. Do what you are.
Instead of hiring a bunch of life coaches, let life be your coach. [...] When you see your career as this vehicle of experimentation, as a vehicle of self-expression, what happens is you start saying “yes” to opportunities that are in the vein of where you’re gifted, and you start getting opportunities to really do something on a higher level.
Purpose moves. Who you are, moves. We’re not a static organism. I think it’s so important to give yourself permission to change. You’re allowed to change your mind. You’re allowed to like something different. People don’t give themselves that because there is such a strong egoic desire to maintain an identity.
Buying into identities can free you as much as it can limit you.
Resentment is a sign of burnout. [...] Anytime you have resentment, what you really have is poor boundaries. Resentment is just feedback that you’ve trespassed on your own boundaries.
A lot of people who are low energy are actually just low on purpose.
The pain of acceptance is never as bad as the slow-burn, gnawing pain of denial.
You really can’t move forward until you have awareness of what’s true.
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Dr. Anthony Balduzzi is a naturopathic doctor, national champion bodybuilder, and founder of the Fit Father Project and Fit Mother Project—online health and fitness communities aimed at empowering busy parents to get healthy, lose weight, and build muscle through practical nutrition and exercise plans.
Seeing his father suffer through sickness and pass away at the age of 42 imprinted in young Anthony’s mind that life is both finite and fragile. Being faced with mortality so early on, no less through a parent, catapulted him into the world of health and fitness. He realized, as he went down this path, that it all comes down to “how we manage our nutrition, our sleep, our movement, and our mindset.”
The tragic, early experience of losing his dad planted a seed within Anthony to help others like his father who were “just busy and caught in the throes of managing everything” at the expense of their healthy routines. “Health,” he continues, “is often put on the backburner when we have bills and responsibilities, and I saw that happening to so many people.”
To this end, Dr. Balduzzi created the Fit Father Project alongside the Fit Mother Project, programs that simplify—and make sustainable—exercise and nutrition for everyday busy parents.
Follow Dr. Balduzzi @fitfatherproject
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Key Highlights
Dr. Balduzzi’s father passed away at the young age of 42. He explains how this tragic period of his life served as the catalyst that began his journey into the world of health and wellness.
In a nutshell, what do busy people need to know about taking care of themselves for the long haul?
How do we ensure our children’s success through epigenetics?
Community is immunity. When we have deep, meaningful connections with other human beings, how do those connections impact us, chemically and physiologically?
Powerful Quotes by Dr. Anthony Balduzzi
There are a lot of things in life that we can’t control. Yet at the same time it was a very empowering experience. After going through the grieving of losing my dad, I realized that I was the man of the house, and that I was able to make choices about how to move forward and how I was going to represent for my mom and my little brother.
This body of ours is intimately connected to the rhythms of the planet, through our circadian rhythm—and how that affects all of the cascades of hormones—and how these different cycles happen in the body.
When you look at longevity for the human mechanism, the longest-living people are not doing P90X workouts. They’re farming. They’re walking up mountains—doing low-intensity, joint-friendly ongoing activity. We are built to walk. Humans are built to walk.
Suffering is our natural, course-correcting mechanism. When something hurts, when something’s wrong, we have this experience of pain. When we feel out of alignment with our core values, we have these emotions of guilt or depression. These things, when viewed in the bigger picture, are opportunities for us to choose something different and move in a better direction.
I think one of the greatest qualities that anybody can embody is a self-reflective nature.
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Mar 18, 2021
EFR 451: Natural Supplements That Help Tap Into Your Most Conscious Creativity with Shane Heath
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Shane Heath is the Founder and CEO of MUD\WTR, which offers a coffee alternative using the nine organic ingredients cacao, masala chai, turmeric, sea salt, cinnamon, chaga, cordyceps, reishi, and lion's mane. Mud gives you natural energy, focus, and immune support with only 1/7th the caffeine of coffee.
An artist and entrepreneur at heart, Shane had already founded three companies (if you don’t count the car wash business he started when he was 12) and had been a graphic designer for much of his career before taking on his most unique project yet. Using the Lean Startup approach, Shane initially put MUD out on the market to test its viability while he was still working full-time. This gave him the confidence he needed to go all-in on the business.
“I’m constantly thinking about finding my potential and moving forward,” says Shane, “whether through new experiences or unlearning old beliefs that no longer serve me.”
Listen in as Shane shares his affinity for creative and entrepreneurial pursuits, alongside his intensely spiritual yet grounded approach to caring for your body and mind and using adversity as fuel for growth in all aspects of your life.
Follow Shane @somanypossibilities
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Key Highlights
Why did Shane forge ahead with a product that has a lot of stigma tied to it to this day?
How did Shane come to settle on the nine ingredients he currently uses for his coffee alternative?
What does Shane do to manage stress and keep his creative juices flowing as an artist and entrepreneur?
How has Shane’s life improved through taking risks and facing hardships without anyone watching?
How have the events of 2020 shaped Shane’s mindset and hope for the future in 2021?
Powerful Quotes by Shane
If you’re drinking hundreds of milligrams of caffeine for years on end, you sort of lose track of what it feels like to be normal and what your baseline is. And when it hits you, it feels amazing. You’re like, “Oh, that’s what real sleep feels like! That’s what my natural energy feels like in the morning when I wake up letting my body do its thing!”
In the business world, you’re going to be presented with things that you didn’t see coming, that you couldn’t have prepared for. And this is how you prepare: You prepare by putting yourself through hardship all the time.
Going into anything that’s challenging, whether it’s a triathlon or working with a coach with a strong intention is almost equally as important as the thing you’re embarking on itself.
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Mar 17, 2021
EFR 450: Tips to Maximize Your Time and Fitness With Your Significant Other with May Yazdi Chewning
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May joins Chase again to discuss ways to become more intentional with your time and find ways as a couple to stay on track with your physical health and wellness goals.
One of the many challenges 2020 presented was very limited access to gyms and other fitness resources, especially for folks based in Los Angeles like Chase and May. It was a huge hurdle that made it harder not only to get regular workouts in, but also to stay motivated to maintain healthy eating habits.
With their local F45 having opened back up recently, there’s finally been some semblance of normalcy in the couple’s routine. And while F45’s high-intensity, circuit-based workouts aren’t exactly Chase’s cup of tea, the two agreed to make it a part of his routine alongside hers while waiting for other gyms to reopen. This way, each partner became accountable to each other to keep up the new shared routine.
Another new relationship hack that they embraced is sharing their calendar. “It just helps so much with planning life,” says Chase. “You’re more mindful of your partner, too.” And, adds May, it incentivizes either partner to make their daily priorities work around pre-existing tasks for the day.
Chase and May address other common obstacles that get in the way of a couple’s health goals, especially amid lockdowns, including how to keep each other’s eating habits in check and how to incorporate fitness into a family activity. The common thread running through it all is intentionality, discipline, and making sure that both partners are on the same page as they find better ways to navigate the many challenges and uncertainties presented by the new normal.
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Key Highlights
The importance of setting a routine for your physical health now, even if conditions aren’t ideal
How sharing a calendar with your partner makes daily life easier to navigate in every way
What you can do if your partner isn’t into fitness
How couples can keep each other’s eating habits in check
Finding healthy substitutions for your guilty pleasures
Taking intentional breaks
How a time log will help you fill massive time sinks throughout your day
Powerful Quotes
Especially this year, we’ve all realized how important our health, well-being, and physical activity is. What makes it a lot easier, fun, and habit-forming is if you have somebody with you like a significant other or just a friend or even a gym buddy that can help keep you accountable. ~May
The act of getting ready to exercise sets the tone for your entire day. ~May
Things so easily slip through the cracks simply because you don’t make the time for them. ~Chase
The more we gain awareness of our time and our partner’s time, the more we find ways to strengthen our relationship. ~Chase
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Liz Carlile is a TEDx speaker and host of the Top 50 Parenting and Spirituality podcast Motherhood Unstressed.
Liz highlights the importance and necessity of family, and how to grow and nurture your relationship with your partner and children. At the same time she gives advice on how not to overlook yourself when trying to be there for your loved ones.
The seed to her brand, Motherhood Unstressed, was planted right after her first son was born in 2012. In that particular moment for Liz, the beautiful promise of motherhood was overshadowed by the intense discomfort, the stress, and the feelings of doubt that plagued her throughout the process.
Liz recalls that “something was amiss” in that moment, and yet she decided she would not “stay in that spot”. She knew that it was no one else’s job—not even her husband’s—to lift her up. It was ultimately hers and hers alone. That was the catalyst behind her mission to promote self-love for mothers everywhere.
Listen in as Liz shares how it is possible for a mother to dedicate time to and nurture a deep relationship with their loved ones while chasing dreams outside of family. Along the way, she offers advice on combating stress and creating self-care rituals.
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Key Highlights
How is Liz able to dedicate so much time being present as a mother while hosting a weekly podcast and managing her brand?
What can you do to make sure you’re not upsetting the dynamic between yourself, your partner, and your kids—and making sure you yourself don’t stress out—while chasing dreams beyond family?
Why self-care is not selfish.
How do you gauge whether you’re having success with the amount of time you’ve been pouring into other people to build those relationships?
Powerful Quotes by Liz
It just hits you at some point in the process [of giving birth] where you ask yourself, “Who am I? What do I want? What am I doing?” Asking myself those questions early on—not really knowing what to do but just knowing that something was amiss and that I didn’t want to stay in that spot—that was the seed to Motherhood Unstressed and to the work I’m doing right now and to make self-care, self-love, and nurturing the mother my mission and my goal.
When you find something that really speaks to you and that stirs your soul, there’s nothing and no one that can stop you from pursuing it. The onus is on all of us to find out what that is.
Whether you know it or not, you’re either uplifting people or bringing people down. What’s the mark that you want to leave on the world? Because it matters.
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Mar 4, 2021
EFR 448: Listen to Your Heart - The Relentless Pursuit of Life's Callings with Natascha Bessez
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Natascha Bessez is an international recording artist, model, spokesperson, and former beauty queen. While her career has taken her to L.A., Natascha was born and raised in New York, where she was crowned Miss New York Teen USA at 18. She has since performed around the world with some of the biggest names in the music industry, bringing her two Billboard Top 30 dance hits along the way.
Her global ambitions paved the way for the opportunity to headline Madrid’s World Pride, place runner-up for Denmark’s Eurovision Song Festival, compete in The Voice in Holland, and, most recently, star in The Bachelor Presents: Listen To Your Heart.
Asked how she knew the career she wanted to build for herself, Natascha replies, “I think it’s not something that you know. It’s something that you do.” With music as just one of her many passions, the last thing she wants is to be boxed in and labeled, identified only by what she happens to be most known for.
“Performance is what I love the most,” says Natscha. Growing up with a Chilean mother and a father of French descent exposed her to different types of music from the day she was born. That developed her love of opera as a kid. She recalls dressing up, belting out, and dancing her heart out on most of those early days. “I enjoyed being watched. I enjoyed expressing.”
This love for performance and expression, along with her natural sanguine personality, led Natascha to all the different creative opportunities that have come her way so far. Through it all, she strives to keep her feet planted firmly on the ground, stay true to herself, and leave a legacy to young girls looking to chart a path on their own terms.
"Why would I want to do something that’s not authentic to who I am? In time, you realize what you’re not in order to find out what you are."
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Key Highlights
One of the most obvious threads that runs through Natascha’s career is her desire to serve as a role model to girls. She shares the legacy she wants to leave and how she was inspired to do what she does.
Natascha explains how she taps into her creative flow.
Has Natascha been able to carve her own path in an industry dictated by trends?
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Greg Anderson is a former Law Enforcement Officer and Special Forces veteran. He caught the public eye with a viral Instagram video he posted on May 6, 2020, in which he, in full uniform, challenged the constitutionality of enforcing strict stay-at-home orders. Greg was promptly terminated. His video went on to garner millions of views and counting.
Asked how the video was received, Greg says that “95% of people were supportive. Tons of police officers, too.” He even got a message from a sergeant who told him that he played the video during roll call. “It’s crazy,” continues Greg, “how eight minutes changed the entire trajectory of my life—defined my life, really.”
A year following the incident, Greg says that the experience freed him from a career that, while he was thankful for, never really felt passionate about. He felt law enforcement was “a kind of natural progression” after his time in the military, and he ended up giving the profession a good eight-year run. “But it was never me. So, this forced me to step outside of that and focus on some things that I’m passionate about.”
Today, Greg dedicates most of his time to his Jiu-Jitsu academy and CrossFit gym, Electric North Jiu Jitsu, which he founded back in 2015. With Chase’s help, through Operation Podcast, Greg also recently launched his own podcast, Endless Endeavor.
Follow Greg @greganderson33
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Key Highlights
Greg reflects on the past year following the release of his viral video message.
The power of vulnerability is key to addressing a variety of issues, from military trauma to homelessness.
Chase and Greg speak on the proven use of psychedelics to overcome emotional trauma.
What is leadership, and why does Greg think that leadership is sorely lacking in America today?
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Mar 1, 2021
EFR 446: Hacking the Game of Life, Reducing Shiny Object Syndrome, and Getting Super Focused with David Wood
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Today, Chase interviews David Wood, a High-Performance Coach and the Founder of Focus.ceo, a company that aims at helping business owners double their revenue by focusing on less. Listen in as David offers strategies and tips on getting super-focused with your work and life. Also, learn how you can overcome the shiny object syndrome and actually get twice as much done of what you care about!
David opens up about the severe life challenges he had in life and how he is still working on overcoming them. It all dates back to when he was seven years old. He lost his younger sister in a traffic accident, watched it happen. It wasn't until he was 23 that he actually began to realize how the incident had traumatized him in unknowing ways. That was when he sought the help of a psychologist.
Recollecting the whole experience of healing, he says, "I went through a whole series of learning how to cry, learning how to communicate, learning how to speak. And I think as I got back in touch with my emotions, I think that one has me so lit up and excited to help other people go into emotional vulnerability. Some of the leadership qualities like revealing and taking emotional risks."
David shares the silent symptoms of depression he had realized he was showing all the while. He says, "My body clenches up and gets really tight, probably because of emotional stuff that still isn't handled." Two compelling avenues that you can try are stillness and movement. It worked for him and would probably do so for you too!
Going ahead, David shares his love for helping people reinvent and change their lives for the better. That's where the whole idea of focus.ceo and coaching, came from for him. David has talked about his nine-point-plan for the samurai program, which he uses to help double people's income and time off over 12 months.
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Key Highlights
Whenever you see someone who seems successful, you generally assume they’ve had everything in their favor. But it doesn’t work that way. They have seen hard days before the success hit them.
The shiny object syndrome is real. Learn how you can work that out.
Learn how to get to a million dollars career in the fastest possible time.
Embrace the power of yoga and meditation. Know how David could make his life better with it.
David finds his success to only be an example and not the ultimate destination. Learn why.
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In this episode, Chase speaks with Ruben Rojas, a Los Angeles-born artist and muralist, about his clothing line and print collection, Live Through Love, his art, and all things love. His mission is to ignite creativity and inspire others to see the world through the lens of love. Ruben is also the author of the book of the same name- Live Through Love.
In this conversation today, Ruben walks us through his journey in life so far, talks about the switches he made in his career, and how he finally decided to start with his current business. He shares that art had always been a significant part of his life- he enjoyed doodling and painting back during his school days. While at college, one of his friends suggested he try real estate investment, and he went on for it. But the business took him to the extent of bankruptcy, and he put an end to it.
Later, he tried his hands on investment and retirement services. That, too, did not go as expected. It took years of testing and switching careers to finally get him to start with what he has always been passionate about- art and the idea of love.
In his own words, "I would say it wasn't that clear. It was like, the I never is running through quicksand. So at first, it was really, can I do this? What does this look like? Can I sustain myself? Can I build a life off of this?"
The benefit Ruben says he's had in everything is he has always been self-employed. So whether it was as a personal trainer or as someone making sales commissions or in real estate, everything was still on him. He has never had a salary and never had to worry about just being comfortable in that space.
Ruben's decision to take on mural gigs and mural projects happened because he wanted to know if he could make money out of that. He wanted to know if that could help him create a business and sustain something while he continued to build.
A valuable takeaway is Ruben's advice on treating yourself with kindness, whether or not your choice in career gives you the anticipated success. "Maybe that wasn't your thing at the moment. And it's just another step to that next thing that actually gets you to where you need to go."
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Key Highlights
Ruben shares his backstory with us- trying and pursuing different professions before venturing into his dream business.
Holding on to something that keeps you from greatness, opportunity, and believing in yourself is worthless.
When you're on a service, the return is the validation and the acknowledgment you get from them.
Living a life ever forward, to Ruben, means taking responsibility for your decisions and actions. If we take responsibility for our actions, no one can let us down.
Knowing without doing is the same thing as not knowing.
Ruben shares his thoughts on what love is and what it is not. Love is free of judgment.
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More about Ruben:
Ruben is the founder and owner of Live Through Love, a clothing line and print collection, and has also authored a book of the same name. He works with companies to give businesses back, enhance workspaces, and raise awareness on important issues. He is also the co-founder of Beautify Earth, a non-profit organization dedicated to putting an end to blighted walls and fixtures all over the world by empowering artists, encouraging social responsibility, and instilling community pride.
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Katelyn Dowling, Ph.D., is the Founder and CEO of Sustainable Self, Inc., which offers coaching and consulting services broadly within the sustainability space. She is also a sought-after speaker who covers a variety of topics from imagination and creativity to the secret superpower of your heart’s electromagnetic field.
Chase and Dr. Dowling discuss his personal experience undergoing The Quantum Clinic, a service offered at Sustainable Self which uses the experimental scalar energy device, the RASHA, to soften the veil between one’s conscious and unconscious world. The goal of the session is to usher a person into a state of oneness, gather unique insights about themselves, and heal—all in ways that can only be achieved upon surrendering to their body’s innate wisdom.
"Consciousness just is. Your brain is basically a receiver and your heart is the tuning dial tuning to the frequency of your consciousness—or what you experience as your consciousness."
On a macro level, Dr. Dowling calls for humanity to “return to indiginous ways of knowing, being, and relating to oneself and one’s environment.” With the planet collapsing ecologically, she believes that if more people were capable of tapping into those other centers of wisdom within their subconscious, they become more aware and, therefore, more capable of addressing urgent issues around sustainability.
In fact, it was only as recently as last year, in the wake of the pandemic, when Dr. Dowling realized how serious the state of our planet truly is. She was compelled to widen the scope of her profession to encourage the “massive consciousness revolution” that is already taking place around the world.
“My personal mission,” says Dr. Dowling, “and the reason I started Sustainable Self, is to create greater harmony with human, natural, and technological systems. [...] How do we use things like artificial intelligence and data analytics to actually make real changes in the world—not just to develop insights, but to bring about healing?”
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Key Highlights
Dr. Dowling describes her service offering at Sustainable Self, The Quantum Clinic, and its experimental scalar energy device, the RASHA, which allows its users to access a deep state of regeneration and self-healing.
As a species, we urgently need to make the switch from an ego-centric way of life to one that’s more eco-centric. Dr. Dowling explains how her work ultimately aims to make more people responsible stewards of the environment.
Dr. Dowling shares her goal of amplifying the “massive consciousness revolution” that is currently underway.
How do we embrace this mindset of energetic consciousness and apply it to self-healing and self-improvement?
More about Dr. Dowling & Sustainable Self:
Helping global leaders solve the worlds most pressing ecological and social problems threatening human civilization on Planet Earth.
Dr. Dowling helps noble leaders like you solve personal, professional, organizational, and global problems through imagination, intelligent energy management, and updating your operating system.
She uses evidenced-based tools to help you identify and build the foundation of your most Sustainable Self. Allowing you to show up and step up for the monumental work facing human civilization with integrity and courage. She will be your sustainable coach help you reclaim the untapped parts of your goal.
At Sustainable Self, they view the world through the prism of intersectionality and invite you to do the same. Dr. Dowling's education and background blend an array of modalities and schools of thought, including human behavior, organizational psychology, circular economic models, and the future of work.
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