One Heart, One Mind (Elisabeth von Trapp)
August 18, 2010 by Jory · 2 Comments
Elisabeth von Trapp joins us on Heart & Soul to discuss the meaning behind her music as well as her inspiration for writing, composing, and arranging several of her songs. We will come away with a clear understanding of why audiences of all ages are awed by the beauty of her voice and the astonishing sound of her music. We will appreciate Elisabeth the person as well as Elisabeth the performer, and we’ll understand why no one leaves an Elisabeth von Trapp performance unchanged.
About Elisabeth von Trapp
Elisabeth von Trapp built upon her famed family’s passion for music to create her own artistic style—ethereal yet earthy, delicate yet powerful. Singing professionally since childhood, she has enthralled audiences throughout the United States, Austria, and Russia performing as wondrously in European cathedrals as in Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center.
Elisabeth’s cathedral program includes sacred and secular music extending from Gregorian chants and songs of 12th century mystics to early American hymns, spirituals, and Psalms set to her own compositions.
Her concert repertoire ranges from Bach to Broadway — from Schubert to Sting. Elisabeth’s five self-produced albums have been featured on National Public Radio, BBC-Radio, Japanese National Radio, and CNN Spanish Radio; she has appeared on CBS’ Eye on People, ABC’s Good Morning America, and BBC-TV. Critics have called her voice “hauntingly clear,” “joyfully expressive,” and “simply beautiful.”
Find out more about Elisabeth and her music at www.elisabethvontrapp.com.
Elisabeth’s Quotes for the Day
“Gesang is Dasein…… To Sing is to be…” ~Reiner Maria Rilke
“Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous….. for they may act on their dream…. and make it possible.” ~T.E. Lawrence from Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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Transform Your Life by Transforming Your Beliefs (Lion Goodman)
We’ve all heard the saying, “Our beliefs create our reality,” but what does this really mean? Lion Goodman spent 35 years researching this question and proved it to be true. Then he developed a new methodology for actually changing beliefs, quickly and permanently. This has an immediate, profound impact on our life as we know it–and on our life as we live it.
The BeliefCloset Process™ is an easy-to-master guided process that enables you to examine the beliefs you inherited or took on in the past, test them for viability today, and discard the ones that don’t work anymore and replace them with beliefs that will serve you better. Our old limiting beliefs are like outfits you once wore, but have outgrown. It’s time for a makeover!
Lion teaches this potent methodology to coaches and therapists worldwide. Reports of profound changes in the psyches and lives of clients continue to pour in.
About Lion Goodman
Lion is a workshop leader, author, coach, and businessman. He has 30 years of business experience and 35 years of study, practice, and research in psychology, philosophy, personal development, and spiritual evolution. As an executive search consultant and career coach, he worked with more than 250 companies across the U.S.
He teaches The BeliefCloset Process™ to coaches, therapists, and facilitators of transformation worldwide. He is the founder of the Sacred Centers’ Coach Training program, a whole-person coaching methodology based on the chakra system.
Lion is the author of Menlightenment, a book for awakening men, and is a co-author of the book, The Heart of Healing, along with Deepak Chopra and others. His fiction and non-fiction articles have been published internationally.
More information is available on his websites: BeliefCloset.com and EverydayAwakening.com.
Lion’s Coaching Suggestion
Lion suggests that you begin examining the hidden and transparent beliefs that are running your life.
Ask yourself, “What do I believe about ____________? “ Spend a few minutes writing down your beliefs about each of the following topics:
- Myself
- My body
- My health
- My work
- My sexuality
- My abilities
- My limitations
- My attitudes
- My family
- My relationships
- My soul, spirit or spiritual self
- Money & Finances
- God/Spirit/Source
- The world
- Good & Evil
- Life & Death
- Truth
- The past
- The future
- My beliefs
2. Circle the beliefs that you believe may be behind the difficulties in your life.
3. For the circled beliefs, ask yourself the following questions:
- Has this belief been beneficial or detrimental to me in my life?
- Was this belief indoctrinated into me? If so, by whom? Did I ever consciously choose to believe it? If so, when? Why did I do so?
- What has been the advantage of having this belief? How has it served me in my life? What did I get or gain by having this belief? What did I avoid by having this belief?
- Who would I be without this belief?
- What would I prefer to believe instead?
4. Download the free BeliefCloset Jump-Start Kit by signing up on www.BeliefCloset.com/jsk1. Listen to the BeliefCloset Audio Guide, which will take you through the BeliefCloset Process so you can eliminate and replace three of your limiting or negative beliefs that you don’t want anymore.
Lion’s Quote for the Day
“We are as gods. So we might as well get good at it.” ~Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog
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You First! – Steps to Feeling Fulfilled and Excited About Life (Nat Couropmitree)
July 6, 2010 by Jory · 2 Comments
At a very young age, Nat Couropmitree, life coach and founder of ProsperityLighthouse.com, remembers asking himself, “Why am I here? What’s my purpose?” Growing up, he kept on asking himself these questions and often found no real value in his existence or any lasting happiness. Nat thought something was wrong with him, and he strove to fix it. He participated in many personal growth programs; he jumped from job to job, career to career, one business opportunity to the next. Each new experience brought excitement, inspiration, and success, but none of it was lasting. None of it was enough until Nat changed the way he approached his life. It was through his struggles and frustrations that Nat discovered a new way of living that inspires him every day. He joins us to share new perspectives and steps you can take to feel fulfilled and to enjoy a life with purpose.
About Nat Couropmitree
Nat Couropmitree supports clients internationally as a life coach and as the host of the popular weekly radio show, Law of Attraction Success Radio. He supports his clients to see the root cause of their frustrations, challenges, and struggles and then effectively empowers them to shift away from those patterns. He supports his clients to reinforce and expand their new and improved reality by helping them develop new self-nurturing habits. Nat is very skilled at taking the insurmountable and transforming it into the doable through the use of simple action steps. He loves helping his clients to see that they already have within them all the tools they need to make the profound life changes they desire.
To learn more about Nat and to listen to his radio show, visit ProsperityLighthouse.com
Nat’s Coaching Suggestion
Nat has found that being passionate and purposeful requires us to know what we personally want in life—to know what makes us happy and brings us joy. To become clear about what we truly want, he suggests the following:
- Create two columns on a piece of paper.
- In the first column, write down everything you don’t like and don’t want.
- In the second column, write down everything you do like and do want (which is often the opposite of whatever you wrote in column one).
- Make room for what you want in your life now by actually scheduling it into your day and week. This will help change old patterns that may be keeping you from a life full of purpose and joy.
Nat’s Quote for the Day
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it! Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” ~Dr. Howard Thurman
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The Sky is Green and The Grass is Blue – Turning Your Upside Down World Right Side Up! (Deb Scott)
Deb talks about what she does best–helping others transform “bad” into great and being happy in the process. Anything bad, she says, can be transformed into a diamond you love. During this program, you will obtain tangible tools and resources to help you accomplish this personal transformation.
About Deb Scott
Deb Scott is a motivation and lifestyle consultant, specializing in working with business and corporate environments to transform poor interpersonal dynamics and low-energy groups into high-powered, successful, dynamic teams. A biology major in college, Deb became an award-winning sales and leadership specialist with 20 years of background in cardiac surgery sales. Now she applies her sales and business background to motivational speaking and consulting in the fields of sales, marketing, advertising, hiring, and team building. “The Sky Is Green and The Grass is Blue – Turning Your Upside-Down World Right-Side-Up!” is her first book.
Deb has battled and dealt with depression, other people’s alcoholism, a dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, and religious doubts. Yet she has emerged as a happy, successful executive who trains others to follow a proven path to happiness. Now she teaches the same life-changing techniques that enabled her to overcome her challenges.
Coaching Suggestion
To “sabotage ourselves for great success,” Deb suggests that we write down three goals or affirmations on sticky notes and place one note on our bathroom mirror, one in a pair of shoes we don’t wear very often, and one in our car or near the coffeepot. These little “mind vitamins,” as she calls them, will help our lives come to life in a big way.
Deb’s Quote for the Day
“Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
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Graceful Divorce Solutions – Splitting Apart and Staying Whole (Marcy Jones, JD)
Marcy wants to help people who are thinking about divorce, separated, or already in the divorce process. The divorce statistics are staggering. Almost 50% of first marriages, 67% of second marriages, and 73% of third marriages are ending in divorce. “It’s time we do it better,” Marcy asserts. “I want to help keep people out of what I call the ‘legal vortex’ and help put them back in the driver’s seat, rather than with lawyers or in the legal system, so they can go through the process more ‘gracefully’ in a way that preserves their relationships. It’s still a challenging time, but it doesn’t have to be the nightmare it turns into for so many people. Especially if children are involved, it’s important that mom and dad still be able to talk to each other and get along.”
About Marcy Jones
Marcy Jones is an author, speaker, lawyer, coach, and advocate for change – change in the way lawyers represent clients in divorce, change in the legal system, and change in the way people divorce. She has practiced family law since 1995, going to law school after her own divorce and with two young children at home.
Marcy has worked as a domestic violence prosecutor and as a private practitioner specializing in collaborative divorce and mediation. She’s also a certified personal coach.
She has just published her first book called Graceful Divorce Solutions: A Comprehensive and Proactive Guide to Saving You Time, Money, and Your Sanity. She wrote this book to get essential information to people BEFORE they go to a lawyer to enable them to make the best choices for themselves and their family.
Her ultimate goal is to help people go through divorce better–with integrity and dignity.
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Why Manners Matter (Susan Schlossberg)
Haven’t we all been just a tad bit anxious when attending social networking events? Haven’t we all been on the receiving end of dead-fish handshakes and in-your-face rudeness? Since 2002, Susan Schlossberg has directed the National League of Junior Cotillions (NLJC) in Lynchburg, Virginia. She strongly desires to promote kindness, civility, and gracious behavior—so lacking yet so vital to our society. Helping a painfully shy young student become a confident young person…transforming a timid college graduate into a polished professional. Such challenges are what fills Susan with purpose, passion, and joy! The NLJC program trains not only young people in manners, etiquette, and social dance–it also provides greatly needed etiquette training to professional adults.
Listen to this episode to learn how to:
- Make a positive and lasting impression face-to-face as well as by phone and email;
- Mix and mingle with grace and ease;
- Show appreciation and gratitude in your day-to-day actions; and
- Get the most out of life by treating others with honor, dignity, and respect.
About Susan Schlossberg
Susan Schlossberg, a native of Lynchburg, Virginia, graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in education and retired after 20+ years as a travel consultant. Since 2002, Susan has directed the Lynchburg Chapter of the National League of Junior Cotillions, teaching students about manners, etiquette, and social dance. In her spare time she serves as a substitute teacher and is very popular with her students because of the respect she models, gives, and expects in return. Susan lives in Roanoke with her husband Neil and her youngest son Daniel. She enjoys traveling, music, minor league baseball, and doting on her two cats.
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Develop Your Personal Brand: Uniquely Express Who You Are and What You Do (Sherry Dutra)
How well does your personal brand clearly, consistently, and authentically express who you are? How effectively do you distinguish yourself from other service providers in your industry?
Whether you’re just starting a new business or an experienced entrepreneur looking to increase your business results, it’s time to decide how you want to be known in your market—in a compelling and unforgettable way. You will do this by developing a personal brand. Brands are not just for big corporations. In fact, a personal brand will serve as an important key to your success. A personal brand will help clearly and consistently define, express, and communicate who you are, whom you serve, and why you have chosen to dedicate your life and work to serving your target market so that you can attract your most ideal clients and repel those who are less than ideal. Personal branding is far more than just what you do. It is you—uniquely you. It allows you to distinguish yourself and what is unique about who you are and what you do from everyone else.
This interview topic is based on Michael Port’s bestseller, Book Yourself Solid. Sherry Dutra, a certified Book Yourself Solid Trainer and Coach will discuss the key components of developing a personal brand and provide you with tips and exercises to help you create your own or enhance what you already have in place.
Small Business and Career Management Coach, Sherry Dutra, CPC, and owner of Dutra Associates, LLC, is a Certified Professional Coach who helps professional service providers get all the clients they want even if they hate marketing and sales. Sherry specializes in coaching baby boomer, corporate professionals who have left or are considering leaving their corporate positions to start their own service-based business. Through her coaching, she helps business owners build financial freedom while expressing their passion and purpose in the world.
Her coaching credentials include:
* Certified Professional Coach – iPEC
* Certified Trainer for the iPEC Program
* Certified Book Yourself Solid Trainer and Coach
She also holds an MBA from Rivier College and a BA in Human Development from Boston College.
Sherry draws upon her extensive corporate background in leadership development and career management to clearly define desired client outcomes and partner with the client to support their achievement of tangible and sustainable results.
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Five Secrets To Explosive Growth Interview with Brian Duvall
Brian Duvall has gone from selling cell phones & office equipment to being the CEO of two Chambers of Commerce where he was named one of the region’s Top 20 Under 40. He has gone from being the CEO of an extreme sports company to being unemployed for up to a year twice in his career.
Through it all he has felt that he was capable of greatness but couldn’t seem to find the right opportunity. Then one day he was fired from his last job and hired by his first client to do for them the very thing that got him fired.
Today, Brian owns Duvall Media – a marketing company that is on track to earn over $1 million helping clients sell more of their products & services.
Brian and his wife of more than 22 years have three kids of their own, one adopted child and three foster kids all over the age 13.
In this episode of Heart & Soul, Brian will share the five secrets to explosive growth that have helped him take his start-up company to a quarter million in sales in the first nine months.
- “Freely ye have received, freely give.” Even when you are unemployed you still have these two priceless assets that can be leveraged to launch massive growth.
- “Find Your Lynda.” Now is not the time to be shy or think you can go it alone.
- “Fear Worse Than Death.” This is something nearly every person on the planet can do but few do well. It costs nothing but is one of the MOST powerful secrets you already have.
- “Stupid To Say No.” Remember the Golden Rule? Now use the Platinum Rule and watch your business grow.
- “Streets of Gold.” This one strategy can literally give you EVERYTHING and will lead to explosive growth beyond anything you ever imagined.
Be sure to take notes because he also shares some tips on how you can take action now to experience explosive growth in your own business.
Enjoy the interview.
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Legacies of the Heart Interview with Donna Krone
Donna Krone is the founder and owner of Sacred Conversations™, an organization focused on creating and delivering transformational programs in the area of Life Purpose, Leadership and Legacy.
Donna is living her purpose and creating her own legacy, working with individuals to create more authentic heart-centered lives. Formerly a registered nurse and a financial advisor, Donna completed coaching certification and leadership training through The Coaches Training Institute, a premier international coaching school accredited by the International Coach Federation.
Donna is also a licensed “Third Age Fulfillment Coach” and, in 2009, she achieved the honor of becoming the 5th Certified True Purpose Coach worldwide. Her programs are presented at notable venues such as the Positive Aging Conference in Florida, the ASA/NCOA Aging in America conference in Washington D.C., and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA. Donna lives in Lakeville, MA.
Donna Krone’s first 40 years of life were no different than most. She was so busy doing her best to respond to what life brought to her that she brushed away the bigger questions of designing her life. But according to developmental theorists, she was right on schedule when in her early 40s something inside her started to change. Despite a successful career as a financial planner, Donna had this nagging sense “This is not what I’m meant to be doing” and it wouldn’t stop until she paid attention. She finally listened to that inner voice and created a life of purpose and meaning in her business Sacred Conversations™.
As you move into this next stage of life, Donna will show you how sacred conversations can help you develop the confidence to share what is most deeply meaningful to you with family, friends, and your broader community—what she calls legacies of the heart.
We hope enjoy the interview.
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Wake Up to Your Dreams with Beth Scanzani
Did you know…that over the course of your life, you may spend more than six years dreaming?
Your sleeping dreams can provide you with amazing guidance, insight, and creative solutions to life’s challenges and opportunities. On May 5th, Beth Scanzani will talk about the language of dreams and how you can remember more of what you dream. She’ll also talk about seven buried treasures you can discover in your dreams and will share tips on how to you can begin to develop a more conscious relationship with your sleeping dreams and your “higher self.”
Dream work is a powerful and rewarding way to access your own personal life coach—the one who knows you from the inside out and who has your best interest in mind and heart. Itʼs amazing what humorous and significant insights you can have as you unravel the mysteries and metaphors of your dream images and stories!
Beth Scanzani
A multi-faceted Life and Leadership Coach, Beth Scanzani helps her clients live a more authentic, meaningful, and joyful life through her broad knowledge of coaching practices, psychology, organizational leadership, neuroscience, quantum physics, positive psychology, spirituality, the True Purpose™ process, and dream work.
Her coaching certifications include:
- True Purpose™ Coach
- Professional Empowerment Coach
- Energy Leadership Coach
- Dream Coach/GL
- Theoretical Foundations of Coaching
In addition to her training and experience as an individual and group coach, Beth uses her extensive background as a successful human resources executive, along with various assessments, to help her clients achieve breakthrough results while creating fundamental shifts that enable them to actualize their life dreams.
Today, Beth joyfully lives the dream life she purposefully created, doing work she loves from her ocean side office north of Boston.
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