Hearts Rise Up Podcast

Future innovator and quantum coach Soleira Green shares her perspective and vision for a radiant future where we all can tap into and build upon our unique inner genius and possibility. She sees this as a time of great innovation and collaboration. Soleira Green is an amazing woman with a story we can all benefit from. She is the author of 14 visionary books. In addition, she is a quantum coach, future innovator, consciousness elevator, leadership facilitator, and "ALLchemist." Her desire to share these talents came about from two life-changing moments, which she discusses in this interview. Soleira offers guidance through her coaching, videos, and books to help us tap into and realize our superpowers of creativity for personal and global transformation.

In this interview, "From Pain to Possibility," Greg Wieting shares his journey of insurmountable anxiety, trauma, depression, and chronic pain. He talks about the path that brought him to study neuroscience and trauma, leading to his healing from debilitating Scoliosis with miraculous results. Greg is a health consultant, energy healer, speaker, leadership, and entrepreneurship facilitator. Through his own journey and training, Greg developed a program called Prisma Method that offers 7 steps or pillars to healing. He practices Mindfulness, Somatic Healing, and BodyTalk - a comprehensive and personalized healthcare system in tandem with Reiki. All these tools and his personalized consulting help his clients “get to the root of your anxiety, depression, and chronic pain and heal.” Greg shares his story and mission with the world through speaking engagements on consciousness, energy medicine, trauma-informed healing, neuroplasticity, brain health, and the intersection of spirituality, purpose, and entrepreneurship.

Amanda Strojny shares the impactful journey that transformed her life and how she helps to "reframe your relationship with money." Amanda is a teacher at heart and in action. She combines her extensive business coaching knowledge and yogic training principles to assist her clients in uncovering their relationship with money. By uncovering our beliefs and following three basic tenets, which Amanda calls her Rules of Money, we can all live in alignment with the currency of energy called money. Reframing our relationship with money can give us the “Golden Ticket” to financial freedom and empowerment. Amanda also has a podcast called “Untapped Power - Success On Your Terms” and meditations to share on her website.

Natalie Viglione is a creative, intuitive entrepreneur who changed her life thanks to the gift of disruption. In this interview, Natalie shares her journey. After a fast climb up the corporate ladder in executive marketing and sales roles, Natalie decided to venture into the world of entrepreneurship. Subsequently, she founded a creative collective called Team Gu. Natalie runs the company with her husband, Marc, focusing on creative content marketing. They have now evolved Team Gu to include life and business guidance. Through these efforts, they added the Disrupt Now program and podcasts.  She is committed to helping other entrepreneurs awaken the power within to remember and become conscious divine co-creators with the universe so they can bring their gifts to the world. Natalie is skilled at blending creativity with science. A cycle breaker, truth seeker, intuitive, priestess, healer, and lightworker, Natalie's a vessel for life and business guidance to help us regain our power. As a healer, Natalie is currently learning divine nutrition - advice for our unique body's blueprint. She also has been studying biofeedback and other healing modalities and has a Master's Degree in plant and herbal medicine. Everything she learns she applies in her work.

Tracey Whittet describes the journey that led her to create an integrated method to restore divine balance in the body called Transmosis Healing. In this conversation, she describes her journey through life as an explorer who always looked for answers - first in nature, then in books and teachers. What she learned through her life experiences led her to self-healing and to help others heal. Tracey is an amazing spirit with many talents in the healing arts. Her skills resume is impressive, starting with a degree in Holistic Stress Management. She is also an intuitive facilitator. Her certifications and skills include Certified Spiritual Healer, Multidimensional Body Balancer, Reiki Master, Access Consciousness Bars® and Body Facilitator, Creative Wellness Instructor, a practitioner in Divine Healing Hands, Theta Healing, Yuen Method, and Healing Touch. Tracey is intuitive, a teacher, a healer, and a facilitator. Reiki is the path that led her to become a healer. After years of practicing healing as a side passion, she retired from the corporate world to focus all her attention on healing. In the process, she received a divinely inspired message which led her to develop Transmosis Healing, a multi-dimensional way of balancing the body, mind, and spirit. She is a co-author of The Magi Within: Unlocking the Gifts of the Inner Self.

Ulrika Sullivan shares "What I Know Now" operating from the heart and relates what changed her career path, turning from external influences to seeking her own inner wisdom. She shares some simple practices to start you on a path to a heart-centered life with passion! Ulrika Sullivan is an intuitive, spiritual life coach. She is a national bestselling author of Wisdom Beyond What You Know, a yoga teacher, healer, and podcast host. Ulrika went from an educational background in chemistry and science and a career in the pharmaceutical industry to a life of serving others as an intuitive and coach. Her journey is fascinating and enlightening. Ulrika wants to share what she has learned to help others, especially women, operate from the heart.

Intuition, spiritual mediums, and psychic experiences were the last things on Isabeau “Beau” Maxwell's mind until a life-changing event triggered a profound personal experience. As an intuitive coach, facilitator, and energy worker, internationally known medium, and author, she is the developer of the award-winning SAGE Method and creator of the SAGE Circle Community. Her book, Cracking Open: Adventures of a Reluctant Medium, tells of how she went from being a skeptic with a strong science background to a full-fledged spiritual medium. In this interview, Beau relates her journey and the undeniable experiences she had that opened her up so that she could reunite with her natural-born intuition. Beau says, “It took an impactful shock to open me to the possibility.”

Indra Rinzler is a lifetime spiritual seeker, healer, teacher, and mentor who lives free in the presence of each moment. He offers life readings for clients using Vedic Astrology and the Enneagram of Personality. Indra’s been studying astrology for fifty years and the Enneagram since 1999. In this interview, Indra shares with Carol his life journey and why it is his mission to help his clients to wake up to who they really are. Indra has worked with people of all ages from all over the world. The modalities he uses help us learn to observe our behavior. He says, “When we can be aware of the stories that we live from, we can live free in 'presence' and not stuck in our stories.”

Using Fairy Tales, Ancient Arts, Sacred Sciences, and EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, Timothy Stuetz empowers people of all ages to develop and use their infinite soul powers to achieve their full potential and "live in a world of inner magic." Timothy is a healer, facilitator, yoga master, minister, and one of the most prolific children’s authors. He just completed his 86th Fairy Tale Of The Heart featuring Bliss Beary Bear. He is the creator of The Magical Miracle of You—A Self-Empowerment Course for Children and Families. He also created the Power Animal Frolics—A Yoga/T’ai Chi/Qigong COURSE for children who exercise along with 7 Power Animals in Disney-quality costumes. Using Fairy Tales, Ancient Arts, Sacred Sciences, and EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, Timothy empowers people of all ages to develop and use their infinite soul powers to achieve their full potential and “live in a world of inner magic”. In this interview, Carol asks how Timothy went from being a CPA to delving deep into the healing arts to heal himself and share his knowledge with children and adults. His programs and services inspire everyone to achieve their full mental, physical, emotional, and heart-filled potential. They are enriched through his having held children and others at birth and death and coaching people of all ages through various life challenges.

teZa Lord’s life experience is a testament to transformation and the power of LOVE. From a Caribbean She-pirate to a public sharer of "Everything's Sacred" -- We Are ONE is her language. Everywhere she looks, she sees/feels/touches, and interprets the sacred in the everyday. Her early path was not an easy one. She learned about herself as she experienced life in a time of exploration. teZa was an early explorer of both indigenous plant medicines and meditation. She learned that recovery from addiction is a great teacher and that meditation offered her a way to tune into the bliss of being alive. She has many messages to share and this interview is just a start of a rich treasure of insights from someone who is committed to healing ourselves and our planet.  Join Carol as she interviews teZa Lord, a sacred trailblazer! teZa is a spirit author-artist-activist, a lifelong yoga and meditation practitioner, adventurer, and nature lover. She is also a co-host of the ZLORD spiritual podcast with Carter Lord – documenting their inner and outer adventures. Spreading love, energy, and joy all around the world is teZa’s thing. She is the author of 4 nonfiction books that document the transformation available to us all. Her books are featured in the No BS Spiritual Book Club.

In this interview, Kate Heartsong shares how she empowers others to realize that as they better themselves and create inner peace, they also support creating peace worldwide. Carol finds out more about Kate’s passion for “empowering people to realize their brilliance and greatness and help ignite their potential.” She shares the early influences from which she evolved to being the coach she is today. Kate says her clients “benefit from the motivational, interviewing, coaching skills, empowering growth and confidence tools, and encouragement I share with them, leading to positive change.” In addition, Kate talks about how we can all raise our vibration and in turn raise the energy in a positive way for each other and our planet as we transition into the Age of Aquarius. Kate is the empowering and life-enhancing author of two books Humanity's Cry For Change and Deeply We Are One. She is also a confidence coach, workshop facilitator, co-author, public speaker, and Reiki Master Teacher. For over 20 years Kate has been receiving profound insights while meditating. She is passionate about supporting her clients, audiences, and readers with these insights along with the wisdom from her vast life experiences and education. Kate empowers people to realize that as they better themselves and create inner peace.

Sifu Rubia discovered the benefits of the ancient healing arts of Tai Chi and Qi Gong as a way to navigate the scars of loss and trauma. An orphan born in Bangladesh, she experienced abandonment early in life, creating intense anxiety in her body and mind. Later in life, the traumatic loss of a miscarriage brought her to her first Qi Gong class. There she discovered the healing and strength-building power of this ancient tradition. Since then, she has accumulated hundreds of hours of teacher training, including Yang Family style Tai Chi, Yoga, and Iron Shirt Qi Gong.

James Mayfield is a Somatic Healing Coach and BreakThrough Facilitator. He is the founder of BreakThroughCircle.com and creator of Somatic BreakThough Facilitation, which is a synthesis of body and feelings-based facilitation along with inner parts work. In this interview, James shares his life history and personal initiations that have made him ideally suited to support others' emotional healing. He’s personally experienced and healed from a variety of unmet emotional needs and traumatic physical and emotional abuse from early life circumstances that required him to seek out transformation-focused work at a young age. At a time of extreme vulnerability and deep grief, he stumbled into the world of breathwork, somatic healing, inner parts work, and structured psychodynamic processes.

In this episode, D. Neil Elliott shares his personal story of how he expanded his consciousness and transformed his life. At age 57, to any outsider, he was highly educated, had a successful consulting business, and had an amazing family. His life was going well, but things were not all they seemed. He found himself anxious and fearful and sinking into a world of depression and planning his suicide. Then, something changed. He remembered a manuscript that he received. He then put aside the suicide note, began reading, and embarked on a process over the next year to transform his life.

Christine Samuel is the founder, coach, and facilitator of Inner Work Matters. In this interview, she shares her journey from Indonesia to Canada and the awakenings she experienced. After discovering the effects of stress on her health and exploring the causes, she began a healing journey of new and healthy routines, journaling, and dialoguing with her inner child. As her realizations expanded, Christine began living from the heart space instead of the mind space. She left her corporate career of 20+ years to follow her heart path. Even the uncertainty of COVID led her to look to a new strategy for living, trusting the unknown of creation, and “move purposefully one step at a time”. Christine is working on a book, hosting workshops, writing, facilitating training and meetup groups, and “co-creating” new services to assist others through Inner Work Matters. She finds delight in sharing her ever-growing understanding of living from the heart space.

In this interview, Micaela Passeri shares her journey to releasing emotional and mental blocks for permanent breakthroughs and what led to this mission to help others. Based on her own experience, she discusses the many different modalities and tools to help her clients expand, evolve, and transform their lives - both in business and personally.

In this interview, Kay Newton shares her journey to simplicity, how she arrived at this point in her life, and why she wants to help others, which in turn can help our planet. Kay loves to inspire people around the world to live midlife on their terms, full of fun and vigor. She loves to create and hold space where an individual or group can master their purpose in life. She says the process does not need to be “time-consuming or painful”.  Passionate about simplicity, Kay says “Midlife Simplicity is often hard to find. Midlife is a time of grief, overwhelm and worry which impacts your well-being. The loss of past roles or relationships also creates uncertainty. Whether you are navigating a looming empty nest or deciding what to do when your parents die and all the issues in between, don’t let them take you by surprise!” Kay Newton is the Founder of Midlife Strategies. She is an experienced Midlifer and has worked with people over 50 in both their personal and business life, taking them from "Worry to Wealth" in simple stages she calls the ‘lightbulb’ and ‘goose pimple’ moments. Kay is an award-winning International Speaker and voracious author. She is passionate about “down-to-earth space creating to guide women over 50 to get their mojo back”.  Kay delivers compelling yet relatable presentations for conferences, online events, interviews, panels, meetings, retreats, workshops, and seminars.  Show Notes: The many crossroads of life Influences and working-class background Taking advantage of opportunities “I never swam back” Downsizing x 3 Fear is a fantasy Adventurer or Explorer Living with change as a constant Walking the Camino De Santiago Aligning head, gut, and heart Tips and tools to simplify your life Circle of influence Importance of Self Confidence Social Media and Resources:  Kay Newton Midlife Strategist Facebook YouTube Instagram Free Gift from Kay: Table of Life Organization and Journey Mentioned: EXXpeditions - All-female voyages exploring the impact of and solutions to plastic and toxic pollution in our ocean. Camino de Santiago  Hearts Rise Up is a Feedspot "Best Wisdom Podcast" Hearts Rise Up Podcast Production Team: Audio editing by: Ann Serrie Technical Director: Christopher Drummond Music by: Jonn Serrie Interested in creating and hosting your own podcast? Check out our hosting platform bCast.  It's a great platform to host a podcast. The features are awesome. The support is great. Updates are made frequently. Easy interface. We would be grateful if you would use our affiliate link. CLICK HERE for more info and to sign-up.

In this interview, Mindy shares her change journey on turning insights into action with a heart-centered approach. She shares her personal experience and thoughts on assessment tools for self-reflection, how to successfully navigate change, staying heart-centered in the process of change, and how to deal with our inner critic. She also shares her perspective on appreciation, gratitude, and other qualities and how they play into effective communication and connection with others. Have a listen to discover how you can navigate your world in a heart-centered way. Mindy Kantor is a dynamic coach, consultant, and writer whose mission is to empower you to activate your best self. She works with people who want to transform themselves, teams, or organizations. Combining her twenty-five years of experience in communication, change management, and marketing expertise with a natural curiosity about the wiring of people’s minds and human behavior, she provides a fresh perspective and integrated way to turn insight into action.  Mindy holds a Bachelor of Science in business with a marketing focus and a Master’s degree in public and corporate communication. In addition, she has several certifications in project management, change management, and psychological assessments including Enneagram, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and Firo-B and Firo Business. Mindy’s toolbox of game-changing assessments assisted her in finding the path that allows her to use her passion to help others.  Find out more about Mindy Kantor here: https://mindykantor.com/ Free Offer: Favorite change/transformation and communication tools to activate your best: https://mindykantor.com/library/ ****** Find out more about Hearts Rise Up, free resources, and our popular "Notes From Your Higher Self:" https://heartsriseup.com/ https://heartsriseup.com/notes-from-your-higher-self/ Hearts Rise Up is a Feedspot "Best Wisdom Podcast."

Yasmin Nguyen has a joyful story to tell. He does it as an author, adventurer, facilitator, filmmaker, joy ambassador, photographer, speaker, and world changer. Yasmin is the founder of the Joyful Living Project. He created the Joyful Living Project to ignite positive change and remind us of all the good around us. He's also starting a podcast to help others activate joy in their lives. In this interview, Yasmin talks about some of the challenges he has faced, including fleeing communist Vietnam, being rescued at sea, growing up as an immigrant in America, his experience with corporate life, entrepreneurship, deep depression, and burnout. Yasmin has come up with 7 principles of joyful living that worked for him and is excited to share them. To inspire and reach more Joy Ambassadors, he's writing a book on his life journey and challenges. Some years ago, Yasmin found a deeper calling that led him to pack up his car to drive across America on an 18-month journey to discover, document, and share stories of real people, beautiful places, and heart-opening experiences that bring us joy. In 2022, he and his team will launch a new concept called "The Joy Gym" to reconnect millions of people every day as "Joy Makers" to practice simple habits that activate joy, strengthen their hearts and minds, and create a better world.

In this interview, Heath Armstrong explains how he leaned into love and nature to turn his life around after waking up face-down-pants-down in his garage during a rock-bottom breakdown. He began interviewing 100+ creative entrepreneurs and adopting their strategies. He also had the help of a few magical strangers. In 2016, he retired his traditional 'career' in concrete construction, sold all of his belongings, and scaled his bootstrapped e-commerce startup to hit multiple 6-figure months while mainly wearing undies.  He shares some of the tips and techniques that have helped him live with a sense of rebirth every day.  Living in tune with Nature, surrendering expectations, having a morning routine, and "leaning into love and letting his heart rise up".   Since then, he has worked location-independent from over twenty countries, summited the world's largest free-standing volcano, survived rafting the Nile River, witnessed exorcisms in Indonesia, and fallen in love with the culture and experience of East African digital education for children. Heath brings some of his adventures and experiences to us in this interview.   Heath Armstrong is an author, explorer, e-commerce maniac, podcaster, and co-founder of Rage Create. He is the creator of Sweet-Ass Affirmation Decks (motivation for your creative mind)  and several Sweet-Ass Journals, and the host of the Never Stop Peaking podcast.