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Maureen Kafkis is a Doctor of Occupational Therapy, the Brain BS™ coach, and the host of The Power of Community & Collaboration Podcast. When she learned that the average human brain has over 60,000 thoughts a day and that most of them are lies (Brain BS™) that cause needless suffering, she started to learn how to separate the fact from fiction in her mind and has never looked back. Maureen truly believes that living consciously, understanding how your brains work, and learning to feel your feelings are necessary for an empowering and fulfilling life. She brings her expertise and extensive knowledge to inspire people in the SB area and beyond to learn how to live consciously, tap into their personal power and become leaders in their community.
In a world where there is so much division and way too much focus on competition, the Brain BS™ Coach is promoting a conscious community and lifestyle built on leadership energy, collaboration, and mutual support. She is doing that because the power of the collective far exceeds anything that can be done at the individual level and it’s just way more fun! If we all consciously collaborate with one another and succeed together we can have a substantial ripple effect that will extend far beyond our local community. Listen and learn how you can add value to your own community!
Check out https://www.thebrainbs.com/ to learn more about the Brain BS™ Coach and what she is all about!
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I've experienced the profound transformation that comes with conscious living and now excited to see how all the work I have done will impact my life in Santa Barbara. In this episode I speak about how we ended up getting a secondary home in SB and some of the challenges we faced. I share how our initial visits were during my stepdaughter's college days before I even learned to live consciously and take responsibility for my own emotions. I also talk about how not being committed ...
We spend a great deal of our time trying to avoid uncomfortable emotions. If we can learn how to process them and not make them a problem, we can have the freedom to do whatever we want regardless of what is going on around us. This is a big deal!
Quit striving to be happy all the time. It is not possible and it is over rated! Learn why not being happy does not have to be a problem.
Understand why you should not always believe what your brain is offering you.
Learn how to identify and deconstruct the Brain BS in your mind so that you can get the results you want in your life.
This podcast episode is about learning how your brain works and why it needs you to manage it better.
Introduction to the Brain BS Podcast.
This week on The Power of Community & Collaboration Podcast I speak with Kristina McKean about The Elephant Project in Thailand. We discuss her love for animals and how it inspired her to start this amazing project that has saved thousands of elephants and now cats and dogs as well. This is a thought provoking conversation that will hopefully deter you from riding elephants when you learn about what those poor animals have to endure at the hands of humans who want to break their spi...
In this episode I am speaking about contempt. I am sure you see evidence of it like I do when you look around the world and the way we are all interacting with one another in 2025. What you might not be aware of is that the way we treat one another stems from our subconscious programming and that we can actually change that if we are inspired. I share with you what I have learned about contempt in intimate relationships from author and therapist Terrence Real who wrote the book US. I al...
In this episode I am speaking with Martha Varela who is the Executive Director of the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA). Martha has been on the podcast in the past to talk about the Better With Horses Program that she participated in at the Horse Project with other paralyzed women veterans in the spring. Well the second round took place a couple weeks ago and Martha and I were teamed up to work with one another over several days. In this episode, we talk about how great the program is and h...
In this episode I am enlisting my podcast audience to help me win the lottery for a chance to go see Paul McCartney at the Santa Barbara Bowl next weekend! Which is why I am publishing it a day early:) Next week I will be back with an interview with Martha Varela. We will discuss the challenges she and her fellow disabled veterans faced traveling here for the Better With Horses program this past weekend. Until then...fingers crossed that I manifest the tickets for the concert! Click on ...
In this episode I speak with psychic, astrologer, and death mid-wife Beth Mc Donald about a subject that none of us are going to be able to avoid in this lifetime and that is dying. Often we think that is something to address at the end of our lives when we have become ill or had a tragic accident, but the truth is we should be preparing for death our entire lives. Listen to this episode and get inspired to work on your relationships and reprogram your subconscious programming, so you are set...
This week on The Power of Community & Collaboration Podcast I planned to do an episode called Going All-In. But it turns out I didn't have what it takes to make it happen. Listen to this brief episode to learn why and how it's okay sometimes to not be able to go all-in. Click on the platform of your choice to listen to the latest podcast episode, follow the podcast, and write a review so we can spread the news and reach more people! Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple...
In this episode of The Power of Community & Collaboration Podcast I am speaking about how to build a solid foundation for setting healthy boundaries. There is a lot of information and suggestions for how to do this out there, but what they neglect to mention is all the pre-work that is necessary before you ever try to set a boundary. If you are a people-pleaser like I used to be and unable to make your needs a priority at times, you need to listen to this episode. When you learn to be hon...
This week on the Power of Community & Collaboration Podcast I am doing an episode on how to deal with it when you don't get that invite that everybody else appears to have received. Let's be real, it's not a good feeling and nobody likes that to happen but it happens to all of us and we are all guilty of doing it to other people. So what's the best way to deal with it? I lay it all out in the episode and explain why we must tap into leadership energy when we are feeling excluded. I even t...
This week on The Power of Community & Collaboration Podcast I am speaking with resilience coach and published author Elizabeth Morse. Liz and I talk about how powerful our subconscious programming is and why we need to address that too instead of just making our mindset the primary focus. In this episode you will discover just how much of an impact our internalized beliefs have over us-especially if we have been squashing them down for decades. They literally create whatever it is we expe...
In this episode I discuss how I decided who I wanted to support this year in the SB community. I talk about some of the things that held me back in the past and why now is the perfect time for me to move froward with The Horse Project and The Unity Shoppe. I hope by sharing my perspective with you about the importance of "volunteering", you will come to the same conclusion I did... It's really non-negotiable! With the way things are playing out in DC and the current state of the world, ...
This week on The Power of Community & Collaboration Podcast I am speaking with Martha Varela who is the Executive Director of the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) California Chapter. We talk about the issues women veterans face and the unique challenges that females experience in a male dominated military. Because there are so few options geared toward women veterans, we have to celebrate when holistic programs like Better With Horses come along to help improve ...
In this episode I speak with Linda Kiefer who is the project leader for The Horse Project in Santa Barbara. Linda shares her personal story about how she left the business world after her retirement to rescue and rehabilitate abused horses. What I love most about that is she did it at the age of 62 and is living proof that it is never too late to do anything! Listen to this episode and get inspired by Linda's passion for horses and the amazing programs they offer at the Horse Project. Find ou...
In this episode I speak with Jenn Frederick who is a cancer survivor who was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic melanoma and thought that her life was about to come to an end. You won't believe how she found out she had melanoma, how it didn't look how you might think, and all the incredible challenges she faced during her battle with cancer. Sometimes life throws us huge curveballs and if we are open to it, the silver lining in those dark heavy clouds can lead us to our calling in life ...
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