STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally and winner of the 2022 Communicator Award for Podcasting, STOPTIME:Live in the Moment combines mindfulness, well being and the performing arts and features thought provoking and motivational conversations with high performing creative artists around practicing the art of living in the moment and embracing who we are, and where we are at. Long form interviews are interspersed with brief solo episodes that prompt and invite us to think more deeply. Hosted by Certified Professional Coach Lisa Hopkins, featured guests are from Broadway, Hollywood and beyond. Although her guests are extraordinary innovators and creative artists, the podcast is not about showbiz and feels more like listening to an intimate coaching conversation as Lisa dives deep with her talented guests about the deeper meaning behind why they do what they do and what they’ve learned along the way. Lisa is a Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership Master Practitioner and CORE Performance Dynamics Specialist at Wide Open Stages. She specializes in working with high-performing creative artists who want to play full out. She is a passionate creative professional with over 20 years working in the performing arts industry as a director, choreographer, producer, writer and dance educator. STOPTIME Theme by Philip David Stern🎶 🌟✨📚 **Buy 'The Places Where There Are Spaces: Cultivating A Life of Creative Possibilities'** 📚✨🌟 Dive into a world where spontaneity leads to creativity and discover personal essays that inspire with journal space to reflect. Click the link below to grab your copy today and embark on a journey of self-discovery and unexpected joys! 🌈👇 🔗 [Purchase Your Copy Here](https://a.co/d/d3FLZRo) 🌟 **Interested in finding out more about working with Lisa Hopkins? Want to share your feedback or be considered as a guest on the show?** 🔗 Visit [Wide Open Stages](https://www.wideopenstages.com) 📸 **Follow Lisa on Instagram:** [@wideopenstages](https://www.instagram.com/wideopenstages/) 💖 **SUPPORT THE SHOW:** [Buy Me a Coffee](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/STOPTIME) 🎵 **STOPTIME Theme Music by Philip David Stern** 🔗 [Listen on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/57A87Um5vok0uEtM8vWpKM?si=JOx7r1iVSbqAHezG4PjiPg)
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Feeling off balance or overwhelmed? This guided meditation invites you to gently realign your mind, body, and spirit. Through mindful breathwork, grounding visualization, and energetic awareness, you’ll restore your natural state of harmony and ease.
This short restorative practice helps regulate your nervous system, quiet mental chatter, and reconnect you to your inner steadiness—so you can...
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What are you putting up with that quietly exhausts you? In this episode, we unpack how toleration creeps in, why we blame ourselves, and how to finally release what no longer fits—without guilt or shame.
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We guide a gentle morning meditation that uses breath, a soft smile, and memory to cultivate contentment, then expand it with appreciative joy for others. We close with simple ways to spot micro‑joys during the day and carry calm into action.
• settling the body and softening judgment
• breathing with awareness and smiling through a body scan
• reframing meditation as acces...
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We explore how assumptions quietly limit choice and co-create the outcomes we fear, then practice shifting to a beginner’s mindset that opens presence, clarity, and real options. A tap class story reveals how slowing down reframes mastery, and we share practical ways to apply fresh eyes to hard moments.
• the inner block of assumption and how it narrows perspective
• energetic ...
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Transform Fear: Meeting Yourself with Compassion
When fear shows up uninvited, most of us try to outthink it, outrun it, or push it down. This meditation offers something different: a quiet experiment in kindness.
Through gentle breathwork, grounding, and vivid imagery, you’ll learn to meet fear not as a foe to defeat but as energy asking to be seen. We begin by letting gravity hold us—soften...
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A church choir, a missed criminology path, and a flyer for Jesus Christ Superstar—Jaime Lozano’s origin story doesn’t sound like a straight line to Broadway, but it sings like one.
We sit down with Mexican Broadway composer, lyricist, orchestrator, and music director Jaime Lozano to unpack how a series of gut-led choices, generous communities, and a stubborn belief in possibility shaped his ...
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Ready to realign your energy and find balance in just 12 minutes? This guided chakra meditation takes you on a transformative journey through your body's seven energy centers using the powerful combination of breath, visualization, and color.
We begin at your root chakra, where a glowing red light helps you feel grounded and safe, releasing fears that may be holding you back. ...
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Are you tired of setting goals you can’t stick to? In this episode, Lisa Hopkins introduces The Menu — a flexible, practical tool designed to set you up for success no matter how busy life gets.
Instead of rigid goals that often lead to guilt or frustration, The Menu offers bite-sized to main-course options you create for yourself. You’re the chef — and each day, the only “goal” is to choose...
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Take a journey into your inner landscape with this transformative guided meditation focused on reconnecting with your authentic power. Beginning with mindful breath awareness, this practice leads you to visualize your breath as golden light energy gathering in your solar plexus – your personal power center.
Many of us unconsciously dim our light, hiding our gifts and talents from t...
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What if the things we’ve lost aren’t really missing, but simply traveling? This tender retelling of a story attributed to Franz Kafka offers a profound perspective on change, transformation, and how we might relate differently to what we feel we’ve lost.
Through the tale of a little girl whose doll goes missing in a Berlin park, we discover a beautiful metaphor for life’s transitions. When a...
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This short, restorative meditation guides listeners through a heart-centered practice designed to help them center themselves and shift their energy in under five minutes.
• Quality over quantity: even brief moments of focused breathing can be transformative
• Simple body relaxation techniques including softening shoulders, jaw, and forehead
• Heart-centered visualization w...
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What if the key to a more fulfilling life isn't about squeezing more productivity from every minute but rather making space for unscheduled joy? Join me as I share the surprising lessons I've learned from playing impromptu badminton games with my husband on the narrow green strip between our cottage and the lake.
These spontaneous matches—where he strategically positions ...
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Doorways to clarity await in this transformative guided meditation that connects you with the wisdom of your future self.
The journey begins in a quiet, safe room—your inner sanctuary of possibility. With each breath, you're guided to open windows, inviting fresh air that symbolizes the clearing of mental clutter and stagnant energy. As light floods in, notice how your body r...
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What does it really mean to honor your body’s wisdom in a high-pressure career?
Broadway star Aisha Jackson (The Great Gatsby, Frozen, Waitress) takes us behind the curtain to reveal the delicate balance between artistic excellence and personal wellbeing. Fresh from celebrating the one-year anniversary of her vocal surgery, Aisha shares her practice of “constant check-ins” — a mindful way of...
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Life is full of transitions—some chosen, some unexpected. Fresh starts can feel both exciting and overwhelming, and often we forget to pause long enough to honor the shift.
This guided meditation will help you release what no longer serves you, carry forward the wisdom of what’s behind you, and gently step into what lies ahead. Through mindful breathing and visualization, you’ll plant the se...
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🍂 That unmistakable shift in the air signals more than just the turning of seasons—it touches something deeper within us. The angle of sunlight, the rustle of leaves, the crisp blue sky—all converge to create what I call that inescapable fall feeling. ✨
In this episode, I guide you through a simple mindfulness exercise to reflect on the past year—what was hard, what came easily, what surpri...
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Have you ever felt guilty for resting in a world that glorifies constant productivity? This gentle, meditative episode offers a powerful antidote to our culture's obsession with perpetual action through a beautiful Buddhist parable about balance and renewal.
At the heart of this episode is the story of Kansho and Yuma – the mighty waterfall and the still pond. Their relationsh...
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This intimate conversation explores the balance between craving stability and embracing uncertainty in artistic pursuits.
Our guest, an established actor, shares their strategy for navigating the feast-or-famine nature of the entertainment industry. Rather than remaining “at the beck and call of some force that might grant me a job,” they’ve discovered the power of self-created projects—work...
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Dive into a world where spontaneity leads to creativity and discover personal essays that inspire with journal space to reflect. Click the link below to grab your copy today and embark on a journey of self-discovery and unexpected joys! 🌈👇
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What happens when a 12-year-old decides to stop living a lie and pursue her true passion? For Broadway dancer Valeria Yamin, it was the moment that changed everything.
In this captivating conversation, Valeria takes us on her journey from Venezuela to Broadway, revealing the pivotal moments that shaped her remarkable career. From tearfully confessing to her father that she wanted t...
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