The Power of Community & Collaboration Podcast

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 ...

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 relationship...

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.

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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,...

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 expl...

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 d...

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...

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...

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...

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 lin...

In this episode I introduce you to The Unity Shoppe which is an organization in Santa Barbara that helps those in need. I interview Angela Miller Beven who is the CEO of the organization about exactly what it is they do, how we can help them, and why she was inspired to leave advertising to do non-profit work.

If you are local to SB and have been thinking about volunteering or getting involved, listen to this episode so we can inspi...

There are times in life where we are thrown a curveball that takes us off track that challenges are mental, emotional, and physical well-being. This is all part of the human experience and definitely going to cause us some degree of suffering. How we deal with those distractions is where optional suffering comes into play.

Optional suffering is when we resist what is happening to us, we start making up all kinds of stories in our he...

You know how you have been doing something you love for a long time and then realize that it's time for a change? That's what is happening to me!

That's why I am taking a break from The Power of Community & Collaboration Podcast to figure out what the next chapter is going to look like for me in regard to my podcast, my community work, and how I spend my time on a daily basis.

Change is coming, and I am ready for i...

In this episode I speak with Pete Muller who is  a creative artist, an accomplished musician, a successful business man, AND the creator of the crossword puzzles for the Washington Post.

Yes it does sound like Pete gets to enjoy a great life and have a lot of fun, but he also works hard and deals with his own fair share of Brain BS. In fact, we talk about imposter syndrome, the pitfalls of external validation, the importance of self...

In this episode, I speak with Master Certified Coach and published author 
Karen C. L. Anderson. Karen primarily focuses her work on the complexities and challenges of the mother/daughter relationship.

Listen, I think we an all agree that not all of us have a great relationship with our moms or with our adult daughters. What you might not realize though, is that it goes way further back and way deeper than you might realize.

List...

In this episode I talk about some of the questions coming up for me lately due to prolonged activity restrictions from a torn meniscus in my R knee.  Nothing like boredom and the lack of endorphins to get you contemplating and reflecting on what matters most in life.

One of the primary questions popping up for me is do I have to have a business or be a professional to collaborate? I used to think collaborations were for professional...

In this episode I speak with my friend Karena Akhavein who is a podcaster, published author, and successful writing coach. We discuss her creative approach of using an alter ego in her writing career and what motivated her to do that. We chat about some of the Brain BS that comes up with choosing a career that relies on external validation and the vulnerability that comes with potential rejection. We also talk about the risk of bur...

In this episode I share a personal story about my own healthcare journey to demonstrate how approaching it with leadership energy is so important. I begin by sharing a negative experience I had with my primary doctor around cholesterol medicine that led me to lose faith in him and trigger me into worrying about strokes, heart attacks and cancer. It also led me to lose trust in the healthcare system in general.

Then I share how my la...

In this episode I speak with breath work coach, Reiki practitioner, and energy healer Brandy Keenan. Brandy is super passionate and exuberant in how she approaches her work which is infectious and inspiring.

Listen and learn all the different ways you can modify breath work to accommodate your own individual needs and how beneficial it can be to your emotional, mental and physical health.

I also want to add that the world kind of fee...