Soul Focused Group Podcast

Our Chief Operations Officer, Dustin Washington, leads our new podcast on healing our wounded inner child. He is joined by Hank Azaria and Cyndi Carnaghi-Collins to discuss their journey in healing their inner child, and how they created a new mind that works for them. The wounded inner child is an unhealed part of us that was formed by our survival strategies that help us ignore our trauma. Hank and Cyndi begin this episode with t...

Anuar Velazquez and Jerry Elster sat down with our host, Martin Friedman, to share their thoughts on restorative justice in the American prison system. Anuar is a former police officer and Jerry was formerly incarcerated. Jerry begins by sharing that restorative justice started within himself and progressed into building, maintaining, establishing, and mending relationships. Jerry realized that he brought harm to his community when...

Our CEO, Berwick Mahdi Davenport,  joins our Soul Focused Radio hosts to continue talking about innerwareness. Innerwareness is a Soul Focused Group term that we define as the way our first mind communicates with and directs our second mind. In this podcast M begins by exploring why he and a lot of other racial equity workers felt defeated. M spent years being a racial equity trainer and after all his hard work he felt like there w...

Berwick Mahdi Davenport sat down with our hosts Martin Friedman and Christin Farmer to discuss how he got in touch with his innerwareness during his spiritual journey. M explains how innerwareness is our ability to listen to our intuition and our intelligence. We come into this world and ask for guidance in things we should learn about ourselves. Christin and M discuss how the world gets us to listen to other voices instead of our ...

Martin Friedman and Dustin Washington sat down with Gabriel Lugo to learn more non-duality and spiritual leadership. Gabriel was a former atheist that became skeptical and curious about his consciousness. He began to investigate what the nature of reality is, and he found many teachings that brought him closer to understanding his own mind. Gabriel started with The Law of One, but he was really interested in non-duality. From spiri...

We invited Jim McCarty back as our special guest to continue his discussion on The Law of One. In this episode Jim dives deeper into how The Law of One will show up in our lives, and he also share some tools to help us see the creator in everyone. Jim shares his amazing mediation breathing technique that has helped him find balance in his life. This technique can be used to feel closer to humanity by reflecting on an experience at ...

Martin Friedman and Dustin Washington will be collaborating on our new podcast series A New Mind. The first episode of the series features Jim McCarty. Jim started as a teacher in the inner city of Jacksonville, FL after his involvement in the hippie revolution. After Jim found his spiritual consciousness through dreams and journaling he moved to Kentucky where he spent 6 years living a self-sufficient lifestyle. While there he he ...

Martin Friedman, Martina Tam, and Christin Farmer are back to continue their beautiful discussion on cultural appreciation. In their last podcast together they defined cultural appreciation as having a  understanding, transactional, and empathetic relationship with a different culture . Martin begins this podcast by sharing his thoughts on cultural appropriation. He believes that appropriation involves someone in a position of powe...

In this podcast Martin Friedman sits down to discuss becoming powerful with Berwick Mahdi Davenport and Dustin Washington. Together the three men explore how individual power can create collective power. They have all found that when we are in our internal power we create healthy collective power. We have to see and acknowledge that we came into this world to participate with our power. Mahdi and Dustin also explore how we are prog...

Martin Friedman is flying solo this week on our new podcast. In a recent episode Martin shared a story about learning to forgive his mother, and he is back to discuss the spiritual benefits we get from forgiveness. Martin explains how forgiveness meditation helped him learn how to see other people and how to treat himself better. The forgiveness meditation he listened to broke down forgiveness into three parts. You learn to forgive...

Martin Friedman interviews Chantel Prat in this new podcast. Chantel is a professor in the department of psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience at The University of Washington. Martin and Chantel explore the power of the mind from a scientific perspective. Together they dive deep into what they think makes the mind so powerful. Chantel believes that the perceptions we develop in our minds are what make it the most powerful. We d...

Our amazing Soul Focused Radio hosts come together in our new podcast to discuss cultural appreciation. Our hosts define cultural appreciation as a practice to connect with other cultures from a place of interest, reflection, and relationship. It is important to see how cultural appreciation is being self aware and trying not to be someone else. In Kenya Martina saw groups of children playing in the streets, and she shares how free...

This week our new hosts come together to discuss reclaiming their inner power. Martin Friedman, Martina Tam, and Christin Farmer have a moving conversation about the importance of self empowerment when healing trauma. They all have found that exploring their inner child has helped them find their inner power as adults. There is a feeling we all get when we get to feel like a kid again. By doing things we use to do as children we re...

Join our host, Martin Friedman, as he shares his story about the recent spiritual and emotional healing journey he is on. For the past couple of month Martin has been helping his mom transition into a different living situation. He has found that this is a difficult journey to take with a parent. Martin and his mother have a complex relationship that has had to go through a lot of healing. In the past few years Martin and his mothe...

Our Vice President of The Soul Focused Group, Dustin Washington, hosts this week’s new podcast. Dustin is joined by Anuar Velazquez to discuss possible healing solutions in law enforcement, and how to implement trauma healing in institutions. Anuar shares his own experiences with witnessing trauma as a former police officer. He explains that many police officers come into the workforce with unhealed childhood trauma. Police officer...

*Trigger Warning Discussing Police Brutality*

Anuar Velazquez, Christin Farmer, and Martin Friedman come together in this new podcast to discuss the cycles of trauma that are self perpetuating between police and communities of color. Anuar has been a special guest on Soul Focused Radio in the past, and he is back to discuss police brutality from an ex-cop’s perspective. With the recent events in Memphis we hope everyone realize...

Martin Friedman flys solo in our new podcast to interview Christin Farmer. Christin and Martin met about five years ago, and now have come together to talk about Christin’s healing journey. For many years Christin focused on racial equity in healthcare, and found herself exhausted after many years. She found that she was going to racial equity meetings anxious and leaving angry. Many racial equity workers can feel this way when the...

This new podcast our Soul Focused Radio hosts discuss the new changes happening this year with The Soul Focused Group. One of our cohosts, Cindy Edwards, announces that she will be stepping away from The Soul Focused Group this year. She has taken a lot of time to think about this decision, and shares her feelings about her exit in this new podcast. We are very thankful for the time and effort Cindy has put in while with The Soul F...

Martin Friedman and Berwick Mahdi “M” Davenport kick off the new year with a brand new podcast highlighting The Soul Focused Group’s new perspectives. This year we introduced our new podcast format and new hosts. We made this change to bring new voices and perspectives that we thought we were missing. Martin and Mahdi agree that bringing two female hosts on this year challenged them to see things differently. Cindy and Martina brou...