How to Be A Brave Woman - My Interview with Keri Renee

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Win a free copy of the amazing book You Were Not Born To Suffer by Blake Bauer!

Win a free copy of the amazing book You Were Not Born To Suffer by Blake Bauer! How do you enter? Join for free http://www.connektwell.com/ and upload a pic of yourself (required) and fill out your contact information with your primary email address! Write a short reason why you think you should win this book! Winners announced the beginning of the New Year! This book will change your life! Be sure to catch Blake live on my radio show this Sunday, December 15th @ 4pm PST! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thewellnesscoach/2013/12/16/author-blake-bauer-on-unconditional-self-love-you-were-not-born-to-suffer

Get Free Access to My Book on How to Get More Energy!

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Speaking with Tami Simon: Founder of Sounds True

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Tami Simon is the founder and publisher of Sounds True, an independent multimedia company dedicated to disseminating spiritual wisdom. Tami began studying with Reggie Ray in 2001 and began teaching "Meditating with the Body" introductory workshops in 2007. Her areas of special interest include authentic leadership and applying spiritual principles to organizational life. Tami lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her partner Julie Kramer.
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Transform Your Relationship With Food!

Transform Your Relationship With Food will help you get where you want to go when it comes to emotional eating, overeating, body image concerns, dietary and health challenges, weight issues, and so much more. I’m really excited to share this cutting edge body of work with you! The program is taught exclusively by Marc David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, best selling author and Nutritional Psychology expert. If you’re tired of the same old messages about food, nutrition and health and you’re interested in letting go of the inner struggle around body and weight, then it’s time to discover a new approach that can leave you feeling truly nourished and fulfilled. The world is ready for a fresh, new conversation when it comes to eating. Are you ready to take a big leap forward in your relationship with food?

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Overcoming Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Ingram Jones

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Every generation has birthed a born leader - an individual who becomes a beacon of light, a harbinger of hope, and a source of knowledge and strength for other generations to come. Founder of BaylorIC Worldwide - TV, Ingram Jones, is that man. A native of London, England, Mr. Jones had a passion for journalism and broadcasting since the age of 12. He transformed that passion into a reality when he studied Media Studies in college. And the rest is his history and legacy for others to learn and become inspired.
Boasting an impressive list of accomplishments such as; being named the National Community Champion in the UK in 2011, launching the first Boxing Show on Google+ in 2012, and being a successful professional Cricket Coach for over twelve years. It’s amazing how he still finds the time to give back to his community by tutoring and mentoring the youth in boxing and cricket all while writing amazing columns as a sports journalist. Today you will still find Ingram Jones doing that and more as he’s now the Host of “Inside Story”, a program interviewing champions from around the world from various walks of life.
Ingram Jones brings hope to all those around him. After overcoming a 7-year battle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome during which the doctors informed him that he will never live a happy life without the use of medication. Mr. Jones proved that the spirit is stronger than modern medication and is living healthily without medication. During his battle he was still performing positive works and assisting the community, all while building the BaylorlC Worldwide (BaylorlC-TV) brand, an independent online entertainment television and media outlet which focuses on resenting progressive and innovative programming bringing the world closer to you.
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New Age Album "Dreaming the Afterlife" by Independent Artist Sonaljit Mukherjee

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Sonaljit is an independent artist in the genre of New Age Music.
His inclination towards music began during his undergraduate life in India. He used to participate in music shows and local competitions as a singer. Later on he felt the need to provide instrumental backing to his singing, so he began learning keyboard playing. It was then that he got acquainted with new age music or contemporary instrumentals, particularly by listening to Yanni and Vangelis. The idea of implementing several instruments into one single track seemed fascinating and challenging. However he did not have proper recording equipment and synthesizers by then. He came to United States for higher studies, and built up a small home studio for his musical projects, and has been continuing ever since. He released his first New Age album on June 2013. It's called "Dreaming the Afterlife." It is a collection of contemporary instrumental compositions and piano solo renditions.The entire album was produced in his home studio including the composing, orchestration, recording and mastering.
The artwork was created by combining and editing many images of Sun and clouds, photographed by his friend Anshuman Dubey. It is a detailed depiction of a dream that he saw, which propelled him to work on this album.

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Living a Natural Lifestyle with Entrepreneur Angela Russell

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Check out Angela Here as Well!  Yum!

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Free Webinar Tomorrow (Tuesday, Sept. 10th) on How to Lose Weight Naturally!

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Finally!  A new approach that will forever change the way you look at the obesity epidemic and health crisis in our country!  And a new solution. Read on . . .

We’d all have to be blind not to notice that Americans are gaining more and more weight every year -- in spite of all the dieting.  And the truth is, we’ve also getting sicker! 
We’re taking more medications than ever, starting younger than ever. And these medications are NOT curing us! At best, we’re just “managing” our chronic health problems -- at a price that is bankrupting us individually, and as a country.

Have you ever wondered why?  And what we can do about it?

Come find out at this free webinar class called “Born to be Slim and Healthy, but Programmed to Get Fat and Sick. ACT now to claim your birthright!”
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Delisa Renideo, co-founder of Yes To Life, specializes in helping people lose weight healthfully and permanently, without dieting, and she’s going to share her unique approach with us in this free class. You’ll discover that it is a MYTH that we are destined to get fat and sick as we age. 

 

Delisa will be sharing:

• How your body is naturally designed to be slim and healthy.
• How your amazing body is designed to protect AND heal itself.
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• How our culture has programmed you to get fat and sick.
• The beliefs we have unconsciously bought into that almost guarantee we’ll get fat and sick.
• What you can do today to claim your birthright -- to be slim and healthy.

More drugs and better insurance are not the answer to our weight and health problems. Constant dieting is not the answer. And it can’t all be “bad genes.”  Our genes can’t change this much in 1 or 2 generations!

Register here  https://lw105.infusionsoft.com/go/Webinar/Edie  to attend this eye-opening and life-changing free class. You’ll take away a whole new way of looking at problem, and a unique and empowering solution that can change your future dramatically.


Sincerely,

 

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About Delisa Renideo:

Delisa's varied background provides the best possible combination of skills to help you lose weight healthfully and permanently, without dieting, so you can say YES! to your life in a big way.

Delisa has been an RN, a counselor, and a Certified Food for Life Instructor teaching plant-based nutrition & cooking courses. She is a Certified Life Coach and holds a Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Foundation at Cornell University. She is skilled in using (EFT) Emotional Freedom Technique and has a gift for getting at the core issues that block people from achieving their potential.

Delisa struggled with her own weight and health problems as a young adult and is committed to helping others joyfully return to the naturally slim, healthy self they were born to be.

Delisa's clients describe her as caring, inspiring, supportive, and deeply committed to helping others succeed in making positive, life-affirming changes.

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Healing with Darren Littlejohn: Buddhism & Addiction

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Littlejohn is a recovering addict, yoga teacher and Buddhist. He shared his success and program in his book, The 12-Step Buddhist (Atria\Beyond Words 2009). This integrated approach spans nearly three decades of successes, failures, and finally, answers. Darren's books enlighten the inner spirit, educate, open the mind, and fill the heart. The spirituality gained from combining 12-Step ideas, Buddhism, yoga, and meditation will help everyone heal, no matter what his or her afflictions may be.
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The Real You - Alan Watts

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The Vanishing Honeybee and Your Health

The honeybee is vanishing due to pesticides.  Honeybees pollinate crops like apples, cucumbers, and blueberries.   What would you or your health do without these foods?

Over 100,000 species go extinct ever year.   This is an alarming statistic.  Species evolve over millions of years.  Most last around 10 million years if not disrupted.  The rate of extinction is now 100 to 1000 greater than it used to be.

What would we do without the honeybee?

I explore environmental toxins and their impact on your health in my book.   I urge you to get educated.  Here is a link to my book and a link to Time’s article on the precious and vanishing honeybee.

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Create A Social Networking Site or Paid Membership Site!

Have you ever wanted your very own social networking site?  Maybe you want to create a site that specializes in your interests, such as action movies, electronic music, or vintage clothing.

Or maybe you want to create a website for your church, non-profit, or business.  Here is my membership wellness community, where I offer self and group coaching, support groups for weight loss and chronic conditions, and much much more! http://www.ConnektWell.com/

Having a membership website is actually a main goal of many entrepreneurs as well.  You can have membership subscriptions for different levels of engagement, and consolidate your business!

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Free Event: August 5- 9, 2013 – Experts in Eating & Food Psychology, Embodiment, Weight, Health, and Nutrition!

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Join Marc David, Founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating as he interviews over 30 cutting edge experts in eating psychology, embodiment, weight, health, and nutrition. They’ll share key insights into our relationship with food and present new ideas to advance our understanding of eating in this one-of-a-kind virtual conference!    http://bit.ly/14l5QKF

Empowering Women Through Entreprenuership‏

"Statistics show that 90% of women are stressed out about finances; the majority of us are feeling vulnerable and unprepared for our financial future.

Women, in fact, are three times as likely as men to suffer from overwhelming financial stress."

It is one of my goals to empower women with chronic conditions to be able to support themselves through entrepreneurship.  Kristin Sweeting Morelli is a self-made millionaire dedicated to empowering women entrepreneurs. Check out this video for more details: https://no122.infusionsoft.com/go/ipaffiliate/esummers/‏

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Earth Day: Following Your Passion with Environmental Activist, Scientist & Eco-Model Summer Rayne Oakes

 
Summer Rayne Oakes has taken an unlikely career path, having parlayed her background in environmental science and entomology with a successful career as a fashion model. Considered one of the foremost authorities in sustainable design, Oakes has co-founded the award-winning online materials marketplace, Source4Style; authored the best-selling style guide, Style, Naturally; is creative designer behind her line of recycled optics and shades called eco by Summer Rayne Oakes; has collaborated on collections with Payless ShoeSource, Portico Home, and Aveeno, and was the muse behind the creation of the Prius C - Toyota even went so far as to name a paint color in her honor!

Formerly an on-air correspondent for Discovery Networks Planet Green, Oakes has once again turned to the media world, producing an award winning environmental art short entitled eXtinction and a weekly conversation-style video series launching in April 2013. Vanity Fair has named Oakes a “Global Citizen,” Outside called her one of the “Top Environmental Activists,” and CNBC called her one of the “Top 10 Green Entrepreneurs of 2010.” Oakes lives in Brooklyn with her two dozen exotic insects. Follow her at twitter.com/sroakes and http://www.summerrayne.net/

Here are some of the highlights of my conversation with Oakes - you can check out the whole interview here:  http://tinyurl.com/cr8nh9f

ES: What is it about nature that you love so much?  

SRO: When I was a kid, I loved to draw and I loved to draw nature and be outside, and I really found myself lost in my mother's National Geographic magazines. I think it's a shame that we don't collect that stuff anymore, because it was exactly that I was engrossed in. I was fortunate because I grew up in a pretty idyllic area. It was really the phenomenal vistas and people and places that I saw in National Geographic that allowed me to dream outside of the borders. Who knows exactly what it was that makes you tick...you do what makes you come to life. Because what you're passionate about is what you're going to want to devote your life to. 

ES: You're an environmental scientist and activist, entomologist, keynote speaker, and an eco-model. I read somewhere you used that – being a model - as you're "way in."

SRO: That was definitely the wolf in sheep's clothing. For me, it was trying to find new ways to communicate environmental issues. And I kind of struggled with it, because some of my best friends are not in the same field. I wanted to get an opportunity to share it with people like them. We often find ourselves saying what disconnects us vs. what connects us. So, “environment” was a real disconnecting part. People just didn’t share the same passion for it that I did. And so I thought there has to be a cooler way to connect that passion, and I thought “Well, what about through fashion?” 

ES: I first saw you on the cover of Natural Health and I just saw your picture, but you radiated this energy and intelligence and passion. Of course, then I read the article, and there was something about you that stood out. You do inhabit your passion. To me that's one of the most inspiring things about you.    

SRO: One of things I've realized, particularly working in the fashion industry, is you're there to project an image...and I'm only really good at being myself.  I was never good at playing a part, and the whole purpose of fashion is to play a part. You mentioned it seems so natural I would do this, but it's not always so natural. The idea of expressing your values and who you are as a person didn't exist in the fashion industry. Trying to create that platform was a very difficult, arduous journey. When I shot the cover of Natural Health, they called me and said "I don't know if we want you on the cover." And I said "Well why the hell not?" They said "You're too sexy, you might not be relatable." And I said "You've never seen me smile. I have these dimples..." I was also standing in a field of lavender and honeybees which no else wanted to go in and I was like "Give me all the honeybees." I just felt like I was in heaven in there (laughs).  
ES: It looked like heaven too. You mentioned how in the fashion industry, how you had to pave the way for what now seems effortless, and create that niche.

SRO: I don't want to take too much credit. The only way you can trail blaze a path is by linking it on to other things that pre-exist. It's very difficult to do things on your own, and I've received a lot of wonderful help along the way. One of the biggest pieces of advice I have is to never be shy to tell people about what you want to do or why you're doing it. My first agency out of college was Boss Models. And they really took a chance on me because I wasn't the typical person. I'm like "This is why I'm here. I really want to connect environmental issues with fashion." And, at that time - this was 2004, 2005 - no one had even heard of anything of that nature. They gave me a lot of lines. I remember they looked at me and said "Look. Eighty percent of the jobs won't be available to you because your hips are two inches too big." And I just looked at him and said "I just shared with you my deepest core passion about what I'd like to do and you're giving me this line. First of all I don't want ninety percent of the jobs. I don't want ninety five percent of the jobs. Forget about my hips." And I had this presence, and I was like "If you think my hips are going to stop me from doing my passion which is far greater than any trivialities of the fashion world, you are sadly mistaken." And they were impressed, and they signed me on the spot. It didn't' really work out, but you have to stand for something. You just can't be shy.

ES: And that’s what I picked up on when I watched your demo reel…and speaking your truth opens some of those doors.  

SRO: Absolutely. A lot of people want to hold onto their ideas and not share them.  And I’m the complete opposite. If I went through the fashion industry not telling anybody about what I wanted to do…I would have been sent on all these castings that didn’t make sense for me, that took me away from my vision. Two years down the line I could have been waitressing, trying to do a fashion career that wasn’t even something that I wanted. Along that way I wore my heart on my sleeve, whether it was naiveté or who I am.  And in that process I found people who were into it and wanted to help and wanted to make introductions. And it was those people who ended up building my career. And you wouldn’t have those people in your life if you didn’t tell them what you were doing and what you stood for and what makes you tick.

ES: This is your quote from one of your keynote speeches: “Go forth in your life with vigor and passion. Strive to see yourself in every single person that you meet. Know the goal you are working toward. Let that be your guiding light, and go forward as a human being.”  I like that you’re a woman shining a light on sustainability.

SRO: As you’re a woman going through the process of starting a non-profit, you start to realize some of the inequities. It’s funny because I didn’t experience any of those in college. There are those women who trail blazed that path for us to feel equal.  Now I see more women starting their own businesses, and we’ve gone through the process. We raised a venture capital round for Source4Style and you can start seeing where some of those inequities or disconnects are happening for women who want to start their own businesses, for example. 

ES: So it still exists although we’ve made progress. Doesn’t Source4Style work with female entrepreneurs?

SRO: Yes, the whole idea behind it was to connect designers with sustainable suppliers around the world. About 70-75% of people who work within the manufacturing and textile sectors are women. So, inevitably, by putting those groups together you not only solve the problem of sourcing times – which designers say they spend up to eight five percent of their time sourcing –you’re actually also solving the problem of being able to develop market access to women and men in different parts of the world who can’t get their wares out to U.S. or European market places. We are sourcing in over 30 countries, and we supply products to designers in over 76 countries around the world.  

ES: I was watching your short film eXtinction, and you were mentioning that by time you’re fifty, all the lions will be extinct in the wild.  That made my heart drop.

SRO: Yeah, the concept behind it was to showcase the more pressing environmental issues that are happening within a lifetime.  And I narrate it on the time of my life from birth to death. I came upon this concept because I was really struggling with this idea…how do I connect people with how quickly this is changing before our eyes? What I find is that people have specific statistics in the film that really resonate with them. And more people resonate with the lions than anything else, and I think that is because it’s an animal…it’s big, it’s relatable, it’s the king of the kingdom…and you feel like, wow, that’s something that’s really close to me. The other things are forests and coral reefs might seem more esoteric, and maybe some of us don’t understand what happens if all the coral reefs die. 

ES: What does happen?

SRO: About a billion people rely on coral reefs for their food. And it’s because it serves as a whole ecosystem underneath the earth. If you think about it, almost our entire planet is covered with ocean. So there’s a whole level of ecosystem and biodiversity below, submerged in water that we don’t know about.  The reality is we’re looking at this from a health perspective. Our coral reefs provide food, tourism, the whole ecological integrity of the system, and these all are coming undone with an increase in temperature of the ocean, which leads to an increasing acidity of our ocean...creatures can’t form their shells anymore…the symbiosis of coral and polyps come undone.  And different coral exists in different temperatures.  The coral can’t survive if the ocean has warmed.

ES: You are an electrifying speaker. You’re really good at being the Pied Piper for anyone who’s interested and has the energy and the motivation.  As you said, it’s time to get down in the trenches now, to create that positive feedback loop and stay connected to grassroots efforts.

SRO: I still feel very grassroots. We’ve done a really good job getting people excited.  But now we have to communicate about the journeys, the struggles, and the challenges. Not everybody’s up for that challenge. 

ES: How does one go deeper into one’s passion? 

SRO: Start with yourself first. I got into the fashion industry because we all wear clothes. There are certain things that really connect us. Sometimes if you start things in your own life, that can be an inspiration for other people. Be a role model…make yourself healthy. Look into your own life, but don’t make it a blanket statement. For me it was about bringing more green into my life and into my home and being able to share that with more people. I took joy in that.  It’s not complicated. You really have to get to “What do I want out of my life?”  You have to get a sense of your own life and what works for you. It’s about creating a really happy, healthy existence for you and being able to share that with other people. We live life full of a lot of perfunctory relationships...with cute little sound bytes. Hone in on your truth, and follow your passion with the utmost respect and hard work. 

ES: When you create your own healthy, sustainable life you can in turn radiate that out and touch other people, which is what I see you doing so beautifully.  Thank you, Summer.

Summer Rayne Oakes - Eco-Model & Environmental Scientist

You've set your clocks, now mark your calendars! Summer Rayne Oakes is an environmental scientist, environmental activist, entomologist turned eco-model, and one of the foremost authorities in sustainable design. Her passion is Nature! Join us for a scintillating talk this Spring on March 21st @ 1pm PST/4pm EST: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thewellnesscoach/2013/03/21/summer-rayne-oakes--environmental-scientist-eco-model

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