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A Conscious Way Forward
by David K Richards
This is a podcast for the healers, leaders, learners, seekers, changemakers and dreamers. Your host David K Richards is on a mission to help individuals rise in consciousness and envision a new paradigm for healing, leading and learning. David gets to the heart of the matter with healing, reimagining leadership, and reinventing schools. He shares his conscious journey and transformation as a Founder & CEO, education reformer, life coach, and dad-preneur. You will see the big picture with him while also getting practical and easy-to-understand tips and strategies to change your life. David tells engaging and entertaining stories about life, leadership, his journey to reform education, parenting ups and downs, and how he healed from his traumatic childhood to achieve success. He also engages in deep conversations with others that have walked the intuitive path like him. If you are interested in coming home to your soul’s purpose, reimagining leadership, reinventing schools, and healing f
Episodes
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Ep. 39 |The Inner Peace that Lives Beyond the Resistance: with Helen Hamilton
In this podcast episode, David enjoys his second podcast conversation with Helen Hamilton. Helen is a spiritual teacher based in the UK, who's life goal is to demystify spiritual awakening and make it accessible for everyone, which she does through her weekly satsangs and teachings on how to...
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Ep. 38 | Sharing Transformation and Wisdom in Community
In this special episode, David and Staci chat with members of their mastermind coaching program, The Inner Sangha, to discuss what makes the program so unique and impactful in their daily lives, and how they have transformed. The six-month Inner Sangha Mastermind, co-facilitated by David and…
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Can You Be With the Light AND the Dark?
In Part Two of a Three-Part holiday short series, David invites listeners to lean into both the light and the dark during the darkest, most receptive time of year in the Northern Hemisphere. He discusses the irony of nature asking us to slow down during these cold winter months even as we are...
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Relaxing into the Waves of Life
This is Part One of a Three-Part holiday short series on navigating the holidays with grace and ease. In this episode, David offers insights on staying out of resistance, accepting the "as is" and finding inner stillness as we move into what for many is a complicated and exhausting time of year.
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Suzi Lula on Inner Spaciousness and Finding Your Mountaintop
In this open-hearted episode, David and his wife Julie co-host an interview with wisdom teacher Suzi Lula. Suzi reminds listeners that there are no ceilings, walls or floors to stop us from reaching our highest potential when we find the courage to step into the realm of infinite possibility....
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Authenticity and the Path to What Really Matters
In this step-back solo episode, David reflects on the A Conscious Way Forward podcast at the one-year anniversary of its launch. He urges listeners to forget the age-old question, "What are we doing with our lives?" and instead ask, "What are we BEING with our lives?" This short episode is a call...
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The Surprising Truth About The Four-Letter Word: PLAY!
Kim McIntyre is a Joyful Living Teacher who shows people how to laugh more and stress less, so they can enjoy life NOW. For 20 years, she has shared her mission of joy and laughter, and today runs a Joyful Being® Academy. In this conversation with David, Kim shares how to generate authentic joy...
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The Unraveling of the Personal Self with Terrence Stephens
Hold onto your hats! In this episode, David sits down for a mind-blowing conversation with an Australian born teacher and guide of Non-Duality. Non-Duality is based on the belief that beneath the diverse experiences of every human, there is a single, infinite and indivisible reality, the nature…
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The Field Will Set You Free with Helen Hamilton
In this episode, wisdom teacher Helen Hamilton shares her insights about the mind and the suffering we create for ourselves as a result of the illusion of separation--separation of self, separation from others, separation between spiritual and daily life. Helen is grounded and thoughtful…
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Intuitive Living with Staci Mehas-Lewanski
Staci Mehas-Lewanski is a model for intuitive living. In this episode, she shares some of the key experiences that have propelled her forward on this journey. With clarity and conviction, Staci shares about the importance of shedding the layers of conditioning, throwing all formulas out the…
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Imagining Our Way To A New Education Paradigm
In this episode, David talks with Judy Julin, an educational trendsetter and youth and parent coach. They discuss moving beyond the industrial model for education, teaching children to trust themselves as the new common core, and how we can all drop into a world that values the affairs of the…
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Diving Beneath the Surface
Divorce attorney turned Certified Conscious Parenting Coach Rachel Duffy joins David for a conversation about: a life threatening disease that served as the ultimate wake-up call to her own potential the prisons we create that fuel our suffering the power of subconscious communication screen time...
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Conscious Leadership and Bringing Your Whole Self to the Table:
In this episode, David talks with Sarah Hawley. In her recently published book, Conscious Leadership: A Journey from Ego to Heart, Sarah shares how she has ditched mainstream expectations for leadership and done deep inner work to connect with her unique way of leading. In the interview, Sarah…
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Hypnotherapy, Inner Child Work and the Spiral of Healing
In this episode, Janet Philbin,L(CSW-R, ACSW) breaks down the concept of the inner child and its role in her hypnotherapy practice. She also shares about the spiral of healing, a key concept in her new book, Show Up For Yourself: A Guide to Inner Awareness and Growth. Her honest dialogue with…
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Communication as Transformation: A Conversation with Encouragement Expert Dwight Taylor, Sr.
Today’s guest is Dwight Taylor, Sr., a TEDX Speaker, #1 Amazon bestselling author and international professional communicator endorsed by the legend of motivation Les Brown. An educational consultant and certified transformational coach, improving the culture and climate of groups, organizations...
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From Our Youth: On Finding a Flow State
In this episode I get to reconnect with my passion for working with youth! Brandon Shintani is a high school student in New Jersey and he took the initiative to reach out and ask if I would interview him on my podcast! Of course I said yes! Brandon is the founder and leader of Mind Design Sports,...
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Education for the Future: Heart-Centered Schooling
This episode is for those of you who, like me, are ready for new educational models to emerge from the eye-opening experiences of COVID 19 and virtual schooling. Today’s guest, Sukhi Bal, has recognized the current education system needs a paradigm shift for the sake of our children and future....
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Fresh Intuition: An Interview with Mary Welty-Dapkus
In this episode, David interviews Mary Welty-Dapkus, CEO of Fresh Intuition. Mary and David discuss the new wave in leadership that values EQ (emotional intelligence) over IQ, the power of the pause, integrating masculine and feminine energy, intuition, and more. In addition to being a certified...
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ep 20: Life As An Intuitive Art -- An Interview with Nafsheen Luhar
Transformational speaker, healer, creator and coach Nafsheen Luhar was born and raised in Kenya and moved to California at age 18. Nafsheen has overcome molestation, obesity, body shaming and cancer and views all of these experiences as powerful gifts that have helped her see light through her...
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Ep. 19: How a Flat Tire Taught Me To Lean Into A New Belief System
In this solo episode, I share the story of how a flat tire on the highway with my young children on a 100+ degree summer day taught me to lean into the discomfort of building new belief systems and reminded me that sometimes our worst fears are an opportunity to discover infinite possibilities. I...
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Ep 18: Using Present Moment Awareness to Navigate the Nervous System
Several years ago, NatNatBe was given a non-specific yet potentially life threatening diagnosis for a condition that had left her feeling exhausted, confused, and unable to work. After spending more than 40 days in the hospital undergoing countless tests with three sons at home to care for…
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Dropping into Intuitive Guidance for 2021
In this solo episode, I welcome the new year by taking my listeners through a guided exercise to help you 1) tune into the frequency of your soul and 2) build regular practices to minimize the distance between your intuitive guidance and concrete action steps. I also share three key guiding...
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Finding your way to Authenticity and Clarity with Dinuka Ranasinghe
My friend, Dinuka Ranasinghe is a wonderful example of transformation and authenticity. She left her job as a lawyer to open a preschool and become a conscious parenting coach. David and Dinuka share their journeys from leaving the corporate world to finding their way back to their essence and…
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Ep. 15 Bridging Science and Intuition with Arayeh Norouzi
As a certified life coach and mindful living conscious parenting educator with a PhD in Psychology Dr. Arajey Norouzi bridges reasoning and science to intuition and spirit. She shares her research around mindfulness and the 3 one-minute mindful micro-breaks she created. Throughout our busy days…
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Pass Your Light and Lead with Heart with Val Alino
When your words and actions show the universe that you’re in alignment, the universe starts to provide. Even in 2020. Val Alino’s 10 day business trip to Peru transformed into an unexpected eight month stay as the world went into a pandemic lockdown. David let his intuition guide him to his…
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Connecting with the Yin and the Yang with Maurice Shaw
As Maurice shares, sometimes we need to get out of the way as men and allow the feminine energy, the yin energy, to take the lead. It doesn’t mean the feminine yin energy must come in the form of a female, because men have access to that as well. But we need to become grounded enough to…
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Follow Your Intuition and Find Your Truth with Uchenna Ilo
Follow your intuition. That is how I connected with Uchenna and how I invited him onto the podcast. Uchenna has always had the gifts of intuition. His gifts help him feel the intuitive energy and listen. Uchenna’s intuition flows through words. He has a natural gift of writing and uses the power…
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Oneness, not Sameness, A Journey towards Conscious Conversations and a Global Generation with Faiza Liban
If you’re not in the now here, you’re nowhere. Faiza shared that during our conversation and she learned it from her first mindfulness course. My next guest is Faiza Liban. She is a Mindfulness Facilitator who is passionate about creating communication that is conscious and mindful, and I can…
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The Moment I Surrendered and Found My Authentic Self
This is a really special unedited conversation with David about taking the quantum leap to surrender to something bigger. For a long time, due to life challenges and a feeling of unworthiness, David lived life through his false self. He shares his experiences leading up to finding his authentic...
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The Story of Heart Centered Leadership and Growth Public Schools w/ Mrs. Audria Johnson
Mrs. Johnson shared her stories about Atlanta, teaching in California and raising two sons in the last episode. She joins us again to share her wisdom on intuitive leadership. The transition from being a teacher to a principal, and from being colleagues and peers to the boss was as challenging as...
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A Heart Centered Journey
David welcomes A Conscious Way Forward’s first guest, the wonderful intuitive warrior, Mrs. Audria Johnson. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Mrs. Johnson describes herself as a “chill, humble, Southern girl!” While she had thoughts of becoming a pediatrician, she found her calling in…
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5: The Leader You Are Waiting for is YOU
The person you have been waiting for is you. What a simple concept. And yet it becomes so complicated because we have been taught that the answers are on the outside. How many times have we been told to go find a leader to follow or to listen to what the teacher says? I am here to reassure you…
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4: Reimagining Learning and School During Ever-changing Times
I have been in the education field for over 20 years wearing the hat as a teacher, principal, executive director, assistant superintendent in private, public, traditional and charter schools, but today I want to talk about the future of education as a Dad. At this time, when schools across the...
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3: Leaning In to the New Era of Leadership
We are at a monumental shift. The world has slowed down; we’re in a human rights movement and it is time to let go of the old hierarchical, linear way to lead. The world needs conscious leadership now. It is time to get to the heart of the matter, heart, not the mind of the matter. We can do this...
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2: The Challenge and Opportunity to Grow, Evolve, & Create Anew
As the world comes to a pause, I keep hearing the phrase, “I can’t wait to get back to normal.” Before we wish to return to the days of outsourcing our kids for 8 hours a day, rushing from place to place, and feeling disconnected and exhausted, let’s think about how we can create a new normal...
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1: Following My Intuition Took Me from Pain to Being Fully Alive
We are all born with a strong intuition. But at around 7 years old, we begin to lose this and start becoming conditioned to the outside world telling us what is right or wrong, good or bad. Today, I discuss the basics of following your intuition as a leader. Launching this podcast brings me right...
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0.1: The Empathic and Intuitive Leader
Today we are throwing the old leader stereotypes - masculine, fierce, strong - out the window and shifting our mindset to the types of leaders our world needs now- teachers, coaches, empaths, you! Right now you are the natural leader our future needs. And yes, you are a leader. We all are…
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0.2: Debunking Old Leadership Belief Systems
It is time to deconstruct the leadership systems that we have all been taught. We need to dismantle hierarchical leadership models and incorporate self-management into our new systems and structures. In this episode, I explain 3 old leadership beliefs – 1. Good leadership shows no weakness. 2...
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An Introduction to A Conscious Way Forward
When I turned 40, I had an awakening. I quit my job and gave myself three months to pursue my dream of opening a school. Fast forward a few years to March 2020, when our world stopped and everything shifted, and I realized I had no choice but to be an ambassador of change and launch this podcast....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is a podcast for the healers, leaders, learners, seekers, changemakers and dreamers. Your host David K Richards is on a mission to help individuals rise in consciousness and envision a new paradigm for healing, leading and learning. David gets to the heart of the matter with healing, reimagining leadership, and reinventing schools. He shares his conscious journey and transformation as a Founder & CEO, education reformer, life coach, and dad-preneur. You will see the big picture with him while also getting practical and easy-to-understand tips and strategies to change your life. David tells engaging and entertaining stories about life, leadership, his journey to reform education, parenting ups and downs, and how he healed from his traumatic childhood to achieve success. He also engages in deep conversations with others that have walked the intuitive path like him. If you are interested in coming home to your soul’s purpose, reimagining leadership, reinventing schools, and healing f
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