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Refractive
by Johnny Guidry
Refractive invites you on a journey of awakening as together we aim our light. Episodes focus on stories of spiritual growth, self-awareness, career alignment, and living intentionally and authentically.
Episodes
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Tapping into the Unconscious for Growth with Chad Hattrup and Todd Hollow-Bist
Guests Chad Hattrup & Todd Hollow-Bist, founders of Pathwise Leadership, join host Johnny G to discuss tapping into the unconscious for growth. Leveraging their backgrounds (both are experts in psychology and in adult learning), they share with listeners how to observe, respect, and befriend the...
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Finding God through Creativity with Jodie King
Jodie King is a successful artist who has made it her mission to empower others as they grow through creativity. She joins host Johnny G to discuss how creativity takes many forms- from art, to cooking, walking, procreation, exercise, and even just having a conversation. Jodie and Johnny dig into...
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When I Love Me the World Loves Me Too with Erin Diehl
Erin Diehl joins Refractive host Johnny G to discuss the power of perspective in creating a happy life- specifically that when I love me the world loves me too. Erin, an author and motivational speaker who uses improv to help people clear barriers and live authentically, shares her wisdom and...
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The Spiritual Wisdom of Genesis with Michael McPadden
Author Michael McPadden and host Johnny Guidry discuss the Spiritual Wisdom of Genesis. Pulling from his book, “Genesis to Revelation,” Michael shares his insights on how the stories in the book of Genesis are layered through with spiritual and metaphysical significance. He discusses his...
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The Spiritual Side of Romance and Intimacy with Mariko Sakai
Mariko Sakai, aka Mistress Mariko, joins host Johnny G to discuss the spiritual side of romance and intimacy. Mariko, a coach and expert in field of relationships, intimacy, and sexuality, presents listeners with a hard-hitting question: are we REALLY willing to get honest about who we are, what…
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Embracing the Shadow Self with Deborah Eden Tull
Deborah Eden Tull, lovingly known as Eden, joins Refractive with the message of embracing the shadow self. She encourages linsteners to see our inner darkness as sacred and perfect, a necessary part of the whole of creation rather than as a defect. Eden shares her journey of awakening, including…
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Rejection Junkies with Gary Lawrence
Dr Gary Lawrence, lovingly known as Dr G, joins host Johnny Guidry to review the harmful emotional patterns created by rejection experiences, and why we continue to put ourselves in the path of rejection. Dr G offers us a new, broader definition of rejection, including any number of painful...
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The Best of Refractive: You Already Know, You Already Are
Best of Refractive: Host Johnny G shares one of his all-time favorite episodes, originally aired in May 2022. We spend so much of our lives scrounging and begging for scraps when there is a banquet laid out at the next table, and it’s been put there JUST for us. The truth is, we humans often…
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Learning to Like Yourself with Alan Questel
We hear about self love, and self care, but what about self like? Guest Alan Questel, author of “Practice Intentional Acts of Kindness” talks about the importance of learning to like yourself. In this episode, Alan talks about his journey through life challenges and interpersonal relationships…
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Does It Feel Good to be around You?
You know the saying: some people are a blessing when they walk into your life, and others are a blessing when they leave! Why do some people feel energizing to be with while others are draining? And more importantly, does it feel good to be around YOU? Host Johnny G discusses how to manage the...
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The Best of Refractive: Surrender to Greatness
For the Best of Refractive, turn the dial back to February 2020 for an all-time favorite episode- powerful, raw, uplifting. Enjoy “Surrender to Greatness.” Magnificence is our birthright. The illusion of struggle, expectations, status, and what’s “fair” causes us to actually fight against our own...
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Investigating the Fear of Abandonment with Connie Monroe
The fear of abandonment is one of the most common and most damaging types of anxiety. It involves an overwhelming worry that people close to you will cease to be available (physically or emotionally). Whether through walling yourself off, sabotaging relationships, or developing unhealty forms of...
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Finding Perfection in Darkness and Tragedy
This episode of Refractive offers insights, experience, and guidance on Finding Perfection in Darkness and Tragedy. Host Johnny G offers suggestions on how to learn to see the world as completely perfect, even as we find so much suffering and chaos around us. This episode challenges listeners to...
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Trusting Your Gut with Matt Hogan
In this episode, “Trusting Your Gut,” Executive Coach Matt Hogan Joins host Johnny Guidry to share inspiring stories of self-discovery and practical guidance on learning to follow your intuition towards a more satisfying life. One fateful day, following a period of darkness and intense struggle,...
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Heal Yourself: How to Design a Joyful Life
In this episode, host Johnny G wraps up the Heal Yourself series by sharing how to design a joyful life. Johnny discusses the difference between happiness and joy, the building blocks of joy, how joy relates to love and passion, and offers a tactical exercise for redesigning your life around joy...
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Heal Yourself: Nutrition and Nourishment with Hally Brooke
This episode in Refractive’s ongoing “Heal Yourself” series welcomes Hally Brooke, Certified Functional Medicine Nutrition Counselor and Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. She joins host Johnny G to discuss Nutrition and Nourishment, how the foods and substances we intake are...
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Heal Yourself: Inner Peace Part 2
In part 1 of the Heal Yourself: Inner Peace episode, host Johnny G discussed how security affects our level of serenity. Now, in part 2, he focuses on how our concept of satisfaction can either enhance or diminish inner peace. Johnny reviews 3 primary factors that affect how satisfied we feel…
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Heal Yourself: Inner Peace, Part 1
Why is inner peace so elusive? How can we find serenity in a world that feels so chaotic? In the second episode of the Heal Yourself series, host Johnny Guidry explores acceptance and inner peace. He presents the building blocks of inner peace, common roadblocks, and a series of exercises to help...
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Heal Yourself Series: Rebalancing Your Life with Luke Iorio
Are you ready to heal yourself? Refractive Podcast welcomes you to a special series designed to help you recover from the pain, sabotage, and self-imposed limits that keep life small, chaotic, and draining. This first episode, Rebalancing Your Life with Luke Iorio, offers practical tools and...
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Guided by God with Jennifer Standish
What would you do if, in a vision and guided by God, you were told to sell your home and your belongings, move across the country, and start helping people heal? Didn’t that sort of experience end with the Old Testament? Clearly not! Jennifer Standish shares her inspiring story of faith with...
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Healing Parental Trauma with Lisa Goodpaster
After experiencing severe psychological abuse at the hands of her stepmother, Lisa Goodpaster couldn’t help but see her parents through a highly distorted lens. While it took decades of exploration, healing, forgiveness, Lisa founded The Stephood Project, an organization dedicated to changing the...
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The Enlightenment Project with Jonathan Robinson
Jonathan Robinson has spent years interviewing over 100 of the world’s most fascinating spiritual seekers. From Mother Teresa to the Dalai Lama, from Oprah to Byron Katie, Jonathan condensed these life-changing conversations and learnings into a single book, The Enlightenment Project. He joins…
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The Best of Refractive: The Ancient Truths of Acceptance and PLINKO
In honor of reaching season 4 of Refractive — can you even beleive??? — host Johnny G shares one of his all-time favorite episodes, truly among The Best of Refractive: The Ancient Truths of Acceptance and PLINKO. Johnny explains that the key to serenity is letting go of any judgments of the…
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All about Ayurveda with Natasha Sidhu
Certified Ayurvedic Health Counsellor Natasha Sidhu sits with host Johnny G to talk All about Ayurveda. Natasha gives context and background into the concept of Ayurveda, the many ways it can be practiced, how people use it to heal and enrich their lives. Having dedicated most of her life the...
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Finding a Career that Fits with Coach Becca Ribbing
Career Coach Becca Ribbing joins Refractive to talk about an essential part of a life that feels right: finding a career that fits. Host Johnny Guidry and Becca discuss the challenge faced by college students in making life-long career decisions, as well as some practical ways to start a pivot if...
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The Power of Connection with Marketing Expert Ben Albert
Why does developing genuine connections seem so hard for some of us? Marketing Expert Ben Albert joins host Johnny G to share a simple, life-changing formula for connecting with others: listen with the intent to learn. Ben talks about how as an entrepreneur in the marketing space, his success and...
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Fatherhood and Spirituality with author Tim Olson
On this episode of Refractive, Fatherhood and Spirituality with author Tim Olson, we discuss the intersection of childhood experiences, family structures, societal norms, and gender roles on those of us who are walking a spiritual path. Tim, who has dedicated much of his life to studying and...
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The Winding Road to Serenity with Danny Berler
Danny Berler of Washington, DC shares an inspiring story of finding peace and spiritual growth through adoption, loss, yoga, recovery, and a cross-eyed cat named Henry. Danny shares how the collapse of his business led him in an unexpected way to healing around his adoption, the gift of learning...
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Is Acupuncture Right for You? w/ Winnie Chan Wang
Acupuncturist and medical intuitive Winnie Chan Wang joins Refractive help you answer the question: Is Acupuncture Right for You? Winnie, who holds 4 science degrees, has found a lovely harmony between the science and the spirituality of acupuncture. She shares how it changed her life, what...
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Releasing Limits through Neuroplasticity with Bob Doyle from “The Secret”
Bob Doyle, best known from the book and movie “The Secret”, stops by Refractive to discuss Releasing Limits through Neuroplasticity. This natural process empowers us to re-write the mental, emotional, and even physical scripts that hold us back. While neuroplasticity is a trait innate to humans…
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You already know. You already are.
We spend so much of our lives scrounging and begging for scraps when there is a banquet laid out at the next table, and it’s been put there JUST for us. The truth is, we humans often trade our birthright of magnificence for a life of scratching and clenching and snatching and wishing.…
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Energy Work to Support Your Goals with Eugenia Oganova
Some people always seem to achieve their goals while others never quite get there. Is it just about hard work? Author and intuitive business coach Eugenia Oganova pulls back the curtain on how managing our energy- our energetics- can open the door to a life of flow and achievement. In this…
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Telling Yourself the Truth with Kute Blackson
Kute Blackson (www.KuteBlackson.com), Transformational Teacher and author of The Magic of Surrender joins Refractive host Johnny G to talk about the most radical path to personal freedom: Telling Yourself the Truth. Kute shares his perspective on the intense life-changing effects of looking...
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Two Weeks in a Monastery
When a friend who knows my spiritual path recommended I schedule a stay in a Buddhist Monastery as a part of my development, I was shocked. Never had Buddhism been on my radar before and I knew next to nothing about it. As they say, when the student is ready, the master appears. Following two…
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All about Reiki with Corene Summers
Reiki Master Corene Summers joins Refractive to tell us all about Reiki, an ancient practice for managing and “cleaning” our energy. Corene explains its healing and wellness benefits, including her own life-changing story: Reiki helped end 10 years of physical ailments that was seemingly beyond...
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Breaking Free from Negative Self Talk
It’s not an exaggeration to say that negative self talk is one of the most destructive forces in humanity. In this episode, host Johnny Guidry shares concepts and methods for reprogramming our negative self talk, including a journaling exercise that flips the script on our weaknesses. He walks...
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The Balance of Being and Doing with Tutti Taygerly
Host Johnny G explores the balance of being and doing with Tutti Taygerly. For over 20 years, Tutti managed a fast-paced and intense career leading design initiatives for startups, creative firms, and huge companies like Disney and Facebook. Today she is an author, a leadership coach, a proud…
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Choosing Not to Fight
In this episode, Choosing Not to Fight, host Johnny Guidry examines the concept of “do no harm,” why it makes sense to turn the other cheek, and 4 foundational steps for any spiritual seeker aspiring to forgive and find acceptance when we are hurting. Learn more about Johnny at...
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Reshaping Your Life after a Spiritual Awakening with Josephine Hardman
Intuitive healer Josephine Hardman joins host Johnny G to discuss the overwhelming experience of reshaping your life after a spiritual awakening. Months away from completing her PhD, and after years of trying to ignore the inner nudges she felt, Josephine’s life reached a tipping point. She knew...
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Guided Meditation: Breath and Body Awareness
This guided meditation: Breath and Body Awareness takes the listener on a 21 minute journey to inner stillness. The meditation connects breathing to various areas of the body, eventually growing awareness to include the entire body and beyond. For other Refractive Podcast guided meditations, try...
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Spiritual Healing through Toxic Relationships with Jean Atman
Sharing her views on spiritual healing through toxic relationships, Soul Evolution Coach, Healer, and Reiki Master Jean Atman talks about the difference between pain and suffering, and how suffering is optional. She calls our toxic relationships our best teachers for fast-tracking soul growth,...
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If I’m Angry with You, the Problem Is Me
Blaming and judging seem almost required to play the game of life, but the truth is that if I’m angry with you, the problem is me. Host Johnny G looks at a powerful spiritual axiom: whenever we are upset by the wrongs of another, there is a wrong in us also. Contact host Johnny G at...
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Find Your Genius with Mahima
Mahima- just the one name, thank you very much- joins Refractive to encourage listeners to find your GENIUS- and embrace it! Speaker, author, and founder of The Mahima Mindset, Mahima discusses breaking free of the societal programming in Zimbabwe that threatened to keep her life WAY smaller than...
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When Purpose Gets in the Way with Daniel Mangena
We might not realize it for years! If we aren’t staying present, pursuing our purpose gets in the way of the full, joyful life we deserve. We can get so caught up in chasing an “ideal” life purpose that sounds good on paper that we never get to actually take steps towards living it out. Daniel...
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Spiritual Visions with Marlon Fixico
This episode, Spiritual Visions, features Marlon Fixico, at times a reluctant participant in his own fantastic spiritual path. Marlon, born into the Cheyenne and Seminole tribes, recounts the colorful, complicated, seemingly indirect path that led him from Native American spirituality, to...
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Learning to Use Intuition
Ever since childhood we are taught to follow societal norms at the expense of our intuitive guidance. The impact of this habit is a loss of connection with our intuition- the very guidance that saves animals from tsunamis and that tells babies not to let certain people hold them. While it does…
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Free Yourself from Limiting Beliefs w/Rebecca Wiener McGregor
Life can feel so cruel. All that you hope for is often within sight, but seems to be kept just out of reach by fate, God, evil, or any number of other mysterious, powerful forces. It’s time to free yourself from limiting beliefs. This episode’s guest, Rebecca Wiener McGregor, is ready to spill…
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Guided Meditation: Receiving Love
If you feel disconnected from the love of others, or would like to deepen the awareness of your connection to all creation, enjoy this special guided meditation celebrating the infinite love that surrounds you at all times. For similarly themed content, try “Guided Meditation: Ocean Stillness.”...
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Find a Career that Fits with Keyia Kersey
To thine own self be true! To find a career that fits, you have to go inside. Career Strategist Keyia Kersey recommends 3 steps for anyone looking to make a career pivot. Certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment, Keyia presents a strong case for why investigating your beliefs about...
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How the 12 Steps Can Help Anyone Heal and Grow featuring Phil Reese
Refractive digs into 5 game-changing teachings from the 12 Steps of Recovery: (1)Design Your God, (2)Shame Lives in Darkness, (3)Life on Life’s Terms, (4)Keep Your Side of the Street Clean, and (5)Compare Means Despair. Guest Phil Reese of the Whole Phil Podcast and host Johnny G discuss how…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Refractive invites you on a journey of awakening as together we aim our light. Episodes focus on stories of spiritual growth, self-awareness, career alignment, and living intentionally and authentically.
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Johnny Guidry
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