The Edge of Everyday with Sandra Bargman

The Edge Between Performative Positivity and Genuine Happiness with Michele PhillipsWhen was the last time you actually felt energized by your life—not just getting through it?What if real happiness isn’t about eliminating darkness — but learning how to integrate it?Real happiness may begin where performance, perfection, and people-pleasing end.In this episode, we’re pushing right up against that edge.Today we are #LiveintheHive with Michele Phillips, author of Energize Your Happiness, and we’re getting into what it really takes to break patterns, reclaim your energy, and stop living on autopilot. Michele models and inspires the courage necessary to OWN your happiness and optimism, in a world committed to pessimism, outrage, and, at times, blatant cruelty.Michele is a globally recognized leadership coach, speaker, and author who helps individuals and organizations harness personal energy to create extraordinary outcomes. She is the author of Happiness Is a Habit: Simple Daily Rituals That Increase Energy, Improve Well-Being, and Add Joy to Every Day (Cedar Fort Publishing, 2013) and Energize Your Happiness: Tap into Personal Energy and Shape Your Destiny Michele is the host of the Write Your Outcome podcast, where she interviews leaders, changemakers, and visionaries about the inner work behind meaningful success—exploring how energy, intention, and conscious choice shape both leadership and life.In this episode we explore…The Happiness Habits that are so simple and yet so life changing.What is the concept of “positive psychology”? https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/our-missionEmotion is ENERGY. What are the 20 energy rules that Michele teaches for clients to learn and master?In our patriarchal, left brain dominated society, we are not taught how to deal and work with our emotions. Is this why we’re in a crisis of consciousness?Some call it “creative flow”, others “in the zone.” Michele calls it Personal Energy Alignment. What is it? What are the steps you can take to increase your personal energy alignment?The “Ladder Up Technique” – what is it and the small, yet powerful choices you can make to energize your optimism, while completely acknowledging trauma, depression, and other challenging situations.What is the truth about happiness that people don’t want to hear?“It’s Your Game and Your Rules”! – Michele PhillipsFind Michele and order her books:www.EnergizeYourHappiness.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-phillips-9409707/Find Sandra:www.SandraBargman.comwww.MagicThreadMedia.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrabargman/@SandraBargmanMentioned in this episode:This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

Learning to Listen: Sex, Surrender and Letting Go with Dominatrix and Author, Dana PharantToday we are #LIVEintheHIVE with Mistress Dana Pharant, professional dominatrix. author and Surrender expert for those who “need to get their head out of their ass and back to loving life.” Dana is no stranger to The Edge of Everyday podcast– I’ve had her on the show, not once, but twice. You MUST check out those episodes:The Inner Dominatrix: Part I https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inner-dominatrix-the-edge-of-power-pain/id1740861679?i=1000667470555The Dominatrix: Part II https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dominatrix-a-special-part-2-conversation-on/id1740861679?i=1000680436830Much like the Witch Archetype, the Dominatrix Archetype is misunderstood and maligned in our Patriarchal world. In a system that fears women’s power, and vilifies women’s sexuality, both the witch and the dominatrix understand that Sexual Energy = Life Force energy, and that Sexual Consciousness is imperative for human consciousness evolution. Sexuality, in our current times, becomes most interesting not when it is purely physical, but when it collides with power, identity, shame, freedom, ritual, vulnerability, and transformation.In this episode, Dana regals us with stories and wisdom from her year-long globe-trotting as a courageous and compassionate nomad, all told in her newly released SIXTH book, Go Ask The Dolphins: A Journey of Sex, Surrender and Letting Go.The spiritual wisdom of dolphins.Is “surrender” the same as “letting go” or is it different?Control as a trauma response. The upside of Control vs Contol being as armor. How does Control serve? How is it transformed into Surrender?What was Dana’s inspiration in writing this book?What were the steps Dana took to change her life and step into her nomadic journey?We explore the theme of Obligation and what Dana discovered about this theme in the many stops in her travels.What is Surrender? How did her understanding of what Surrender is change and evolve on this journey?What are the many ways Dana works with clients in their understanding of SURRENDER? In the dungeon, through healing modalities including plant medicine, and business coaching.All this and so much more.Dana Pharant is a Woo Woo master with the power to see people's core issues. She has a strong penchant for personal development, is a borderline crazy cat lady and she helps Alpha men and women face their shit so they can feel more alive, have more sex and make more money.Dana is a Dominatrix, Sexual High Priestess, a 7 figure CEO, AND a 5x best-selling Author, with her newly released 6th book, which has been described as EAT PRAY LOVE meets 50 Shades being well on it’s way to becoming her next best seller.Find Dana:www.DanaPharant.comhttps://danapharant.substack.com/p/chapter-1-go-ask-the-dolphinshttps://www.youtube.com/@wholebodyhealing1https://www.linkedin.com/in/danapharant/Her book:https://www.amazon.com/Go-Ask-Dolphins-Journey-Surrender/dp/B0GV3B116HFind Sandra:www.SandraBargman.com@SandraBargmanhttps://www.youtube.com/@sandraamazonhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrabargman/Mentioned in this episode:This show was brought to you in part by the Magic Thread Media Network. To learn more visit: https://magicthreadmedia.com/

Rick Prashaw is the the quintessential example of "don't judge a book by it's cover". Talk about the edges he has and continues to walk and the boundaries he has pushed.Rick Prashaw has had a diverse career as a journalist, Catholic priest, (left to marry, divorced), executive director of the Church Council on Justice and Corrections in Canada and Author. (and so much more!)His son Adam inspired him to be an advocate for transgendered human rights and organ donorship.His first memoir, Soar, Adam, Soar is based the life journey of his remarkable son, who tragically passed away in 2016. His latest and second book, Father Rick, Roamin’ Catholic, a faith memoir, was published by Friesen press in February 2022.I could NOT put his book down - Father Rick, Roamin' Catholic - exquisite writing, storytelling and finger on the pulse inspiration! (I'm not even an ex Catholic!)