The Good with Theresa G

I am excited to introduce you to Vanessa a.k.a The Grateful V. In 2018 we both started DNRS and serendipitously we also both found each other on Instagram. Almost 5 years later and its hard to remember how sick both of us where back then. We have watched and supported each other in using our brain retraining tools to regain our health. We have cheered each other on and have learned to keep thriving even thru the hardships life has thrown at us since we started the Neuroplasticity journey. It has been a long time coming but we finally got to sit down and share a raw and honest conversation about our journey's.  Vanessa is now a Neuroplasticity coach and has gifted us with many healing nuggets in this podcast.

Could it be that we are all complete love or that there is no division and no separation? Could all the answers be within us? Kene Sperry an extraordinary photographer sits down with us to share his photographs and the exploration of concepts that intertwine nature, art and soul.

What a ride the last few years have been. I think many of us are yearning to Re-Ignite our Lives in some way or another. When I heard my very favorite Naturopath, Alisun Bonville and Functional Nutritionist, Emily Potter had started the Ignite Life Project I was intrigued indeed. In this gathering of souls Emily and Alisun share some great tips on how to Ignite your life.

Testing 1,2,3…. Can I still podcast? It has been a minute but I’m back!! I wanted to update you on what I have been up to before I start releasing all the great conversations we have this season. Thank you for your patience and support! It was about 5 years ago that I woke up and decided to start a podcast. It has been an amazing gift. What a passion project. I know my commitment has ebbed and flowed and I thank you for your understanding. My biggest hope is that thru the conversations recorded you can find a nugget of the goodness that is Humanity. Welcome back friends. Sending you all my love.

Lindsay Schack with Love Schack Architecture introduces us to Passive home building and design. An awesome concept and option to start lowering our environmental footprint while living in healthier spaces that breathe. Take a great big breath and join me for this great conversation. Then head over to Love Schack Architecture's site to see all the awesome work Lindsay and her business partner Lindsey Love are doing.

It’s been super tough for all of us. As always I will be 100 percent honest with you. It’s been a long time since I released a podcast because it’s been really hard for me to focus on the GOOD. The political climate along with COVID has been like nothing we have ever experienced before. It has been a soul searching and soul stressing time. I also have been dealing with a bunch of random other stuff that has been super challenging. I will share more with you about that in future podcasts. Today I woke up and felt very sad about it all. The deep sadness pushed me to move back to one of the things that healed me before. My podcast. I turned on this podcast that I recorded with Keith and Rodney (from the More in Common Podcast) months ago. It brightened my day and brought me back to that place that inspired me to start podcasting about the GOOD. This is such a prevalent and powerful discussion about how to discuss important but tough topics in a place of compassion and respect. It brightened my day and increased the tools in my tool box to be better prepared for those harder conversations while anchoring in compassion and humanity. I hope it brightens your day and better prepares you too! So much love and gratitude to you for being here!

I love Sound Therapy International and what their sound therapy tools it did to heal my ears and nervous system so much that I had to share the power of it with all of you! Join me as I have a conversation with one of the founders of Sound Therapy International, Rafaele Joudry. We talk about what brought me to Sound therapy, the science behind it, healing stories and all the benefits it offers beyond ear health. Ironically the sound quality on this one is not the best and I apologize for that! It’s such great info I had to release it anyway. Welcome to the future of Medicine.

Join us in a Qigong Meditation as Clair Hager guides us thru the Healing the Emotions practice, as instructed by Ken Cohen and is printed in his book: The Way of Qigong. Clair suggests you try to get in nine breath cycles for each part of the meditation. (Please do not be concerned if you can't do this.) I have noticed nine seems to be an important number in Qigong so now I often chant my mantra's in sets of three or nine.This meditation practice heals you and the generations before and after you. It creates ripples of goodness throughout your body that radiates to the rest of the planet. I hope it brings you to a place of peace. I will release my conversation with Clair Hager next weekend. So stay tuned!

I’m always trying to grow my knowledge about brain plasticity so, when someone told me about Curable I had to try it. I was blown away with the Curable app because it personalized my experience, creating a very user friendly way to help retrain my brain. The app is so impressive I invited Curable Co Founder and CEO John Gribbin on the podcast so that he could share his story and the birth story of Curable, along with some of the cutting edge science that Curable was built upon. If you or someone you know is dealing with chronic pain I hope this podcast helps jump start a journey of leaving pain behind and getting back to living life!

You know what’s cool? When I listen to my own podcast and it completely lifts me out of a funk! Elaine Huang is the spiritual teacher and owner of Embodiment of Freedom. As a spiritual teacher, Elaine provides spiritually-based intuitive guidance to individuals and leads illuminating meditation intensives for groups. Elaine is so good at what she does peace radiates out of this interview right to the listener. We talk about how Elaine found God's Peace in the wind. Elaine tells us about how meditation lifted her out of a sadness she had experienced for a long time. Then, we talk about intuition and the gift of impermanence. After the podcast Elaine guides us on a powerful and relaxing meditation. If you're driving please pause the podcast at that point and finish the meditation at home. Thank you Elaine for helping us welcome in this new year with such grace and peace.

Nate Neustadt wanted to do something different for his bar mitzvah project. He decided to write a book for kids like himself who are victims of bullying. Nate donates the proceeds to an organization devoted to supporting the mental and emotional wellness of young people. Nate’s articulation and conviction to help other people rise above bullying will inspire and captivate you. This podcast is for the entire family so please have your kids listen too!

Esther Inman believes anyone can be successful and do anything. She has used some powerful tools to radically change her life in the last six years. Esther is helping thousands of women to redesign their lives by teaching tools to help people work from home as Virtual Assistants (VA). Esther’s authentic nature and focus on living a thriving life has filled this podcast full of golden nuggets that helped me refocus and recommit to the power of visualization. I hope this podcasts offers you some golden nuggets too.

I remember a 2 or 3-year-old darling girl at a wedding around 16 years ago.  She was crying and overwhelmed.  The wedding was loud and over-stimulating.   Someone handed her a fragrant lavender flower.  She put the flower to her nose and started to take some deep breaths.  Then, she began to laugh.  The joy that the lavender flower gave her is a memory that will forever live in my mind.  Meet Hannah Lee Clemenson she is all grown up now and has joined us on the podcast to share some lessons about living as a courageous and bold blind woman.  Not surprisingly this conversation might just inspire us all to go find a flower and to savor the smell in absolute joy!

Stephen Ritz is the Founder of the Green Bronx Machine and quite frankly a miracle worker in the classroom and beyond. Stephen has been revitalizing education, food quality and community in the poorest congressional district in the country. Stephen saw beyond the limits of poverty and recognized that educational opportunities, joy, health and wellness can all come from a curriculum that is based on growing food and cooking in the classroom. His students have grown over 65,000lbs of food and are not only changing the health and potential of the students and families in the Bronx but the Green Bronx Machine model is being implemented in over 6000 classrooms all over the world!

My dear friend Keesia Janes left all social media and gave up her smart phone seven months ago. I invited her on the show because I find unplugging from technology a truly refreshing concept. It really wasn�t that long ago that we all just used our cell phones for phone calls. It�s amazing how quickly we have become so dependent on our phones. Is social media and the smart phone making our lives better? Is the smart phone and social media tools or crutches? We discuss these questions and about how these technologies have effected each of us in different ways. Please share your thoughts with us too!

Cofounders of Mural Mice Universal R.E. Wall and Margaret Dewar sit down with us to discuss the empowerment of public art. They talk to us about how taking a white wall and transforming it with a mural creates an enormous sense of community and fosters a sense of place for all involved. Murals are infusing the planet with energetic ripples that continue for the life of the mural. I am so thankful and inspired by what Mural Mice Universal is doing to unify communities thru art.

Marissa McDonough has built a hugely successful Rodan+Fields organization leading over ten thousand people! It has been an absolute inspiration to watch her build her business over the last six years because she is so down to earth and committed to truly helping people. I really enjoyed our conversation and walked away with some great gems on how to approach business and life in general!

Kareen Erbe is an experienced practitioner of permaculture who teaches, consults and designs using the principles of permaculture. She talks to us about her journey as an activist and her personal shift to stop focusing on the problems of the world and start focusing on the solutions. She also shares with us some easy steps to begin implementing permaculture in our lives where ever we live.

Angela Marie Patnode is a transformational coach who helps people break free from anxiety, stress and illness. She talks to us about her amazing personal story of healing her anxiety thru meditation. She also talks about how she was able to heal herself from chronic pain and Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity by rewiring her brain for health. She offers us great insight on the power of the mind.

Kimberly Kling shares with us the emotional and spiritual journey of leaving her job as a Structural Engineer to pursue her passions and to feed her soul. She talks about homesteading in the desert and her passion for creating. She also talks about her herbal creations business Joyful Roots. She is an absolute joy and I loved talking with her!

Tony Brown is an Architect, Educator and the founder of Ecosa Institute. He talks to us about sustainability in a very new way. Tony believes that observing nature and working with nature will offer us many of the solutions we need to heal all life on earth. We talk about the unique interdisciplinary curriculum that Ecosa offers and the multiple projects that Ecosa students have developed. Tony inspires students to evolve beyond current societal paradigms.