Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC

Peggy Fitzsimmons is a gifted coach, psychologist, and energy worker. Almost a decade ago we spent over a 100 hours clearing a massive amount of clutter from my life, which I could never have done on my own. In 2020 I interviewed her about the process and she shared many practical decluttering tips.Since then she’s released her enormously helpful guidebook to decluttering, “Release: Create a Clutter-Free and Soul Driven Life,” which explores the deeper motivations tied to our relationship with our stuff, including trauma, ego identification, and cultural conditioning.In today’s conversation we explore the contrast between ego and soul, and how to tell if you are attached versus connected to your possessions.Peggy shares a clear roadmap for:four essential decluttering skillspresencemindfulnessresonanceinspired action and five domains of cluttermentalemotionalenergeticrelationalphysicalShe also offers tools from the book like the “magic of 10%”, and how to engage with a week-long practice of releasing 25 things a day.Peggy Fitzsimmons websiteOur 2020 Interview:Declutter Your Soul with Peggy Fitzsimmons, Ph.D. - Part 1Declutter Your Soul with Peggy Fitzsimmons, Ph.D. - Part 2Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Angus Fletcher, PhD, is a renowned story scientist who’s innovative research connects neuroscience, creativity, and human potential. This is a fun and engaging interview that’s jam-packed with practical guidance for navigating the plot twists of your life.His new book is the instant national bestseller, 'Primal Intelligence: You Are Smarter Than You Know', which explores the four primal powers we all possess: intuitionimaginationcommon senseemotionWe talk about how cultivating these powers ignites in us an empowered sense of purpose and possibility.Angus also shares what his research has revealed about:the importance of narrative in how we make meaning of lifehow embracing conflict and exceptionality can lead to groundbreaking innovation how reframing negative experiences connects us with a sense of wondercomputers vs. human intelligence ~ and why AI can never replace usembracing anxiety as a signal to awaken our creativityunderstanding the intelligence of intense emotions like fear, anger grief and shamethe power of believing in the goodness of life how integrating our difficult experiences is the foundation of resiliencehow our capacity for storytelling is our greatest assethow to re-ignite and accelerate innovationJoin us for an enlightening conversation that uncovers the hidden intelligence within us all.LINKS:Angus website: https://www.angusfletcher.co/You can take the primal power quiz at: https://www.operationhuman.com/diagnosticAngus Fletcher (PhD Yale) is Professor and Director of the Fisher College of Business Leadership Initiative at the Ohio State University. His research has been called "mind blowing" by Malcolm Gladwell and "life changing" by Brene Brown and has been supported by institutions from the National Science Foundation to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2023, he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for "groundbreaking research" with US Special Operations. His most recent book is the instant national bestseller, Primal Intelligence.Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

I so loved this dialogue with beloved Zen teacher, author and award winning mediator Diane Musho Hamilton. This conversation is for you if you want to learn practical tools for courageous conflict resolution and discover how to transform your anger, fear and grief into potent sources of insight and wisdom.We explore:the distinction between 'waking up' and 'growing up, and how to do bothwhy and how to trust even your most challenging emotionshow to access the trustworthy guidance that comes from true presenceways to skillfully navigate the current intensity of political and societal chaoshow to work with the distinct energies of sameness and difference to know exactly what is needed in difficult conversationshow to cultivate a sense of wellbeing through a regular mindfulness practiceJoin us for an enlightening discussion that blends spiritual practice and the essential skills of human development.LINKS:Diane Musho Hamilton websiteTwo Arrows Zen Center and courses“Waking Up and Growing Up: Spiritual Cross Training for an Evolving World” Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Ryan Leech was a pro trials mountain biker for 25 years, performing thousands of stunt shows for the likes of Crankworx, Red Bull, and Cirque du Soleil, and also holds an  Integral Master Coach™ certification.Ryan offers insight into the complexities of risk and identifies 6 unique flow states, how to cultivate a relationship with uncertainty, the transformative impact of yoga and embodiment on his approach to riding, and the importance of learning and curiosity in both sports and life. We also look at the role of generosity on our path of personal evolution and discuss the digital age's influence on our attention and the need to consciously cultivate agency, curiosity and presence when we’re online. 03:23 Facing Uncertainty and Fear19:31 Exploring Risk and Personal Growth32:31 The Concept of Flow41:12 The Fascination with Risk and Its Consequences42:31 The Trap of Attention Capture in the Digital Age48:26 Exploring 5 Different Types of Flow States56:39 The Importance of Curiosity and Presence01:02:03 The Philosophy of Continuous Learning and Growth01:12:53 The Role of Generosity in Our Personal EvolutionLinks:Ryan Leech websiteRyan's incredible forest trials videoSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Neema Namadamu is the visionary founder of Hero Women Rising and an indomitable peace and women's rights advocate from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In our conversation today she shares her warmth and humor, wise insights and no bullshit approach to leadership. We talk about:navigating challenging times of political and social unrestforgiveness and inner strength how a deep sense of purpose helps us overcome barriersliving with fear and uncertaintypersonal resilience and advocacybreaking the cycle of intergenerational traumathe healing, creative nature of communitythe power of women coming togetherthe impact of war on men, and their role in supporting women's liberationthe distinction between influencers and leadersHero Women RisingNeema's Facebook PageTracking Yes interview with Cynthia JursSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Join me for a conversation with Sarah McCrum, author of “Love Money, Money Loves You”, about how to free yourself from fear and stress around money and create true wealth and well-being in your life.We explore:the true nature of energy ~ and the powerful possibilites inherent in knowing how to work with itwhy we feel fear and stress around money why it’s essential to participate in the circulation of moneyour natural capacity to influence change and create well-being in our personal lives and in the bigger worldthe system of value exchange that generates all the abundance in our livesthe magic of sharing your creativity as a contribution to culturehow learning to relax and enjoy life is the key to creating significant shiftsSarah also shares a fascinating teaching about the Four Currencies of Wealth and describes how we can align with them to create truly wealthy lives.LINKS:Sarah McCrum WebsiteSarah’s Free ResourcesSarah’s creative work with farmers restoring ecosystem vitalityThe stunning artwork of Sarah’s mother, Bridget McCrumSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

35 years ago, Cynthia Jurs met a 106-year-old lama high in the mountains of Tibet and asked him a question that changed the course of her life. In her new memoir, applauded by elders including Joanna Macy, David Abrams, Jack Kornfield and her beloved long-time teacher Thich Nhat Hahn, Cynthia recounts her decades-long quest of burying Earth Treasure Vases to bring care to areas of the Earth most in need of protection and healing.Join us for an inspiring conversation about:trusting intuition and magicletting curiosity lead the waylooking to the stars for guidanceand collaborating with the help that is always available.Cynthia’s journey invites us to open to guidance from the natural world and trust the wisdom of the Earth at this pivotal time of collective awakening.Cynthia Jurs website: www.GaiaMandala.netSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

The most current research on the brain has shown us that when you understand how your brain works, you can influence how it operates to increase your emotional and mental well-being. In this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by Ursula Pottinga, PCC, professional coach and co-leader of an intensive neuro-transformational coach training program I completed this year. Ursula has been coaching leaders for years on how to increase the value of their impact using BeAbove Leadership’s Map of the Seven Levels of Personal, Group, and Organizational Effectiveness. The 7 Levels increase in resonance and effectiveness from:HopelessnessFearFrustrationCourageEngagementInnovationSynchronicityBased on Dr. David Hawkins's Map of Consciousness and Dr. Dan Siegel's mindfulness and neuroscience research, this map can help you recognize your own default position and gain insight and practical tools to raise your personal level of resonance and effectiveness.Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Lynda Caesara is a structural body worker who’s spent decades working with imbalances in the body. She helps people come back into optimal health through both physical and energetic alignment. In our conversation Lynda speaks to managing our electro-magnetic fields and offers five essential practices for connecting to and harnessing energy in the body. Done consistently, these practices will support you in creating a clear and grounded energetic field so you can access the full power of your life force.We explore:working with the body's innate capacity to healunderstanding fear and our nervous system responsesclearing stagnant energy to restore the free flow of our chi, or life forceconnecting with large coherent fields to shift from dissonance to harmony in our beingShe also walks us through a five step daily attention practice to declutter your personal energetic space:Connecting with your centreGrounding into the earthClearing your energy fieldCultivating clear boundaries ~ and why they are essential to true intimacyAttuning to your chakras (including the eighth and ninth)LINKS:Lynda is not currently taking on new clients but if you want to know more about her work, she points to this excellent podcast interview (hosted by one of her long time students) that explores her work in even greater detail:Mindfulness Exercises Podcast with Sean FargoSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

On today’s show I’m talking with Rogers Masson, a friend and remarkable human, who opens up about his journey with PTSD, and the transformative effects he experienced through psychedelic assisted therapy. We talk about why trauma is such a challenging thing for us to navigate, and ways to orient to it that support integration and wholeness.Rogers speaks about how the effects of MDMA (aka: Ecstasy) were significantly more healing for him than traditional therapy and also shares a negative impact in his treatment that moved him to draw on his 30 year career as a music producer to found a company dedicated to creating sound environments that greatly enhance the healing power of these medicine sessions.Join us for an exploration of:the stigma of expressing emotions for menthe cost of compartmentalization in our liveshow to be with intense experiences so they are not stored as traumahow trauma anchors young parts of us in the pastgiving fragmented parts of self a home in present timecreating wholeness through cultivating new stories of our past experiencesFind Rogers' work here: Psysonics WebsiteSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Steve Taylor is a transpersonal psychologist, researcher and author of 15 best-selling books on psychology and spirituality.Our conversation begins with one of his earlier books: “Disconnected: The Roots of Human Cruelty, and How Connection Can Heal the World” which explores the continuum of human nature from psychopathy to spirituality and then we turn toward his most recent book “The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening” which delves into eight qualities of spiritually awakened people: dis-identification from the egogratitudepresencealtruismacceptanceintegration with the bodydetachmentembracing mortalitySteve shares practical exercises and meditations that help us cultivate these qualities, and offers insight into why practicing them leads to deep connection with yourself and others and through that, genuine happiness and fulfillment.Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University, and the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality.His articles and essays have been published in over 100 academic journals, magazines and newspapers. He regularly appears in the media in the UK and writes blog articles for Scientific American, and Psychology Today. Steve Taylor WebsiteSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Meg Wheatley is the author of 12 books, a social activist, a global leadership and organizational consultant, a Buddhist practitioner and a guide and trainer for Warriors for the Human Spirit. After a lifetime of activism and a deep understanding of how living systems work, she’s come to realize that life is no longer subject to the kind of interventions that used to be effective. In today's conversation we explore her newest book Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity and Kindness in Ourselves and Our Organizations and what’s possible when we follow the threads of curiosity and the mystical in our relationships and work.Join us for some clear-eyed wisdom about how to best participate in the world we are now living in, including:what it means to become a Warrior for the Human Spiritthe conditions that enable us to work together in empowered waysharnessing the power of curiosity to access joyconnecting with the guidance that's revealed in the natural worldessential practices that help us to be a stable, compassionate presence in difficult momentsembodying sane leadershipcreating Islands of Sanity in a toxic culturelistening to the world's needs to clarify meaningful purpose and actionLinks from our conversation:Margaret Wheatley websiteWarrior SonglineRestoring Sanity - 6 week online course begins April 18th, 2024Wendy Palmer interviewPema ChodronJoanna MacySupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

In a world craving genuine connection, Meredith Heller's latest book, 'Writing by Heart: A Poetry Path to Healing and Self Discovery,' offers a sanctuary. Leaving home at 13 to find her own way in the world led Meredith Heller through dangerous and heartbreaking terrain, but she didn't just survive; she thrived. In our conversation today Meredith delves into the challenges of navigating adolescence, the beauty of becoming fully authentic and deeply connected to life through the initiation of adversity, and shares how her profound trust in the natural world supported her as she learned to use the transformative power of writing to grow and heal.We explore the importance of creating a sacred space for storytelling and connection,  the use of writing as a tool for self-reflection and empowerment and Meredith offers us a beautiful guided writing exercise on the wisdom of atonement.Tune in to uncover the therapeutic power of putting pen to paper.  Meredith Heller website“Firebird” spoken song on Meredith’s “About” pageSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Join me for a conversation with Pete McLean where we explore the power of finding beauty in the darkest places and how you can keep coming back into a creative relationship with life—no matter what it throws your way.We talk about:Tracking Yes: what it is, how it began and what it means to truly live ittrusting the love that binds us and powerful ways to connect with its guidancedogs as spiritual teachers and what they show us when we’re paying attentiontracking the threads of beauty and magic through the darkest placesI recently interviewed Pete on the podcast about his bone breaking 14 foot fall off of a scaffolding, and how that led to a series of interviews he did with fellow humans about how what they thought were some of the worst things ever turned out to be the best. I was one of the folks he interviewed and this is our conversation. I think you're gonna love this conversation, Pete is as wonderful to be interviewed by as he is to interview.  Pete's Podcast series on 14 Foot FallsSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes: Pete McLean was doing carpentry work when a scaffolding collapsed and he fell 14 feet onto rocks, breaking several bones in his lower body. Sometimes the falls come for us, and sometimes we choose to leap, but either way, Pete holds that our falls are the moments in our lives when something deeper in us is creating an opening to make itself visible and expressed in this world.  Could it be that the thing that we spend most of our time keeping beneath the surface- because of fear or shame or some idea that it’s not OK- is presenting us with an opening to give it wings? Join us for a conversation about how we might trust the falls in our lives as experiences in which our soul is calling us into greater courage, curiosity and possibility. Pete’s Website: Of Earth and SoulOf Earth and Soul Podcast: 14 Foot Falls on SpotifyIain McGilchrist - The Master and His EmissarySupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

In this insightful conversation with end-of-life counsellor Dr. Martha Jo Atkins, we explore the power of restoring our natural connection with death in a culture that is conditioned to resist it.We delve into:the clarity that happens when we partner with death as an allyhow to cultivate the presence to support our beloved humans and pets at end of lifethe value of ritual and ceremony in the dying journey channelling creativity as a grounding force in challenging timeshow the medicine of kindness creates safetythe unique ways that children are equipped to be with deaththe importance of creating spaces to feel deeply so that love can move with us Martha Jo also shares about “D. School”, an initiative she designed to help us shift perceptions around death and offer guidance to those dealing with it. Marked by personal revelations and heart-touching stories, this episode investigates how we can reframe our perspectives on death, making it less about loss and more about the transition of life. * Martha’s next D-School begins in February 16th, 2024 Early Bird registrations ends: December 30th, 2023.Martha Jo Atkins website"Signposts of Dying" bookSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Celia McBride is an author, playwright, cinematographer, and artist. She's also a spiritual director who helps others on their own path of seeking. In her work, she draws on her own experience of healing and spirituality, which has been anything but a straight and narrow path.In our conversation today, we talk about:the nature of addiction: what motivates it, what fuels it, and what's essential to become free of it perfectionism: our deep desire to feel connection and belongingthe path of seeking: trusting our personal path to meaningSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Rich Blundell holds a PhD in Cosmic Evolution and is the founder of OIKA, which explores the 13.8 billion year story of the cosmos and offers immersive practices that bring us back into dynamic, creative relationship with it. In our conversation today, Rich shares his wisdom about the power of beauty to reconnect us with belonging, meaning, and wonder, and how the magic of science reveals to us how inextricably connected we all are.  He offers his scientific understanding of the intelligence of nature and how we can tap into it to generate collaborative responses to the collective challenges we face. Today’s Guest:Dr. Rich Blundell is an ecologist whose work explores the convergence of science, art, nature and culture. As the founder of Oika, his research examines how transformation happens across the scales of person, place and planet. As a communicator, Rich tells a scientific story of the universe that includes art and human creativity as natural phenomena. His goal is to make the continuity of nature palpable. Dr. Blundell has received numerous grants and awards including an ongoing TIDES innovators award, The National Science Foundation grant for Science Out There and The Deep Time Values video award for An Earth Story. Blundell’s creative video work has appeared on PBS, National Geographic and numerous social media platforms. He is currently the Scientist in Residence at the Maria Mitchell Association on Nantucket Island.Rich’s website: oika.comSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

How can you find joy amidst even the most profound pain? My guest today, Dr. Tanmeet Sethi, a board-certified integrative family medicine physician, author, and esteemed faculty member at the Center for Mind Body Medicine, shares her remarkable insights on cultivating well-being and trust in life, even during times of intense suffering. We talk about how negative cultural messaging and trauma can chip away at our trust in life and ourselves, and she shares the science behind the cell danger response and how an extended trauma reaction can hinder our power to thrive.Tanmeet speaks of her journey of discovering unconditional love through her son's fatal diagnosis and how it sprung open a door to greater joy.We explore the rejuvenating world of movement as a powerful form of healing. Tanmeet beautifully articulates how emotions can be propelled by movement to help us transcend a narrow experience of our pain and open to let it be held in a larger narrative.We learn how to break free from the cycle of suffering by understanding where the pain lies and how to sit with it, how gratitude fuels compassion and why grace takes forgiveness to a whole other level.Our conversation today promises to be a source of strength for anyone seeking to find joy and trust in life amidst the toughest of challenges.Today’s Guest:Tanmeet Sethi, MD is an Integrative and Psychedelic Medicine Physician, activist, author, and TEDx speaker who has dedicated her career to care for the most marginalized patients in Seattle’s refugee, uninsured and homeless populations as well as global communities traumatized by manmade and natural disasters as Senior Faculty for the Center for Mind Body Medicine. She has been Core Faculty in residency medical education for the last two decades focusing on inpatient and outpatient family medicine, integrative medicine, and anti-racism in medicine. She is one of the primary clinical researchers at the University of Washington on a study of psilocybin for COVID burnout of frontline medical workers. She is certified in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine and fellowship trained in Integrative Medicine from the University of Arizona. She lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and three children and her first book, Joy Is My Justice, was published on May 2, 2023.Tanmeet’s Website: https://www.tanmeetsethimd.comSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

What if we could break free from the struggles and compulsions that keep us feeling disconnected from life? Join us as we explore the healing power of wonder and the art of showing up for life with Mary O'Malley, a highly regarded leader in the field of awakening and the author of several books, including What's In The Way Is The Way.  Mary shares her insights into the healing power of attention in overcoming pain and trauma, and her experiences with Stephen Levine, who opened her heart and taught her to bring curiosity and compassion to her pain. We discuss: why we're addicted to struggle and how trauma fuels our compulsionsthe two core wounds of abandonment and invasionthe eight core spells that keep us feeling separate from life and how we can free ourselves from them with Mary's guidanceWe dive into her book, What's In The Way Is The Way, and Mary teaches us how to use open-ended questions to create a space for transformation. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a master in the field of awakening and reconnect with the joy of being alive!Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

I'm so delighted to welcome my good friend and author, Jessica Waite back to the podcast. Today we're talking about memory - how it isn't a fixed, static thing in our brain  but actually a living, evolving force in our lives, and the love that's possible when you're curious and willing to allow a painful memory to be rewritten in current time.Learn more about Jessica's soon to be published book: "The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards"Past episodes with Jessica Waite:"The Power of Love Beyond Death" - April 2020 "The Wisdom of Heartbreak" - November 2021Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Episode Summary:Rebecca Wildbear is the author of “Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth”.   On today’s show Rebecca and I explore the connection between mind, body and soul, how to recover to wholeness in a fractured culture, and the path of finding our true place of belonging in the Universe. Join us as Rebecca shares her wisdom on:  Mystery and Soul: partnering with the mystery deep within your own body listening with all of your senses for messages from your soul perceiving, integrating and living into the infinite wisdom that always supports you why dreams are an invaluable source of guidance and direction  Navigating Culture / Recovering Self: the impact of a patriarchal culture on the relationship between mothers and daughters harnessing the power of the feminine practices for refining our attunement to the wisdom of the natural worldwhat drives our self-destructive and harmful practices and why it’s essential to become a love warrior for the earth  Wholeness, Healing and Death: cultivating wholeness on the journey of healing how her near death journey with cancer empowered her life exploring death as a return to innocenceToday's Guest:Rebecca Wildbear is the author of “Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth”. She is also the creator of a yoga practice called Wild Yoga, which empowers individuals to tune in to the mysteries that live within the earth community, dreams, and their own wild nature so they may live a life of creative service. She has been leading Wild Yoga programs since 2007 and also guides other nature and soul programs through Animas Valley Institute.Rebecca's Website: https://www.rebeccawildbear.com Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

There is more than meets the eye operating in the background of our day-to-day lives. Today I'm sharing a tale of the threads of connection that weave us intimately into the cosmos and that extend well beyond what the practical, logical mind can imagine.It's also a real time story of tracking yes, a journey of abandoning the plan and trusting the clues that are appearing rather than seeking certainty to guide the way.If you struggle with decision making, it almost always comes from the idea that you're the one making the decision, on your own. But when you try on the perspective that every decision you make is a collaboration between you and a multitude of seen and unseen forces, then you begin to tune into your felt perceptions, follow clues  that are revealing themselves, and let the best decision emerge as you go.If you got value from this episode, please consider becoming a patron:Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes:  Wendy Palmer passed away on December 2nd, 2022. In honour of her passing I’m publishing a recast of the interview we had in March 2022. If you’ve not heard this conversation I know you’ll find it compelling. If you have, I suspect it may land a level deeper on second listen, knowing that her words are now reaching us from the beyond the boundaries of this earthly realm.  In this insightful conversation Wendy offers the wisdom she has spent a lifetime embodying. She held a seventh degree black belt in the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido, and was a mindfulness practitioner for over 40 years.  Drawing on the skills honed from both of these practices, she shares deceptively simple, fast and effective practices that support you to recover to center in stressful situations and respond creatively when life throws you off balance.  Wendy speaks to:  the essential Aikido practice of “letting the attack land in the space” the 3 most essential qualities of leadership what it means to be truly resilient why boundaries don’t work and what actually doesthe levels of challenge we move through when we are practicing masteryShe also addresses the 3 strategies of personality self: head wants controlheart wants approvalgut wants securityAnd she teaches how we can access the powerful antidotes of perception, compassion and courage.Wendy’s website: www.leadershipembodiment.com7 Guided Practices to Recover to CenterSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Dr. Brian Stafford is a former pediatrician and psychiatrist who left his position as an endowed chair in academic psychiatry to rewild and ensoul his own life, and to discover his deeper calling.  On today’s show Brian and I delve into the realms of mystery and shadow to explore the magic and possibility that emerges when we’re willing to enter a deeper conversation with the natural world, and leave the safety of the known to uncover and reclaim our wholeness.Brian shares his extensive understanding of:rewilding and ensouling your life—what it is, and why and how to do itshifting from a constricted egocentric to an expansive ecocentric orientation to the worldrediscovering the ancient connection between soul and naturebuilding relationship with the natural world as one of our most loving and essential guidesnurturing the life soul wants for you vs. perpetuating the life culture wants for youThe 4 Windows of Knowing full-presence sensingfull-bodied feeling heart-centred thinkingdeep imaginationThe 3 Realms of Knowing physicalspiritualimaginalShadow Workprojection and transferencewhy we don’t see others as they truly are understanding repressed facets of self and why it’s essential to claim them backhow healing our shadow creates clear perception and greater intimacy with lifeToday’s Guest: Dr. Brian Stafford is one of the leaders in the rewilding and ensouling movement. A former pediatrician and perinatal, infant, child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, Brian left his position as an endowed chair in academic psychiatry to rewild and ensoul his own life, and to discover his deeper calling. After retraining as a wholistic eco-therapist and depth psychiatrist with the Animas Valley institute, Brian has gone on to rewild and ensoul the world as a wilderness and vision fast guide, retreat facilitator, mentor, trainer, international speaker, and writer.  He is a guide, Board member, trainer, and Director of the Wild Mind Training Program, a nature-based wholistic eco-depth psychotherapy training program, at the Animas Valley Institute. He is also the Founder or Co-founder of several institutions dedicated to the rewilding and ensouling of Education, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Christianity. He lives in Ojai, California, USA and is currently finishing a book entitled “Pathways Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes: Schuyler Brown left a life of enormous achievement and success by our culture’s standards when a series of events led her to the realization that her livelihood was not in integrity with her soul.Join us for a conversation about the courageous path she followed out of that life, the wisdom of embodiment, the creativity and power of magic, and cultivating the skill of tuning in to the emergent field to perceive guidance about how best to move in our lives.It’s a deep and playful exploration into:becoming embodied in a culture that values intellect over felt perception how the qualities of the divine masculine and feminine support creativity ~ and how to recognize their toxic manifestationswhat magic is, and why it is an essential ally in our path forwardbecoming adept at moving between the subtle and material realmscultivating and trusting the ground of our being vs: an endless quest for safety and happinessthe emergent field: perceiving it, trusting it and skillfully responding to its unwavering guidancethe practice of creating mandalas as a portal into connection and dialogue with the natural worldToday’s Guest: Schuyler Brown offers spiritual guidance, meditation, coaching, and facilitation through The Art of Emergence. She is a former futurist and strategist in the business world who has dedicated herself to the emergence of enlightened culture and commerce. She works with individuals and groups to heal trauma and become more embodied. Her work is grounded in Buddhist Tantra, yogic philosophy, embodiment, and feminine wisdom. She writes about it all and offers guided meditations and embodiment courses on Substack.Schuyler Brown Website                         Schuyler’s Substack: Art of EmergenceSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes: Wendy Palmer holds a seventh degree black belt in the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido, and has practiced mindfulness for over 45 years. She is the author of 4 books, including her latest: Dragons and Power, which explores the elements of Leadership Embodiment, a practice she founded and has been teaching to high level leaders for over 30 years.  Her process draws on principles from Aikido and Mindfulness to offer simple tools and practices to increase the leadership skills of responding to stress and pressure with confidence and integrity.  Wendy shares simple, fast and incredibly effective practices to recover to center when triggered, and what it means to embody the Aikido practice of “letting the attack land in the space”. She offers her personal wisdom around what it means to be resilient, why boundaries don’t work and what actually does.She also explains the 3 most essential qualities of Leadership:Warmth and inclusivenessReceiving feedback as creative fuelActing with clarity, integrity and confidenceToday’s Guest: Wendy Palmer is the founder of LEADERSHIP EMBODIMENT, a process that uses principles from the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido and mindfulness to offer simple tools and practices to increase leadership capacity and respond to stress and pressure with greater confidence and integrity. Wendy holds a seventh degree black belt in Aikido and has practiced mindfulness for over 45 years. She has worked with executive teams and individuals for Twitter, Genentech, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, The Gap, NASA, Gates Foundation, Salesforce.com, McKinsey &Co, Oracle, Google, Unilever, The BBC, Accenture, Blackrock, Capital One, Intel, The George Washington University, Eileen Fisher and The Daimler Chrysler Group. She is also an author of four books, Leadership Embodiment, The Intuitive Body, The Practice of Freedom and Dragons and Power. Her coaching organization, LEADERSHIP EMBODIMENT offers Coach Training to experienced coaches and facilitators who wish to learn to coach leaders in Leadership Presence. Wendy’s website: www.leadershipembodiment.com7 Guided Practices to Recover to CenterSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes: Philip Shepherd is an international authority on embodiment and author of New Self, New World - Recovering our Senses in the 21st Century and Radical Wholeness - The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being.   This is a specially curated edition of a more extensive interview I had with Philip back in August of 2020. In today's conversation he  shares guidance and tools for shifting from the head driven strategies of control and order to an embodied and deep connection with the present moment. He offers thought-provoking wisdom on these important questions:If our essential nature is wholeness then why do we act against the whole in service of our own best interests?Rather than striving for answers, how can we formulate meaningful questions in a world of disinformation, divisiveness, polarization and chaos?How do we stay in connection as we navigate diverse perspectives and challenging dialogues?Why do we lapse back into old patterns, and how do we choose the thing we know is better for us?  How do we access our body's inherent wisdom and find creative ways forward in times of crisis and social uprising?Does Philip feel we're headed for self-termination and if so, how does he orient to that possible reality?Listen to our original, full length interview:Radical Wholeness and Embodied Activism with Philip Sheperd - Part 1Radical Wholeness and Embodied Activism with Philip Sheperd - Part 2Today’s Guest: Philip Shepherd’s unique techniques have been developed to transform our disconnected experience of self and world. The practices of TEPP help people reunite the thinking of the head with the deep, present and calm intelligence of the body. Philip’s approach helps you listen to the world through the body, and come to know what the body most deeply understands: that it belongs to the world. Philip’s website: PhilipSheperd.comSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes: Brian Pearson recently interviewed me on his podcast The Mystic Cave. His questions sparked a fascinating conversation about the philosophy and practice of Tracking Yes, and touched on things I haven’t named before, so  wanted to share it here with you guys.Join us as we explore what it’s like to:open to the wisdom of your imaginationhone your intuition and perceive the clues life is always sending you replace your fear-based survival strategies with deep presencebring curiosity and the spirit of play to problem solvingtrust yourself to walk away from “success” when adventure callsclaim the courage to live an authentic lifeSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes: Brian Pearson is an author, musician, former Anglican priest and host of the eclectic podcast “The Mystic Cave”. Join us for a conversation about his choice to leave the institution of religion in pursuit of his deepening relationship with wonder.It’s a courageous story of self-trust, bucking the system, tracking God and ultimately walking away from an institution which had become too small for the depth and breadth of his curiosity.Today's Guest:Brian Pearson is an author, musician, former Anglican priest and host of the eclectic podcast “The Mystic Cave”, where he hosts fascinating conversations that support an ongoing exploration into his relationship with mystery, mysticism and God.Links from today’s show:Brian Pearson WebsiteThe Mystic Cave podcastBrian's interview with me on The Mystic CaveDan Hill - Grammy Award Winning Singer/SongwriterSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

A little more magic and enchantment is exactly what we need in the world right now. How do we stop waiting for it to appear from outside of us, and bring our own willingness to be enchanted to the very moments we’re currently in?Today’s show explores how we’ve disconnected from our capacity for wonder, and how to get it back. We’re surrounded by opportunities for enchantment in everyday moments but we’re often too busy, too anxious or too lost in our stories to perceive it.In turning toward wonder, we can reconnect with the spark of magic that’s always alive within us ~ and remember how to trust enchantment more than the strategies of protection and control that keep us from it.*This is a recast of an episode published in January of 2021.  Wanted to offer it again in the heart of Christmas.A Blessing for Presence by John O’DonohueMay you awaken to the mystery of being hereAnd enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.May you respond to the call of your giftAnd find the courage to follow its path.May the flame of anger free you from falsity.May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and anxiety never linger about you. May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.May you be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.Source: O’Donohue, J., (1998). Eternal Echoes. Exploring our hunger to belong. London, Bantam Books. p.139Links to things mentioned:John O'DonohueShort video of “In Search of Christmas Spirit”The talented creators of “In Search of Christmas Spirit”Mark Nepo interview on Good Life ProjectSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes:Pippa Evans is an award winning comedian, improviser and the author of "Improv Your Life: An Improviser's Guide To Embracing Whatever Life Throws At You". Join us as she shares the wisdom she's gained about bringing the spirit, spontaneity and skill of improv to your everyday life.On today’s show we talk about how the magic of improv can help you to:let go of perfectionism meet life with flexibility and creativitytrust the adventure of the unknownlean into community and tap into the collective imagination honour our “no’s” - or as Pippa puts it: trust yourself to know when it's time to leave the stageToday’s guest:Pippa Evans is an award winning comedian, improviser and the author of "Improv Your Life: An Improviser's Guide To Embracing Whatever Life Throws At You", a book she wrote during lockdown to share what she’s learned about how to bring the spirit, spontaneity and skill of Improv to our everyday moments.Pippa is a core member of the Olivier award winning “Showstopper: The Improvised Musical”, and recently had her own show on Radio 4, Pippa Evans Grows Up, and often pops up in other recordings and podcasts. Pippa is the co-founder of Sunday Assembly and is a trustee of the Realisation Festival.Links from today’s show:Pippa Evans website - Check out her online Improv Courses!Pippa's BOOK:“Improv Your Life: An Improvisers Guide to Embracing Whatever Life Throws at You” Performances mentioned:Showstopper: The Improvised MusicalThe Showstopper Facebook Live performance from March 2020 West End LockdownPippa’s 5 minute piece at the London PalladiumMiddleditch and Schwartz improv on Netflix:  Episode 3 - Dream JobSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes:My guest today is Jessica Waite, author, friend and all around remarkable soul. Jess was my first guest on the podcast last year, sharing a captivating and vulnerable story of losing the love of her life.A year and a half later, she’s back, brighter, clearer and wiser than ever. In today’s conversation we explore:discovering a more intimate relationship with yourself through loss trusting grief as an ally in your own evolutionwhat happens inside of us when we lose something or someone we loveparallels between addiction and griefthe magic of avatars: what’s really going on when we love each otherexperiencing belonging through deep presence with the worldLinks from today’s show:TYE1: The Power of Love Beyond Death with Jessica WaiteJessica’s Endless Stories WebsiteJess’ Secret Book PageJohn Vervake - Awakening From the Meaning CrisisSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Go to show website: TRACKING YES podcastShow Notes:My guest today is Doug Van Houten, Nature-based Soul Guide. Join us for a fascinating exploration into the ways we've lost touch with our innate, wild relationship with the natural world, and how coming back into that relationship brings us home to our deepest sense of meaning and purpose. Doug shares the essence of nature based spirituality, and specifically the healing and wholing work he does in his role guiding life-altering wilderness intensive retreats with Animas Valley Institute. He answers questions about:how dialoguing with nature can help us navigate our planetary crisishealing the pathological adolescence of our cultureembodying wholeness: reclaiming our archetypal aspects of selfthe essential role of elders in re-establishing healthy earth societiesvision fasting: the practice, purpose and power of soul encounterBill Plotkin’s model of The Nature Based Map of the PsycheLinks mentioned in today’s show:Doug Van Houten websiteAnimas Valley Institute (and Bill Plotkin)The Chalice and the Blade - Riane EislerNature and the Human Soul - Bill Plotkin (Soul Centeric Development Wheel)Trusting the Disruptive Energy of Change: Part 3Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes:Today’s show is a story of magic, and what's possible when you stay in an expansive, curious  orientation to the curve balls life’s pitching your way. Resonance is our most powerful tool for navigating the creative field. It's amplified by what you’re thinking and believing, which impacts how you're feeling and responding to each moment, which influences the attitude you're moving in the world with. The magic happens when you choose to create  it with intention.Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes:On today’s show I’m sharing a practice that’s focused on getting out in nature and having a creative dialogue with it, and how that practice helps you cultivate and nurture an empowered relationship between your ego and your soul, including:guideposts for engaging in a dialogue with the mystery of naturereverse creativity - letting the unknown guide your path forwardthe longing for a romance between your ego and your soul, and how cultivating that relationship creates purpose and meaningI share the challenges, rabbit holes and curious mysteries that have come with a commitment to making Mandalas from things gathered on walks, and how this undertaking is aligned with a powerful teaching on soul and ego by author, wilderness soul guide and agent for cultural change, Bill Plotkin.The Mandalas live here:Liz Wiltzen.comLinks to awesome humans mentioned:Bill Plotkin WebsiteSchuyler Brown on her process of Mandala MakingSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

When Bernard Moss was 22 years old, he was convicted of attempted murder and spent 28 years in San Quentin prison. 23 years into his sentence, he engaged in a year long program called GRIP, which ultimately led to his release from prison and his current career as a facilitator of the GRIP program to men still serving sentences. In today’s interview, Bernard shares a compelling account of his life in the culture of guns and drugs, the continuation of his life of crime while in prison and the powerful rehabilitation program that transformed his life.GRIP is an acronym for Guiding Rage Into Power, a program that was created to support healing and transformation for incarcerated people and their victims/survivors. Students embark on an in-depth journey to comprehend the origins of their violence and develop skills to track and manage strong impulses rather than acting out in harmful ways. They transform destructive beliefs and behaviours into an attitude of emotional intelligence that prevents re-victimization. The GRIP Program has a 99.7% success rate. It began in 2012 at San Quentin and has since expanded to 5 institutions.Today’s Guest:Bernard Moss is a GRIP Facilitator, a peacemaker, and an expert in violence prevention, mindfulness, and emotional Intelligence. Bernard was one of the first to go through and graduate the GRIP program at San Quentin. After he graduated he went on to facilitate three GRIP groups. He was granted parole after 28 years and currently facilitates GRIP at Deuel Vocational Institute, and Mule Creek State Prison.Links mentioned in today’s show:GRIP: Guiding Rage into Power WEBSITEBernard Moss - GRIP FacilitatorSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Episode Summary:Opening to change and following its urge creates a momentum that takes on a life of its own and leads us beyond what our current perspective can imagine. The conclusion of this 3 part series on initiatory experience explores how to navigate transition with curiosity and trust that there are always bigger forces at work and magic afoot.Show Notes:Today’s show tracks the final phase of the arc of transition, including:leaping into the mystery and landing on your feetreleasing “first adulthood” achievements to pursue the soul’s callingBill Plotkin’s 3 stages of spiritual development the invitation and challenge of Vision Questperceiving the emergent possibilities revealed through soul encounterLinks to things mentioned:Animas Valley InstituteBill Plotkin booksSarah Kerr Soul Passages WebsiteSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Part 2 of this 3 part riff on the cycle of transition explores dropping into  the current of change and recalibrating to centre as you navigate its depths.If you can stay present through initiatory experiences, the inevitable waves of anxiety, second-guessing and doubt that arise can lead to clarity, courage and trust in your own inner wisdom.Links to things mentioned:Sarah Kerr Soul Passages WebsiteThe Diamond Approach - Teachings of A.H. AlmaasSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Disruptive energy is woven into the fabric of our lives. It alerts us that we’re being called away from life as we know it in order to discover something new about ourselves and about this experience of human-ing.Most of us avoid, resist and try to control change, and in doing so we miss the deeper and truer aspect of self that is trying to emerge. Choosing to ride the waves of the unexpected with genuine curiosity--and trusting change as an ally not an enemy--takes us on an adventure of our own becoming.Today’s show is Part 1 of a story of choosing change, and leaning into a framework that served as a steady handrail and a powerful torch to light the dark passages of doubt and hesitation. The Map of the Archetypal Cycles of Initiation is a brilliant structure created by Sarah Kerr, PhD. It’s designed to support you in navigating the chaos of change, and serves as a guide as you leave the comfort zone on a quest toward your authentic self. Links to things mentioned:Sarah Kerr’s on demand online class:Grief and Loss as InitiationSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

In November 2014, Linh Huynh, spurred on by her unwavering commitment to crafting a life of daring and wonder, became the 1st Canadian woman to complete the Four Deserts Ultramarathon Series,  four 250 km, self-supported, 7 day races through the hottest, driest and windiest deserts on earth. In doing so in one calendar year, she became the 1st Canadian woman and the 8th woman in history to complete it as a Grand Slam. Her marathon adventure started in 2011 when she won a writing contest through CBC, who then sponsored her to compete in the Antarctic Ice Marathon. In 2013, she completed the North Pole Marathon and became the first Canadian woman to finish a marathon at both poles, and that ignited the goal to accomplish the Four Deserts Series.Her ambitious journey began when her family arrived in Canada in 1980 as part of the mass exodus of boat people fleeing Vietnam. The freedom and safety that came with her new home sparked a quest in her to courageously challenge her own limits.Join us as shares a hilarious, moving and remarkable account of how she defied circumstance to make her goal happen, and in doing so conjured her own brand of magic.Links mentioned in today’s show:Linh’s TED Talk - “Rethinking Limits”Linh Huynh Website“Cool Hand Luke” - The Ditch Digging Scene Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

For the last 8 years, Nicole Huguenin has stepped away from the structures and systems that favour money as the primary currency of exchange, and chosen to live by the tenants of the circular and gift economies. Moving in a world of alternate currencies such as connection, generosity, trust and co-creation she’s discovered that:healing our personal trauma and helping others navigate theirs are inextricably connectedtaking better care of each other isn’t limited to the realms of fundraising, policy making and institutional structuresbringing our natural kindness to the world and making relationships the most important thing is essential medicine for the social issues of disconnection, homelessness, addiction and suicide.Nicole shares an inspiring story of a painful adolescent trauma that was re-activated and transformed through the sovereignty she’s gained on this path.She’s an advocate for building the freedom in our lives to move to where care is needed, because she believes it’s what enables us to perceive where our unique gifts, strengths and talents are best directed and shared.*Note: Nicole briefly speaks to personal experiences of rape and a street attack in this conversation.Links mentioned in today’s show:Under1000Skies: A website that connects homeless creatives to each other and to the world through showcasing their photography, artwork and poetry.Nicole’s Patreon pageSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes:A little more magic and enchantment is exactly what we need in the world right now. How do we stop waiting for it to appear from outside of us, and bring our own willingness to be enchanted to the very moments we’re currently in?Today’s show explores how we’ve disconnected from our capacity for wonder, and how to get it back. We’re surrounded by opportunities for enchantment in everyday moments but we’re often too busy, too anxious or too lost in our stories to perceive it.In turning toward wonder, we can reconnect with the spark of magic that’s always alive within us ~ and remember how to trust enchantment more than the strategies of protection and control that keep us from it.Links to things mentioned:Short video of “In Search of Christmas Spirit”The talented creators of “In Search of Christmas Spirit”Mark Nepo interview on Good Life ProjectSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

One of the best things I’ve learned is that you can’t hear the answer unless you have the question within you. I did a major declutter of my world a while back, and several insights emerged in the process. Not long after, I had a major cycling crash and concussion that presented a new perspective on my relationship with possessions. What if insights aren't answers, they're ignitors of questions? The magic lies in trusting the deeper answers will be revealed not in our brains, but through our lived experience. Links mentioned in today's episode:Jill Carver - Fine ArtistDeclutter Your Soul with Peggy Fitzsimmons, Ph.D. - Part 1Declutter Your Soul with Peggy Fitzsimmons, Ph.D. - Part 2Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

In this fascinating and insightful conversation with Sarah Kerr, PhD, death doula and ritual healer, we explore how we can expand our relationships with death and life, including:why building a healthy relationship with death is a key part of building a healthy relationship with lifehow Western culture disconnects us from an empowered relationship with deathshifting into an orientation that holds death as a sacred and transformative human experienceleaning into mystery, imagination and gratitude to access the guidance of the spiritual realmthe sense of connection that comes from being in an animistic relationship with life why having a map for what happens after we die gives us the clarity and insight we need to navigate death with presence and trusthow the skill of supporting the people we love as they die is a fundamental human skill that we all have access toSarah holds a deeply resonant space, and has created a structure that maps the journey through ANY challenging event in our lives in a profoundly helpful way.Her work is a steady handrail, a trustworthy guide, and a wise, compassionate and powerful torch to light dark passages.Today’s guest:Sarah Kerr, PhD is a Death Doula and a Ritual Healing Practitioner. She holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies, and a PhD in Transformative Learning. She’s been a long-time student of cross-cultural shamanic healing and nature-based spirituality, and has worked with many indigenous and western teachers on the path of her own journeys through darkness and difficulty into healing and resolution.Check out Sarah’s website for a wealth of available courses on navigating death and dying. Sarah Kerr WebsiteSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Marlena and I explored the freedom of letting go of control in Part 1 of our conversation. In part 2 we look at what we actually DO have control over, and how to direct it wisely.boundaries: why they're an essential aspect of well being, and how to become masterful at setting clear, loving, unwavering onescultivating our empowered adult so the younger parts of self stop dictating our choices and actionsidentity vs. autonomy: breaking the agreements with who we’ve been taught to be and becoming who we authentically areusing mindfulness to navigate a clear course through fear and anxietyMarlena also shares her thoughts on what we're really doing here, and my favourite part of the interview, what’s one thing, if we truly understood it, that would most help us navigate the crises we're currently facing.Listen to Part 1 of our conversation here:Navigating a Mindful Path Through Chaos - with Marlena deCarion, PCC: Part 1Today’s guest:Marlena deCarion, PCC is a Professional Certified Coach with The International Coach Federation and is Senior Faculty at The Coaches Training Institute. She coaches entrepreneurs, executives, leaders and teams who want to take their lives to the next level of growth and development.Marlena deCarion Website Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

On today's show Marlena shares a tragedy she experienced  in her early twenties, and how the Mindfulness qualities of presence, curiosity and compassion helped her heal from the trauma. We also explore Buddhist teachings on:what's the true source of our well-beingthe 3 steps that lead us away from our direct experience and into sufferingpain is inevitable - suffering is optional: The Buddhist teaching on the “second arrow”why we’re wired to anticipate trouble even when we’re okayhow to release the strategy of "control"Marlena also shares her thoughts on the empowering benefits of remaining curious and open in difficult times, and offers suggestions for how to practice this essential life skill.Listen to Part 2 of our conversation here:Navigating a Mindful Path Through Chaos - with Marlena deCarion, PCC: Part 2Today’s guest:Marlena deCarion, PCC is a Professional Certified Coach with The International Coach Federation and is Senior Faculty at The Coaches Training Institute. She coaches entrepreneurs, executives, leaders and teams who want to take their lives to the next level of growth and development.Marlena deCarion Website Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Show Notes:In Part 2 of our conversation, Kelly gets specific about what she believes is driving the backlash against J.K.Rowling from some members of the Trans community. She shares how her quest for deeper understanding of the situation led to greater awareness of what's at the heart of conflict. We discuss gender and sexual fluidity and how labels can limit the freedom and complexity of our experience. She also offers insight into the Queer community and why it’s such an important and significant part of our society.Kelly brings clarity and a perspective that balances science and mystery, along with wisdom for staying open and connected when we're navigating contrary points of view.Listen to Part 1 of our discussion here: Un_Cancelling J.K.Rowling with Kelly Madrone: Part 1Links:Kelly’s piece on J.K. Rowling J.K. Rowling’s essay response to the backlash against herKelly Madrone websiteLGBTQ: A Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning TeensSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Episode Summary:Today’s show looks at the toxic, seductive and pervasive tribal behaviour of cancel culture and the echo chambers it creates.Show Notes:Writer, friend and all-around amazing being Kelly Madrone, a member of and advocate for the LGBTQ community and author of the book LGBTQ (now in it’s 3rd edition), joins me today to talk about the backlash against J.K. Rowling’s recent controversial comments on sex and gender, and shares why she felt compelled to write a piece that’s a call to cancel the cancelling.We explore how mob mentality and attack are being wielded as weapons to shut down contrary points of view—and the constricting impact it’s having on respectful, meaningful and creative dialogue. Kelly discusses her scientific perspective on the biology of gender and shares how it complements her spiritual beliefs and informs her perspective on the gender conversation.We also share some of the ways that we're challenging ourselves to bring greater levels of complexity in response to reductionist perspectives and engage in productive public discourse with discernment, compassion and responsibility for the clarity of our point of view.Listen to Part 2 of our discussion here: Un_Cancelling J.K.Rowling with Kelly Madrone: Part 2Links to the moving parts mentioned in the episode:Kelly’s piece on J.K. Rowling J.K. Rowling’s essay response to the backlash against herJohn McWhorter’s review of Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”John McWhorter’s YouTube video on Police BrutalityKelly Madrone websiteSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Episode Summary:As soon as we commit to a point of view, we’ve shifted out of an ever-evolving, ongoing sense making and into the perceived safety of certainty. Clarity requires a willingness to die to what you believed this morning as you open to integrate the new insights that appear throughout the day.Show Notes:On today’s show I’m looking at the polarization, divisiveness and cancel culture that we’re currently navigating in our public discourse.I’m sharing some thoughts from a brilliant thinker I’ve recently been introduced to named Daniel Schmachtenberger. Daniel is an evolutionary philosopher and a social engineer who sheds light on the fact that we live in a disinformation ecology.His primary message is that is that we have gotten sloppy and lazy in our personal sense-making. We've come to defer responsibility for the integrity of our information to:external authoritythe expertsthe political party that we're aligned withthe news media that we followthe in-group that we belong toWe aren’t tracking the full epistemology of the information we're consuming, and as a result we’re not clear specifically why we believe what we believe.Daniel offers sound guidance about how to reclaim our sovereignty and our personal capacity to evaluate the complexity of our world, so that we truly empowered to collectively work together to address the issues humanity is up against.Links/Awesome Humans mentioned in the episode:Daniel Schmachtenberger - The War on Sense Making: Part 1Daniel Schmachtenberger - The War on Sense Making: Part 2Daniel Schmachtenberger WebsiteSupport the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly  subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and encourages me to keep it coming!Did this episode spark questions for you?I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to email me with comments, questions or guests you'd like me to interview. Send a voice message or email me hereThanks so much for listening!If you like the show, I’d so appreciate it if you’d follow in your fav podcast player, and share it with people you think would love it. Connect with me online:Liz Wiltzen Coaching WebsiteTracking Yes BlogThe story that launched the ethos:Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic