EP. 122 Crisis is something that we create for ourselves in order to return to authenticity.

I believe this is the most important episode of Stay Grounded I’ve ever recorded. We’re living in unprecedented times and a new world is unfolding with each new day. Every single one of us are facing new choices and challenges as we adjust to the far-reaching impact of this global pandemic.

Now more than ever it’s important to stay grounded in the things we love and the moments that matter. It’s true that the things, which brought us certainty in the past have been turned upside down. But maybe this crisis offers us a chance to unlock a new sense of meaning. Maybe this crisis will empower us to turn our attention to our inner world so we can find lasting peace and finally realize that we are enough. This is Panache Desai’s empowering perspective on crisis. He believes crisis is something we create for ourselves so we can return to authenticity – and in this beautiful episode, Panache explores how we can walk the path to enoughness with grace, surrender, and divinity.

Panache Desai is a visionary thought leader and a life catalyst in the area of human development. This incredible human has appeared on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday, he’s collaborated with Depak Chopra and has worked with everyone from Neale Donald Walsh to Joe Dispenza, Brian Weiss, Ram Dass, James Redfield, and other luminaries in the fields of spiritual and personal development. Panache is also an international bestselling author and at this pivotal point in human history, he’s published a new book – You Are Enough – Revealing the Soul to Discover Your Power, Potential, and Possibility. 

There’s no question for me that Panache is a source of divine light. I had the privilege of recording this episode in person and the way his energy made me feel was like nothing I’ve experienced before. I guarantee this episode will inspire a new way of thinking; leaving you empowered to approach today’s world with a sense of hope, faith, and peace.

Here’s a taste of what Panache and I discuss:

1. Why Panache’s daughter forced him to surrender to the uncertainty of life – and the beautiful healing journey that happened as a result.
2. The priceless gift of struggle and suffering.
3. What does peace and surrender feel like?
4. What is the essential self?
5. Does ego ever help us play at our highest level?
6. How can you get to the point where you feel enough?
7. What we have to learn about enoughness from squirrels.
8. What role does the mind play in helping us live our higher self?
9. Tools to make your mind the poster child of the heart.
10. The power of the breath.
11. The five commitments of enoughness.
12. What is presence?

Panache Desai

The better our boundaries are, the more powerful our presence will be in the world.

What does it take to live in your truth and create a container that empowers you to thrive?

This episode’s incredible guest believes we’ve not been taught to speak up and share our truth. Instead, we’ve been trained to distrust the messages of our body and override our inner wisdom.

Karlee Fain is a celebrity business and health coach who shows career-driven women how to upgrade their boundaries so they can tap into their deepest wisdom and stop people-pleasing. As a sought-after live-in coach to A-List celebrities [including Grammy-award winners], Karlee empowers people to get back their precious time and energy.

In this thought-provoking episode, you’ll discover how you can lean into the richness of life and connect with your inner being through the magic of boundaries.

Check out this beautiful episode to hear Karlee and I discuss:

1. How to differentiate between self-love when you need to take time and self-love when you need to do the work.
2. The teacup and saucer analogy of boundaries and self-love.
3. Why creating boundaries isn’t easy.
4. How to know that our boundaries are appropriate.
5. How our body tells us that it’s time to set boundaries.
6. What are boundaries actually protecting?
7. How to determine which values are worth creating boundaries around.
8. Why starting with the low-risk scenarios is a great way to practice boundary setting.
9. How to start being radically honest with yourself.
10. How to make friends as adults.
11. And more!

If you feel you need a bigger container in which to thrive and you need some help giving yourself the freedom and permission to prioritize your needs, this is one episode you don’t want to miss.

Karlee Fain

Our grief is sacred and it’s a rite of passage.

2020 has forced us all to explore our relationship with grief. At some level, we’re all grieving – for unexplored plans, for the old way of living, and for loved ones who are no longer with us.

You may know I lost my grandmother and aunt recently to COVID-19. As my family moves through our grief, I’m experiencing the pain and beauty of dancing with a rich spectrum of emotions. At times, I’m overwhelmed with pain, hurt, and confusion. Then without warning, my emotions flip to deep gratitude for the memories and the opportunity to deepen the connection I feel with my family.

Turns out there is no playbook for grief.

Instead, death is a rite of passage and grief is a personal process that we will all experience at some point during our lives.

So to help break down the taboos and myths around grief, I wanted to bring Death Doula, Jessica Reis onto the show.

Jessica is an incredible human who’s doing incredible work. She specializes in Grief, Loss, Shadow work and Death Guidance, and nourishes with love, guidance and support while helping people to navigate the loss of a loved one.

In this powerful conversation, Jessica and I explore:

1. Why do we struggle to navigate grief?
2. How do you dance through grief so you can feel the full spectrum of emotions?
3. The importance of meeting a grieving person where they are.
4. How you can change the story about grief to make it a more beautiful experience.
5. Why grief is sacred and a rite of passage.
6. How the presence of death can become life-affirming.
7. Death-nesting and the power of supporting someone to move into the portal of death.
8. How I connected energetically with my grandmother in the last moments of her life.
9. The power of moving through grief with ceremonies.
10. Why inauthenticity repels.
11. And more…

Whether you’re grieving for a loved one or the loss of your pre-COVID plans and dreams, this beautiful conversation will help you dance with your emotions – wherever they want to take you.

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Jessica Reis

Presence is the ability to be with what is.

What happens when you sit in the silence and take quality time to be with yourself? Are you able to be present with everything that is? Or do you get distracted easily and struggle to hold all your emotions?

Most of us weren’t raised to be emotionally intelligent beings. Instead, we were programmed to shut off and push down the harder, ‘socially unacceptable’ feelings. Unfortunately, this strategy doesn’t work. Our challenge is that the body doesn’t forget. Any emotions that you resist get stuck inside of you instead of flowing through you. In turn, suffering and pain begin to build-up, making it harder to feel a sense of peace and safety within.

The good news is you can reverse this programming.

With the help of embodiment practices, you can reclaim and rekindle your personal power by embracing the gift of presence.

Tully O’Connor is here to help you navigate that beautiful journey with more grace and ease.

Tully has a deep passion for helping people explore their potential and live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives.

Tully has an incredible background of training and experience. He started his career as a Physiotherapist in 2011 and has spent the last decade exploring human movement, NLP, leadership development and peak performance. He’s worked with teachers in the fields of Tantra and Depth Psychology, gaining a deep understanding of how our unconscious emotional patterns drive our behaviour and impact on our well-being.

Through his coaching programs and retreats, Tully helps men to develop more depth, live a life of purpose, create rich connected relationships and expand their influence as integrated leaders in all aspects of their lives. He’s also the co-creator of the Ignite Couples Course with his wife Kaitlin.

In this powerful episode, Tully and I explore:

1. What is presence and why it’s such an important skill to cultivate?
2. Tully’s breaking point.
3. What is embodiment work and what tools are available to help us navigate this?
4. How to create a sense of safety in your body.
5. The power of leveraging breathwork to crack you open.
6. Tapping into the healing power of inner child work.
7. Why a little bit of fear is good for the soul.
8. Leveraging vulnerabilty and stories to feel seen.

If you’re ready for some deep healing and you’re curious about which techniques and practices could help you take your life to the next level, this episode will show you the way.

Tully O’Connor

Vulnerability is just sharing whatever emotion is in you.

One of the reasons 2020 has been so unsettling is because safety is a basic human need. When certainty is stripped away, fear bubbles up – causing us to feel as though the world is unsafe.

But despite the chaos, there’s an opportunity to be found in the current climate. When the outside world shifts, we have no option but to dive within. In the process, we can cultivate emotional resilience and tap into a more reliable form of safety… the safety that comes from feeling certain inside your own emotions and your own body.

So if you’re craving a sense of peace in this ‘unsafe’ world, this you’ll want to hear what this week’s incredible guest – Elisabeth Cardiello – has to share.

Elisabeth Cardiello is the founder of a coffee company called Caffè Unimatic. Created by her father in the 1950s, the Unimatic drip-percolator became a symbol of Elisabeth’s childhood and hours of coffee-fuelled conversations.

It was while sorting through her dad’s affairs after his unexpected death that the Unimatic took center stage in Elisabeth’s life again. Safely stored in the office’s storeroom, Elisabeth discovered a collection of 5,000 Unimatics manufactured by her dad in the 1960s – and Caffè Unimatic was born.

Then more dots began to connect…

As a child, Elisabeth was obsessed with asking better questions. As an adult, she figured out how to deconstruct conversation and learn the importance of listening. Combined, these skills fueled her desire to use coffee to start conversations that will harmonize our world – and the BRAVE Framework was born.

BRAVE Conversations Over Coffee® is a platform designed to help companies, families, and teams communicate in a way that inspires vulnerability, empathy, courage, and acceptance. Elisabeth’s work has taken her to speak at UN Conferences. She’s given Congressional briefings, two TEDx Talks, and multiple keynotes, as well as been featured by the likes of Forbes, NBC, and Goop. What’s more, her life story is currently part of a Netflix documentary about how coffee connects humanity.

In this beautiful conversation, Elisabeth shares how her coffee became a trigger for creating emotional resilience and unlocking the bravery we all need to thrive.

Here’s a taste of the topics we explore.

1. Methods for creating more safety in yourself.
2. How rituals help you find deeper levels of resilience.
3. The powerful ways that community helps you move forward.
4. How Elisabeth’s dad inspired her business and her life’s work.
5. Secrets for communicating compassion through your eyes.
6. Strategies for using the ritual of coffee to start conversations that can harmonize the world.
7. Elisabeth’s five-step BRAVE framework for vulnerable, authentic conversations.
8. How to create and hold compassionate spaces for others to step into and thrive.
9. And more…

Elisabeth is an incredible human doing amazing work – especially given the times we’re in. I’m so excited for you to experience her presence in this powerful conversation.

Financially happy is a philosophy or a state of being. It’s this idea that you can be both happy and wealthy now.

As a society, we’ve guided ourselves into a challenging relationship with money. Money is the thread that flows through EVERYTHING. It’s the ultimate connector that ties us all together. Due to the way society is structured, most of us can’t live without money! Yet, we decided to make money an emotionally charged taboo.

And it’s disempowering us.

This episode’s guest – Finnian Kelly – is here to offer up a new perspective on money and wealth-creation. His own life experiences have taught him how to combine money with spirituality – so you can live a more intentional life.

Finnian calls this philosophy Financially Happy, and in this episode, he shows you how you can choose this way of being for yourself.

Finnian Kelly is the creator of the Financially Happy movement, a world-renown keynote speaker, and an Intentional Living Guide. He’s built and excited two multi-million-dollar businesses in the financial industry as well as running a private wealth management company that managed $100s of millions. He’s appeared on Sky Business and Ten’s morning shows as a financial expert. He was also an Undercover Angel in the popular National Geographic series. Dubbed the Business Mystic, Finnian helps people feel connected with their money so they can be intentional and live in the now – one breath at a time.

In this incredible episode, Finnian and I explore:

1. How to transform your relationship with money
2. Empowering women around money to heal the divine feminine wound.
3. The reason financial freedom is a dangerous goal to have.
4. The concept of money as a magnifier.
5. Using money as a tool to identify and heal personal pain and trauma.
6. Tapping into heart wisdom to live a wealthier life.
7. Why you need to focus on your feelings.
8. The shift you experience when you live from a place of love, NOT fear.
9. What’s the spiritual purpose of creating more wealth?
10. And more…

If you’re challenged by money and financial matters create a trigger that disrupts your spiritual path, this episode is for you. By the end of this deep-dive conversation, you’ll create an opportunity for yourself to feel excited and energized by money.

Check it out.

Finnian Kelly