The game of self-awareness is, inherently, an infinite game.

How do you best play the hand that life dealt you? How can you navigate challenge and trauma and still find a way to unlock the best version of yourself?

To help us answer these questions [and more], I’ve got Angelo Keely on the show!

Angelo is the co-founder and CEO of Kion, a lifestyle supplement and functional food company dedicated to helping people live their most vibrant, fulfilling life. He’s also the founder of Create Your Life, a live online program to uncover clarity, purpose, and vision so you can build an actionable plan to create the life, business, relationships, family, or career of your dreams.

Angelo is no stranger to challenge after experiencing a series of traumatic incidents in his adolescence and early childhood. He was nearly beaten to death at age 16 and aged 21; he was involved in a deadly bus accident in the Himalayan foothills. Despite these traumas, Angelo has been able to craft a life of meaning and impact.

In this episode’s powerful conversation, Angelo and I dive head-first into a series of challenging concepts that forced us to articulate our own beliefs about what life is all about.

Tune in now to hear us explore:

1. What it means to be a leader inside of turbulence and chaos.
2. The best speed to choose when moving through your life.
3. How to navigate challenges, hardship, and struggle to become a more authentic, clearer version of yourself.
4. The power of ‘chosen’ challenges.
5. What shifts in your being when you choose to see life as an infinite game.
6. Why Raj believes you can’t mess up your life.
7. What drives people to do harmful things.
8. What mentoring inside a maximum-security prison taught Raj about the impact of environment.
9. And more…

As the meaning-maker in your life, you get to choose a story and a set of beliefs that serve and extract the highest version of your being.

This episode’s conversation will inspire you to think off the beaten track and guide you to explore what life means for YOU. In turn, you’ll feel empowered to reclaim your truth and express yourself at a whole new level.

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Angelo Keely

When you do go inside and you realize that that’s where your strength is, that literally shifts the ground for you.

As a society, we have a very limited definition of what it means to be beautiful.

Thanks to the beauty and fashion industries we’ve become obsessed with products that promise to enhance our appearance and push back the years. As a result, lots of people – women in particular – find their value in the way they look rather than the person they are inside.

But if the way you look defines your self-worth and value, what do you do when your physical appearance is cruelly stripped away?

This episode’s guest – Hollywood Beauty expert Kym Douglas – experienced this first-hand.

Kym started out in television when she was just 16. Over the years, she built a career sharing her passion for ALL things beauty on shows including Hallmark’s Home & Family Show and the Ellen Degeneres Show.

But In 2018, Kym’s world turned upside down after a routine mammogram revealed she had stage 3B breast cancer.

As chemo stripped away her external beauty, Kym had no choice but to find meaning elsewhere.

In this episode, she shares that story.

After decades of looking outside herself, Kym was guided to embrace the inner work. With the help of God, divine signs, and a meaningful oak tree stump, Kym found the strength and courage to overcome the disease.

Today, she’s more beautiful than ever after learning how to redefine beauty and most importantly, choose herself.

Tune into this powerful episode and discover:  

1. The moment when Kym found the strength to fight cancer.
2. How an oak tree stump became the trigger that transformed Kym’s life.
3. The healing power of vulnerability.
4. The importance of checking the ingredients in your make-up and skincare.
5. Big life lessons from Kym’s healing journey.
6. How tragedy inspires us to discover what’s really important.
7. The ONE thing that all scientists and healers agree on which you can do to prevent disease.
8. And more…

Kym’s story is a source of hope and inspiration and I can’t wait for you to discover it all inside this incredible episode.

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Kym Douglas

When I find presence, that is when intuition can come in.

We don’t only experience grief after the death of a loved one. We also experience grief when our plans are forced to change.

Late last year, Phoebe Mroczek was hit by a car in downtown Austin. After choosing the path of positivity to empower her healing, Phoebe was able to explore an even deeper path of self-discovery and self-love.

Through the power of presence and by asking a new set of questions, Phoebe learned to refind her center amongst the chaos.

By creating space for pauses and presence, Phoebe was able to embrace a journey of unbecoming as she journeyed back to her truth.

In this heart-warming episode, Phoebe and I explore the magic that can open up after life knocks you down. Tune in to discover the personal growth that becomes possible when you’re willing to dance fully with whatever’s in front of you.

Phoebe Mroczek is a personal strategist to the most successful business leaders, helping them uncover and integrate their own unique formula for self-mastery, deep connection and fulfillment.

Phoebe is the founder of Unbecoming®, a leading podcast and nationally-syndicated radio show that helps 110,000+ weekly listeners release what is holding them back, step into alignment and awaken to the truth of who they are.

Phoebe believes that while what we do in the world is important, we are meant to do so much more in life than just work. As a curious explorer and recovering perfectionist, she has traveled to nearly 70 countries on 6 continents, been cage diving with great white sharks, camped in the Serengeti and motorcycled across 15 countries in Europe.

In this powerful conversation, Phoebe and I explore:

1. What does it mean to create space in your life?
2. What are we trying to return to when we pause?
3. Navigating the truth that we’re always put together.
4. The guiding force of questions.
5. How to tap into intuition through presence.
6. The difference between purpose and missions.
7. Healing residual emotions for deeper self-acceptance.
8. How to navigate your grief when life undermines your plans.
9. And more…

Phoebe is an incredible human whose presence and heart has a lot to teach us about unbecoming – so we can truly live.

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Phoebe Mroczek

Each person has a unique set of values. It’s very much like a snowflake or a fingerprint. It’s unique to you.

I’ve found that one of the keys to staying grounded and living a fulfilling life is to discover your purpose and define your values. Together, these two inner guidance systems create a north star that helps you make decisions and live in a direction of increasing choice.

Doing the inner work to distinguish between my values and those I’ve picked up from others has been one of the most transformative experiences of my life.

And in this week’s episode, you get to meet the man who helped me do it.

Will Etheridge is a human behaviorist, value systems expert and a Perceptual Balancing Specialist. His genius is in taking clients from a clouded view of their direction in life and crystallizing it using their unique set of values in order to bring them clarity, focus and the inspiration necessary to live an amazing life.

I couldn’t be more excited to bring you this episode, so tune in now and discover how knowing your values can transform your life.

Knowing what motivates you will help you live a more fulfilling, purposeful life. As you’ll hear in this episode, values work is a powerful tool that will help you take your own personal growth into your hands.

Listen to this episode and you’ll hear Will and I explore:

1. The default state that most people are in.
2. The reason we close down on someone before we even know them.
3. What is a value system and how does that impact your choices?
4. Whether or not your values are set in stone?
5. How the priorities of your values change during the day.
6. Why we fear our feelings.
7. How do you differentiate between injected values and your own values?
8. And more…

https://youtu.be/nI71PFybgkQ

Will Etheridge

Death is literally the greatest teacher that we have.

Asher Packman’s life circumstances forced him to rewrite his relationship with death. This journey started in 2007, when his sister took her own life at the peak of Asher’s corporate career. His mother died not long after, and while Asher was still deep in grief, he received his own blood cancer diagnosis.

But in the shadows and the darkness, Asher allowed death to become his most powerful teacher. By choosing to embrace the presence of death in his life, Asher discovered how to truly live.

Death is a conversation most of want to avoid, but we shouldn’t. The second you’re born, death becomes a certainty.

In this taboo-breaking interview, Asher shows you how you can call in death without fear – and allow it to teach you the secret of life.

Asher Packman is the president of Meditation Australia and the founder of Warrior Within and The Fifth Direction. He also runs death workshops.

Over the last decade, Asher has grown to become a globally recognized mindset coach and meditation teacher. Combining heart intelligence with Eastern philosophies and storytelling, he provides an approach that will connect you to the unlimited potential of your own true nature.

In this empowering conversation that everyone needs to have about death, Asher and I explore:

1. Why we’re having a conversation with death all the time.
2. The power of learning from the darkness and shadows?
3. Exploring the dance between destiny and free choice.
4. Navigating the journey from our head to our heart.
5. Asher’s life experiences that inspired him to start an inner journey.
6. Asher’s relationships with his illness.
7. The difference between acceptance and agreements.
8. The power of lockdown for inspiring a collective rite of passage.I encourage you to listen in.

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Asher Packman

As men, we are so hell-bent on protecting our masculinity because – this runs to the root of an identity – if you’re not a man, then you’re weak, you’re ostracized, you’re not valued. And then, you’re on your own. You’re left to kind of perish. This runs so deeply inside of us that we don’t recognize the game that we’re playing, which is “protect my man card.”

You may have noticed a recent trend where people are talking about the patriarchy, toxic masculinity, and what it means to be a man.

These confronting conversations are forcing us to look more closely at masculine and feminine dynamics and the healthy role that each plays in establishing harmonious societies. As a result, there are a growing number of men willing to take the journey required to step into healthier versions of manhood.

As my brother Dominick Quartuccio explains, there are a lot of little boys running around in the bodies of men. The reason? Conventional schooling and society don’t prioritize teaching the transition into healthy masculinity.

But if we’re willing to lean into our vulnerability and listen to our hearts’ whispers, not only will we experience profound healing BUT we have an opportunity to unleash the true power of our divine masculine into the world.

In this powerful conversation, Dominick and I explore what healthy masculinity looks like and the challenges men face while protecting their ‘man card’. And as you’ll hear, cultivating the confidence to listen to your heart in the midst of all the noise is a powerful way to transform your life – especially during 2020.

Dominick is a leader in the field of healthy masculinity and a man who walks his talk. His commitment to do the inner work always blows me away. As a coach, author, and advocate, Dominick helps men discover and live the Great Man Within. He co-hosts The Great Man Within podcast, and runs DoInnerWork.com. He also leads The Great Man Mastermind, a community of high caliber and high character men living their greatest purpose and optimizing their performance in everything they do.

Here’s a taste of what we discuss in this incredible conversation:

1. What is a healthy definition of masculinity?
2. Why are there so many little boys living in men’s bodies.
3. How to navigate the death of an identity as a season in your life ends.
4. The power of initiations and the rite of passage ceremonies.
5. How to ask for help without losing your man card.
6. How can men hold space to be friends with a woman?
7. The healing power of being vulnerable with other men
8. How to be vulnerable with yourself.

With plenty to think about and takeaway for both men and women, this episode is the perfect way to explore the healing effect of cultivating healthy masculine energy in your life.

https://youtu.be/UuqQFgk3Y-0

DOMINICK QUARTUCCIO