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Practice You with Elena Brower

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Now displaying: July, 2020
Jul 25, 2020

On scarcity in schools, committing to our edification, wealth as activism, and standing back to back as we heal.

Jesse Johnson is a master sales and success coach, specializing in helping spiritual entrepreneurs build 7-figure businesses. An artist, activist, and educator, Jesse's career began with 12 years teaching math in NYC public schools. Frustrated by the limits of both bureaucracy and poverty, she founded her own personal development company and blew her own mind taking it to 7 figures in just 2 years. Jesse now teaches coaches, spiritual leaders, and healers to experience sales as a spiritual practice and match their income with their personal mastery - no compromise, no self-sacrifice, no mediocrity.

  • Jesse’s experience of teaching in NYC public schools [0:45]
  • How Jesse came to start her own business [10:19]
  • Wealth as activism [14:03]
  • Lifting others up from a place of alignment [19:07]
  • What needs healing [21:48]
  • Favourite view [23:32]
  • Prayer [26:03]
  • Money and liberation [28:02]
  • Integrating physical identity with spiritual truth. Conversations about race [29:55]

RESOURCES

http://jessejohnsoncoaching.com/
Jesse's YouTube channel
Mastering Sales eBook
Kate LaBrosse
This is Me, Bipolar-Free, Kate LaBrosse
Erika Matos
SriKala

Jul 18, 2020

On the voyage of service, what still needs our attention, connecting to Mother Earth, and majestic remembrance.

Nadine McNeil, is a yoga teacher, speaker, transformational coach and humanitarian whose mission is to ignite infinite possibility in people around the world and share yoga with diverse underserved communities.

Over the last few decades, Nadine has travelled the world in service of the UN, UNICEF, Global Volunteer Network and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. These and other experiences rooted Nadine’s continued devotion to activism.

Inspired by her firsthand encounters with both the resilience of the human spirit and also its suffering, Nadine’s talks, workshops, yoga sessions and retreats are continually described as powerful, moving and insightful.

  • Trust, Truth and Dare. Choosing a word as a compass [0:45]
  • Releasing trauma from the body. Connecting to the earth [8:51]
  • Nadine’s humanitarian work with the UN [15:25]
  • Nadine’s transition into yoga [24:14]
  • How Nadine merged all of her passions and gifts [29:23]
  • What needs to be healed [33:24]
  • Favorite view [35:17]
  • Prayer [35:56]
  • What the body knows [36:50]

RESOURCES

https://www.universalempress.com/
Nadine's 21-Day Reset Program
Transformational Women's Circles
Race Corona, On World Yoga Day
My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa Menakem
On Being podcast with Resmaa Menakem
Michael Moore podcast
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Jul 11, 2020

On whiteness in wellness, our responsibility, our clumsiness and our commitments.

  • Creating Wanderlust [4:41]
  • Spirituality and Civic engagement [16:30]
  • Acknowledging complicity. The role of the wellness teacher [20:39]
  • Black Lives Matter protests. Witnessing glimpses of Oneness [29:21]
  • Grace for clumsiness. Taking moral inventory [36:33]
  • Reframing the notion of separation [43:39]
  • Shaping the world in small moments [47:59]

Jeff attended The Hotchkiss School and received his BA in 1993 from Columbia University. In 2008, Jeff created the concept for Wanderlust, a series of large-scale events combining yoga & wellness with the arts.

In 2018, Jeff founded Commune Media, an online learning platform for personal and societal well-being. As CEO, Jeff focuses on talent relationships, business development and building a stellar team. He also hosts the Commune podcast, interviewing a wide variety of guests from Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson to Brendon Burchard and Russell Brand.

Jeff serves on the board of Pure Edge, a non-profit organization dedicated to integrating yoga and mindfulness curriculum into the public school system. Jeff is a contributor to the Huffington Post and Fast Company. Jeff has written two books, Wanderlust & Find Your True Fork and pens a weekly newsletter called Commusings.

In 2016, he was selected by Oprah Winfrey to be part of the SuperSoul100 as one of the nation’s leading entrepreneurs.

In 1995, Jeff married Schuyler Grant, his college sweetheart. Schuyler, a yoga teacher and director of Kula Yoga Project, served as the inspiration for Wanderlust. Jeff & Schuyler have three beautiful daughters, Phoebe, Lolli and Micah. They currently live in Los Angeles, California.

RESOURCES

http://www.onecommune.com/
http://www.jeffkrasno.com/

Wanderlust
Commune
Pure Edge
Kula Yoga
Heavy - Kiese Laymon
White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo

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