Ashley Turner: Walking the Winding Path of Authentic Truth
In this episode of Art of Authenticity, I had a deep conversation with Ashley Turner, a yoga instructor, marriage and family psychotherapy intern, and an ordained priestess.Ashley is not only an M.A., MFTI yoga meditation instructor, she is a marriage and family psychotherapy intern, writer...and also an ordained priestess.She has been on list as 100 Most Influential Yoga Instructors in the US, 40 Under 40 health and wellness sector of the Wall Street MNA advisory list.She is the founder of Yoga Psych and Soul, advance yoga psychotherapy training, the cofounder of Urban Priestess and the creator of nine bestselling yoga DVD’s and online coursesand co-author of Aroma Yoga.
As you can tell, Ashley does a lot. She blends eastern and western practices in her path to living authentically, even becoming an ordained priestess. I wasn’t totally sure what that entailed, but she explains it in this episode.She goes into how to blend eastern-western yoga techniques, meditation, philosophy and traditional western psychotherapy into building a life that is deeply authentic and meaningful. She is someone who has been on the path of authenticity her whole life and she really goes into a lot of detail about how she keeps that truth alive in her life on a daily and sometimes even hourly basis.I know you’re going to love today’s show, check it out and thank you again so much for listening.
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Show Notes
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Ashley explains how she got into yoga [03:14]
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How she “took yoga off the mat” [04:50]
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What “yoga off the mat” really means [05:50]
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What issues she sees with her clients time and time again [08:47]
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How she balances Eastern and Western practices [11:19]
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What the word “surrender” means to her [13:11]
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How she actually practices surrendering in moments of despair [17:23]
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How she became an ordained priestess [19:00]
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What an authentic life means to her [23:57]
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The habits that help her keep living her authentic truth [27:42]
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Kute Blackson: Transformation and Authentic Leadership
In this episode of Art of Authenticity, I talked with Kute Blackson, a transformational leader and author of You. Are. The. One.Kute Blackson is an utterly unique visionary in the world of human potential. Unlike those who promise to simply help people “get” what they want, Kute’s life work instead reveals to people what they have to give, by liberating who they are most truly and deeply. The focus: Freedom.Kute’s own background and experience lay out the blueprint for his approach to liberating others, setting their gifts and greatness free. Born in Ghana, West Africa, his multicultural upbringing as the child of a Japanese mother and Ghanaian father, raised in London, and on 4 different continents defies all stereotype. Kute is a global authority in “Transformational Immersion Journeys”.He is known worldwide for creating the unique and revolutionary “Liberation Experience,” where he travels with an individual client, one-on-one, across India, for 14 days, as well as the creator of the group process “Boundless Bliss—The Bali Breakthrough Experience”.
I was so honored to have Kute Blackson on the show. His bestselling novel, You. Are. The. One. is a fantastic look at authentic leadership and development.He realized that the “outside-in approach” doesn’t work for personal development and replaced it with an “inside-out approach”. This helps the individual get in touch with who they really are, the process of breaking free so they can live, give and share their truest expression of self. This is what Kute calls liberated living.Today, we talked about authenticity, Kute uses some of the same terminology that I feel strongly, peeling back the layers of self, how we’re just energetic, beautiful beings from birth and what happens, how those layers get added on, how you can remove them, how to get back, step up and rise up into the life that you were meant to live.I hope you enjoy today’s show, I loved chatting with him and I know that you’re going to be as inspired as I was.
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How to Find Out What You Really Want
Struggling to figure out what you really want?
The first step
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Brian Kurtz: Marketing, Marketing, and more Marketing
In this episode of Art of Authenticity, I had a deep conversation with Brian Kurtz about authentic marketing.Brian is a veteran in the marketing industry. He ran Boardroom Inc. where he was the director ofmarketing for the company and they grew the company to $150 million in sales at it’s height, reaching over a billion people.This guy has been in the email marketing space for 30 years, has tons of experience. He’s recently gone out on his own to a new group called Titans Marketing where he offers educational materials, coaching consulting.I had so much fun chatting with him today. When I wrote my book, the very first piece of advice I got was:
“Hey Laura, you’ve got to start an email list."
I was thinking, "What do we need an email list for? I’m trying to write a book, which is already a ton of work. How can I think about an email list?”Truth be told, I had a bit of an allergic reaction to marketing myself. I thought the whole thing was just a little uncomfortable.Brian dives into why marketing isn’t some kind of evil, devilish thing that you have to do, it’s really about how to bring the value of your message forward in a compelling way to reach audiences. Wedive into all sorts of tactical advice about how to think about marketing down to thepsychological things that might be in your way.He’s filled with tons of information and I really enjoyed hearing about what he had to offer and learned a ton.I hope you like today’s episode. If you’re starting a business or you’re in one and you want totake it to the next level, this episode is for you.
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About Brian Kurtz
Under Brian's marketing leadership and during his tenure, Boardroom’s revenues went from approximately $5 million (in 1981) to a high of over $150 million (in 2006).His mission for the next 35 years (as the Founder of “Titans Marketing LLC”), is to be the bridge between the eternal truths of direct response marketing and all that is considered state-of-the-art direct response marketing today.In September of 2014, to kick off that mission, Brian hosted what has been called the event of the decade: "Titans of Direct Response." "Titans” brought together the greatest minds in direct response marketing from the last 50 years...both as speakers and attendees. Titans Mastermind is the next big step in that mission as “The Bridge.”Brian writes and speaks regularly; recent content can be found at www.briankurtz.me.
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Aaron Anastasi: The Voice of Your Dreams
On today's episode, we dive into negative self-talk, imposter voices, what keeps you from your dreams. Although Aaron's resume is very impressive, he really struggled with getting the imposter voices, the negative self-talk out of the way so that he could actualize a life that was really meaningful to him. He also shares details like how impostor voices don't just go away. He works at keeping in peak mental shape every day.Aaron shares so many great tips and ideas for you to manage the voices in your head and get to a life that’s deeply meaningful.
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Jeff Goins: Art Of Work
Ever had that gnawing sense that there is something else out there for you, but you just can’t put your finger on it?
Following the itch
Jeff Goins was in marketing, making a good living, but he had an itch he couldn’t ignore. He followed his heart, left a great job and became a writer. His blog has had millions of visitors, and he has written several books.
The Art of Work
His book The Art of Work is all about authenticity: he interviewed people who say they have a life filled with purpose and outlined what he believes are the common themes. In this episode, he and Laura Coe dive into authentic living and all of its complexities.
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Common themes in the lives of people who say their lives are filled with purpose.
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Bryan is the guy on authenticity. He and I went into a really interesting conversation from his book about about this idea of, “If I tell you the truth, if I really open up about who I am, what I’m really thinking, all of the mess inside, will you really love me?” Bryan dives deep into this question of why learn from a young age to start lying about who we are to get our needs met by our families and continue to put this face forward into the world and how that affects relationships, your own sense of self in this journey of trying to find happiness. He left me thinking about it all week!
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How to Find Long Lasting Joy
“I love pleasurable things: ice cream, new clothes, an amazing dinner. But I also get that these things by nature are fleeting.”
Pleasure is fleeting
In this episode of The Art of Authenticity, Laura Coe starts from something everyone knows: the things that give us pleasure don’t last.
Joy is deeper
Understand that, and you can find the deeper emotion of joy: that long-lasting sense of peace and contentment many of us crave.
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What is the difference between pleasure and joy?
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How do you find lasting joy?
The starting point in this episode is recognising that pleasurable things are fleeting, which opens the way to the deeper emotion of joy.
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