Natalie Tessler: How to Love Your Job
Welcome to this week’s episode with Natalie Tessler. Natalie is the founder and owner of Spa Space, one of the largest day spas in Chicago. Actually employing over 90 plus individuals. Natalie shares on this episode how she moved from being a lawyer in New York City to owning the largest day spa in Chicago. She explains how she always knew she loved entrepreneurship - she actually started a business when she was just 11 years old. But she just couldn’t quite see the path in her 20’s.This episode is filled with so much honesty about:
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How she walked away from not one but two high level degrees to follow her dreams.
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How she just wanted to be that person who loved what she did and how she turned that dream into a reality.
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Freedom Begins With The Mind
In this episode of The Art of Authenticity, learn about Krishnamurti and freedom of the mind.
Living free from the limits of the mind
How can you live your life free from the limitations of the mind? Anxiety, jealousy and fear are all emotions we get used to. We get used to the discomfort. But we don’t have to be!
Frequently asked questions
Which philosopher does this episode discuss?
Krishnamurti, and his ideas on freedom of the mind.
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Angelique Power
Angelique Power is the program director for The Joyce Foundation’s culture program which distributes $2 million annually. She focuses on strengthening and diversifying arts organizations, building capacity within the arts sector and investing in creative capital of the artists themselves, of color, through The Joyce Awards.Angelique came to The Joyce Foundation with more than 15 years of experience and her work at the museum of contemporary art. In today’s episode, I feel like you’re really going to get a firsthand look at somebody who’s deeply immersed in the world of the diversifying the arts.She shares her perspectives of the complicated world of race as someone who’s lived it and now dedicates her life to helping move the conversation forward in the art's community. I know you’re going to find this episode really interesting and filled with an insight that most of us don’t get access to.
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Time: Get Ahead and Stop Feeling Behind
Ready to find more time every day? Most of us feel like there is never enough time in the day to get everything on our lists done.
Why we always feel behind
With each accomplishment, we do not celebrate: we only see the next task.
Take back your schedule
Enough. In this episode of The Art of Authenticity, Laura Coe talks about taking back your schedule and getting out from under your endless lists.
Frequently asked questions
Why do we feel behind even when we get things done?
Because with each accomplishment we don’t celebrate; we only see the next task.
What is this episode about?
Taking back your schedule and getting out from under your endless lists.
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Ben Rubin: Meditation for Skeptics
For anyone who wants to feel better and still thinks meditation is not for them, this episode is for you.
Meditation without the woo-woo
After decades of scientific research, many people are ready to try meditation, only to be put off by the syrupy way it’s often presented. Ben Rubin, co-founder and CEO of 10% Happier, built an app for exactly that audience, combining renowned meditation teachers with a skeptical tone.
From skeptic to practitioner
Laura was a skeptic too; it was only by chance that she really gave meditation a try. Ben dispels the myth that meditation is new-age fluff. If you’re even considering it, check this episode out.
Frequently asked questions
Is meditation for skeptics?
That’s the premise of 10% Happier: meditation presented without the syrupy, woo-woo tone that puts many people off.
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Annmarie Chereso: How to Live with Your Imperfections
Welcome to today’s episode with Annmarie Chereso. Annmarie works with parents, educators, and leaders who are willing to take responsibility for creating conscious relationships with themselves and the children they influence. Annmarie is a coach who talks to groups and teaches about mindfulness in school. In addition, she hosts events and if that wasn’t enough, she’s actually starting an online course, which we’re going to talk about in today’s episode. But at the heart of Annmarie’s work, she is a parent herself and she balances her career and her relationship as she tries to guide others through the process of learning to have conscious relationships.In today's episode, you will learn:
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What it means to try to bring more consciousness into your relationships.
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How the idea of consciousness has been possibly overused and how Annmarie explains the idea of consciousness in her work.
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And my favorite, what a full body "yes" means to make authentic decisions.
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The Science of Gratitude
Are you interested in adding more gratitude to your life? Have you tried to feel more grateful, but it’s just not sticking?
What the science says about gratitude
In this episode of The Art of Authenticity, Laura Coe looks at what the latest science says about gratitude.
A simple way to jump-start gratitude
Positive psychology offers a quick, easy and extremely effective solution to jump-start the gratitude levels in your life. Tune in to hear it.
Frequently asked questions
Why doesn’t gratitude always stick?
Many people try to feel more grateful without it lasting. This episode looks at what research suggests instead.
What does positive psychology say about gratitude?
That there is a quick, easy and effective way to jump-start gratitude in your life, which Laura explains in the episode.
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Curtis Wong: Authenticity in a Changing Social Climate
Authenticity is a tricky subject. But what does authenticity mean in the 5 years of radical shift in LGBT rights? What does it mean for the gay community who’ve had to act inauthentically for the years where, being gay wasn’t acceptable?For many of us, keeping quiet about our sexuality was part of the job description.Now, expressing who we are and acting on it, is not only a viable reality in 2016, but something that can be a conduit to express who we truly are.Curtis Wong - Senior Editor of the LGBT Section at the Huffington Post - talks about how the last 5 years have seen a big shift in LGBT rights and how to be authentic and be yourself while a climate of social change is shifting all around us.In this Episode, You’ll Learn:
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What does Authenticity mean in the Age of Marriage Equality?
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What’s the Pulse on the LGBT Community
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How Has the Shift in the Last 5 Years Changed America?