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In this episode, Geri sits down with Tiffany Hurd, Microdosing Guide & Plant Medicine Facilitator. We explore microdosing with psilocybin and how to microdose to receive the most of your experience, the differences between microdosing and ceremonies, the benefits of working with a guide on your plant medicine journey, and the importance of integrating your psychedelic experience. Please note this episode was originally recorded on November 22, 2022.
Time Stamps
3:20 - Triggers: What they are and how they follow us.
6:17 - What is microdosing? What’s a plant ceremony?
8:11 - A little history on psychedelics and plant medicine
10:32 - Exploring different settings for psychedelic journeys
16:38 - What it’s like trying to describe your journey
19:05 - The importance of post-medicine integration
21:41 - Psylocibyn’s impact on the body and nervous system
28:44 - Accessing altered states of consciousness on your own
30:58 - What is an ego death?
35:07 - The Purge: Why do people vomit and poop during ceremony?
39:26 - Benefits of Microdosing with a Guide
About Tiffany Hurd
Tiffany is a Microdosing Guide and Plant Medicine Facilitator. She guides people through Microdosing journey's and Ceremonies to shift patterns, beliefs, anxiety / depression and overall step into your most authentic expression. She focuses on getting to the root of what mental blocks are holding you back by identifying habitual patterns and limiting beliefs that have been collected over time, and shifting them through nervous system modalities such as breathwork and somatic practices.
About Geri Paige
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She is a nomadic entrepreneur, coach, and the founder of The Now Experiment. She is a creatrix with a degree in journalism and 15 years of experience as a professional content strategist and creator. Geri created The Now Experiment to help humans collectively reclaim what's ours - our freedom, time, energy, audacity, and all. You can find her on Instagram @geripaige.
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About This Episode
What would happen if we all started living radically using our inner compass? If we dropped every single “should” and liberated ourselves to choose in every moment? Geri shares her audacious real-life experiment to live life completely on her own terms. She also clears up many misconceptions people have about what it means to operate from a place of surrendered, connected flow. Tune in to learn more about what it means to operate from a new paradigm of inside-out living after a lifetime of outside-in.
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0:00 - My Real-Life Experiment
4:32 - Following Your Unique Individual Compass
6:22 - Leaning Into Life, Not Escaping It
9:12 - The Experiment Foundations: Resilience, Grounding, Self-Trust
12:06 - Liberation Tool: Now Caring What Other People Think
14:26 - Is It Possible to Succeed in Surrendered Flow?
About Geri Paige
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She is a nomadic entrepreneur, coach, and the founder of The Now Experiment. She is a creatrix with a degree in journalism and 15 years of experience as a professional content strategist and creator. Geri created The Now Experiment to help humans collectively reclaim what's ours - our freedom, time, energy, audacity, and all. You can find her on Instagram @geripaige.
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About This Episode
Abundantly Curious is back and better than ever. Learn what’s new this season, including more solo episodes exploring Geri’s audacious experimentation with living life on her own terms, conversations with fascinating guest experts and thought leaders, and exploration of life in the push-pull of two wildly different worlds: the soulful and the rational. Geri also shares more about The Now Experiment and opens up about her personal journey that led her to where she is today.
Time Stamps
01:15 - What’s New in Season 2
02:21 - Living in two worlds: the soulful and the rational
06:11 - The Now Experiment
10:06 - Geri’s story and journey to freedom
31:17 - Deepening into freedom in 2023
About Geri Paige
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She is a nomadic entrepreneur, coach, and the founder of The Now Experiment. She is a creatrix with a degree in journalism and 15 years of experience as a professional content strategist and creator. Geri created The Now Experiment to help humans collectively reclaim what's ours - our freedom, time, energy, audacity, and all. You can find her on Instagram @geripaige.
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This week, we sit down with Melynda Lopez, intuitive mentor, Akashic records guide, and healer. She shares her jaw-dropping stories of her sons’ gifts and how they awakened her to her own, spontaneous healings she’s performed, and contact with other dimensional beings. Tune in to learn about the 4 main “Clairs” or intuitive senses, the different ancestral wounds we carry with us, and what it’s like to be in the akashic records.
Time Stamps
02:18 - How Melynda Discovered Her Intuitive Gifts
10:39 - The 4 Main Clair Senses
18:12 - The Witch Archetype and the Witch Wound
21:21 - The Akashic Records and Ancestral Wounds
28:58 - Frequencies, Dimensions and Cosmic Beings
38:02 - Coming Out of the Spiritual Closet
41:36 - Spontaneous Healings
About Melynda Lopez
Melynda is an intuitive channel, healer, and Akashic Records guide. She is also a registered nurse with a masters degree in clinical nurse leadership. Melynda guides women to deepen their connection to their spiritual gifts, heal and understand their deep rooted patterns, and reconnect to their higher self to create limitless abundance.
About Geri Paige Butner
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love.
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In this solo episode, Geri explores the impact of judgment, throwing stones, and widening gaps of separation on our individual and collective experience, and proposes the risky topic of embracing your opposition and using curiosity to forge a connection with anyone (even the people who oppose everything you believe). Who knows, maybe you’ll leave actually feeling grateful for that person/belief system/group you can’t stand.
Time Stamps
01:10 - Judgment As a Blocker to Connection, Creation, and Evolution
2:41 - Accepting Opposing Forces as Two Sides of the Same Coin
7:51 - Using Curiosity to Forge Connection With Anyone
9:55 - Connection vs. Separation for a Richer Human Experience
13:17 - How 2020 Changed My Views on Opposing Beliefs
16:00 - Maintaining Boundaries While Opening to Connection
22:40 - Approaching Conflict as an Elevation of the Collective
About Geri Paige Butner
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love.
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Ready to change your life? Book a 90-Minute Breakthrough Session
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This week, we sit down with Towani Clarke, a yoga teacher and fashion designer who has taught more than 7,000 classes in 13 years. Tune in as we explore our human evolution and how yoga supports us in living with our foundational reptilian brain and it’s fight, flight, and freeze responses in modern times.
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05:56 - How the Subconscious Mind Prompts Us
8:28 - Yogic Philosophy and the 8 Facets of Yoga
13:48 - Yoga's African Roots and How We Evolved With It
17:31 - The Reptilian Brain & The Fight, Flight, Freeze Response
26:50 - Navigating Modern Day Stress Responses
38:02 - Deciding When to Lean Into Discomfort and When to Set Boundaries
About Towani Clarke
Towani Clarke was born and raised in Lusaka, Zambia by a Zambian women’s rights activist mother and British satirical writer father. Her mother discovered yoga to handle the tension from both the black and the white community's resistance to their inter-racial marriage. The yoga seed was planted with Towani in the womb, and today she has taught over 1,000 students and more than 7,000 classes. She leads her online yoga studio to teach clients across the globe the healing power of yoga - healing through being more one with ourselves, other people, living beings and the planet.
About Geri Paige Butner
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love.
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Kuthuta Links
Lelo ni Lelo 7 Day Chakra Challenge (value $80)
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Kuthuta Yoga Online Studio
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In this week’s episode, we sit down with Amy Miller, Healer/Owner of Healing Haus to explore how we can better connect with our intuition, her work with reiki and embodiment, the journey overcoming anxiety, and much more. We also discuss the 7 chakras, their meaning, and how to work with and connect to them. Listen to the end for a special daily practice that will strengthen your self worth.
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05:34 - Living With & Healing from Anxiety
11:24 - Health Conditions as Catalysts for Transformation
15:05 - Intuition, Reiki, and The 5 Clairs
19:06 - Working with Your Chakras or Energy Centers
22:01 - What Does Each Chakra or Energy Center Represent?
31:29 - Our Experiences in Dr. Joe Dispenza Meditation Retreats
40:28 - Opening the Heart Chakra
43:49 - What is Embodiment and How Does It Help Us?
49:23 - The "One Thing Daily" Practice for Building Self-Worth
About Amy Miller
Amy is the Healer/Owner of Healing Haus, where she combines The Work and The Woo to empower clients to take their healing into their own hands. Modalities ranging from Reiki & Sound Healing to Subconscious Reprogramming & Coaching pair beautifully to support all aspects of a person’s journey, and are ones Amy uses in her own practice. Clients love her warm and joyful heart, her ability to hold deep space, and her intuitive reflections that support you beyond just the healing session.
About Geri Paige Butner
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love.
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Healing Haus Website
Healing Haus Instagram
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Book a Coaching Session with Geri
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In this week’s episode we talk with Mark “Merriwether” Vorderbruggen, Ph.D. Chemist to talk about the miraculous science of the natural world all around us. We learn all about “caveman living” that can introduce better health and wellbeing in modern times, and discuss foraging, plant chemistry, and the powerful effects of ritual.
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01:26 - Merriwether’s Family History of Foraging for Survival in the Great Depression
08:13 - Exploring Food System Fragility in Cities
10:59 - How to Start Identifying Edible Plants
15:07 - The Miraculous, Fascinating Science of Plants
23:13 - The Paradox of Nature: Chaos and Uniformity
27:55 - The Power of Rituals and Opportunities for Healing
30:32 - Key Nutrients We're Missing In Modern Times
33:50 - Plants and Pharmaceuticals: Is One "Better"?
36:00 - Reintroduce These “Caveman” Activities for Better Health
44:01 - How We Evolved Enhanced Immune Systems in Nature
46:04 - Is Life Now "Better" Than Before?
51:43 - What Would It Take to Be Self-Sustaining Today?
About Mark “Merriwether" Vorderbruggen, Ph.D. Chemist
Mark "Merriwether" Vorderbruggen, Ph.D. is often described as a scientist raised by wolves. Having a M.S. in medicinal chemistry and a Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry, he brings science into the world of wild edible and medicinal plants. On the science side he has sixteen patents and numerous articles in research journals from his career as a research chemist. But his true love is plants and the miracles they contain. Since 2008 his website www.foragingtexas.com has been one of the top wild edible/medicinal plant sites on the internet, and he has written the acclaimed plant book Idiot's Guide Foraging and Outdoor Adventures Guide Foraging. In 2020 he made the biggest leap of his life to become the medicine man for Medicine Man Plant Co. where he can finally bring forth the ancient plants that can still help with modern issues.
About Geri Paige Butner
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love.
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"Caveman" Lifestyle Tips
Detailed information on identification and use of over 200 wild plants and mushrooms: www.foragingtexas.com
Medicine Man Plant Co. Website
Medicine Man Plant Co. Facebook
Medicine Man Plant Co. Instagram
Mark Vorderbruggen Linkedin
Foraging Texas Website
Foraging Texas Facebook
Merriwether Forager Instagram
Merriwether...
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In this week’s episode, we sit down with author, musician, and creator Wenzl McGowen to learn from his six years spent interviewing top scientists on consciousness, mystical experiences, out of body experiences, the after-life, and much more.
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07:12 - Living Outside of the Box and Pursuing All Your Passions
10:37 - Wenzl's 6 Years Interviewing Scientists About Consciousness
15:00 - Wenzl's First Mystical Experience
19:32 - Love, Coherent Consciousness, and Free Will
27:21 - Love Consciousness: Can it Transform Matter?
36:39 - What is Consciousness and What Is It Not?
39:49 - Exploring Reincarnation and The After-Life
49:37 - How Consciousness Exploration Changed Wenzl's Music
52:29 - Creating More Conscious Coherence
About Wenzl McGowen
Wenzl McGowen is a member and co-founder of the internationally touring band Moon Hooch and inventor of the Traffic Cone Saxophone. In 2013, Wenzl had a spiritual awakening during a meditation retreat and has since written two books about mystical experiences, meditation, and the science of personal growth. Both books draw from ancient teachings, direct experience, and modern science. Other avenues of his passion for personal growth are his meditation music and the board games he creates.
About Geri Paige Butner
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love.
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Download free guided meditation: https://wenzlmcgowen.org/
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Book a Session with Geri: https://www.geripaige.com/breakthrough-sessions
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In this week’s episode we explore the mind-body connection and using food as medicine with Aleksandra Chojnacka, functional nutrition guide and holistic health expert. Listen to learn about compelling research exploring the mind-body connection and how it alters the impact of our food, how functional nutrition and other modalities helped Aleks and others heal physical ailments, and how a holistic approach to our health and well-being can make a powerful impact.
Time Stamps
03:43 - Aleks and Geri's Experience at a Dr. Joe Dispenza Meditation Retreat
6:10 - How Your Mind Impacts Your Physical Response to What You Eat
14:02 - How the Mind Opens or Closes Us To Possibility
17:44 - Aleks' Health Journey, Challenges, and Healing
23:12 - The Gene Mutation 40% of People Have & How It Impacts Us
28:04 - The Mind-Body Connection
29:47 - Finding Your Purpose and How Aleks Got Into Functional Nutrition
36:39 - What is Functional Nutrition?
41:01 - Functional Foods and Healing Outcomes
43:29 - Following Your Intuition in Eating and Healing
About Aleksandra Chojnacka
Aleks is a functional nutrition guide, meaning she knows how to use food as medicine, and is the founder of Health Accomplice, a supportive place for anyone on a health journey needing guidance. She started learning about holistic health in her late 20s when battling some of her own hormonal issues and was eager to bring her learnings to light and share in her experience in case it helped someone else.
About Geri Paige Butner
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love.
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Download a free 3-Week Reset: https://healthaccomplice.com/courses
Website: https://healthaccomplice.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healthaccomplice/
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Doctors & Nutrition Education: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/doctors-nutrition-education/
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In this week’s episode we explore both the science-backed and spiritual benefits of meditation with Dr. Rashmi Schramm, a certified family physician and meditation teacher. Listen to learn about accessing elevated states in meditation, relaxing into synchronicity, and the many paths to reaching homeostasis for physical healing.
Time Stamps
06:27 - Traditional Medicine in the Modern Medicine World
13:08 - The Science-Backed Benefits of Meditation
19:45 - The Spiritual Experience of Meditation
20:44 - Accessing Ecstasy During Meditation & Beyond
25:51 - The Power of Surrender and Synchronicity
30:46 - Getting Out of Our Own Way to Experience Bliss
32:50 - How to Decide When to Let Go
36:35 - The Pineal Gland and Intuition
38:57 - Reaching Homeostasis for Physical Healing
42:22 - Choosing Your Style of Meditation
About Dr. Rashmi Schramm
Dr. Rashmi Schramm is a board certified family physician, a certified meditation teacher and coach. Her practice spans over two decades of working with thousands of patients. She is the founder of Optimal Wellness, where she helps busy women tap into inner peace and power so they can live more energetic and purposeful lives. She is passionate about teaching, practicing and coaching on meditation and mindfulness.
About Geri Paige Butner
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love.
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Website + Free Evidence-Based Meditation: https://optimalwellnessmd.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.rashmischramm
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drrashmischrammoptimalwellness
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dr.rashmischramm
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In this week’s episode we explore accessing your power with Allen Bittaker, whose work in chiropractic and network spinal has led him to his energy practice at a Center for A New Paradigm. Tune in to get curious about energy work, different levels of mind and experience, and how to create more presence and personal power.
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08:12 - Allen's Introduction to Network Spinal
10:50 - About Allen's Network-Related Type of Energy Work
13:05 - Sensing Areas of Energy Richness in Your Body and Field
14:56 - About Different Levels of Mind and Experience
19:51 - Exploring What It Means to Be Awakened
25:30 - What is Power and How to Access It
About Allen Bittaker
Allen Bittaker is a doctor of chiropractic, a certified functional movement and nutrition expert, and an energetic embodiment coach. His awakening path over the last 10 years has led him to become a gifted healer, as he supports leaders in accessing their energy and embodying presence, power and love within business, relationships & wellness.
About Geri Paige Butner
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love.
Guest Links
Website: https://www.centerforanewparadigm.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drallenbittaker/
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In this week’s episode we sit down with Jenny Scholl, a studied expert in religion and spirituality, to expand our view of religion, Christianity, and connection to something bigger than us. We explore paths to the divine, accessing higher levels of consciousness, and the power of ancient wisdom.
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09:26 - Jenny's Journey with Religion and Religious History
13:48 - Exploring Through Non-Duality
25:12 - About Gnosticism and Christian Mysticism
26:32 - Experiencing Heart Coherence and Connection
28:34 - Multiple Paths to Enlightenment and The Divine
33:26 - Ancient Wisdom and Intelligence Outside of the Mind
38:18 - Finding Our Way Back to Community
44:17 - Mary Magdalene and The Missing Gnostic Gospels
49:55 - The Limitations of Language in Relating Experiences
52:21 - The Science of Miracles
53:33 - Accessing Higher Levels of Consciousness
About Jenny Scholl
Jenny Scholl holds degrees and certificates in Religion & Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, and is currently a postgraduate student of Luminous Awareness Institute which weaves together ancient wisdom roots with developmental psychology, attachment repair, somatics, nervous system repair and energetic awareness & awakening. As an Embodiment Coach, she helps people come back to their self and their center, utilizing non-dual practices to help bridge the gap between Spirituality and Religion, between Self and Cultural Conditioning & Programming.
About Geri Paige Butner
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love.
Guest Links
Jenny LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/jennyscholl
Jenny Scholl Website: www.jennyscholl.com
Jenny Scholl Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennyscholl/
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Show Links:
The Naked Now by Richard Rohr
What The Mystics Know - Richard Rohr
Mary Magdalene Revealed - Meggan Watterson
The Yoga of Jesus - Paramahansa Yogananda
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This week we learn about the Human Design System, a synthesis of ancient and modern sciences that helps you discover what makes you unique. Our guest is human design coach Esther Ruurda, who opens our minds to new possibilities in finding our purpose, making aligned decisions, and navigating a world that wasn't built for all of us. You can find your design at mybodygraph.com.
Time Stamps
4:26 - The world is designed for 70% of the population
9:26 - What is Human Design and how do I find mine?
11:31 - About The Design Types: Generators and Manifesting Generators
13:07 - About the Design Types: Projectors
14:53 - About the Design Types: Manifestor
16:49 - About the Design Types: Reflector
18:37 - How the types impact one another
23:43 - Following Your Type’s Strategy and Authority
26:01 - Following Your Design to Make Decisions
33:34 - Finding Your Purpose Through Human Design
About Esther Ruurda
Esther is a certified yoga teacher, herbalist and Human Design Coach who aims to provide people with tools for their journey into alignment. She was born and raised in Amsterdam before moving to California, where she eventually founded The Malibu Sangha, a gathering place where people come to connect and be part of a movement to create a more conscious, equal world for the benefit of all beings. Esther thrives by inspiring people to create a life true to themselves. She believes that when people live in alignment with their souls’ purpose, they are happier, able to share their light with the world and raise the vibration for society as a whole.
About Geri Paige Butner
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love.
Guest Links
Esther Website: www.malibusangha.org
Esther IG: https://www.instagram.com/malibu_sangha/
Esther Human Design IG: https://www.instagram.com/journey_with_humandesign/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/estherruurda
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In our fourth episode, we interview clinical board certified hypnotist, Nicole Hernandez. Nicole shares what it means to be hypnotized, explains how we enter a state of hypnosis multiple times a day, and how we can harness hypnotherapy to heal everything from anxiety to physical ailments to infertility and more.
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4:05 - Nicole's Journey Healing Anxiety, Alopecia, and Gastritis
8:21 - How Curiosity led Nicole to Launch a Thriving Hypnotism Practice
10:17 - The Difference Between Clinical Hypnosis & Stage Hypnosis
14:55 - Hypnosis While Consuming Media
17:26 - The History of Hypnosis
21:03 - How Shifts Occur in Hypnosis
26:36 - How Hypnosis Can Help with Anxiety
37:05 - What to Look For In Your Hypnotist
About Nicole Hernandez
Known as The Traveling Hypnotist, Nicole Hernandez is a clinical Board Certified hypnotist based in New York City with globe-trotting tendencies. She is also an anxiety educator, speaker, and Resident Healer for the Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown. Nicole specializes in helping anxious high achievers become impactful, conscious leaders that can navigate life transitions with a sense of clarity and ease. After healing her own anxiety-related illness with hypnosis, she felt a deep calling to demystify the healing modality and help others. Her signature approach combines modern hypnotherapy, mindfulness, somatics, and her intuitive gift. She has been featured in Cosmopolitan, BeLatina, BestLife, Forbes, Success, Texas Monthly, Wall Street Journal, and more.
Guest Links
Free Love Yourself Hypo-Meditation Download: www.thetravelinghypnotist.com
Nicole Hernandez Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetravelinghypnotist/
Nicole Hernandez Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thenicolehernandez/
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Geri Paige Butner Website: https://www.geripaige.com/
Research Links
Using hypnosis to accelerate the healing of bone fractures: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10069091/
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About This Episode
Today, we are geeking out on lucid dreaming. Our guest expert is going to help us understand what lucid dreaming is, how it is different from our regular dreaming and even vivid dreaming and all of the many ways that you can use lucid dreaming to change your waking day to day life.
Time Stamps
1:33 - How Lana found lucid dreaming
4:26 - What is Lucid Dreaming?
12:31 - Lana's Research on Lucid Dreaming and Depression
15:39 - Lucid Dreaming in the Scientific Community
31:45 - Sleep Paralysis and False Awakenings
34:18 - How to initiate a lucid dream
37:17 - Fascinating lucid dreaming experiences
45:10 - How to stay in your lucid dream
About Lana Sackwild
Lana is a British lucid dreaming and lucid living coach and scientific researcher with a Masters of Science in consciousness, spirituality, and transpersonal psychology. She has been lucid dreaming for 25+ years and is a pioneer in the lucid dreaming field for mental health research and lucid dreaming for entrepreneurship, working with clients across the globe.
Guest Links
Website: https://www.lanasackwild.com/
Online course: https://www.lanasackwild.com/the-lucid-entrepreneur-lab
Masterclass: https://www.lanasackwild.com/livingtosucceed
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lanasackwild
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lanasackwild
Email: [email protected]
Weekly Freebies in Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/luciddreamingandliving
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/getlucidwithlana
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Geri Paige Butner Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geributner/
Geri Paige Butner Website: https://www.geripaige.com/
Research Links:
Lucid Dreams: An electro-physiological and psychological study: https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.458729
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In our third episode, we sit down with Clayton Kim, a multi-skilled renaissance man who is passionate about acquiring new skills, learning new disciplines, and leading the way in performance technology and research. Clayton shares his processes for learning and becoming great at new things. Tune in to learn about his optimized weekly schedule, how to achieve a structured flow state, and what you can start doing today to begin picking up a new skill.
Time Stamps
2:05 - Clayton’s background
3:55 - Clayton’s journey in circus arts
6:40 - Overcoming fear and the suck of skill acquisition
10:28 - Clayton's process for learning new skills
19:36 - Performance optimization and research at Fount
21:14 - Balancing performance with rest and care
24:48 - Achieving a structured flow state
30:56 - Crossover in skill disciplines
About Clayton Kim
Clayton Kim spends every day making learning his superpower. Clayton is a self-taught coder, photographer, chef, and derivatives algorithms developer. He has competed and performed in boxing, powerlifting, rugby, aerial straps, and the cyr wheel (it’s fascinating), and is always looking for a new skill to learn. Clayton is also the COO and Head of Product at Fount, where he builds teams to solve hard problems. His work also includes artificial intelligence and machine learning efforts, which he’s led at Boston Consulting Group and Wayfair.
Guest Links
Fount Performance Program: http://fount.bio/
Clayton Kim Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheClayMethod
Clayton Kim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theclaymethod/
Clayton Kim Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claykim/
Host Links
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Geri Paige Butner Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geripaige/
Geri Paige Butner Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geributner/
Geri Paige Butner Website: https://www.geripaige.com/
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About This Episode
In this introductory episode of Abundantly Curious, your host Geri Paige Butner lays the foundation for an exciting season of interviews with fascinating guests. Geri explores how our tribal nature shapes our belief systems on everything from the products we buy to the way we heal ourselves, and shows us a path forward to true exploration and expansion through three guiding principles of curiosity.
Key Takeaways
Understand how our tribal nature groups us into camps of belief and thought, and how those camps shape our life.Examine common social consequences of curiosity as a result of our tribe’s cognitive biases.How “idea branding” has simplified some of our thought processes at the expense of true curiosity, exploration, and understanding.How we can use curiosity to expand into new possibilities and gain true alignment in our beliefs, practices, and ways of being and doing.Three guiding principles for how to approach curiosity and explore new information for positive impact.Time Stamps
0:00 - Intro
0:39 - Building beliefs as tribal beings
3:26 - Idea Branding: What is it and how does it impact us?
11:42 - Social consequences of curiosity or challenges to cognitive biases
15:33 - What we get curious about on Abundantly Curious
16:34 - Curiosity Principle 1: Listen for insight, not agreeable.
18:03 - Curiosity Principle 2: Embrace the power of the “and,” and release the tyranny of the “but.”
20:38 - Curiosity Principle 3: Expand into possibility.
About Geri Paige Butner
Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. You can find her on Instagram @geripaige.
Host Links
Abundantly Curious Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abundantlycurious/
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Geri Paige Butner Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geributner/
Geri Paige Butner Website: https://www.geripaige.com/
Research Links:
Tribalism is Human Nature, 2019: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963721419862289
“Brand” Etymology: https://www.etymonline.com/word/brand
Apple Market Share Statistics: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held-by-smartphone-platforms-in-the-united-states
Apple Mac vs. PC advertisement:
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