Today's episode features Dr. Mimi Zieman, an OB/GYN who is also an author and playwright, with her most recent project, her memoir Tapdancing on Everest, out in stores now! We talk about her experience as a medic with a team climbing the east face of Mt. Everest, as well as the experiences of her family members, escaping the holocaust, moving to Palestine, and then settling in NY, as well as the boxes she found herself in as she grew, and how she escaped them one by one.

You'll also hear about her dreams of dancing on Broadway, her play, The Post-Roe Monologues, and how Mimi faces life and listens to the universe and her gut to find the path to her true self and the life she was meant to live.

I found our discussion awe-inspiring and I think you will, too.

Important Notes:

Tapdancing on Everest the book

Mimi's website

Broadway World's Promo of The Post-Roe Monologues

Article from When Women Inspire

Information on the East Face of Everest

This episode features a discussion I had with Tania Ho, owner of Museflower Retreat and Spa in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Tania talks about how she started her business, named one of Thailand's Top 10 Yoga and Wellness Retreats in 2016. We also talk about the variety of modalities she offers, how they work, and how they can support your search for peace, help reduce stress, and put you on a path for continuing your rituals and practices after your stay.

We discuss things from labyrinths to intuition, meditation, and natural health as well as devotional chanting, Bhakti yoga and Kirtan, shamanic journeying, Cacao Ceremonies, flower essences, and how each type of practice can be modified to suit your personal needs. There is no one right way to do any of them.

As you'll hear, Tania had a passion for natural health as a young girl and pursued a degree in Hotel Management with an emphasis on Spa Management. Eventually, she connected with someone who agreed to go into business with her, but that didn't run as planned, and instead, she and her boyfriend decided to open Museflower. I found our conversation filled with interesting topics, from the entrepreneurial angle to many other points including how we each connect to our intuition via our unique dominant sense, to the 7 types of rest needed to be at peace. And we chatted quite a bit about the services offered and how they can help.

If you've ever wondered what goes into creating a space for individuals and groups to pursue inner health and peace, or how a business like Museflower gets started, you'll find a lot to connect with in our discussion.

#Museflower #yoga #innerhealth #intuition #creativeretreat #cacaoceremony #plantmedicine #sacredrest

Important Links

Museflower Retreat and Spa

Read more about the Sacred Rest with Nature retreat

Bach's Flower Essences (I was unable to find Healing Herbs Flower Essences online)

The 7 Emotional Groups impacted by healing herbs

The 7 types of Rest from Ted.com

Free printable Finger Labyrinth

Child Sense by Priscilla Dunstan

7 Styles of Learning

Kirtan Kriya, a 12 minute meditation with sound on Youtube

Today's episode features my recent conversation with Flytimeless, a motivational entertainer building an exciting and innovative project that features motivational concerts in San Diego and southern CA. His company also offers professional development events that help people discover their "masterpiece" inside and build the skills needed for success. As you'll hear, Flytimeless has plans to take his movement beyond San Diego, going worldwide, connecting cultures, and providing inspiration for those seeking self-development/improvement and connection.

The motivational concerts take advantage of the power of epic orchestral music, challenges to connect, musical culture from around the world, and his own innate sense of positivity, "can-do" attitude, and the value he sees in every person. Flytimeless approaches life and the world from a place of positivity.

In our discussion, you'll hear about how Elijah Caldwell became Flytimeless, including his dreams, his opportunities, and his beliefs from childhood to adulthood and beyond. Today's episode includes personal stories, dreams, and a sense that you can meet your own best self if you look within.

Elijah Caldwell has also authored and published a book, Close Your Eyes & Look, as the first in a series. T The book "tells the story of Micah, a timeless dreamer who journeys within on a magical path to success beyond his wildest imagination. The story of Micah's journey teaches us about the invaluable wisdom of walking by faith and following our hearts to make our dreams come true."

Our discussion makes it clear that life is creative, and thinking creatively, and listening to your intuition can bring about change, and provide a path that gives you the life you hope for!

#FindYourTrueSelf #Flytimeless #MotivationalEvents #MotivationalConcerts #MusicIsUniversal #RefuelingAmericasDreams #FollowYourPath

Important Links

Flytimeless Website (you can purchase tickets for the next Motivational Concert held in January 2025)

Purchase Elijah's Book, Close Your Eyes & Look

Thomas Carlyle Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher

You can also find Flytimeless on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Tiktok

Do you feel stuck in life? Are you an empty-nester or someone who has reached a point in life where maybe you're realizing life isn't what you'd hoped, and you wish there was some way to make a change? In today's episode, Jennifer Arthurton and I discuss exactly that. How to take that pause, and listen to your inner voice. How to take that tiny seed of a dream, and give it some air, out in the world, where you can make things happen.

Jennifer is the host of the Old Chicks Know Shit podcast as well as her Facebook Group, her blog, her one-on-one coaching, and her Mastermind group for ambitious, driven midlife women, The Maven Collective, all dedicated to helping women create the life they've dreamed about, and respecting that whatever and wherever life has brought you, you've learned things and have value.

As we ended our conversation Jennifer stated, "As long as you're breathing, it isn't too late." I like that. Because I know it's true. This episode will give you inspiration and ideas and help you realize that listening to your inner voice is important. I hope you do exactly that, and start making the changes needed to live more true to who you are at heart, to quote Jennifer again, "Your fears and doubts have no bearing on your capabilities."

#YourBestChaptersAreAheadofYou #LifeYourBestLife #LearntoTrustYOU #ReinventionStories #MidLifeCrisis #InnerVoice #BeYourOwnBestFriend

Important Links

Jennifer's Website, Old Chicks Know Sh*t, features all the sites and work Jennifer does

Jennifer's Facebook group, Old Chick's Know

Jennifer's podcast, Old Chicks Know Sh*t

Jennifer's Blog

Info on Lao Tzu, quoted by Jennifer

Jacqui A. Johnson started life in Ghana, where she followed her grandmother's and mother's paths, by becoming a fashion designer at just 19. Relying on word of mouth for advertising, her business was quite successful, and by the time she was 29, she had 14 full-time employees and a backlog of orders that would take 7 months to complete! She moved to London and started her family, and continued in the design business, providing evening wear and elegant clothing for women. Once COVID hit, the demand for evening wear waned. Once COVID lockdowns ended, demand for evening wear increased, but the fashion world and tastes had changed, and Jacqui found herself designing clothing made more to show off skin than the clothing being worn. She didn't feel proud of the work she was being asked to design and hesitated to show it on her Instagram pages. Even though her elegant clothing line business closed in the last two years, she continues to design, focusing on accessories instead. Jacqui sees this as just another step in her life story.

When asked how her coaching and mentoring started, she told me it wasn't unusual for her to develop a close relationship with clients. Many shared their stories, asked her for advice, and felt that her wisdom was as valuable as the outfits she designed.

This fact and this type of wisdom started growing within Jacqui and she is now building out her accessory line while working on her degree in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology. She has started a public speaking business as well as providing life coaching for women in mid-life. She also works as an educator. You can find her work on Facebook in the Proverbs Party group. This group includes woman from around the world, who spend time reading Proverbs from the bible, gaining insight into themselves, and sharing their thoughts. Jacqui leans on her faith to help interpret her calling in the world. She developed the Solomon Life Model to help her understand how to listen to inner wisdom, how to use our innate gifts, and how to get our voices out into the world to make the most use of whatever it is you are carrying inside. Your "Diamond," as she sees it.

We do discuss suicide in this episode, and there is a discussion on depression, health issues, and several other serious topics, but Jacqui defines herself as a Hope Stirrer. She maintains a positive outlook, and fosters hope both in herself and others.

#proverbs #fashion #design #FindTheGood #designtalk #FaithSupports #FindYourPeople #LifePath #PositivePsychology #MidLife

Important Links

Jacqui's Facebook Group, The Proverbs Party

Do The Thing Challenge Group ( connect to the Accelerator program we discuss)

Jacqui's site offering the free kickstart Purpose and Dreams Roadmap training is live now. Being offered starting 10/7 through 10/24. Visit here.

C. R. Snyder's Paper on Hope Theory, Hope Theory: Rainbow's in the Mind.

Maggie Mills is a ghostwriter who talks about the writing process, how readers' minds work, how non-fiction is researched and written, how to overcome writing blocks, and how to get your story out there into the world. She confirms that, much unlike what some people say, it doesn't have to cost thousands. Have you ever found yourself reading a book, or listening to a story and thinking, "I could have written that! Maybe it's time to DO EXACTLY THAT!

Maggie provides ghostwriting services to non-fiction authors and has covered many books from medical to crime to life stories, for preachers, medical professionals, educators, self-help gurus, and more. I asked her whether she'd agree, are there certain topics where we just "have enough books on that?" (spoiler alert, Maggie thinks there are NEVER enough books written about a specific topic).

She coaches fiction writers, assisting them with dialogue, setting, character building, storyline, etc. And uses persona and target audience to help with voice and language when ghostwriting and coaching.

She found her most interesting topic was human trafficking. But true crime and other topics also provided her with a different perspective, and in some cases a deeper understanding and empathy with those she was supporting.

Being a ghostwriter and coach, I didn't think she got much time to do her own writing but when I asked her, she admitted, she has a few books in the planning stages. One, a mystery, was inspired by her stage of life, being a woman who has difficulty being heard, and sometimes feels she's invisible to others. Her main character shares this problem and ends up taking on a life of crime to support a financial emergency.

She is also collaborating with a medium to write a book of advice for writers. The latter is titled 6 Dead People Tell You How to Write a Book. I don't know about you, but I'll be looking for that one... and will check in with her in a few months to see how her fiction series is coming along. Today's episode has something for everyone, from writers to readers to people who have a story inside that they want to share with the world (or at least a few friends). Thanks for listening.

#ghostwriter #writerlife #authortalk #nonfiction #writersblock #HowDoYouWriteABook #TellYourStory #PutItInWriting

Important Links

Maggie's Linked In Page

Maggie's Writing Coach/Ghostwriting Page

According to her media package, Laura Bray is a creative non-fiction writer who focuses on her memories and the challenges many GenX women face as they enter their 50s and beyond. But in our discussion today, you'll find that there is much more to Laura.

Laura is a non-fiction creative writer who finds herself at the end of that fiction cliff, with some great stories in mind, including one that features a sturgeon who frequents the waters near her Pacific Northwest home. She's also a fibre artist and well-known craft designer (think embroidery, crewel work and similar) and owner of the Substack, The Cozy Library, as well as author of The Bisquick Diaries.

Our discussion today covered a broad range of topics. From creative injury and how results from children (or adults) being told by a perceived expert, that they have no talent in a given area. In fact, those kinds of conversations may squash a person's sense of adventure when it comes to creativity. The result? They never try to do anything creative because they fear failure.

For Laura, that squashed passion was art. And that conversation resulted in her looking elsewhere for a degree in literature and a career in finance. Thankfully, that original passion kept poking at her, and after completing Julia Cameron's 12-week program The Artist's Way, she leaped to become a very successful craft designer. We laughed over how inspiration and creativity can be found in unexpected places, like when you come across a really good obituary. We both hope in the end, we'll have lived a life worthy of a great one.

We talk about how people can be afraid to try their hand at being creative, and we both agreed, there is no wrong to creativity.

Laura is proud of her Substack, The Cozy Library, and is a huge fan and supporter of libraries in general. She invites anyone who is a reader or a writer, to visit her site to learn the art of reading, to get inspiration for their next read, or to provide a new perspective for writers. I know many of my listeners are readers writers and artists, so I am confident you'll enjoy our discussion and feel that itch to start a new project, or get back to one you've let sit for a bit too long!

#creative #needlework #artist #loveyourlibrary #substack #CozyLibrary #LiveYouurUniqueLife #CreativityofChildren #GenX #InspiringArtists #CreatativeNonFiction #LauraBray #DoCreative #BeCreative

Important Links The Cozy Library (Tell Laura It's All Creative Sent You!)

The Bisquick Diaries

Design Transfers, a Sample of Laura's Work

Laura's Pinterest Design Page

Instagram @laurakbray

Youtube laurabray

Today's episode features Laura Westman, an executive/leadership coach with a different take on building connections, who also considers play and fantasy as pillars for true creative leadership. And that leadership style supports team, passion, and cohesion in a workforce. OK, OK, are you asking yourself, "What does that mean?"

Laura Westman brings her unique approach to coaching today's creative business leaders. Whether they're leading in a boardroom, mentoring and leading a staff, or running their own business, Laura believes that stepping back and opening your creative heart to the challenge in front of you provides a new perspective, one that is rooted in our hearts, and our inner child.

What does that do? It brings about a way to lead that expands beyond the expected, to results you couldn't have imagined... without that inner child helping you.

Ever look at the challenge ahead of you and think the hobbits' journey to Mordor was easier? Or perhaps if you had just a drop of Felix Felicis for an employee struggling with a problem, they'd succeed? But like the hero in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, you know it isn't needed, it's belief in oneself that gets those challenges solved. Yes, this is the type of magic and imagination Laura uses to inspire her clients. After all, she built her own business plans and direction using a map of Disneyworld, and it works!

Laura is also a singer/songwriter who overcame a diagnosis of Hashimoto's Disease. Initially devastating, she found that seeing her sensitivities from the disease as something to honor and care for, brought her singing back, and helped her to grow while honoring her unique reality.

Our conversation explores personal stories, funny stories, dreams, all in the spirit of finding your true self, that deep blue jewel of spirit hidden inside each of us.

I hope you find inspiration and are given pause to think about what is truly valued by you. What are the things that make your inner creative child sing, dance, and look at the world filled with hope and happiness?

#transformationalleadership #creativeprocess #ThrivetoSurvive #WestofWonderland #FindYourself #Creativity #CreativeMagic #WhatMakesYouTick #LeadFromCreativity #CreativeManagement #Lead

Important Links

Laura's website

8 Step Guide to Uncovering Your Creative Magic

West of Wonderland Podcast

Laura's Book - ⁠How to Be Creative in the Age of Digital Noise⁠

Women Who Run With the Wolves Book

Hashimoto's Disease