Mindfulness Mode

Nicole Holland helps her clients use strategies to become productive and inspired. Through her podcast, The Business Building Rockstars Show, Nicole helps entrepreneurs build profitable and exciting online businesses. Nicole believes that there’s no “right” way to do anything unless it feels good to you, and she believes that being mindful is a great place to start. When not working with clients or creating killer content, Nicole can be found wandering through the vineyards of Niagara, Ontario, exploring old buildings, or snuggling with her rescue cats.

Contact Info

• Website: bbrshow.com
• Podcast: The Business Building Rockstars Show

Most Influential Person

• Wayne Dyer

Effect on Emotions

• It's helped me stay feeling good and grounded.

Thoughts on Breathing

• I love to breathe. I love to smell. I love to allow my lungs and my belly to fill up. The feeling is such a release when I let that go.

Suggested Resources

• Book: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• App: Mindfulness Bell

Advice for Newbie

There's no right way. Try it out. Play with it. The more you practice, the better you're going to get, and the more in sync you're going to get.

Thank You Bonus

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Learn relaxation techniques that just take a few minutes and can be done anywhere.

Join me and over 20 other experts, including event organizer, Pompe Strater-Vidal. She is a Transformational coach and Zen monk. You'll become the person who will be the calm in the chaos.

Two 30-minute interviews per day, over a 12-day period starting July 11, 2016. Registration is free and available at this link: Relax And Breathe Summit

Steven Shalowitz is an expert in the field of advertising, having working in the industry for years. During his breaks and days off, Steven hosted and produced radio shows. He hosted a show featuring Latin music, another focusing on travel interviews and yet another centering on Jazz. Living in various interesting locations including Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Steven is also fluent in Mandarin.  Now Steven is the Host of "The One Way Ticket Show" podcast where he explores with his guests where they'd go if given a one way ticket - no coming back!  Destinations may be in the past, present, future, real, imaginary, or a state of mind.

Contact Info

• Website: www.TheOneWayTicketShow.com (sign up for the free e-newsletter)
• Podcast: The One Way Ticket Show
• Social Media: @stevenshalowitz & TheOneWayTicketShow
• email: steven@TheOneWayTicketShow.com

Most Influential Person

• No one person - everyone has taught me so much.

Effect on Emotions

• It certainly makes me more respectful and more sensitive to others.

Thoughts on Breathing

• I think when things get tough I always say just take a deep breath, take a glass of water and then just have your quiet time and just think about it.

Suggested Resources

• Book: The Sleep Revolution by Arianna Huffington
• App: No app recommended.

Advice for Newbie

I would say get a good night's rest. Make sure that you're well rested and make sure you have proper nutrition, you're well hydrated. Put other people first. Put yourself in other people's shoes.

Thank You Bonus:

Sign up for the free Relax and Breathe Summit

www.relaxandbreathesummit.com

Learn relaxation techniques that just take a few minutes and can be done anywhere.

Join me and over 20 other experts, including event organizer, Pompe Strater-Vidal. She is a Transformational coach and Zen monk. You'll become the person who will be the calm in the chaos.

Two 30-minute interviews per day, over a 12-day period starting July 11, 2016. Registration is free and available at this link: Relax And Breathe Summit

Water and mindfulness; such a great combination. I never realized how much water could help me relax, especially just by going for a walk by the river or going to the lake. Water has an effect that is not easy to describe. Lao Tzu talks a lot about water in the Tao Ta Ching. In case you’re not familiar with it, the Tao Ta Ching is an ancient Chinese text dating back to the 4th century BC. Dr. Wayne Dyer studied it in detail and wrote an essay on each verse of the Tao Ta Ching. He then published it as a book called, Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life. Water helps me relax in a deep, thorough way. The Relax and Breathe Summit reminds me of the soothing, relaxing effect that water has on me. With less stress, I can relax and breathe more deeply.

I’m pleased to be a guest on the Relax and Breathe Summit with Pompe Strater-Vidal. She is a Zen monk and a truly relaxed person. You might want to plan to enjoy the free Relax and Breathe Summit in July by signing up here: www.relaxandbreathesummit.com

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Bonus: An added bonus. Pompe is offering you a free gift for your participation.

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Quotes:

• Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? Lao Tzu – The Tao Te Ching
• Running water never grows stale. So you just have to keep on flowing. – Bruce Lee
• Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world. Mooji
• Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good. – The Buddha
• Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or creep or drip or crash. Be water my friend. Bruce Lee.

Books:

• Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life by Wayne Dyer

Thank You Bonus

The Relax and Breathe Summit is free to enjoy. Sign up here: www.relaxandbreathesummit.com

Stress less / Manage Anxiety / Let go of overwhelm
Techniques that just take a few minutes and can be performed anywhere.

Join me and over 20 other experts, including event organizer, Transformational coach, and Zen monk Pompe Strater-Vidal, as we discuss simple techniques to help you become the calm in the chaos.

Two 30-minute interviews per day, over a 12-day period.

Registration is free and available at this link: Relax And Breathe Summit

Angus Nelson is a speaker, coach and facilitator and works with executives of the world’s largest companies. He’s spoken at corporate headquarters for Walmart, Whole Foods, Coke, Adobe and Swisscom. He’s also the annual MC of the ATech Conference in Aruba. His podcast, “Up In Your Business”, was recognized as a Top 20 Business Podcast of 2015 in Inc.com.  His book, “Love's Compass: How Do You Recover After a Lost Relationship”, earned him “Most Promising New Writer 2010”.

Angus Nelson has been featured on Aol.com, Huffington Post, VentureBeat, SocialFresh.com, and the big three major television networks. Angus has also been recognized as a Top 5% speaker by Monster.com and “Volunteer of the Year, Wausau, Wisconsin”. Angus lives in Nashville, Tennessee, is married and has three children.

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Contact Info

• Website: www.AngusNelson.com
  
• Twitter: @angusnelson
• Free Ebook from Angus: Networking With Effectiveness and Credibility Download it Here
  

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Most Influential Person

• Brene Brown

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Effect on Emotions

• Mindfulness has leveled my emotions; not so many highs, not so many lows.

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Thoughts on Breathing

• Just keep breathing, don't let the stress pull you down.

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Suggested Resources

• Book: Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
• Book: Wild At Heart by John Eldredge
• App: Headspace
• Free Ebook from Angus: Networking With Effectiveness and Credibility Download it Here
  

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Advice for Newbie

Mindfulness has so many different perspectives depending on who you talk to and how they apply it. For me, I just get quiet and just live in the now. Most of us live our lives in the light of the past or the future. We live in the past in either shame or victim mentality, or something devastating happened and that holds us back. We become victim to that in our own mindset, that becomes one prison. Or the 'good old days', we wish we could go back to the good times.  That holds us back from what's in front of us.

In front of us we often look at certain goals or what we want to accomplish and we say, 'I'll be happy when ...'. It could be a home, a job, an income. Anytime you have these goals, they can just become a bottomless well. Instead of looking at the past or the future for happiness, happiness is actually in the present. In the present you can find yourself going to a place of being grateful for the people in your life.

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Michael Weinberger is a software engineer and who felt like his life was off the rails. Dealing with Bipolar Disorder, which caused eating challenges, depression and other difficulties, Michael decided to take measures into his own hands. He created a piece of software to help him cope by using mindfulness on a regular basis. The software kept him on-track and also helped him with his medications. Now Michael has made this solution available to others who deal with similar challenges. He also shares what he has learned about coping with mental illness by becoming a sought-after speaker and writer.

Contact Info

• Website: aplanforliving.com
  
• email: mweinberger@aplanforliving.com

Most Influential Person

• Dr. Denise Brooks (My therapist)

Effect on Emotions

• Mindfulness has allowed me to get my emotions in check, and emotions that were otherwise way out control. It gave me the opportunity to pause and take stock of where I was and what I needed to do.

Thoughts on Breathing

• Breathing is probably the foundation of my mindfulness practice. Simply the act of taking a deep breath when I think something or I am racing gives me enough pause to stop and really determine what the right action is. I've always learned in order to change directions you have to stop first and you know my brain doesn't know how to stop without physical queues. Taking a deep in-breath and blowing it out is a significant part of that stopping. Similar to my concept of spirituality is I breathe in the universe and I breathe out Michael. Just that simple visualization of Michael being that out of control, out of touch set of emotions in my body, I simply breathe in the peace that is out there and I breathe out myself.

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Suggested Resources

• Book: The Unteathered Soul by Michael Singer
• App: Breathe / Calm / Headspace

Advice for Newbie

• I have learned that mindfulness doesn't require fancy outfits and renovated rooms in your house and expensive teachers. I believe that the practice of mindfulness is as fast as sitting at a red light and taking a deep breath, and it can be practiced anywhere at anytime. You receive immediate benefits from it and there is no wrong way of doing it.

Thank You Bonus:

As a thank you for listening, download your free copy of my book, Cracking The Success Code. I teamed up with Brian Tracy, along with some other entrepreneurs to create the best-selling book called Cracking The Success Code: The World's Leading Experts Reveal Their Top Secrets To Help You Crack The Code For Optimum Health, Wealth and Success. You'll hear more about my story and how I became an anti-bullying advocate which later led to mindfulness and my mindfulness coaching. Download the book free at MindfulnessMode.com/cracking. Enter your name and email and you'll have your book downloaded in no time. Enjoy the book, Mindful Tribe.

Relax and Breathe. Sounds easy doesn't it? Pompe Strater-Vidal is a Zen Monk and she is the 'go-to' on the topics of both relaxation and breathing. The fact is that many of us don't truly understand how to relax. And many of us don't realize that learning how to breathe can help us relax more deeply and more fully. Pompe and I chat about breathing and Pompe takes us through an actual breathing exercise which is sure to help you relax thoroughly. You'll wonder why you never put more emphasis on breathing in the past.

Guess what? It's never too late. You can still learn to relax and breathe at any age. The exciting news is that Pompe is hosting the Relax and Breathe Summit. It will launch in July 2016 and will feature over twenty experts who all understand the importance of excellent breathing practices.

Learn to breathe in a way that puts you in control of your state of relaxation. Imagine being able to immediately reduce your stress level anytime you want. How would that feel? I feel a sense of relaxation just thinking about the concept.

Experience the breathing exercise shared by Pompe on this episode and then plan to enjoy the Relax and Breathe Summit in July. Sign up here: www.relaxandbreathe.com

Quotes:

• I learned to sit on the rocks when it got to be too much, just look at the seaweed and stare into the ocean; the ocean was my teacher.
• I think of relaxation as something that is natural and is integrated through your day. Pompe Strater Vidal
• Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. (Chinese proverb)
• You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” Mandy Hale
• The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. Anon
• Everything's gonna be alright. Bob Marley
• The quieter you become, the more you can hear. Ram Dass

Books:

• The Power of Breath: For Love, Joy and Health by Devapath

Thank You Bonus

As a thank you for listening, download your Fine Tune Your Focus, 5 Day Challenge. Be like my guests, get some meditation happening in your life. I've created 5 free simple, yet inspiring videos to help you get started with meditation. Please leave your name and email you'll receive it in your inbox right away. Download It here.

Clem Harrod is a video projectionist and sports camera operator. He’s worked with the Orlando Magic Basketball team, shooting games for fifteen seasons. He also works with many well-known companies as a wide screen projectionist for events and shows. Clem’s career involves a considerable amount of travel and he uses his mindfulness practices to remain grounded and connected to home and family in spite of not being there in the flesh. Clem graduated from Florida State University and where he grew his knowledge of production, filming and editing techniques. Clem has used his expertise in shooting sporting events to propel him to a career in convention services as a projectionist and playback operator.

Contact Info

• Instagram: #clemco / tuvac15

Most Influential Person

• Nick Snapp (Coach & Podcaster) of www.MakeItSnappy.com

Effect on Emotions

• To help me be calm, to relax and to be a better father.

Thoughts on Breathing

• Learning how to pause, take a breath, gather my thoughts. Because a lot of times they're scatter all over the place.

Suggested Resources

• Book: The Five Love Languages: The Secret To Love That Lasts by Gary D. Chapman
• App: Calm

Advice for Newbie

It takes time. It's not going to just happen for you. You have to understand that everything that you experience in life has shaped who you are. And it's shaped who you are for a reason. And you need to try to understand that reason.

Julie Zuzek is a highly sought-after business coach and works with top entrepreneurs around the world. Recognizing her own entrepreneurial journey was an intense form of personal development, Julie helps entrepreneurs conquer their fear and limiting beliefs to remove the barriers in the way of success. Julie is also well known for her edgy podcast, Conscious Business with the Corporate Yogi. Julie’s core values are freedom, risk, love, growth and adventure.

Contact Info

• Website: thecorporateyogi.com
  
• Podcast: Conscious Business

Most Influential Person

• Deepak Chopra

Effect on Emotions

• I am more able to observe my emotion, I'm more calm and I don't react in an intense, volcanic way like I used to when I was younger. I can really observe scenarios and say okay you know what this is really upsetting me because xyz is that what you meant and then the other person says no that's not what I meant. I can talk through things without having an intense, emotional reaction and I think that is from being so mindful and all the meditation work that I have done.

Suggested Resources

• Book: Thrive By Arianna Huffington
  
• App: Calm

Advice for Newbie

• Be patient please. I find so often that people have so many questions i.e. Am I doing it right? Just observe your emotions and trust that you will get it right. Keep at it, don't stop every day or so to observe whether it's working, just keep going.

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Consistency paired with mindfulness will help you achieve your most important goals. Stick with it. I'm sure you've heard that plenty of times. Consistency can be one of the trickiest concepts, because as humans, we tend to see things differently depending on our mood and the world around us. When you decide on a goal, it is important to also decide at the same time to be consistent.

Create a habit to help you achieve your goal and keep that habit going. Be consistent and you will notice you'll start to do the action like its on auto pilot. This is what I found when I was learning to play the piano, then later the accordion and saxophone. Sometimes my mind would tell me the song was too hard, I'd never get the rhythms, and I might as well give up. In spite of those voices, I'd usually end up practicing anyway, and by being consistent, putting in the time and sticking with it, I'd eventually learn to play the piece of music I was working on.

Quotes:

• “Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.” Anthony Robbins
• It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently. Tony Robbins
• If you are persistent you will get it. If you are consisted your will keep it. Anon
• Consistency is not perfection. It is simply refusing to give up. Tina Reale
• Consistent action creates consistent results. Christine Kane
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

Books:

• Inner Strength: Harnessing the Power of Your Six Primal Needs by Anthony Robbins

Thank You Bonus

As a thank you for listening, download your Fine Tune Your Focus, 5 Day Challenge. Be like my guests, get some meditation happening in your life. I've created 5 free simple, yet inspiring videos to help you get started with meditation. Please leave your name and email you'll receive it in your inbox right away. Download It here.

Kelly Roach is an expert at helping you achieve your dreams. Before the age of 30, she handled hundreds of millions in assets for a fortune 500 company, managing teams across 17 locations and breaking sales records on a regular basis. Now she uses the power of mindset, mindfulness and gratitude to help others achieve success through her International coaching and consulting firm.

Kelly is also host and founder of Unstoppable Success Radio.

Contact Info

• Website: kellyroachcoaching.com
• Podcast: Unstoppable Success Radio

Most Influential Person

• Tony Robins

Effect on Emotions

• It definitely makes me much more even keeled. Since I started meditating I would say that I am much better able to handle the ups and down's of life much more quickly and have a better response to them.

Thoughts on Breathing

• I am one of those people who probably holds my breath and gets way too intense in the moment at times. I think for me the number one thing is when I catch myself holding my breath and being so over the top intense, just taking a deep breath and just slowing down and decompressing. Also walking away from things for a minute so that I can gain some perspective, then revisiting them is the way I have to handle that.

Suggested Resources

• The Oprah Show:  Super Soul Sunday Episodes By Oprah Winfrey

Advice for Newbie

• I would say get started on doing what comes naturally to you. If you like to walk outside, go for a walk and instead of listening to the radio or listening to music just say for ten minutes I am going to get still and present and just count my blessings. Find something that is a match for your personality for what's most comfortable for you. Definitely give yourself an opportunity to take a couple minutes for reflection everyday in a way that feels right for you that incorporates in your life. It will absolutely have an affect on not only your success but also your happiness.

Thank You Bonus

As a thank you for listening, download your Fine Tune Your Focus, 5 Day Challenge. Be like my guests, get some meditation happening in your life. I've created 5 free simple, yet inspiring videos to help you get started with meditation. Please leave your name and email you'll receive it in your inbox right away. Download It here.