Wake Up to Real Love

In this episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn welcomes certified Christian sex coach Heather Tucker to the show to discuss her journey from growing up in the church and the issues with sex education. Discover the importance of understanding your body, why it’s essential to remove the uncomfortability around sex and how you can have a better romantic relationship when you’re open and honest.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Often religious couples are uncomfortable about talking about sex and it’s put down to something that each couple has just to figure out themselves.

• Not talking about sex in the church is a huge generation passing down of uncomfortability. Our brains have questions that don’t get answered and we are left having to learn about sex and ourselves.

• It’s vital for both men and women to learn about your own body, what turns you on, gets you aroused and the best practices to take to communicate your love is essential to your happiness.

• If you are open and honest when you enter a romantic relationship, you're going to have way better sex and communication with your partner.

BEST MOMENTS

“Nobody really talks about it.”

“When my kids were growing up and I said, I don't want them to feel awkward like I felt awkward.”

“Lots of kids grow up not even knowing the correct terminology.”

CONTACT METHOD
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ABOUT THE HOST
Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Heather Tucker is a certified Christian sex coach helping women overcome religious sexual shame, release their sexy confidence, female sexuality and empowerment into their lives and relationships. Heather is a two times bestselling author with her. Damn You and Weight Loss Plateaus.

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We are all the sum of a multitude of things, each crucial to overall health, success and happiness. In this episode, Dawn is joined by holistic Transformation Coach Simone Gisondi. She shares her inspirational journey from trauma to purpose, how we can create self-worth, why we are conditioned to a certain environmental mindset and how we are simply on a journey to remind ourselves of our true beauty, love, joy and connection.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Mindset is so much more important than anything else, what state of mind are you in? How happy are you? Being at peace with yourself plays such a large role. Mind, body, heart and soul.

• People turn to substances, risky behaviours and even crime to be able to express themselves. People seek an outlet and we subconsciously do things that are so foreign to us, and we are not even in the state of awareness that what we're doing is actually trying to allow that trauma to come to finality.

• The feeling of self-worth can have the biggest impact on you. If you do not have it, you become ingrained with the feeling that you are not worthy of happiness, praise or anything of value. You need self-worth to be able to grow and evolve as a person.

• Your mindset is not always from you, you are conditioned to have your own sense of intrinsic worthiness because you weren't cared for, you weren't nurtured and you didn't feel safe in your own home. Your environment forms your mindset and it’s up to your awareness to understand that it is not right to break free.

• We're all here to help, uplift each other and come back to this place of love and acceptance for who we are at our core. We're not broken. We don't need to be fixed. We are on this journey to remind ourselves of our true beauty and nature, which is pure love and joy and connection.

BEST MOMENTS

“I remember the emotional impact that the words of my doctor had on me.”

“Trauma plays a huge role in one's life and health overall.”

“Affection was almost forbidden, we just did not show affection in our family.”

“Hurt people, hurt people.”

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
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ABOUT THE HOST
Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Simone Gisondi is a holistic Transformation Coach who serves more than just a client's body, but mind and everything crucial to overall health, success and happiness. Simone specialises in holistic approaches to cancer, regenerative detoxification, hypnosis and mindset development, she focused on the pillars of true health and what is needed to live a superior life.

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In this episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn is joined by a music aficionado, voice talent coach, and author Mick Smith. Together they discuss Mick's struggles with parental alienation, how got into music, and his journey from pain to purpose.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Love is important but alone it is not enough to sustain society and structural stability is always needed.
• There’s always hope on the other side. You have to believe that and not give up hope because the truth will prevail, goodness wins over evil.
• No greater love does a man have than the pride to lay down his life for another. If you can lay down your life and give up whatever you need or want for that other person, you are turning your pain into your purpose.
• Fear, anger and resentment are all lower vibration energies, that do not help you heal or move forward in your life. Low vibration energy keeps you stuck in the past.
• Find a purpose that gets you out of bed in the morning and out into the world. It’s the best thing you can do to help yourself get past difficult and traumatic times.

BEST MOMENTS

“Religions provide guidelines for relationships”

“Society has killed God, leading to chaos and unhappiness.”

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
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ABOUT THE HOST
Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Mick Smith is a music aficionado, and voice talent coach and studied both history and religion at university before graduating as a professor.

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Dawn welcomes back the founder of IDEA Seminars, Master NLP and DHE trainer and expert at helping people transform their lives, Rex Steven Sikes. Together they discuss the infinitesimal power of the brain and how you can transform yourself and your life to create winning momentum.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Winners win. The more you win with the small things, the more momentum you will build and you will create life, the more a habit of winning.
• You can transform yourself easily and when hardships come up, you're better equipped to handle them. There is always a way out of the turmoil, there is a way to change your life but it begins with tiny steps.
• Success is tied to your self-belief and everything that's ever happened to you in your life, every experience you've ever had, every feeling you've ever had, good or bad or whatever constitutes a resource. So you are infinitely resourceful.
• We can't even begin to understand the number of neural connections we can make in the brain. The connections our brain has to wire and rewire are infinitesimal. It's beyond anything we could imagine.

BEST MOMENTS

“A lot of people who go bankrupt understand that there's really nothing to fear about bankruptcy.”

“Bankruptcy isn’t pleasant but it, but I survived it.”

“Tiny steps, in the long run, will end up becoming a great solution, relief and opportunity.”

“Our bodies have a myriad of processes that are going on sequentially and simultaneously.”

“The conscious mind is just a tiny sliver of everything that we are.”

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
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ABOUT THE HOST
Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST
Rex Steven Sikes transformed his life after a skydiving accident nearly robbed him of it. He now has over four decades of experience helping thousands of people transform their minds and lives. His innovations include Mind Design™ The Attitude Activator™ and Directed Questions™.

He's a Master Trainer of NLP & DHE, A Master Hypnotherapist and Master Hypnotist, an Educator in Whole Brain and Accelerated Learning, the Law of Attraction and is the founder of IDEA Seminars.

Rex is a professional speaker, coach, business consultant, educator and author. He writes a blog Daily Inspiration And Gratitude. Plus, he's an actor, filmmaker and consultant to the entertainment industry.

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.rexsikes.com/

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Real love is looking past everything that's happening. Love is unconditional. Dawn welcomes renowned B2B strategic marketer Kindra Beck to the show. Kindra shares her emotional personal journey and why you must learn to love yourself and trust your gut.
KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• An extramarital relationship with an emotional connection with somebody else is even worse than a physical relationship with someone else because you have a connection and a deeper intimacy with that person. 
• How much time, energy, and effort are you putting into creating what you want out of your relationship? It’s always easier to deal with the status quo but if you want a different life, you need to change things.
• How do you love yourself? Have faith and trust your gut, and always aim to surround yourself with people that love and believe in you because fighting never resolves anything.
• We all deserve compassion and forgiveness. What you choose as an adult in your relationships or for your children as a parent is your choice. 
• Our greatest source of suffering is if we don’t change things for the better, in our own life and for our children.

BEST MOMENTS 

“When it comes down to it, you kind of question yourself.”

“I just wanted more for my life.”

“Doubt and insecurity turn into fear.”

“Real love is raw emotion and essential for finding purpose in life.”

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
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ABOUT THE HOST
Dawn Rishárd, M.A. With 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.
ABOUT THE GUEST
Kindra Beck is a renowned B2B strategic marketer, a legislative advocate and pro-c litigant who is on a mission to educate and stop parental alienation. 

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In this episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn is joined by an internationally recognised inspirational and innovative leader who specialises in helping businesses achieve exponential growth, Claire Oatway. Together they discuss how leadership has changed over the years, how creativity in the boardroom is shaping growing companies and why understanding what’s important to your customers is essential to success.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The Leadership field has changed over time. There has been a shift to be much more engaging within a workforce and within an organization. There is an emphasis on cross-organisation collaboration in order to gain a wider view from other members of the team to build the business more successfully.
• Diversity in leadership with women leaders and people of different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds is challenging traditional leadership and there has now been a shift in the strategy literature that says you don't have to compete, you don't have to compete for finite resources. You can actually create completely new products, new ideas and new markets through collaboration and creativity.
• Creativity in boardrooms as opposed to an engineering approach has shifted the way we experience leadership and competition for talent. A new approach is really pushing leaders to be authentic and to deliver the promises that they set out. 
• To have a successful business you need to understand what's important to consumers right now, what's going on in terms of technology and what are people excited about. Why? Because technology is driving change within businesses.

BEST MOMENTS 

“When everyone is involved building a business is a lot more fun as people bring their passion, energy and excitement. Many workforces are now truly engaging with their team instead of just ticking the box.”

“A lot more companies now really care about the people who work for them.” 

“The workplace is starting to shift to really focus on collaboration.”

“It's really expensive to recruit people and you lose productivity if you do not have a stable workforce.”

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
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ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Rishárd, M.A. With 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Claire Oatway helps people and businesses achieve exponential growth. Claire provides businesses with high-performance, executive and business coaching to push you outside the familiar and find your true potential.

Claire is an internationally recognised inspirational and innovative leader who empowers businesses to transform, to achieve results and solutions, and embrace the power of neon-tinged confidence, that will serve you for a lifetime. As a Leadership guru and pioneer, Clairs passion is about helping strategic leaders and entrepreneurs with strategy, change management and leadership development, encouraging positive change to previous mindsets, embracing curiosity in the way of working and how as a leader you can encourage and nurture the best from your team, as they accompany you on your journey, every step of the way.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.linkedin.com/in/claireoatway/

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We cannot forgive anyone unless we love and forgive ourselves. Evidential Spiritual Medium and best-selling author Jock Brocas joins The Wake Up To Real Love podcast to share his journey from the monastery becoming the spiritual mentor to leaders and change makers. Discover how to forgive yourself, why you must overcome grief to learn and how you must accept yourself empathetically.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Be aware of the trials, tribulations and falsehoods that you will come up against in life. People often think that in grief you can heal, but the reality is that it's impossible to heal through grief because grief is a journey and development of the soul. You don't heal through grief at all, you come to a level of acceptance.
• Grief becomes our greatest teacher if you are honest and accepting of it. You will learn more when you experience a loss or trauma because until then you will not truly understand the capacity of grief and what can be discovered within it.
• Learn to accept yourself and the things you have done wrong in the past. If you’re able to accept a level of empathy with yourself and understand that guilt is a behaviour and emotion, you can uncover an empathetic acceptance and awareness of your journey. You may not heal from trauma but you can accept it.
• Forgiveness is not a skill that you develop or get better at. It is not temporary, forgiveness is a divine power that is inherent in all of us and you have freedom of choice to wield that power or not.

BEST MOMENTS

“I would go to church every day but the interesting thing was that as much as I was indoctrinated into a dogmatic faith system, I couldn't help but question it.”

“We all are students.”

“I learned more when I lost my father because I probably didn't understand grief to the capacity that I then discovered.”

“Forgiveness is something that you develop even more through awareness, compassion, understanding yourself and loving yourself.“

VALUABLE RESOURCES

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jock-Brocas/e/B002BMK9VU%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
[email protected]

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Jock Brocas is a best-selling author and spiritual mentor to leaders and change makers. Jock is a professional evidential medium and editor of several national award-winning magazines that focus on spiritual growth, the paranormal and personal development.

CONTACT METHOD

https://jockbrocas.com/

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Dawn is joined by one of the highest sales performers in the world, Ian Koniak. Ian shares his unique story from mastering sales to overcoming addiction and finding true love in his marriage.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• If you can master sales you can achieve whatever you want, it allows you to have freedom and freedom of choice. But it comes with a lot of pressure to perform and to support your family.
• Most people believe that their self-worth comes from their net worth and if they cannot provide for their family they are a loser but that is not true.
• Men and women are socialised differently around sex and there are double standards and different paradigms depending on if you’re a man or a woman.
• Integrity means being open and honest about what you're doing when no one's looking. That's all it is.

BEST MOMENTS

“I was very determined to do whatever it took to be successful and achieve the goal of bringing my ex-girlfriend to the US.”

“My career success was what defined me. I saw myself on paper as what society says is great. I saw myself as really successful but in the other areas of my life I was not, I had problems with addiction.”

“I didn't really recognize it as childhood trauma at the time because I hadn't gone through therapy.”

“If I wasn't making the money and getting the results, I didn't feel worthy.”

“I nearly lost everything and that's what prompted me to go get the proper help.”

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
[email protected]

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Ian Koniak is a motivational speaker and he's a force to be reckoned with in the sales world. He's a sales consultant, a sales trainer and has his own consulting business. He is one of the highest sales performers in the world. In the world with a really interesting business background and a very unique story.

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Dawn welcomes the founder of the Omni Media Company and author of multiple best-selling books, Julie Lokun. Julie shares her journey from lawyer to podcaster and the trauma and relationships she’s experienced and overcome along the way.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• If you open your heart up to opportunities, you never know where it's going to take you. Every person we meet changes the trajectory of our lives. But people are so afraid to say yes and move out of their comfort zone.
• Anger is a secondary emotion. It's coming from somewhere else. it's just easier to blame everybody else instead of looking introspectively and saying, how can I change? What did I do wrong? How did I contribute to this issue?
• There's usually somebody who has the emotionality of the relationship and then there's the other person who is responsible for the structure of the relationship.
• Because we try to be perfect and portray the perfect image we destroy ourselves internally and there's this huge imbalance between both men and women as women are conditioned to be sad, cry and to be upset whilst men are the opposite.

BEST MOMENTS

“I found myself really unsettled in my soul, so that's how I transitioned from lawyer to podcaster.”

“I just love elevating the voices of others, those who are wanting to make an impact in the world, and I see podcasting as an amazing tool to do it.”

“A comfort zone is a scary place to be. I like to push myself outside the box and meet new people and talk to new people but you also have to stay focused.”

“A relationship means sharing a slice of your life but no one likes to connect with someone who is perfect.”

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
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ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Julie Lokun is the founder of the Omni Media Company, she assists underserved entrepreneurs and creatives on their journey to make an impact in the world. Julie is a writer for Entrepreneur Magazine and has a background in law for bestselling books and is unabashedly a woman who says yes to life.

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Deborah Driggs is known for her acting, dancing, and modelling, she is also a top-rated insurance professional and was even a playboy centerfold! Deborah now focuses her time and passion on helping women break through negative self-talk, take on challenges and build themselves the lives they deserve.

Deborah joins Dawn to talk all about her mission, the journey that got her to where she is today including her success in the acting world as well as her struggles with addiction.

KEY TAKEAWAYS  

• Deborah and Dawn both worked as flight attendants for Airlines in the 1980s. They both learnt how to deal with frightening emergencies and how to remain calm under immense pressure.
• Following some work modelling in Japan, Deborah decided that on her return to the U.S. she wanted to work in commercials, and this is exactly what she did. She recognized this as a pivotal moment in her life.
• After having a successful career in commercials, print and some bit parts, Deborah was given an opportunity to have a lead role, but she needed to take some acting classes to be hired.
• Deborah met her husband and got married in 92’, she had her first child in 93’ and her final acting role was in 98’. She was in a new era of her life.
• Deborah struggled with alcoholism most of her life, she now recognizes that this was part of the generational trauma that she was carrying.
• After the breakdown of her marriage, Deborah fell deeper into her addiction and even contemplated suicide.
• She entered rehab and managed to stay sober for a while but after getting a new job she convinced herself that she wasn’t an alcoholic and she began drinking again.
• To most, things looked great for Deborah. But she was miserable, she was just good at putting on a mask.
• If you aren’t living your authentic self, then regardless of money or status you have nothing.
• Deborah discovered she needed to tackle her issues and trauma head on, it was only this that allowed her to heal, from her trauma, suffering and addiction. She now helps others do the same.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

“If there’s a struggle there’s a problem and in that problem, there is a beautiful solution”

“That was probably the most pivotal moment of my life, I knew I was on the right track”

“Everything that people said I wouldn’t be able to do, I just found a way to do it”

“I do have a bit of success anxiety”

“Everything looked good on the outside”

“I believe that generational trauma exists”

"I had to experience a lot of different healing journeys"

CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
[email protected]

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Rishárd, M.A. with 20 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Marriage and Family Systems, I empower people to release the past, open their hearts, and receive the love they desire. I have a soft spot to help women struggling in their marriages as I did. As an Intuitive Healer, I help unlock Self Love, Clarity, and Connection, despite the challenges. I am an expert at restoring people's intimacy in life and love.

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