Wake Up to Real Love

In a special episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn is joined by neuroscientist, tenured psychology professor, international speaker, and founder of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, Dr Hayley Nelson. Together they discuss how she is making neuroscience approachable for everyone, what can be learned from studying the psychology of the brain and how our brain forms connections.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Understanding cognitive and behavioural neuroscience allows you to swallow a knowledge of how the brain works in real-life situations and give you the power to serve clients better.
• Men's behaviour vs women's behaviour can seem very different in certain situations, but really the fundamental structures are similar. Men are more conditioned and goal-orientated whereas women are more conditioned to be communal and collaborative.
• Neurons are the specialised cells that make up the brain and the nervous system. They generate electricity and communicate with each other through chemical reactions or chemical releases known as neurotransmission.
• We have an infinite number of possible connections that we can make and that's why genetically identical twins can react and respond very differently to the same stimulus. It’s all built through experience that neural pathways use to communicate.

BEST MOMENTS

“Our brain weighs only three pounds in mass but contains 80 to 100 billion neurons.”

“There’s an infinite number of connections in the human brain.”

“Some people look up at the universe and feel how small they are but we have that between our ears.”

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

Dr Hayley Nelson is the founder of BeWellWithHayley.com and is a Neuroscientist, Psychology professor, mother, wife, entrepreneur, trauma-informed mental health advocate and peer addiction recovery coach. She is passionate about making neuroscience approachable for everyone.

CONTACT METHOD

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Dawn welcomes back award-winning and internationally renowned professional consultant Doug Gordon to the show in a brand new episode of Wake Up To Real Love. Together they discuss how to create happy and healthy relationships, the need for emotional intelligence and how the energy of love encapsulates us all. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Sometimes the love you have for someone will always remain and needs not to change, however, the relationship may need to change because it may not be helpful or healthy for anyone in its current capacity. 
• The encapsulating energy of love, energy and connection never alienates or discriminates against anybody in this world.
• Religions are like rivers, they're all beautiful but they’re all just different paths to the sea. 
• The biggest reason why we have wars in this world is that we all have opinions. We all have one. It's so important to make sure that we really understand each other with empathy and compassion and emotional intelligence. We need to respect and appreciate other people’s perspectives, where they are and where they come from. 
• For all relationships in life to work you need to rely on terms of conscious communication and active listening, not just listening, but actually hearing and listening to the conditions, expectations, needs, and values of someone. 
• Many of us lack emotional intelligence, lack the feeling of safety and the ability to trust in ourselves, we lack a sense of love. 

BEST MOMENTS
“The main problem with my marriage was that I encountered a near-death experience and that experience changed me.”
“It was like I was encapsulated in it, connected to everything and there was no man with a beard, but there was a living, conscious, loving energy that was surrounding me.”
“The biggest power in the world is your inner power and that comes from love.”

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
Doug Gordon is an award-winning and internationally renowned professional consultant, TEDx speaker,  and CEO and corporate trainer known in national newspapers for growing an asset management business from $50m pa sales to $1.75Bn pa.
Doug is a certified mental wellness practitioner, master teacher and healer of the five modalities. He is also an ex-premiere National League hockey player, radio presenter, Global Goodwill Ambassador and recipient of an award for his Contribution to Humanity and the Global Women's Magazine.

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Dawn welcomes the founder of Reclaim Your Life and 2x number one, international best-selling author Irina Shehovsov to the show to discuss how to overcome toxic relationships and learn how to listen to your inner voice. Irina shares her personal journey from pain to purpose and the lessons learned along the way that helped her reclaim her identity.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We have big bodies but on the inside, we’re still kids and it’s important to open up and be creative. It doesn’t matter how you are you should still have a hobby to help express your emotion.
• We shouldn’t stop doing the things we’re passionate about to accommodate our partner, we’re taught that family comes first but as women, we end up boxing ourselves in and putting out own happiness to one side when we’re in a relationship or start a family.
• As children, we are being conditioned to always comply with the figure of authority, whether it's our immediate family, our parents, or our caregivers. This translates to a husband too and women are taught to comply but as a result, they can lose their sense of identity.
• We forget to listen to our inner wisdom and our inner voice because the answer is always within sight. The question is, are we listening sometimes it's our ego that is always screaming when we are not treated fairly, but there’s a tiny little voice somewhere in the back, very quiet, waiting to be heard.
• You need to create a practice of meditation, of forgiveness to be able to heal that little voice and to recognise when it's speaking and to respond to it instead of placing our authority into other people's hands.

BEST MOMENTS

“I love exploring creativity and different aspects of it. So dancing was that outlet for me.”

“Dancing helped me get back home to myself and realise what I’m capable of and how amazing it makes you feel.”

“My happiness doesn't matter right now because I need to take care of all of this.”

“I was so compliant and complacent that I didn’t raise my voice to voice my objections and I lost my identity.”

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

Irina Shehovsov is best selling author, Certified NLP Trainer and Certified Wellness & 10X Fitness Coach at Reclaim Your Life. Irina is not a psychiatrist or doctor but a girl who went through betrayal, separation and divorce after 9 years of marriage. Over the last 6 years, Irina has rebuilt herself little by little. Taking care of each category of her life. Remembering who she was before she was a wife and a mother.

CONTACT METHOD

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Dawn is joined by the founder IDEA Seminars, Master NLP and DHE trainer and expert at helping people transform their lives, Rex Steven Sikes. Together they discuss Rex’s journey to his true purpose, the power of acting and self-expression and explore how Neuroscience is validating ancient chakra beliefs. 
KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Acting is truly a beautiful way to learn self-expression and to overcome the sorts of limitations we put on ourselves by actually practicing and rehearsing them. 
• Practice spiritual, emotional, mental, financial, and transformational principles. If you practice them, you can get good at them, refine them and take control of your life. Aim to recondition yourself in a positive way and you will experience all sorts of wonderful joy and possibilities that would have otherwise passed you by. 
• Life is like a buffet, instead of avoiding experiences, go and try them. It’s all part of the reconditioning process. Learn to meditate, learn to bring back gratitude and expressiveness and enthusiasm and exuberance to all that you do. 
• Neuroscience today is validating what the ancient chakras knew decades ago. Everything goes through the heart, it goes up, down or passes through, and in order to embrace the fullness of your being, your heart and head have to be in alignment. 

BEST MOMENTS
“I've encouraged everybody from all walks of life to take acting lessons because it is an opportunity to explore who you are and what you can bring to the table.”
“You can't dip and dabble, you have to dive in.”
“When your head and your heart are aligned and you're dedicated to a mission or a purpose, then everything starts working in order. Then you can use your power.”
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
Rex Steven Sikes transformed his life after a skydiving accident nearly robbed him of it. He now has over four decades 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, Educator in Whole Brain and Accelerated Learning, the Law of Attraction and is 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. 
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Visit: www.rexsikes.com for life-changing transformational tools & programs!

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In this episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn is joined by an award-winning and internationally renowned professional consultant, TEDx speaker,  and CEO and corporate trainer, Doug Gordon. Together they discuss Doug’s journey from national hockey player to certified mental wellness practitioner, why our parents are teachers and why you should give out unconditional love without expectation.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• There are lots of things that you can learn from playing in a sports team that can be brought into the corporate world as well. Managing your emotions and controlling your state of mind is one.
• Communication and presentation skills are very important in sales the better you present the more money you’re going to make. Why? Because with better communication comes more aligned and positive relationships.
• Our parents are teachers and everybody has their own past relationships and experiences that are seen from different angles and perspectives in life. So always ask the question to understand someone, rather than making assumptions.
• So many people experience such hardship and challenges in their life that they end up carrying baggage around. But you have to figure out how to have resilience and create results and aincredible life.
• Give without the expectation of anything in return, that's unconditional love. Unconditional love is not transactional, it’s given out of the love to help, support and encourage your partner.

BEST MOMENTS

“Maybe there's something from our previous lives that we connect with.”

“Wow, I'm in the wrong industry, I need to move into the financial world.”

“I really enjoyed the people side of sales in terms of connecting with so many different amazing people out there that are still working in the industry as well.”

“I see love as a vibrant energy.”

“I’ve got two different perspectives in terms of ying and yang, but both moulded well together in terms of learnings to help me grow.”

“I believe in the laws of the universe in terms of positive and negative.”

“You're conditioned to perform in order to receive love, in order to get love, you know, in order to get some sort of validation and recognition.”

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

Doug Gordon is an award-winning and internationally renowned professional consultant, TEDx speaker,  and CEO and corporate trainer known in national newspapers for growing an asset management business from $50m pa sales to $1.75Bn pa.

Doug is a certified mental wellness practitioner, master teacher and healer of the five modalities. He is also an ex-premiere National League hockey player, radio presenter, Global Goodwill Ambassador and recipient of an award for his Contribution to Humanity and the Global Women's Magazine.

CONTACT METHOD

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Dawn is joined by author, speaker and coach Janet Grace Nelson. Janet is passionate about connecting and empowering people to find their inner power to create a life of freedom and fulfilment. Janet and Dawn talk about why so many people are disconnected in their lives, why we need to break through the ego-superficialities of society and what we can all do to reconnect to our inner-self and feel loved, by ourselves and the rest of the world.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Connecting with mother nature and mother earth allows us to feel unconditional love. We can start to recognise our truth and remember who we truly are.
• Often difficulties or pains in life can make us become disconnected from who we are and the life we want to lead.
• Healing is how we can recognise who we are as a whole. Healing can be painful and isn’t easy but it’s a necessary step to becoming who we truly are and learning who we are deep down.
• Those who hurt others usually come from a place of needing to do their own healing.
• Many people battle with what they want to do and what they feel like they have to or are obligated to do. This can cause an internal battle making it almost impossible to live their authentic lives.
• If you are struggling with your sense of self, find a community and find content such as podcasts, to learn who you are and recognise your worth.

BEST MOMENTS

“Mother nature is our greatest teacher, she’s our greatest healer”

“We have to feel to heal”

“I love you, but I love me more”

“Not through your eyes, but seeing yourself through your heart”

 CONTACT METHOD
https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningwithdawn
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Janet Grace Nelson:  https://www.janetgrace.love/home-page

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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Dawn is joined by a passionate champion for the divine feminine, Barry Selby. Together they discuss the different functional mindsets of men and women, where we live within their spectrum and why we have the power to control our own environment and become our own creators.
KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Functionally men and women think differently, and it’s natural. Men compartmentalize and focus on completing things and achieving a goal or objective. For men, the most comfortable place is when a task is finished.
• Women often get more enjoyment from the journey and the exploration of a goal. A woman's energy is about enjoying what's happening, exploring and embracing everything.
• Men like to dance on the edge of openness, aliveness and dark contemplation. Men often take more risks physically because death is kind of a man’s greatest challenge. 
• There’s a difference between being life focused vs emptiness focused. Naturally, men and women are at different points on the spectrum due to the difference between masculine and feminine polarity. 
• We can choose what we want to be on the spectrum at any one point in time. We have freedom to choose, the environment does not control it but in-fact we control ourselves in our own environment. We are the creator. 

BEST MOMENTS 
“Your journey is about making mistakes and then diving into personal growth and development to grow.”
“I had a transformational experience and a parallel shift in 2007 when I realized I needed to live my life.”
“We live somewhere on life focused vs emptiness focused spectrum”
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
Barry helps women move from heart-break grief to whole-hearted grace. He is a passionate champion for the divine feminine, helping strong successful women create balance in love, life and business. He is dedicated to disrupting the codependent patterns people fall victim to, so they can thrive in life, and enjoy healthier relationships.
His #1 best-selling book – 50 Ways To Love Your Lover – is a comprehensive how-to guide for couples and singles, men and women, delivering 50 powerful principles for passionate and richly rewarding relationships. With over 35 years of training and experience, including a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology, and over 20 years as a spiritual counselor, he has helped thousands learn to love themselves and live in wholeness.
https://www.barryselby.com/
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Author, speaker, personal development and relationship coach Karína J. Solomon joins the show to shine a light on empowerment for both men and women to be their authentic and unadulterated selves. Listen in and learn how to reverse the ripple effect, why so many marriages end up in divorce and Karina shares some insightful personal stories of growth and development.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Do you have what you need to be able to be abundant? As a woman, many times we can just end up giving and giving which ends up depleting us because that is what we feel our value is and we end up depressed, dissatisfied and unfilled.
• We become dead inside, reactive and angry and end up blaming other people for our lack of fulfilment, it's a ripple effect. So why not have the ripple effect go up instead of down?
• Often, people who even up in divorce don't do enough work interpersonally in their relationship and personally, before that. A marriage is two people who come together as a whole and not from a place of neediness, not from a place of lack but 100% commitment.
• We all want to feel a sense of intimacy and that we are seen for who we are. We want to uplift and empower each other and use our gifts of love and life to build the relationships we desire and to feel loved, valued and connected with our partners.

BEST MOMENTS

“Karina’s style is bold and edgy, and she seeks to empower both men and women to be their authentic and unadulterated selves.”

“Words are really important to forming a successful relationship.”

“I get blindsided when people don't do what they say and don't make good on their agreements or renegotiate when they wanna change.”

“An affair is not the other person's fault. It's the responsibility of both people.”

“If you have children or a full-time job, don't even think about being polyamorous because it is a full-time job”

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

Karína J. Solomon is the author of Sexy, Sassy & Starting Over; Recipes for a Sweet & Savory Life After Divorce. As a speaker and a coach, she delivers keys to confidence from the bedroom to the boardroom. She's bold, and wild and inspires women to be their truest selves.

Karína's academic and experiential background combined with years of personal development, her long-term successful marriage and amicable divorce has prepared her to assist others in navigating life transitions. A grateful breast cancer survivor, she advocates for women going through similar journeys. She’s most excited about facilitating personal transformation for successful women after divorce.

CONTACT METHOD

Karina Solomon - [email protected]

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Dawn is joined by mindfulness coach, breathwork facilitator, meditation guide and international speaker Michele Schalin. Listen in and discover simple and effective techniques to help you handle anxiety, depression, PTSD, physical pain, and more. Learn how to have more control over your thinking and change your subconscious beliefs to transform your life.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• We all inherently know that we need to hunker down and cultivate more self-love within ourselves to be happy.  We need to be comfortable and know who we are and connect with ourselves instead of trying to escape outside of ourselves which we’re taught our whole lives. 

• If you're really focused on healing certain trauma and cultivating self-love, forgiveness and acceptance, it will amplify to other areas of your life.  

• You can reprogramme yourself by positively connecting with yourself, and educating yourself about the brain, the body, your thoughts, and your beliefs and training your brain and your spiritual connection.

• A deeper level of healing, whether it be breathwork, or mental meditation or any other, when you practice self-love and address trauma and weep, you will overcome past negative experiences and find more peace.

BEST MOMENTS 

“My biggest fear was to be alone and I couldn't have been more alone.”

I was so outside my comfort zone that I grew like a rocket.”

“I did a lot of meditation and put myself in a cocoon.”

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

Michele Schalin is a Mindfulness Coach, Meditation Guide, Breathwork Facilitator, and International Speaker. She teaches effective techniques that will help with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and physical pain that you can easily implement into your daily life. You will learn how to have more control over your thinking, and change your subconscious beliefs ultimately, transforming your life.  Michele has over 30 years experience in guiding thousands of people on their journey of personal healing and spiritual  growth. 

CONTACT METHOD

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https://mschalin.com/

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Founder and CEO Certified Matchmaker at AVConnexions Arlene Washburn joins the show. Learn how to communicate effectively, how to recognise and reaffirm your accountability in your relationships and why bringing communication to the forefront of your consciousness will help you build beautiful and healthy relationships.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• People think that we don't have arguments because we have beautiful, healthy relationships, but we all have conflicts.

• The thing about relationships is that you can never learn everything about someone, just like you can never learn everything about yourself, why? Because we’re always growing. So you need to keep a strong connection and interaction with each other to continue to learn.

• It’s important to recognise your contribution to your relationship in situations of conflict. We need to recognise and reaffirm our own position and responsibilities in our relationships.

• People want to be seen, heard and understood and having the awareness to validate others by bringing communication into your consciousness will help you to operate in a different and more successful way.

• People that were brought up in a chaotic environment often don’t know how to communicate or express their emotions in healthy and constructive ways.

BEST MOMENTS

“Conflict in a relationship helps us get to know one another.”

“The whole point of communicating bidirectionally is to understand give and take.”

“You must always attempt to communicate and find the best ways to communicate in any given situation.”

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

Arlene Washburn is the FOUNDER & CEO Certified Matchmaker at AVConnexions and helps successful singles find long-lasting love through Science-based Matchmaking. Arlene has coached over 1,000 Professional Singles and is a Trainer and Consultant to Love Industry Professionals.

CONTACT METHOD

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

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