Wake Up to Real Love

Dawn is joined by the founder of The Black Podcast Club, Blake Johnson. Together they discuss his journey to discovering creativity, how to overcome life’s struggles and rediscover your imagination and why taking control of your life and eliminating negative relationships can help you to grow and develop.

He's also the founder of the black podcast club and international social club for podcasters creatives and wealth generators. We're going to create some magic here today, Blake.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Too often in life we lose our sense of imagination, wonder and curiosity. People do not follow their own creative expression because society has taught us the only accepted way to succeed is to follow the traditional career path. 

• Everybody struggles at some point in their life but it’s about your mindset and how you respond to the struggle that will help you grow and develop.

• Fundamental reading skills are essential to academic success and in the age of social media, it is even more prevalent. 
  
  
• Most people are lost in the shuffle and to overcome this you need to take control over the chaos and eliminate the relationships in your life that aren’t serving you and that aren’t healthy 

BEST MOMENTS 

“My journey of podcasting led me to realise I’ve always been creative.”

“I use my creativity as a way to heal and to exist and be in the world, it's part of who I am.”

“Everybody has a different perspective and ability to assimilate the information that they get.”

“Why don't they teach psychology in every school to talk about mental health and the struggles that we have as human beings?”

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
Blake Johnson is the founder of the Black Podcast Club an international social club for podcasters creatives and wealth generators. 

CONTACT METHOD

https://theblackpodcastclub.com/

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Dawn is joined by her Clubhouse co-facilitator, life coach and trauma therapist, Elsa Marley. Hear Elsa’s incredible journey from pain to purpose and the lessons she’s learned along the way. Discover how to overcome trauma, realize your true potential, and create an amazing life.

Trigger Warning: Some graphic content may trigger some listeners.  Please contact a professional, like Elsa or Dawn, to get support and help. 

In order to repurpose your pain and create a new identity, you must grieve, heal and release the past, and learn to feel worthy and deserving of love.  It will help you live a more peaceful and purposeful life, and reach your full potential.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• If you have experienced trauma, there is hope. Hope that you can not only survive but that you can create amazing lives and new experiences out of things that were really challenging and hard for you.

• Everyone is focused so much on outside behavior. No one really asks what's actually happening internally and what you’re feeling emotionally.

• Because of the power differentials between adults and children, there’s often no way for a child to speak out against an adult. 

• Often couples can be bonded together through trauma and to fill each other’s void, but If you have zero partnership, zero alignment and no purpose together, you’re not compatible and this can be an awakening to realize your true potential.

BEST MOMENTS 

“A lot of women lose hope in the system.”

“I've always believed in God and I always had my imaginary friend.

 “I just pretended like I had a friend who understood all my problems and we just talked about it.”

“I just felt like power came from me. This is not your time and God used my son to literally keep me alive.”

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
Elsa Marley is a life coach and trauma and informed therapist who's dedicated to seeing people’s journey from a life of pain to living on purpose. She's empowered people in the US, Africa, Europe and Asia to heal and walk in their true identity. 

She focuses primarily on clients who struggle with anxiety, depression, PTSD, gender, sexual identity issues, or those that have gone through sexual abuse and trauma Elsa is a mum, entrepreneur, speaker writer, and sex trafficking survivor, who now advocates for those who have endured and overcome a life of abuse.

http://www.elsachristie.com/

IG@iamelsachristie

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In this episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn is joined by lightworker, coach and mindfulness practitioner Nataki Onyemachi. Together they discuss her spiritual journey from Ghana to America, how to manifest the life that you want, why you need to process your hidden emotions and past experiences and how you can turn self-healing into self-love.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• You have to consciously make the decision to get out of your own way and allow the universe to work its magic. In order to see the magic happen you need to be disciplined about letting go, be able to surrender, relax and allow the things you want in life to manifest. That takes courage.

• As children, we don’t know how to integrate and process our emotions. Far too often children just hide their feelings and move on because there are just resilient and as they grow into

• Everyone has emotions and past experiences that they know they need to heal because of some self-awakening in their lives as these are the things that are blocking them from achieving their best life.

• For all of us, a large part of our healing journey, our growth, expansion and evolution requires that we go to those hidden parts of ourselves and that we have the courage to go there.

• Disconnection from ourselves is always about survival, but it keeps you in a depressive state. We disconnect unconsciously so that we can move forward to find ourselves. It's a protective mechanism.

BEST MOMENTS

“I give a lot of love and gratitude to Ghana because  it’s a huge part of my energy, growth and spiritual journey.”

“When we get in our own way, we're actually allowing our ego to come forward and push our buttons.”

“Events can trigger suppressed emotions that have been hidden inside of us from our childhood.”

“This is really my first time being so transparent with my healing journey.”

“I really go into those hidden dark shadows of myself and really heal the parts I had disconnected from.”

“Along with radical self-healing comes radical self-love.”

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
Nataki Onyemachi (formerly J. Nataki Rivers) is a lightworker and mindfulness practitioner, a life coach, mentor and conference presenter. She is a certified project manager, health and wellness consultant and metaphysics teacher.

She is an entrepreneur through various energy healing modalities. Her work serves to help individuals and organisations with conscious leadership development and wellness, workplace education, and implementation. She provides Lightworkers training for the advancement of humanity.

CONTACT METHOD

https://empoweringunow.net/

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Dawn is joined by the founder of Go The Distance Consulting and the Miraculous Living Institute, best-selling author of The Miracle That Is Your Life, and expert coach and speaker, Wendy Darling. Join an insightful episode of the Wake Up To Real Love podcast as Dawn and Wendy discuss unlocking your natural skills, how to overcome old patterns, and how to ‘wave your magic wand’ to turn your dreams into reality and create the life and love you want.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Understanding that your skills are a gift and they are a natural part of who you are and part of what makes you special and unique is so important to living a high quality, productive and profitable life.

• Many people don't take the time to examine what's going on inside of themselves and they end up going through life on autopilot. Often this means not living your own life and doing things according to what your parents or others think you should do and what’s been installed into you.

• If you don't work on your mind you risk defaulting back into old patterns. Brain training is about strengthening your neuro-pathways and creating new ones of strengthening existing ones at a higher vibration.

BEST MOMENTS

“Women were not necessarily supporting each other as much and I wanted that to shift because I saw all of us having more of an opportunity if we came together and worked together.”

“How do people wake up to recognize what's more authentic for themselves?”

“Typically we only become reflective when something negative has happened that has us question what we really want.”

“Waving your magic wand and really getting into your heart and your heart's desires about how you want to be living and experiencing your life.”

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

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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, partnered or not.

ABOUT THE GUEST
Wendy Darling is the co-founder of Go The Distance Consulting (GTD) and The Miraculous Living Institute, committed to you achieving your results with over 38 years of experience as a management and organizational development consultant, corporate influencer, expert speaker, master healer, and coach.

Wendy blends her psychology management and organizational development experience with her unique healing gifts and processes and to what is now The Miraculous Living Method, a comprehensive system that creates permanent change. She is also the international best-selling author of The Miracle That Is Your Life.

Connect with Wendy on LinkedIn, Facebook, and at https://wendydarling.com/

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In today’s episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn is joined by the Co-founder of the Tantra Institute, Guy Shahar. They discuss authenticity, connection, intimacy and overcoming relationships. Discover how to build a sense of trust and safety with yourself, how to create supportive containers and the lessons you can learn from past relationships and the transition to being single again.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Once a relationship breaks down and the sex and intimacy stops, there is still the need for a supportive container for the children. Far too often people allow their emotions to run away with them because they don’t know how to process and deal with them.

• You will keep attracting the same people in life over and over again until you learn the lesson about yourself and you can make the necessary changes to form successful and passionate relationships.

• If you have a deep sense of trust, safety and reliance on somebody else you need to understand how you can be that for yourself first and explore the parts of yourself that can help you achieve independence.

BEST MOMENTS

“Breaking up with a partner is hugely challenging for most people as it’s a sudden sever. People don’t know how to transition and shift.”

“How can you create something different in a relationship if you don’t know what it is, how do you explore what's possible?”

“I learned that I wanted to be in partnership and in a committed partnership.”

“You've just spent your whole life practising, not connecting to your desire when it's not acceptable.”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

https://www.tantrany.com/

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
Guy Shahar is the co-founder of The Tantra Institute that provides the education we never had and always needed in order to have wonderful, real and lasting love, and to rediscover the full potential of our sexual energy.  He is also the originator of Tantra Speed Date, a singles dating sensation in over 30 cities worldwide

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.tantrany.com/

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

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Dawn welcomes founder, mompreneur and CEO of TLB Coaching, Tracy Borreson to the show to share and discuss building your personal brand. Learn the power of sharing your voice, how to connect and build connections with others and why you must focus on self-love first before loving anybody else.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Dancing is so powerful and it allows you to embrace yourself for who you are. It doesn't have to be to the benefit of anybody else, because if it benefits you, then you are going to show up in a different way and you will be a benefit to others.

• We're not robots, we’re human and we need to have emotions to connect. People cannot connect with you when they don't have enough information to choose you. You have to display and express your personality and push yourself into the growth zone.

• Branding is your life and is made up of your own persona and experiences and your experience help to expand your perspective.

• You’re sharing your voice and building your brand for a reason and it’s a reason that’s good for humanity because keeping that inside of you is not serving anybody.

• Love can simply be defined by self-love and the act of loving to be yourself. You cannot find true love in any other relationship until you find real love for yourself.

BEST MOMENTS

“When people get older they don't share as much of themselves and they become more isolated but you need to express your gifts, not necessarily for anybody else, but just for you.”

“Sometimes it's just a matter of accepting people for where they are.”

“People can add so much value to your life and you can choose what to think about them.”

“People put so much pressure on themselves.”

“I focus on brand voice and helping people to get their voice out and into the marketplace.”

VALUABLE RESOURCES
https://www.tlbcoaching.com/

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
Tracy Borreson, Founder & CEO, TLB Coaching & Events. Tracy is a corporate marketer, personal brand advocate and firm believer that there’s a way for people to bring their personal brand to work to benefit themselves AND the business. Tracy has developed a unique formula for each leader and each business.

CONTACT METHOD

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/brandsthatspeak

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In this episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn is joined by strategic advisor for ethical brands and managing director of The Sustainable Economic Development group, Valentine Stockdale. They discuss How childhood experiences can impact adult life, overcoming ‘the shadow’ and self-limiting beliefs and why plant medicine can heal your past and create new neural pathways for your future. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Self-limiting beliefs are common for children that have experienced abuse and abandonment growing up in cruel environments and often the child continues to believe they’re limited and carry that into their adult life causing a range of subconscious patterns of negative behaviour that can be self-destructive. 

• Plant medicine allows your brain to create new neural pathways that give you clarity over past traumatic events giving you the ability to bypass them and understand the latent knowledge sitting in your mind inaccessible previously due to cognitive dissonance.
  
  

• Childhood pain is a shadow which is a collection of trauma and parts of our personality that we have rejected. Your shadow is a suppressed part of your personality you must overcome and flush out in order to reclaim your body so that you can shine brighter and be a better influence on people. 

• Past experiences and trauma cause us to shut down and hide and we use them as protective mechanisms, not really expressing what's really going on with ourselves because we have to live up to some expectation of who other people think we should be. 

BEST MOMENTS 

“Their obsession takes them to the point where they just outperform everybody's expectations and it's incredible.

“You've got lots of conflicting views and opinions that will clash together and prevent you from seeing things clearly.”

“I wanted to normalise people's struggles because this is why we shut down.”

“You can be hurt by other people projecting onto you because they’re unable to manage their emotional space.”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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

Valentine Stockdale is the strategic advisor and investment readiness consultant for conscious entrepreneurs and ethical brands focused on changing the world. He currently serves as managing director of sustainable economic development group, blueprints regenerating the economies of indigenous communities around the world.

He's also the co-founder of Impact World, indigenous forum, and more recently world indigenous carbon, which is a brand new venture launching next week, helping conscious corporates to reach carbon neutrality through protecting and regenerating the Amazon rainforest O M G Valentine. You got a big mission.

CONTACT METHOD

www.linkedin.com/in/valentinestockdale

https://www.linkedin.com/company/i-m-p-a-c-t-w-o-r-l-d/

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In today’s episode of Wake Up To Real Love, Dawn is joined by the creator of Mindful Being, Raditia Lasry. Together they discuss learning how to express, reconnect and control your emotions. Discover how to explore your own creativity and create a life that you own with your own choices.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• For many people, it's very difficult to express ourselves because we'd never learned how to express ourselves and how to feel. Emotions are secondary and we’re conditioned not to feel because of our inability to express emotions. We need to learn to give ourselves permission to actually reconnect with our emotions.
• Art, It's about expressing an aspect of yourself that may otherwise be hidden and suppressed. It's for your own exploration and your own creativity with no limitations. 
• We all have an issue with letting go because we're holding onto so many things that society is telling us to. So if we can let go of what society is telling us, and we're just focusing on our immediate family and what works for us we can finally be ourselves.
• It’s important to learn how to control your emotions and discover that the only person you’re really accountable to and responsible for is yourself. Create your own life and make your own choices.

BEST MOMENTS 

“I realised that when people feel like there is an issue, that’s more of a problem with them not being able to express their emotions.”

“There is an awful lot of unawareness that is subconsciously happening.”

“How we can express ourselves if we're not exposed to art such as music, painting and drawing?”

“We need to become more aware of our own conditioning.”

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
Raditia Lasry is the creator of Mindful Being, LLC. She is a teacher supporting high-achieving individuals to love themselves as they are and live with more ease and happiness daily.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.mindfulbeingllc.com/
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Art and the beauty of it is everywhere. Dawn is joined by a world-renowned artist famous for creating vibrant abstract paintings based on interconnectivity and spirituality, Heather Buechler. Discover how to use art to express your emotions and connect with your spirituality and learn how to focus on love and self-worth in today’s episode of the Wake Up To Real Love podcast. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Our earth is the biggest landscape for art in the world.  There's art all around us in the beauty of life, it's interconnected with our spirituality, there’s a connection between art and our faith.

• Too often we’re taught to suppress our emotions and we lack a healthy way to express our feelings. Art is so beautiful because it is expressive and you can express all manner of emotions from angst and anxiety to love and passion.

• The more you open yourself up to creativity, the more familiar you are to the artist's mindset. Art can be the spiritual pathway to creativity and allow you to attach, unattach and grow, art helps you to feel centered and to complete your connection.

• Buddhism as a philosophy of unattachment does no harm to others and is focused on practicing kindness, meditating and taking care of the planet and those around you. Meditation can take place on the canvas when the artistic flow takes over.

• Focus on love and self-worth to attract better people in your life. Spend time developing your own self-love and break free from patterns that have caused previous bad relationships. Seek out supportive and equal relationships above all else and create a secure family environment filled with love.

BEST MOMENTS 

“I cannot imagine life without art and the beauty of it everywhere.”

“I'm either trying to educate people or send light and love out into the universe.”

“It’s very important for people to be able to express angst and anxiety through art and creativity.”

“Reiki is a Japanese form of energy healing meaning love.”

“Allow your soul to express itself in whatever way it wants”

“By just doing something you'll be inspired to do something else

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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
Heather Buechler is a world-renowned artist famous for creating vibrant abstract paintings based on interconnectivity and spirituality.

CONTACT METHOD
www.heatherbuechler.com/home
www.heatherbuechler.com/contact

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Dawn is joined by a healer, a mystic and a tantric priestess. Recently rebirthed Rainbow Starlight joins the show to share her incredible journey in realising her true self. Dawn and Rainbow discuss how to find your own voice and unlock your kundalini energy, how to overcome the darkness and why you must learn to accept yourself with love and compassion.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Our healing journey is to get to the place where we are at home within ourselves and to a place where we feel freedom and liberation all of the time.

• You’ve got to find your own voice and prove everybody else wrong with what you can achieve, you’ve got to prove yourself wrong and overcome your own self-limiting beliefs and work hard to get your voice heard. Magic and miracles happen when we allow it to and when we believe in it. 

• It's essential for all of us as humans to work on getting to know ourselves. Before you can work on yourself you need to know who you are? Why are you? And what makes you tick? 

• Kundalini energy is a sleeping force inside of us all and when you're dancing, you're awakening its potential. 

• Most people are afraid to face their darkness because it can seem all-consuming or overwhelming but the night is darkest just before the dawn, but once you reach the light It's beyond what your mind can comprehend. The most important thing about healing is acceptance, we have to accept everything that we're going through and to give ourselves so much love and compassion to get through it. 

• We're all human and we all have things that we need to work on and when we realise that we don't have to put on a facade and a mask to be accepted we can really step into our power. 

BEST MOMENTS 

“I lived in fear. I was submissive. I didn't have a voice. I felt like I was never going to be free.”

“We are all meant to be queens and goddesses, we're not meant to be servants.”

“The Shakti is a divine feminine, she's the source of all things and the elixir of your life.”

“Your truth is your higher self, our angels, and our guides all communicating with us. You just have to learn to listen.”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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
Rainbow Starlight has recently rebirthed herself, going through a beautiful transformation to realise her true self and remind us of our own divinity. Rainbow is a healer, a mystic and a tantric priestess.

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