Identity & Self-Acceptance

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The Weight of Who I Am

September 8, 2020 Episode # 132 01:15:52

This week we are thrilled to welcome Amy Elkins, President of Media & Marketing Innovation at STX, to the DENTalks podcast! If you’re a fan of reality TV, you might recognize Amy. Just last year she was on an episode of Khloe Kardashian’s Revenge Body, the TV series that uses personal trainers and stylists to give two individuals the ultimate interior and exterior makeover. In this episode, we’ll talk about her experience and takeaway from the show, as well as the pressures she faced growing up that influenced her weight gain.

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Road to Happiness

September 1, 2020 Episode # 131 01:16:50

This week we are sitting down with one of our very own DEN teachers, Jamie Wozny, for a candid conversation about her journey. If you’re in the DEN community, you know Jamie is one of the most loved teachers – she truly is a beam of light. In this episode, we get to know Jamie on a deeper level. From growing up in an ungrounded environment as a kid, to struggling with a lot of fear in her early years, to how she was able to get off anxiety meditation after 14 years of taking it, to living with Lyme’s Disease and so much more. Jamie teaches us the importance of zooming out to see the lessons underneath the pain and how we are all born with resilience. We also dive into her work with animals!

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Justin Michael Williams

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It’s Time to Wake Up!

August 11, 2020 Episode # 128 01:22:12

In this week’s DENtalks episode, we are thrilled for the opportunity to chat with author, speaker and musician Justin Michael Williams about his new book Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us. This is not your typical meditation book, and that’s what we love about it. Justin calls it a guide for creating your favorite recipe – a recipe for meditation practice, that is! He gives you the ingredients and you choose what to use and how much, to create a recipe you can adjust as your preferences of meditation change.

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Amanda Chantal Bacon

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Becoming a Better YOU

August 4, 2020 Episode # 127 1:28:56

As a young adult, Amanda Chantal Bacon was a self-proclaimed rebel. She spent years looking outside of herself for solutions only to be disappointed. After hearing there was little hope to improve a health condition, she set out on a quest to find her own solution. She discovered that lasting change required a renewed focus on diet, lifestyle, and spirit. Little did she know how this one act of defiance would lead her to become the founder of Moon Juice, a natural supplement, skin care, juice, basically all around badass wellness powerhouse company.

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Carolyn Coleridge

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Finding Your Purpose In Difficult Times

June 23, 2020 Episode # 121 01:32:13

We are so excited to share a new episode with one of our very own DEN Teachers, Carolyn Coleridge! Carolyn is a trained psychotherapist, energy healer, practicing intuitive, author of three books, has a psychic and counseling practice and works at Kaiser and UCLA. She shares with us her thoughts on the current state of the world from COVID-19, to George Floyd’s death, to the Black Lives Matter movement and how a lot of the issues we are facing are due to the fact we as a society have normalized things that aren’t right.

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Adreanna Limbach

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Get to Know Your Demons

July 14, 2020 Episode # 124 01:07:17

In this week’s episode, we get to talk with Adreanna Limbach, a meditation instructor, personal development coach and author of Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy. Adreanna shares with us many of the underlying themes in her book as well as her own personal journey towards meditation and how it helped her confront her issues of self-worth.

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Maejor

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Healing Through Music

July 7, 2020 Episode # 123 01:06:02

This week we are joined by the incredibly talented Maejor, a Grammy nominated singer, songwriter, producer, and rapper. He’s written and produced songs for Justin Bieber, Wiz Khalifia, Trey Songs, Billie Eilish, and more! His first full album, Vol 1: Frequency, was produced at the healing frequency of 432 hz. Maejor talks about the nitty gritty details of why 432 hz is so healing, what it does to our bodies, and the conspiracies around why music is mass produced at 440 hz. Be sure to stay until the end when Maejor shares his own personal practice of being present.

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Ria Ray

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I Lost Everything in One Day

June 30, 2020 Episode # 122 01:03:58

We are very excited to welcome Ria Ray to this week’s episode of DenTalks! Ria Ray is an artist, spiritual healer, and clairvoyant. She discovered her gift and passion after a tragic accident took her family in 1997 and she was forced to look within to find healing and greater purpose in her life.

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Chris Pan

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MyIntent Founder Finds Intention Through Chaos

July 21, 2020 Episode # 125 01:07:46

This week we have a good friend of the DEN on the podcast, Chris Pan! Chris is a Harvard grad who began consulting for Fortune 100 CEO’s, then found himself working at Facebook, taught Mark Zuckerberg mandarin and retired at 35. After a traumatic breakup, Chris started a deep dive into inner work and is now the Founder and CEO of MyIntent, a company whose mission is to be a catalyst for meaningful conversations by helping people find their WORD. MyIntent has served everyone from Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rihanna, Melania Trump, Elon Musk, Justin Bieber and has been featured on the cover of Time magazine and a 4 minute segment on the Today Show.

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DeAndre

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Healing My Depression

July 28, 2020 Episode # 126 01:37:03

We’re so excited to have Yoga and Meditation teacher DeAndre Sinette with us this week on DENtalks Podcast! We get to know all sides of DeAndre in this episode as he vulnerably shares with us about his abusive upbringing and his lifelong struggle with suicidal depression. We discuss what it was like to live in a conscious co-living space in Venice, CA, the perceived expectations of what moving to LA would be like, how being a creative kid shaped him, how he has turned to music and mushrooms to help him heal his depression, how meditation and yoga have turned into a safe haven for him, and how for a long time he was rejecting his DNA as a black man and instead tried to fit in with the white community he was raised in.

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