💫Cultural Fluency💫

In this episode Lindsay Williams of Lindsay Does Languages chats with me about how she started learning languages as a child in the UK, and why her personal experiences self-studying languages led to the creation of her business coaching clients how they can learn any language, too.

Lindsay recently completed her MA in Applied Linguistics and spent the past two decades learning more than 14 languages to various levels. When she's not sharing how to learn languages on the internet she's trying new sports, hunting down vintage jewelry, and playing with her tortoise Gonzo (who speaks a grand total of zero languages).

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Stone Gye is autistic, a combat veteran and an entrepreneur focused in the health industry for holistic client, patient outcomes. He is based in Australia where he integrates counseling, hypnotherapy, massage, and coaching using Lomi Lomi, reflexology and other modalities. This helps clients to be more vulnerable and fully self-expressed in order to illuminate the truth about their internal stories. They can then support their relationships and themselves coming from a place of unconditional love.

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In this episode Monique Lindner "The Time Alchemist" and I chat about time management and her mission to create a human-centered work culture. 

She also tells us about growing up in communist East Germany and living and working in nine countries!

She shares how those experiences led her to develop the T.I.M.E. method and Chrono-Energy types so you can work with your natural energy waves to be more productive and efficient without hustling and grinding.

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In this episode author and editor Wayne Jones and I discuss the nuts and bolts of writing a book, and what to look out for when hiring publishing agencies.  Wayne is a writer, editor, and podcaster based in Ottawa, Canada. He has published the novel The Killing Type, as well as a non-fiction book called Less and Less: Personal Minimalism. Wayne is also the co-author of the biography Greg Giraldo: A Comedian's Story. His latest book, My Sam Johnson: A Biography for General Readers, will be published in September 2023. Wayne also hosts a highly rated podcast called Writing & Editing.

In this episode Kara Goodwin chats with me about how meditation became crucial for her, and shares tips for how to start a practice and make it a habit.

Kara Goodwin, host of The Meditation Conversation podcast, is passionate about helping those who wish to expand beyond the physical plane to tap into the wisdom and gifts within them and grow into a truer understanding of who they are. She derives great fulfillment from swimming in mystical waters and equally values nurturing her Earthly side through motherhood, animals, plants, and treatment-free beekeeping.

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In my second chat with Karla she explains why she revised her landmark book The Language of Emotions, and created Empathy Academy.  We also talk about how emotions aren't "good" or "bad", and why anxiety is the emotion of motivation.

Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, educator, social science researcher, empathy expert, and workplace consultant. Her applied work, Dynamic Emotional Integration®, is a groundbreaking process that reveals the genius and healing power within the emotional realm. She is the author of many books, including The Power of Emotions at Work, The Art of Empathy, and The Language of Emotions, and she’s the developer of the online learning site EmpathyAcademy.org.

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Cooper Gillespie is a spiritual business and manifestation coach who empowers people to create more abundance and freedom so they can live lives they can't wait to wake up to. She is always exploring the question, “What makes successful people tick?”

Her transformational certification program, the Becoming Infinite Method, trains you to harness the power you were born with so you can heal yourself and your clients.

In this episode Cooper and Angel talk about their favorite manifestation techniques, and how to choose and use them to create the life you really want to live.

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UK polyglot Pat Creighton says listening skills are key to learning languages...and he speaks six!  His mission is to make the UK multilingual.  In this episode he and Angel discuss their approaches to coaching language learners, and how personal development tools make it easier.

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Podcast coach Roy Coughlan is the host of five podcasts, each on a completely different topic!  Raised in Ireland, he now lives in Poland.  His successful podcasts reach millions worldwide.  In this conversation, Angel and Roy discuss how podcasting can change the world and connect all of us.

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Alexa, from Learn French with Alexa, shares how she built her 30 year old French teaching business in London, redefining it as platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok came on the scene.  She also tells us how her family's history gave her her creative business mindset.

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Dans cet épisode, je reçois Jules de Le Français avec les Machin.

Nous parlons de réseaux sociaux, de problèmes d'algorithmes, de coaching vs enseignement, et partageons ce que nous avons appris sur l'apprentissage du français dans un monde électronique.

Qui est Jules? Qui sont les machins?

Le coup de foudre était inévitable entre Renée, une Polonaise polyglotte passionnée par la langue française, et Jules, un Français amateur de jeux de mots et d'étymologie ! Il faut dire que la langue française est si romantique. Naturellement, une telle rencontre s'avéra fructueuse et c'est en 2016 que sont nés Les Machin : un projet visant à aider toute personne souhaitant apprendre le français sur les réseaux sociaux.

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Lee Pascoe est directrice de la méthode Silva pour la France, et membre de l’association des hypnotiseurs américains. Elle nous parle de l’intelligence humaine, de vivre entre les cultures, en Australie, Etats-Unis et Europe, et de son ami et mentor Burt Goldman.  

In this episode Imani Ustawi talks about being a healing conduit, her faith, and working within her community and globally.  We also discuss the state of holistic health care in Europe v. the US, spiral dynamics, and living in alignment.

Imani Ustawi (Swahilli meaning faith prosperity), is an author, movement chaplain and ordained minister.  She is an expert in supporting to clear shame and unworthiness, breaking addictive cycles, healing sexual trauma, ancestral wounds and repatterning family relationships. She has worked and studied in the field of mental health and addiction (specifically sex, drugs, alcohol, dysfunctional family systems and eating disorders) since 2010.

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In this episode we discuss how what we are attached to, as well as silence, control, and manipulation affect our identity, listening to and acting on your intuition, and the power that being positive can have on your life.

Corine La Font is a Public Relations & Communications Consultant, Publisher, Podcaster, and Speaker who founded La Font & Associates twenty years ago.  She has been hosting her podcast, Between The Lines, since 2012.

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Aurélie Delahalle vit en Floride avec son mari américain et son fils franco-américain. Elle nous parle de son travail de professeur de français pour les enfants francophones aux Etats-Unis, de la création de the French Formula et de ses expériences professionnelles au Yémen et en Ethiopie.

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In this episode we discuss the purpose of fear, anxiety, and shame, emotions as our universal native language, the emotional violence created by the gender binary, and how emotions are handled in different cultures.  

Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, educator, social science researcher, empathy expert, and workplace consultant. Her applied work, Dynamic Emotional Integration®, is a groundbreaking process that reveals the genius and healing power within the emotional realm. She is the author of many books, including The Power of Emotions at Work, The Art of Empathy, and The Language of Emotions, and she’s the developer of the online learning site EmpathyAcademy.org.

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Rayane Bachamar est officiante de cérémonie laïque pour les mariage transculturels en Espagne, en France et en Allemagne. Elle nous parle de sa vie à travers les cultures algérienne,  allemande et espagnole et nous raconte comment elle a choisi son métier et comment organiser le mariage parfait. Elle nous parle aussi de transculturalité et d’être citoyens du monde.

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Sherrie McCarthy is an author, mother, travel addict and reluctant sailor, living on a sailboat in Europe with her multicultural family.  Sherrie is the creator of Cageology - she coaches people to conquer life's constraints and live life on their own terms.  She came up with Cageology when she realized most people were living lives they tolerated, rather than the life of their dreams.  In this episode we discuss how we build and break out of cages, integrity, social pressure, gender, and how discovering who you are never ends.

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Joris Lechêne is of French and French Caribbean descent, who is now a British citizen based in the UK.  He makes social commentary on social media (he has 100k+ followers on TikTok) drawing from his experiences living in five different countries on three different continents.  As a result of these experiences, as well as being gay, neurodivergent, and a person of color, he speaks from both sides of privilege and disadvantage. In this episode we talk about social media, beauty privilege, intersectionality, and whether things are getting better.

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Through his business, Gender Youphoria, Ashton coaches trans people on how to show up fully and authentically in their body, in their power, and in their purpose, changing the narrative for gender transition.  In this episode we discuss the similarities and differences we experience being trans in our respective cultures, dating, business, health, and spirituality.      

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Sharmila medicine is a spiritual trailblazing provocative creative consultant & sexology educator paving pathways for radical acceptance & self exploration. In this episode she will tell us all about her calling, and how became a beacon of empowerment for people of all genders and sexuality, despite having to overcome a challenging background.

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Do you believe in Astrology?

I had never thought much about it until I discovered Maren Altman’s light hearted tiktoks a year ago,  shortly before she became famous for exactly predicting the outcome of the 2020 US election - complete with Donald’s trump refusal to accept the results and the ensuing mayhem.

Once you’ve seen that, it’s hard not to think that there is indeed something to astrology. I became Maren’s dedicated follower and eventually joined her astrology class  - hoping to one day make sense of it all myself.

But Maren didn’t stop here. Her background in philosophy and the current state of the world led her to commit to finance and crypto currencies.

This promptly made her persona non grata in the woke community that she had until then been a part of.

Actually, scratch that. “Persona non grata” is way too cute to refer to a tsunami of death threats and a literal mob at her door.

One can’t help but think of Hypatia, the first known female astrologer and philosopher, killed by an angry Christian mob in 415 AD.

And, like Hypatia, Maren has deep insights into the world and its fate.

She is a visionary who, at age 23, can point you to things you’ve never even thought of before.

She has quickly become one of the people who has most influenced me in recent years - and not just me, considering her massive following on all social media. Over 100k on Instagram and YouTube, and over 1 million(!) on TikTok.

I’m delighted and proud to have her as the second guest in my new podcast, Cultural Fluency.

This was a fascinating conversation. We talked about everything from languages, living abroad, philosophy and the state of the world.

Give it a listen now. And if you aren’t following her yet, you definitely should. Be ready though, she might cause your world view to shift in unexpected ways.  She did for me.

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