The Glowe Accelerator Podcast with Ariana Jahja

Today's podcast, Mindfulness: Revisiting a Centuries-Old Best Practice, discusses this topic that has been buzzing about us in recent years. We explore what Mindfulness is, how to successfully employ it, and when it can be a useful tool. Let's get started!

00:00:00 - Introduction/What is Mindfulness?

00:06:00 - What is holding you back from being Mindful?

00:08:30 - Being Mindful in tough moments

00:14:15 - Ways to be mindful.

00:20:00 - Mindfulness and anxiety/The Sunday Scaries

00:27:00 - How to Start Being Mindful

Today’s podcast is gold. I had a chance to interview Josh Hildebrand the founder of Breath and Exposure STL.  Josh is an STL-based firefighter who is a Marine who went through two combat tours in Iraq. His life was very “go, go, go” after he got back until he discovered cold exposure in Austin - It changed his life so tremendously that he decided to start his own movement in the Midwest. In this episode, we talk about:

• The importance of “taking control of your body” through breath 
• Transformations he has seen throughout time have been guiding and coaching people 

• Benefits of cold exposure and how he uses it as a firefighter after this 48-hour shifts

• Connecting head, body, and heart for more presence and regulation
• The importance of “cognitive framing” in stressful events 
• Difference between cold showers and actual cold plunges

And much more!

This is an episode you don’t want to miss out on!

IG: https://www.instagram.com/ariana_jahja/

Glowe - https://www.instagram.com/gloweconnective/

Breath and Exposure STL - https://www.instagram.com/breathandexposurestl/

Josh Hildebrand - https://www.instagram.com/coach_josh_hildebrand/

Article talking about Harvard Study on Stress and Perception quoted in conversation: https://www.heysigmund.com/rethinking-stress-why-changing-our-thinking-could-save-our-lives/

People often ask me what I am training for or why I like to run. My funny answer is just “life” - I find that working out is like a lab to test and train up your grit. It used to be boxing more so but now I have added running to my list of workouts.

The five reasons I run and how they support my flowy lifestyle:

1. Anxiety

2. GRIT

3. Release of creativity and nitric oxide

4. Learning and offsetting the challenge/skill balance needed for flow

5. Visualization

6. How to start creating your own flow-infused exercise routine

I do hope you enjoy the episode - let's continue the conversation on IG and /or Linked In!

IG: https://www.instagram.com/ariana_jahja/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariana-jahja-a8412687/

Glowe Connective: https://www.gloweconnective.com/

• Definition of compassion
• Why self-compassion and grace matter
• How to practice better self-talk with yourself and your team

and much much more!

Compassion Meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-z4HqdTQFw

In today’s episode, I want to introduce one of my DEAR clients who has kindly agreed to share her experience coaching with me over the last year or so.

Michelle is a lighthouse and a powerhouse at the same time a marketing superhero and founder of Fly Pages and Fly Page Vault a STL-based marketing  firm with a big mission to support small businesses in getting the marketing they need to succeed. She is a wonderful mother and wife and a joy to talk to. We met at a co-working space during Covid and I fell in love with her energy immediately and secretly hoped I could get to coach her!

My wish came true because after giving a presentation about how to be more creative in your business Michelle approached me and as she tells the story “hired me on the spot because I was her person”!

Fast forward a year later and Michelle is not only thriving in her business but she has woken up to the power of her nervous system, her thinking, and the connection to a deeper purpose and passion in her business.

In this episode we talk about what it takes to triple your business in just one year, how to feel better AND what it takes to do the work withe a performance coach. 

Michelle Eisenhart 

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleeisenhart/

Website: https://buyflypages.com/

Ariana Jahja 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariana-jahja-a8412687/

Glowe Connective - https://gloweconnective.com/

Selma Bacevac is a licensed psychotherapist who has worked in the mental health field for over a decade. She holds post-graduate training in infant and child mental health, maternal mental health, complex intergenerational trauma, and attachment-related problems. Selma specializes in helping Balkan women heal intergenerational wounds Through her work, she has created a meaningful movement of Balkan women who are healing and changing how they see themselves, their Balkan sisters and how they choose to parent their children.

IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:

• Selma's background and how she got into this work and how and why she started her movement!
• The significance of biculturalism and how it affects us, especially as parents 
• What conscious parenting is from her perspective 
• Mother and father wounds and how they are created. 
• What it means to re-parent oneself. 
• The importance of creating safe & secure environments for ourselves and our children. 
• Boundary setting.
• Significance of emotional regulation and specific tools on how to start learning to self-regulate!
• She also shares the risks of emotional repression and how it might show up in our every day.
• Intergenerational trauma healing and the benefits of creating a family tree. 
• How old programming might keep us from growing in our business or career. 
• Fear-based thinking and core beliefs in business. 

GUYS this episode is GOLD - plus I share some insight on my journey with visualization and HOW IT'S BEEN WORKING FOR ME!

As always, if you feel called to share this episode - tag us, share it with 3 friends and/or teach this information/concepts to someone else!

MUCH LOVE!

Selma's Info:

IG: @balkanmanatherapy

Website: https://www.selmabacevac.com/

Upcoming RETREAT!! July 17 + 18 - https://www.selmabacevac.com/event-details/sisterhood-and-healing-retreat-for-balkan-women

 

IG: ariana_jahja

Website: arianajahja.com 

Amila Tutundzic is a blogger, a mom of two, a researcher with a medical background, and a hobby writer. She re-discovered her love for writing during her battle with postpartum depression. Her therapist suggested writing as an outlet and little did she know how much that was going to do for her. Her ultimate goal with starting the blog was to use her experiences to write thought-provoking pieces that help build bridges into discussions that need to happen (for healing, for improvement, for moving forward)! 

Her energy is INCREDIBLE and POWERFUL, you will love this episode especially if you have thought about self-expressing and/or starting a new project or business! 

In this episode we discuss:

• Her journey of starting a blog
• The "behind the scenes" when writing her blog posts
• Listening to our intuition as moms and women in general
• How she leaned into self-expression by being vulnerable and how you can do it too
• Answering the call to be more and do more 
• Tips on how she creates her blog posts in case you've been interested in doing the same!

How to connect with Amila:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/realtalktutu

Amila's Blog: https://realtalktutu.wixsite.com/realtalktutu/post/silence

Follow me on IG: ariana_jahja

Website: arianajahja.com

What if you already know EXACTLY who you are and all you need to do is just let go of resistance?

In today's 5 minutes inspirational message, I share my thoughts on what it means to be YOU and what question to ask yourself to find the answer within yourself. 

In order to create something - be it a business, a brand, reach a career milestone or personal goal, it's important to think about and understand how to approach it from an internal perspective, meaning mindset, curiosity, and attitude but ALSO from a strategic level…Meaning using our default mode network, prefrontal cortex to figure out what we are trying to do and what steps we want to take in order to create results.

This way we can activate a superpower called FLOW. 

In this week's podcast episode I share with you the five steps of creating a strategy around your goals!

If you enjoy this episode, tag me on IG @ariana_jahja! 

Adrian Ellison is a modern-day Medicine Woman with a gift of bridging language between what we see with what we feel.

She is the Founder of The Alpas Project & Self Healer Mastermind which encourages individuals to take their physical and mental healing into their own hands. She does this by providing tools to bring awareness to the uniquely unconscious parts of ourselves to access our gifts. Having healed her mind and body of chronic illness, her passion for teaching alternative methods of healing and activate the intuitive healer within us all is at an all-time high!

Some things you will learn about in this episode:

• The power of self-healing and inner child work
• Setting boundaries that align energetically 
• Looking through the lens of curiosity in everything we do
• How to get clear and conceptualize who we are

Where to find us:

Adrian Ellison

The Alpas Project - https://www.thealpasproject.com/

IG: @adrianellison

Ariana Jahja 

arianajahja.com

@ariana_jahja

Falling into self-doubt, negative self-talk, or judgment about ourselves is a common thing in the human condition. Always believing that we need to be better, thinner, richer, prettier, more productive….

This truth has us not feeling enough about ourselves and tragically, we might not believe we are worthy of our own love.

While there are many different ways of self-love and self-care, one of my favorite ways is meditation. When we sit in silence and meditate on self-love, it allows us to remember that we are perfect, just the way we are. That we ARE worthy of love, especially our own and that love is always available to us.

Meditating gives us permission to get vulnerable with ourselves and sit with all our thoughts and feelings, rather than resisting them.

We can feel without judgment or whatever it is that we need to feel in that moment realizing that thoughts and feelings aren’t permanent.  They come and go just like clouds.

Any feeling of unworthiness is only temporary and that we can choose a better feeling at any moment.

This past weekend I led a group of about 20 women at a self-care event ran by Coda Stl and wanted to share it with you so that you have access to it any time you need a moment to step back and reconnect and receive the light and love that’s always available to you.

Growing up Carlos was painfully shy + constantly believing that others were more valuable than me. He battled with addictions to drugs + pornography + suppressed my self-expression + my sexuality to others. After experiencing breakdowns + breakthroughs in various retreats + transformational settings, he finally beat his battle with drugs, came out of the closet, + began to unapologetically own his self-expression going from the awkward one in the corner to MC’ing conscious dance parties, facilitating retreats, + life coaching. He is currently a Self-Love coach + Tik Tok content creator who works with clients to develop unapologetic self-expression + a deep sense of self-worth + love in themselves where they’re at.

You will LOVE this episode where we dicuss the following:

• Carlos shares his story of self-expression.
• Importance of self-expression as a human.
• Power of music and dance and his history with it.
• How he returned back to dance and why he abandoned it for a while.
• How dance and development intersect.
• His re-invention of the starving artist story.
• Healing through plant/mushroom medicine.
• Superfood mushrooms.
• Importance of keeping our body healthy through movement and food.
• The willingness to feel pain and how it moves us into action.
• What if feeling sad isn't a problem?
• Why we are not broken.
• Inflammation in the body and functional movements.
• How he healed his body back into dance.
• Trauma healing through cathartic release.

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@carlosdelaplaya?lang=en

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DelaplayaCarlos

IG: https://www.instagram.com/carlosdelaplaya/

Are you someone who is trying to reach a specific goal. This episode might be for you. 

Reaching goals requires shifting identity. In order to create this new identity, we must first believe, so that we can take action towards who we are trying to become, or what we are trying to accomplish. Since I have thought about this quite a bit lately as I was creating the content for my current Mastermind group I wanted to share this process for you using all the things I have learned from my coaches - I broke it out into five sections for you five stages if you will and I hope you find it helpful.

1. Getting clear on your goal and who you want to become, I am talking about measurable SMART goals.

2. Digging deep into your current belief system

3. Identifying the mental loop error

4. Solving for the error and thinking on purpose, this is the place where imagination and creativity are a must. We have to believe that it's possible for us and we must start telling a new story and answering our brain every time it offers for us to believe we can't do it or why we shouldn't do it. 

5. Receiving, accepting

I can't wait for you to hear this and would love to hear from you!

Books: The Biology of Belief 

Check out: https://www.abraham-hickslawofattraction.com/books.html

About Lisa Grezlak / Founder of SVOUND:

2003 was the beginning of my transformational journey into higher consciousness. Since then, my journey has led me to study and gain a deeper understanding of presence, higher consciousness, and healing. On my path, I had a transformational experience with Sound Healing that opened healing in me from depression, anxiety, and several chronic conditions. Today I am a Sound Vibrational Therapist and I help individuals heal their mind, body, and spirit with the transformational power of sound vibration.

In this episode we discuss: 

Lisa's story in detail and how she "accidentally" encountered sound healing.

Dis-ease in mind, body, and spirit

Her experience of what unconditional love and infinity looks like

How she quit her high-powered job and why

Why sound and why today?

How sound balances your body and sound waves

Letting go and healing with sound

Meditation and how to accept all that is

This is a jam-packed episode with tons of goodies! 

Lisa also offers a free mediation for all of my listeners here, don't miss this freebie! https://svound.com/5-minute-meditation

Website: https://svound.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/svound.healing/

My Website: arianajahja.com

Instagram: @ariana_jahja

Facebook: Ariana Jahja Coaching

Dominique Velasquez is 42 years young, born and raised in Albuquerque, NM.

She is a wife, a mother, and recently became a grandmother. (Yay)

She is a PROUD SURVIVOR of opiate addiction.

She almost lost her life to addiction because she was ashamed to ask for help because she feared the judgment of others.  She beliefs that the stigma of addiction is the biggest reason so many others lose their life to the disease.  As difficult as it was to share her story, it was more difficult to stay quiet. She knew that by staying quiet she was supporting the stigma.

She shares her story to give others hope, and to let them know they are not alone. 

In the episode, we discuss how she broke free from the shackles of opiates with the help of a therapist, coach, her faith, and by training her own brain to take the actions needed to recover and gain her freedom back.  We also discuss: 

• How her addiction started
• Why she was ashamed to get help
• What physical and mental withdrawals felt like
• Her mission to share her story
• How her connection to a higher power got her through
• Learning to have her own back
• What it meant for her to surrender
• Gaining time back by not living for pills and how it changed her life
• Importance of community while going through recovery
• Relationship between shame and addiction
• She shares the steps she used to turn things around for herself

She shares several thought loops with us that helped her created an iron mindset. 

IG: uniquepivot

Chase is the founder of Elevate II Educate, an incredible Yogi, Trainer, and Naturopathic wellness expert and self-pronounced "Free Spirit" with a plan doing meaningful work, every day. 

His mission is to help driven free spirits create a life that they don't have to vacate from. Like many extraordinary people he has a powerful pain to purpose story that has allowed him to become passionate about helping others take control of their health and wellness through mindfulness, nutrition, weight lifting, and yoga. He will be sharing his story with us that has inspired him to become a "free spirit" in every sense of the word and the mental loops that have allowed him to take control of his life and his experience through unconditional love and awareness.

He will be sharing many, many "mantras" that support this mindset to a tee and you can start implementing into your everyday life. 

We also discuss topics such as how to train your brain by taking the Yoga practices to every aspect of our life. What happens on the mat translates directly to how we do things off the mat! Incredible truth bombs shared - You don't want to miss this one!

We discuss the following topics:

-The car accident that changed his perspective on life, the mind, and the body and why he calls it his biggest blessing!

-Making a conscious decision to turn his life around after the accident

-Getting past other people's judgments and beliefs and the fear of death

-His journey as a bodybuilder and how he learned the importance of the mind/body connection

-The topic of brain and gut relationship

-Importance of sleep

-Why he showed up on his yoga mat the day his dad passed

-Why you are the plan and how utilizing your calendar can change your life

-How to stop identifying with bad programming

-Importance of unconditional self-love

-Why meaningful work is the pre-requisite for alignment and joy

-Immolate what you are inspired by and respect the standards of your goals

-Importance of breathwork and how the breath is consciousness

And much, much more….

A couple of his mental loops/mantras:

If perception is reality, I might as well practice peace, love, and joy.

Your world is what's ends up on your calendar

Your perception of me is a reflection of you, my reaction to you is an awareness of me.

Make sure to listen for the rest!

If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot and tag us @ariana_jahja and @elevate2elevate.me and let us know your thoughts!

https://www.educate2elevate.me/

My Website: arianajahja.com

Instagram: @ariana_jahja

Facebook: Ariana Jahja Coaching

Working with hundreds of people has taught me one thing, most of us struggle with identifying and deciding what we care about.

In this episode, I break down four ideas about passion and purpose and I share thought loops that you can start introducing into your daily belief work towards your higher self

How they are different

How they intersect

Why having many many passions is possible

How to find clarity and make a decision over time.

Why purpose is eternal and how your unique message can help others.

How to start thinking about and extracting purpose in your everyday life.

Listen to the four thought loops I share in this episode and share any loops you might find useful on your own quest towards finding meaning and purpose so you can start living unstoppable.

Welcome to the Mental Loops Podcast! Congrats to you for seeking out information to upgrade your brain and start making it work for you, not against in order to become unstoppable.

In this episode, I talk about the foundations of this podcast and what my story, goals, and intentions are!

Perfectionism is the unrealistic striving for flawlessness and setting high-performance standards, accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations of us.

In this first solo-cast, I dig into my journey with perfectionism and how it has affected me.

I also break perfectionism down into the following topics:

• What it means to be a perfectionist
• Why it's holding us back from becoming free and successful and sometimes even depressed
• The root causes of perfectionism 
• How to be an imperfectionist

Mental Loops I would like to share on the topic of perfectionism are: 

I care more about putting work in rather than the actual result

I care more about who I want to be rather than what other people think

I care about doing things than doing them right

I care more about success than I care about failure

I care more about the task than the timing

For the rest of the loops that will help you become an imperfectionist, listen to the full episode!

The book I reference in this episode is How to Be an Imperfectionist by Stephen Guise

Enjoy!

Tag me in your IG stories @ariana_jahja with your thoughts so we can see and share them on our platform as well.

My Website: arianajahja.com

Instagram: @ariana_jahja

Facebook: Ariana Jahja Coaching

Ashley is a wellness coach who has experienced the dark sides of wellness hands on.  In this powerful episode, she shares the story of her journey from a tragic accident to aligning her mindset with the right thoughts towards a healthy life. 

We discuss:

What it means to be an introverted extrovert

Her accident she had to tragically live through; as well as the transformation that followed after

Obsessions over "looking and feeling perfect" and how it challenged her relationship with others, as well as herself.

The mental loops that allowed her to start becoming more aligned with herself and her health: 

Tag us in your IG stories @ariana_jahja and @awhite829 with your thoughts so we can see and share them on our platform as well.

My Website: arianajahja.com

Instagram: @ariana_jahja

Facebook: Ariana Jahja Coaching

Angela is a fitness instructor at one of the best boxing gyms in San Francisco, HitFit SF. She has been an inspiration for me and many others, and I wanted you to hear her story! 

In the episode we discuss:

What it means to go through adversity, growing up diverse, and pulling strength from the unknown. 

Being a female boxer and how to bring out your inner lioness!

How she preps for her classes and what she thinks in order to bring a bad-ass class, every time. 

Her resilience towards the shutdowns in CA and how she pushes through to show up for herself and her clients,  despite the external struggles of COVID.

The mental loops she shares with us are:

I treat others the way I want to be treated.

Listen to the episode to catch more mental loops that can change your mindset to become a badass!

Tag us in your IG stories @ariana_jahja and @angelato_ss with your thoughts so we can see and share them on our platform as well.

My Website: arianajahja.com

Instagram: @ariana_jahja

Facebook: Ariana Jahja Coaching

Edina is an Oola Life & Wellness Coach. She is passionate about helping women and inspiring them to walk this journey through a healthy body & mind. We were introduced by a mutual friend and hit it off, as we share a lot of similar coaching principals on how to break through and take our experience to the next level. I appreciated her energy and powerful perspective on how to change our minds to become our highest selves, even through adversity and struggles.

In this episode, we talk about:

Our Bosnian background and going through adversity

Importance of processing our trauma

Feeling alone and being alienated

Dealing with anger and how to come through to the other side

Importance of self-awareness and being awake

The difference between deep work and “just being positive”

Why our stories are a big deal and why we should share them

Learning from our past and intentionally looking at struggles as gifts

Seeking external approval and how it can be soul-crushing

Speaking and finding our truth

Edina’s mental loops that she lives by today:

1. I have the power to create the life I want to live.

2. No matter what comes my way - I am capable of overcoming, growing, and pushing forward.

For more of her mental loops, listen to the episode to extract thoughts that will make you a more balanced person who can see struggles as gifts!

Tag us in your IG stories @ariana_jahja and @edinafit with your thoughts so we can see and share them on our platform as well.

My Website: arianajahja.com

Instagram: @ariana_jahja

Facebook: Ariana Jahja Coaching