Wake Up with Glo

Most people view themselves as solely the protagonist in what is really a protagonist/antagonist Self system. This episode reveals the psychological phenomena that cause us to be our own adversaries when all we seem to want is the best for ourselves. Tune in to learn how you can best work around your own human programming to break the cycle of getting in your own way.

With so much emphasis placed on “finding ourselves”, it has become rather difficult to distinguish our changing desires from our true nature. Our desires being heavily influenced by the world around us leads us to confuse our conditioned minds’ yearning for our innate selves. In this episode, we discuss what it means for us to know and accept who we’re not as much as we think we know and have accepted who we are.

Our inner resistance is built from an unwillingness or inability to confront ourselves as we are or have been. Learning to identify what we are resistant to can provide the awareness necessary to begin excavating the blocks to our own fulfillment. In this episode, we explore how resistance makes its way into each of us and what you can do to fight back.

What is suffering? This episode examines the age old question and reveals ways to begin identifying where you are both the inflictor and the bearer of your own suffering.

Knowing the ego is there is not enough. It pays to know the specifics of how it functions and all the ways in which we are allowing it to rule over us on a daily basis. This episode expounds upon exactly what you should be paying attention to if you intend to take your power back.

The danger in accepting “what is” centers around opting out of your own personal responsibility to sustain and further develop what is. This episode examines the concept of passivity, what it really means to let life happen to you and why failing to correct for it can easily become the greatest mistake of your life.

When we expect things to happen, we outsource our personal responsibility. When we hope for things, we reveal our true desires. Learning to distinguish between an expectation and hope can allow us to better tend to our own need fulfillment, and subsequently show up for the needs of others. This episode reveals how to do just that.

Self-realization is both a goal and a lifelong pursuit. This episode breaks down the individuation process to help you better understand where you are in the journey of becoming and how you can better support yourself as you come into your wholeness.

Apathy is a common state of human existence that we’re often unequipped to deal with when finding ourselves no longer desiring or working toward what once were important goals. We misunderstand apathy, and in doing so, compromise our ability to overcome it. This episode examines the three reasons you may find yourself in a state of apathy, what they’re trying to tell you about yourself, and how you can override your own apathy with awareness.

We fall apart in many ways, but understanding the process of falling apart and coming back together can transform our entire experience of suffering. Learning to fall apart “better” can become our way out of the suffering and deeper into ourselves, a position that could never have been achieved through ease alone. This episode serves as a blueprint for managing your expectations of healing and offers a 3-part approach to finding your way back.

Should we avoid our triggers or confront them? And if we are to confront them, how? This episode examines the truth of triggers and how we can work through them to call in greater emotional stability and control over our lives.

True integrity is about wholeness. It’s about learning to integrate ALL the parts of ourselves rather than living out of only those that comply with society’s standards or what members of the groups to which we belong deem “appropriate”. This episode examines why so many are living out of integrity and how ignoring our call to integrity is fatal to our fulfillment.

We all wish to lead meaningful lives, but what is it that truly makes life meaningful? This episode takes us through the different ways we all spend our time and serves as a guide for transforming the time we do spend into something more meaningful.

In order to heal, we must be willing to unlearn what we’ve been taught about ourselves and the world we live in. By developing our conscious awareness, we can transition from living in the past (which creates our suffering), to living in the present (the only place the authentic self can exist).

Understanding our own significance can be difficult in a world that doesn’t always allow us to define it for ourselves. In this episode we explore personal significance and how regardless of whether your ego has assured you of yours, you may not be tuned into the most meaningful element of your existence.

Relatability has become a buzzword in our social world that encourages us to be vulnerable by connecting to the other rather than the Self. This episode examines the utility and the downside to being relatable and/or relating and walks us through a framework for a new way to relate without being inauthentic, and in turn becoming more of ourselves.

Judgment is a part of human nature, but is our use of our own judgment system helping or hurting us? This episode explores judgment in a way that will free you from its negativity and set you up for healing, and ultimately, success.

Our core beliefs dictate how we see ourselves, others, the world at large, and ultimately our satisfaction with life itself. If we are to break through the blocks keeping us from our fulfillment and self-actualization, we must start with identifying our core beliefs so that we can set ourselves up to reprogram our subconscious for the life we wish to live. This episode offers a blueprint for getting you to your core.

What does it actually mean to be selfless, and is it as noble a pursuit as we once thought?

Self-efficacy plays a vital role in our ability to succeed and it has its roots in our core beliefs. This episode explores the deeper meaning of self-efficacy and offers a framework for building and maintaining high self-efficacy so that you can get what you want out of life.

We’re encouraged to think highly enough of ourselves to be motivated to act, but expected to remain low enough in our self-image to remain humble. This episode explores an unexamined paradox to help listeners reconcile their sense of worth with their humility, while walking us through the significance of our insignificance.

There’s a pressure to be your own person while living amongst so many other people. So how do we maintain our sense of self? How do we guarantee that we’re not overly influenced and underrepresented? This episode breaks down how you can make sure that your life remains your own.

We know the value of our own intuition, but how do we actually use it? This episode explores the distinction between the voices in your head so that you can better separate your intuitive from your egoic sense. We walk through the fine details of how your intuition actually works and how you can learn its language to fully access its power.

In a world that focuses on creation, destruction proves to be an equal, if not greater, ally. By changing how we view destruction and figuring out what needs destroying and just how to go about it, we can free up the necessary energy to create the life we desire.

This episode will help you determine whether your feelings of not being “good enough” or “ready enough” are fear-based and fraudulent, or actually a valid assessment of your preparedness to show up meaningfully in your work and in your life.

If you’re struggling with your own sense of belonging, with not feeling seen by a person, a group, or the world, this episode offers workable solutions to how you can go about breaking down the barriers to visibility in your life.

Our energy system can be broken down into three main parts: the mind, the body, and the spirit. Learning how to manage each energy sector, especially our spiritual energy, stands to completely shift how we feel about ourselves and what we’re doing with our lives.

For those of us who seek, it can be difficult to deal with not knowing. The mysteries of life become burdensome when we get tied up with finding clarity around the unknown. But learning to accept how little we know and possibly ever will may be the greatest gift of all, one we didn’t know we needed.

We expect a lot from ourselves and from others, and these expectations disproportionately dictate how things turn out rather than simply offering us the necessary discernment to navigate our lives. By learning to shed our expectations, we gain more than we lose, and this episode makes a case for why our efforts are well spent doing so.

Authenticity has become more of a buzzword than a genuine pursuit of self. This episode attempts to reframe your perception of what it means to be authentic so that you can stop questioning whether you’re doing it right and actually do it.

We all want to believe that we’re special, and we should, but not at the expense of others. This episode explores how special you are and can be, but in a way that doesn’t require you to compare yourself to other people and inflate or deflate your ego. In fact, the new “special” teaches you to remove ego altogether so that you can get closer to your true calling.

Discipline is less of a character trait than it is an acquired skill. A lack of discipline stops so many from getting to “the gold” that they’re after in their personal and professional lives, but it no longer has to. We can become more disciplined whether we already exhibit a level of discipline or if we’re starting from zero. This episode offers concrete answers for all those looking to improve their self-discipline so that they can get more of what they want out of life.

The need to explain ourselves may seem like a simple desire to be understood, to belong, to be accepted by those whose opinions we care about, but in reality it’s just a way to stall at being who we are. In this episode I build a case for why you should stop justifying who you are IMMEDIATELY, and how doing so will bring more ease and fulfillment into your life.

Identifying a “true connection” can be difficult when we’ve grown to interpret the highs and lows of our emotionality as “connecting” or being connected. The truth is that by our very human nature, we simply can’t go without connecting, despite our best efforts. This episode explores how you can identify the types of connections in your life and whether or not they are “true connections”.

Our attempts at being and doing “good” are largely misguided. We often miss the point of our own existence by attempting to be good at the expense of labeling someone or something else as bad or less good. We cannot pursue “goodness” without the diminishment of another human being as not living up to our individual level of goodness, and so this in itself takes away from what being good is meant to embody in the first place. This episode explores the false idea of being “good” and why our efforts are better focused elsewhere if we are to truly be it.

As the law of attraction states, the quality of the thoughts that we have and the energy that we put out is what we ultimately call in to our lives — but what happens when we think our thoughts are good but they aren’t? When all the bad that we think we’re rejecting is actually being attracted through our attention and awareness of the very things we’re attempting to reject? How do we ensure that we aren’t held back by tending to what we don’t want as we attempt to better understand ourselves? This episode explores all of this and more.

We all have a choice to live inside of ourselves or outside in the world, and what we choose will drastically impact the outcome of our lives. Choosing to know ourselves and navigate the outside world from that knowing stands in contrast to walking this earth as avatars who adhere to what is rather than fulfill what we are. This choice is major and it’s up to us to explore these options if we are to ever know true fulfillment.

Emotional Rooting is a term I’ve coined for the practice of reconditioning ourselves around “motivation”. Many struggle with staying motivated but haven’t considered the physiological implications of motivation and how it ties into being a living, breathing, emotional being. This episode discusses this practice and divulges how you too can take control of your motivation and ensure that it lasts.

Our judgments harm us in ways we may not be aware of. What might seem like a mere “knowing of self” and having strong opinions about who we are in relation to others is often a projection of our own pain that keeps us isolated from one another and even further from ourselves. This episode examines the truth about judgment and how we can begin to alleviate the burden of being judgmental in an effort to restore peace in our lives.

What if I told you that loneliness is the best thing that could ever happen to you? This episode reveals how being lonely is the ultimate power and society has it all wrong.

We all want to be happy, but the key is not to pursue happiness, but to resolve our suffering. This episode digs deep into the source of our suffering and offers guidance on how we can begin to chip away at it.

Many of us operate from a place of urgency and a belief that it is necessary in order to build and maintain success. What we fail to realize is how living in a state of urgency can cause us to bypass our true purpose, leaving us worse off than when we started. This episode serves as both a warning and a guide to transforming a deep sense of urgency into a more stable and sustainable pursuit of success.

All of us will come to experience pain, but few will use that pain productively. For those willing to do the deep work of confronting their pain, tracing it’s origins, and then using it to get more out of life, I invite you to listen to this episode on how to transform your pain into purpose.

If you’ve ever tried to model after “the greats” and wondered why you haven’t had luck, or perhaps have and still feel unfulfilled, this is for you. If you’ve ever obsessed over what someone else who was successful in the space you’re in did to get there or is doing but all it did was deter you from getting anything done, this is for you. We stand to learn a lot from those who succeed, but doing what they did is never the answer. Listen to this episode to discover what is.

If you feel stuck, like everything you’re trying just isn’t getting you closer to your goals, this episode is here to help. Here we discuss a few of the top reasons why people can’t seem to win despite their best efforts and what they can do to fix it.

Our self-concept is how we view ourselves based on our past experiences and what the world has led us to believe about who we are. It is a powerful indicator of what we will be able to accomplish because it sets the tone for how we engage with the world. By developing an understanding of what our personal self-concept is and how it came to be, we can begin to unravel and reframe our own view of self on both a spiritual and biological level. This episode offers insight into why having a good self-concept is important and how you can go about changing your self-concept to one that is better suited for the life you wish to create.

Change is the essence of life. It’s how we grow and unlock new levels of living. This episode explores the specific stages of change to help us understand what it is fundamentally, and how we fit into the process of change itself. Once we understand what change is and where we fit, we can start to apply a three-step process to improve our ability to change those behaviors we’re dissatisfied with, and to ensure those changes last.

Competition has become something we embrace as “healthy” for exploring our own potential, but what is competition really doing to us? This episode discusses how we’re being tricked into competing, and as a result, turning our backs on ourselves.

Whether you have a tendency to put people on pedestals, judge people as beneath you, or constantly give in to the masses, you likely are the creator of your own disappointment. This episode examines how we set ourselves up without even realizing.

Whether you have been humiliated or fear humiliation, this episode discusses ways in which you can reclaim your personal power.