A Quest for Well-Being

— Maybe you should give up — Not on the life you want or the dreams you've had for years. But instead, maybe you should give up on the things that are actually holding you back from them. Maybe you should give up on anything that is getting in the way of you living the life that you want. If that sounds really simple, that's because it is. But just because it's simple, doesn't mean it's easy. After all, you may need to give up on things that you've been holding onto for most of your life. Giving up is actually the key to being successful. Every single successful person gives up all of the time. They give up on strategies and approaches that aren't get- ting results. They give up on ideas or goals they realize they don't want. They give up on negative feelings and fears that hold them back. They give up on anything that is getting in the way of creating the life they want. Valeria interviews Byron Morrison — He is the author of "Maybe You Should Give Up: 7 Ways to Get Out of Your Own Way and Take Control of Your Life. " Byron is also a mindset and high-performance coach who has helped CEOs, entrepreneurs and business leaders in 15 countries become who they need to be to break through to the next level of success. To learn more about Byron Morrison and his work, please visit: byronmorrison.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Christhood means the attainment of Christ consciousness. Christ consciousness is not about Christianity, but rather a natural spiritual evolvement of human consciousness, the awakening of a sense of unity with life, in its many forms, and oneness between the human and the divine. Christ consciousness is the acknowledgement that life is love. Not the egocentric love born of our human nature, but the all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful love of our divine nature. Once we reach this understanding and exemplify it in our daily life, we live in Christ consciousness." Valeria interviews Jocelyne Ranucci — She is the author of "FROM CHILDHOOD TO CHRISTHOOD: A Journey into Universal Divine Consciousness." Born in Paris, Ranucci set out on her own while still in her teens. Her work and travels took her to New York City and Mexico, and finally, to Sag Harbor, NY where she found her "home," and herself. A successful businesswoman, she is presently at work on her second book, which will show her readers how she has put the lessons she has learned into practical use in everyday life—and how they can too. To learn more about Jocelyne Ranucci and her work, please visit: jranucci.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Mental health is not only a part of overall health, it's the most important part." Valeria interviews Dr. Sean Sullivan — He is the author of "Be Your Purpose: Ten Steps to the Life You Were Born to Live and The Mind Master's Silent Journey, A 21-Day Road Map to Becoming Expert in Your Chosen Life." Dr. Sean Sullivan is a licensed clinical psychologist and founder and CEO of OnePerfect, an enterprise mental health and wellness platform that delivers personalized mindset 'shifting' experiences called Shifts. Dr. Sullivan began his formal psychology education at Harvard University and completed it with a psychology residency at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center and postdoctoral training based at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He has since been featured extensively in national and international publications including The New York Times, Forbes, and Huffington Post, to name a few. Dr. Sullivan's clinical research focuses on applying technology to improve mental health — particularly by teaching anyone how to shift their state of mind on demand. As a psychotherapist for over twenty years, he also wrote popular psychology books and articles and created countless digital mental health, wellness, and peak performance psychology courses, apps, tools, and virtual reality (VR) treatments. Based on researching the impact of teaching his patients how to strategically shift their state of mind in a few minutes anytime (i.e. 'shifting'), Dr. Sullivan developed Shift TherapyTM to guide anyone through shifting into a better state of mind from their smartphone in under 10 minutes anytime. Demonstrating a major endorsement for shifting, the Regents of University of California approved piloting Shifts at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) during the pandemic. After two years of successful pilots, UCSC's Health Center subscribed their entire 20,000+ member community to receive Shifts in 2023. Dr. Sullivan believes teaching 'shifting' is the best way to address the massive US and worldwide mental health and unhappiness crisis we currently face. To learn more about Dr. Sean Sullivan and his work, please visit: oneperfectshift.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— With zest, positivity, and a whole lot of moxie, Diane Gilman is a fashion legend who inspires women to embrace their "third act." "Jean Queen" Diane began her career as a serial entrepreneur at just 16, but she did not reach her stride until she was 60. At that point, she finally achieved the success and respect she dreamed of as a young girl aspiring to become a famous fashion designer. From overcoming obstacles such as her parents not supporting her ambitions to a late-life breast cancer diagnosis, Diane epitomizes resilience and tenacity, and hopes that by sharing her stories other women will be motivated to live their lives to the fullest. Currently, she is dedicated to bringing her "cool girl" energy to a generation that has the potential to thrive in later life. Diane's latest book, "Too Young to be Old," along with advice she now offers on this website and @TheDianeGilman, is filled with her trademark knack for fashion, fitness, and fortitude. Essentially, Diane's mission is to normalize a positive and productive view of aging, with the belief that age should never hold women back, but rather propel them forward. Valeria interviews Diane Gilman — She is the author of "Too Young to Be Old: How to Stay Vibrant, Visible, and Forever in Blue Jeans: 25 Secrets from TV's Jean Queen." A fashion rule-breaker with millions of loyal fans, the charismatic pearl-haired, "Queen of Jeans," Diane Gilman is 77 years young and embracing aging instead of fighting it. An inspiration for women embracing their third act, Diane is The top Tele retailing brand globally who is just getting started, and not unlike many women's stories, recognition for Diane came later in life with the launch of her DG2 Jeans line on HSN which has become the top tele-retailing brand globally, over $100 million dollars a year in retail sales domestically, could be seen on QVC UK, Italy, Germany, France, Australia & Canada. Her latest book, "Too Young to be Old," is another compelling take on conquering life's challenges and harnessing one's own power to live a "third act" filled with dream-catching and fulfillment. In 2021 Diane was chosen for "50 over 50"-'Know Your Value' movement (Mika Brezinsky). To learn more about Diane Gilman and her work, please visit: thedianegilman.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— Anine's relationship with herself transformed from self-judgment and thinking something was wrong with her – that she needed to be fixed – to one of self-acceptance, appreciation, and love. We are all gifted and that there is a purpose to everyone's lives. The meaning of our lives is to discover our purpose and share who we are with the world. And it is only when we connect with our true selves, our essence, that we truly come alive. Anine has grown her self-confidence and self-esteem, which has helped her get more clarity about her direction as well as how to show up in life, both in social settings and in relation to how she approached her work. Dare to be real! Valeria interviews Anine Ekelund — She is an entrepreneur, re-ignition coach, workshop- and retreat facilitator with a Masters in holistic health education. She has been practicing worldwide both online and in person for the past twenty years with her proven Dare to Be Real program that have helped hundreds of women who struggle with self-doubt or experience an existential crisis to connect with their passion, purpose and self-worth. Anine has a wast experience working with both women and men from many walks of life, from stay home mothers to entrepreneurs and CEO's. She currently target ambitious kind-hearted women who struggle to stand up for their needs and wishes. A woman who has put her own talents, ambitions and dreams on the backburner to support her loved ones as she empathises deeply with their diminished self worth and emotional turmoil from living under their capacity. She has a background as a management consultant and has facilitated leadership training programs worldwide and in Fortune 500 companies. She has worked as a certified life coach since 2004, founded and led several support networks, conducted speaking engagements, and facilitated workshop series since 2006. She coaches in English, Swedish and Norwegian. To learn more about Anine Ekelund and her work, please visit: aninergy.com and anineekelund.coach — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself; the cosmos is a way for us to know ourselves." The Idea Space makes consciousness as real as gravity. Clément Decrop will revolutionize your understanding of the mind with his captivating scientific and mathematical exploration of consciousness. Infinite space of the mind mirrors the infinite vastness of the universe, and lessons learned from one can illuminate the other. The Idea Space helps us understand our true selves by lifting the veil of illusion. The book demystifies mindfulness through illustrations and engaging exercises that make it accessible to all. By examining our world's hidden truths, Decrop invites us to discover a genuine, harmonious, and sincere purpose for living. This truth is hidden in plain sight, which makes it all the more beautiful. The only thing you need to do is look. Valeria interviews Clément Decrop — He is the author of "The Idea Space: The Science of Awakening Your Non-Self." Inventor and author, Belgium-born, Clement Decrop moved to the U.S. at the age of three with his family. With a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State, Decrop worked across the globe, including France, Spain, United Emirates, and then back home in the United States. Decrop's recently released book, The Idea Space, delves into the depths of consciousness by introducing a distinctive solution to Einstein's field equation to describe the mind, accessible to the layperson. In this literary journey, Decrop guides readers to view their thoughts objectively and identify their impact, helping them discover a happier existence and a deeper understanding of their life's purpose. As a Resilient Leadership adapter pioneer since 2018, Clement has shared his wisdom on meditation, sleep, exercise, and nutrition with thousands of eager participants in over 40 countries. His innovative spirit led him to collaborate with numerous inventors from Wikipedia's Most Prolific Inventors List, resulting in 130+ patent disclosures within one year, 50+ filed, and 15+ issued. To learn more about Clément Decrop and his work, please visit: theideaspace.io — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "For the most part, the problem is not bad people in healthcare: it is that good people are working in a lousy system that needs to be made safer with more checks and balances, communication, empathy, and oversight. Patients, family members, and advocates need to recognize and have the confidence to fight, question everything and double-check on decisions made by those in charge. When you are sick, you feel like you have lost control. That is why you are the patient. The reality is you do have some control, just as those who advocate for you do. Let them help you; you do not have to go it alone." Valeria interviews Melissa Mullamphy — She is the author of "Not in Vain, A Promise Kept." Melissa Mullamphy is a masters level psychologist, a health care expert and advocate, and critically-acclaimed author. Beginning her working life at age fourteen, she did everything from filling grocery bags to playing in an all-girl heavy metal thrash band to selling lottery tickets. Always busy, ever searching for ways to improve and to help others, she received her Master's degree in counseling psychology. Working in a psychiatric emergency room, leading various non-profit events, and running group therapy sessions gave her an insider's view of the health care system—and the failings in how it was run (not to mention the pay scale) finally turned her to the corporate world. Working as a Domestic Operations Manager for one of Warren Buffet's firms, she spent the next two decades traveling the country in limousines and airplanes, enjoying fine dining, and "becoming a responsible adult." All of which came to a screeching halt when her mother was diagnosed with cancer, thrusting her back into the world of health care—on the other side of the equation. Caring for her mother through her terminal illness, Mullamphy got an up-close view of the failings and bad practices of the medical system. She saw evil in the neglectful and incompetent people skimming along within a health care structure that preferred almost everything over the patients and witnessed heroism in good people trying their best to help in a system they knew was hopelessly broken. After her mother's death, Mullamphy turned her life's experience—as a psychologist, a corporate manager, and survivor of a failed medical system—to advocacy. Arguing in books, articles, and blogs about the (sometimes deadly) failures of our health care systems, she highlights failures, points out successes, and advocates for change in our most critical—and critically deficient—medical procedures and organizations. To learn more about Melissa Mullamphy and her work, please visit: melissamullamphy.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "When we become more aware of who we are and show up with our whole self, we start attracting what we want in our professional and personal lives." Valeria interviews Katarina Stoltz — She is a holistic life coach with specialization in expat challenges and life transitions, and a psychotherapist specializing in the Gestalt method. She works with high-performing, international professionals who find themselves in a purposeless hamster wheel and have lost sight of who they are and what they really want. Katarina empowers her clients, through a mix of education, guided explorations and experiential exercises, to break free from overthinking to improve their health and vitality. As a result of working together, her clients achieve fulfilment without burning out. She does this through her therapy work, coaching programs, her popular Time To Thrive blog and her free, guided Time To Thrive journal. Katarina is an expert in unlocking the root causes of stress and anxiety. She guides her clients through a self-awareness process of becoming life confident and crystal clear about their deepest desires. She draws from her expertise working with hundreds of clients, as well as her own experiences in the corporate world, as an entrepreneur, and as a wife and mother who has moved countries twice. Born and raised in Sweden, she is now based in Berlin, Germany where she works with therapy clients in person, and serves coaching clients worldwide, online. Katarina's desire to work with clients on their well-being is grounded in her own experience trying to meet everyone else's expectations growing up, which led to feeling a lack of belonging and disconnection to herself and people around her. Today she is a recovered drama queen turned self-development junkie, who has learned to trust her inner knowing. She has a talent to create a warm and calm space where clients don't feel judged. Through her dynamic energy and challenging questioning, she brings her clients on a journey with much depth but also with a sense of humor. Katarina is on an unstoppable mission to ignite life confidence and joy in as many people as possible. Recently, she was nominated for the FemCom Award as one of the Top 100 in Germany, for being an inspirational role model. To learn more about Katarina Stoltz and her work, please visit: katarina-stoltz.com Also, sign up for Katarina's Free Time To Thrive guided journal at https://katarina-stoltz.com/time-to-thrive-journal/ — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Empower yourself by showing up in your truth, listening to your intuition, supporting your efforts and keep space open to learn, create, grow and thrive." - Jessica Valeria interviews Jessica Armstrong — Her healing journey began after years of suffering from depression, she was completely at loss to what her purpose in this world was. Jessica tends to place the start of her journey to when she took a solo sea kayaking trip in Alaska. This was the first time she truly connected to her inner self and listened to the part of her story she was meant to hear and one day... tell. Jessica's story showed that she had been following others' suggestions of the path she should take, her unique qualities were dismissed, and her creative, entrepreneurial side was not encouraged. She was at a breaking point, worried that there may be nothing more to her life, no passion. Through hard work and saving, she managed to take this trip to Alaska, she needed to see the whales! This trip became her invitation to meet with herself in nature with peace and stillness away from the place where she only felt sadness. It was a make it or break it type of moment for her. Jessica had to do some real soul searching. This was a transformative moment for her, an "AHA" that would forever change her life. Part of deciding to heal and committing to the work, was knowing she would need therapy, coaching and other healing guidance if she wanted to truly see the "big vision" type of results. It takes a village to exceed to your highest potential, you need someone with the experience and skills to guide your evolution. Through her mentors, she discovered tools, practices and organic developments that lead Jessica to where she is today. She knows now, her purpose is to use her story, intuition and processes to empower others on their own journey who need the right guidance to find their power and purpose as well as the tools for sustainability and growth! To learn more about Jessica Armstrong and her work, please visit: lifecoach.jessicaarmstrongco.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— The health remedies Ian Clark provides have changed the lives of thousands of people for the better. The remedies were used by Ian to regain control of his own health. Tens of thousands of people have followed him on his health journey since then. In the episode, Ian discusses how to support your body ability to self-manage, increase your quality of life and extend life much longer than expected. Valeria interviews Ian Clark — he is the Founder And CEO Of Activation Products. Ian Clark has 16 years of definitive research and application. He shares the most advanced information on how to literally stop the body from aging. This also involves how to self-heal all injuries while correcting structural adhesions and distortions. Since this is dealing with the human body directly, 'seeing is believing' and there is clear evidence backing up the realities around how this all works. This also involves high level mental wellness, emotional resets and trauma deletion. Stopping the aging process, correcting injuries and supporting the best dental health are all totally affordable across the board for all enthusiasts who are willing to step up and invest a small amount of time, energy and resources to enjoy profound results. Anyone at any age can learn this and the earlier in life this is implemented, the better it is. Ian is 65 years of age and healthier than he was at 25 years of age. To learn more about Ian Clark and his work, please visit: shop.activationproducts.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.