A Quest for Well-Being

— "My hereditary condition has often humbled me, tested me, and provided me with the ultimate perspective to see my life's challenges in an entirely new way. I'm living on borrowed time, and I don't want to waste it. I have spiritually obligated myself to share my story and to inspire others to accomplish their dreams and to live life fully. As well as to continue employing thousands in remote jobs. The more I can make a meaningful impact in other people's lives, the more I can feel worthy of all my second chances. The more I make my life count while I am alive, the less I worry about how long I live. My mindset has significantly improved my health over multiple extreme adversities. I really can't emphasize that point enough— our mind has the power to heal us. When you can control your mind and develop a strong mindset, you can reinvent yourself, you can change, and you can accomplish one dream after another and improve your odds in overcoming tough times." ~~~ Chris Valeria interviews Chris Jankulovski — He is the author of "Near Death Lessons: A Dream. A Terminal Illness. An Extraordinary Life Gained from 8 Near Death Experiences." Chris Jankulovski is the Founder and CEO of Remote Staff, a recruiting company specializing in remote working placements. Remarkably, he was able to build and grow this thriving business while battling cancer, failing kidneys and several brain operations. Throughout these challenges and more, Chris was able to find a way to transform his life from one of fear, struggle and self-doubt, to one of empowerment, success, health and happiness. To learn more about Chris Jankulovski and his work, please visit: neardeathlessons.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.

— "Your true measure of being enough, your utmost worthiness, and your badass success stems from inside of you. No one can give that to you, and no one can take it away from you." Valeria interviews Riah Gonzalez — she is the author of "Successful as F*ck: A No BS Tale of Screwing Up and Succeeding Anyway." Riah Gonzalez is also a speaker, and entrepreneur. Beloved for her complete authenticity, raw honesty, and lovable humor, Riah dives deep into her traumatic past and turbulent healing process to prove that it is possible to hit rock bottom and come out stronger on the other side, with your wit intact! Her stories and introspections cut straight through and challenge everyone to redefine success with unapologetic authenticity. To learn more about Riah Gonzalez and her work, please visit: linqcs.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.

— PositiveVibes Magazine share inspiring, powerful, community-based storytelling that inspires transformational, positive change. Now more than ever, mental health is an issue that needs to be addressed. Is their vision and intention to give people an opportunity to reflect, absorb, and ponder what they can do to make the world better. Positive messaging has been shown to bring people together regardless of their differences. They publish articles with the aim of guiding people on their path to healing, happiness, and positive energy. As a leading source of positive news, PositiveVibes Magazine is a vital link — a breath of fresh air in an industry that reports so much negativity. A big part of their purpose is to share newsworthy information that will elicit positive emotions, simple interactions with people, and a sense of uplift. As a community, they focus on healing our souls, bringing hope, and coming together. Humanity, faith, and positivism are the goals of their publication. These themes will demonstrate the beauty that lies beneath the surface of the world! Valeria Interviews Zane Landin — He Is A Mental Health And Disability Advocate, Queer Rights Activist, Entrepreneur, And Positive Change Maker. Zane identifies as Hispanic, Queer, and Disabled. He graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a Bachelor of Science in Communication and Public Relations, and has worked at places like USAID, NASA, and General Motors. He is currently now working as an Internal Communications Specialist at the National Geographic Society. Zane is the founder of PositiveVibes Magazine, a digital magazine dedicated to telling authentic stories about mental health, wellness, and inspiration. The magazine has featured over 80 voices, reached thousands of readers from over 150 countries, and secured 22,000 followers on several social media channels. Zane is also the founder and President of Landing Dreams PR, a consulting business working with media and mental health advocates. Zane attended the first-ever Mental Health Youth Action Forum in Washington, D.C., where he met President Biden, Selena Gomez, Dr. Murthy, and Dr. Biden. Out of hundreds of applications, 30 young advocates across the country attended the forum to advocate for youth mental health activation, policy, and inclusion. Zane is a passionate storyteller who regularly writes about wellness, psychology, and culture for the Power of Positivity, Entrepreneur, Brainz Magazine, and Lady Gaga's Channel Kindness.His writing has appeared in several other publications. What inspires Zane the most is storytelling and how we can leverage powerful stories to create a more inclusive world for all to thrive. He has been featured and appeared on over 50 platforms like Forbes, Buzzfeed, New York Weekly, Authority Magazine, Channel Kindness, CanvasRebel Magazine, Shoutout LA, Exeleon Magazine, Seek the Joy Podcast, Coming from the Heart Podcast, Go Solo, and Yahoo! Life. To learn more about Zane Landin and his work, please visit: positivevibesmag.com or email him via zanelandin1@gmail.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.

— "I believe one of the bravest things we can do it take the first step to tell our story — I also believe that therapy can and should have a place in our everyday lives." Valeria interviews Krystle McGrady — She has been a therapist in the South Florida region for about 5 years now. She is concurrently working full-time as a medical social worker within a skilled nursing facility. She specializes in working with those who have trauma experiences in and out of the medical field, and those who may be having transitions within their family systems. She works with the practice Buena Vida Wellness to provide walk-and-talk services with clients. She utilizes ACT, CBT, Solution Focused and Motivational Interviewing when supporting the clients and residents she serves. She has also recently been exploring the use of tarot, a new passion in her personal life and is really enjoying how the two are becoming intertwined. In her free time she loves to take dog walks with her fiancé, catch up with her bookclub and explore her local community. To learn more about Krystle McGrady and her work, please visit: buenavidafl.com/krystle-mcgrady-lcsw — 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.

—" It would be much easier for us to heal ourselves if we were still connected to our natural state of bliss. When we are born, we arrive free and clear of fear that we aren't good enough or unlovable. Nothing has yet happened in our environment or experience to implant this message (although there are rare occasions when imprints happen in utero). This is our pre-wounded self who never questioned our lovability or our has only been treated with love. They are truly a bundle of joy! That is our natural state and our birthright. But when we are wounded, we all experience living in an imperfect world, and we can lose that open, blissful, and loving state of being and spend the rest of our lives searching for it or trying to earn or buy it back. The problem is that most people are looking in all the wrong places when the state we're looking for is already inside of us and always has been. We only need to look within. "- TJ Valeria Teles interviews Tj Bartel — the author of "Great Lover Blueprint For Men: 8 Steps to Awaken her Sexuality and Blow Your Lover's Mind" Tj Bartel is a relationship expert, life coach, educator, and couples coach with a very unique approach to Conscious Sexuality that integrates modern neuroscience, cutting edge personal growth techniques, and ancient Tantric and Taoist wisdom. He has nearly twenty years of experience and proven excellence in the personal development field. Tj is a highly successful entrepreneur who shares his expertise in workshops, masterminds, and coaching programs worldwide. Mr. Bartel specializes in personal transformation, evolutionary education, and conscious sexuality. His techniques integrate perennial wisdom from the Taoist, Vedic, and Tantric traditions, Egyptian mystery school teachings, modern neuroscience, guided meditation, and innovative personal growth techniques. Tj's primary goal is to create lasting and meaningful change and transformation in individuals and the world. He also enjoys supporting people in creating exquisite relationships, which will ultimately lead to positive benefits for themselves and everyone in their lives. Tj Bartel has made it his mission to bring more love to this planet and to support others who wish to do the same. He developed a keen interest in human behavior and personal growth in his teen years, which inspired him to earn a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. After attending the Tony Robbins Mastery University, Tj discovered his talents for transforming lives positively. He was so motivated that he continued to research how he could better help others across the globe in their relationships and sexual intimacy. Throughout his career, Tj has earned many advanced certifications, taking a wide variety of classes to support his mission and improve his life. Today, Tj shares his expertise both online and through in-person workshops, having mostly retired from hands-on sexual awakening To learn more about Tj Bartel and his work, please visit: tjbartel.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.

— "I know that life is ever changing and to be the best I can be, I have to accept that change is good. Not one of us ever finishes what we are here for until we leave and so therefore why not make it the best life rather waste each day out of resentment, anger or grief. I have fought life so hard since Dean's diagnosis. I could not let go of the happiness I had and I did not want to accept the changes from losing a husband and daughter. But there was not foe to battle, and I have been spinning my wheels for years. I got tired of the fight and have made peace with all my choices in life so far and accepted that death is part of life. For me that was most the battle and now I can start to look forward to something new." — Anitra Valeria Teles interviews Anitra Marie Simmons — the author of "When Breath Is Stronger Than Tears: A Survivor's Memoir Of Trauma, Grief, Healing and Faith." Anitra Simmons writes a raw, open and vulnerable account of her journey through what it's like to travel through terminal illness, death and a spiritual awakening. She gives vision to her readers of her emotions and heartache and her mission is to bring continued awareness to grief and help others find their way through this painful journey. She shares her path to healing by becoming an artist and writer and how she embraced spirituality to ease her pain, which led her to mediumship. She currently will be releasing her second memoir When Breath is Stronger than Tears by early 2022 and will follow with an illustrated children's book based on her daughter that passed away from Melanoma in 2017. Her art is continuously posted on Instagram and Facebook. To learn more about Anitra Marie Simmons and her work, please visit: anitrasimmonsartist.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.

— "Developing your capacity to feel discomfort—to overcome your resistance and stay with negative feelings—is one of the most important steps on a spiritual path. Your goal here is not to feel comfortable. The lesson is, paradoxically, to become comfortable with feeling discomfort. Meeting your emotions with openness, love, and compassion can often allow them to resolve on their own. Hold them lovingly, without a secret desire for them to leave, and they leave on their own. Tell them to leave, and they hide, only to return later like an unwanted houseguest or pesky sibling." ~~~ Patrick Valeria interviews Patrick Paul Garlinger — the author of "Endless Awakening: Time, Paradox, and the Path to Enlightenment". Patrick Paul Garlinger is an award-winning author who experienced a profound spiritual awakening over a decade ago when he began to meet numerous spiritual teachers and experience higher states of consciousness. He writes to help humanity transcend the way we think about the nature of reality and the meaning of life. His first work, When Thought Turns to Light, is a primer on spiritual transformation that won the 2016 Living Now Spirit Award. That same year, his kundalini awakened, accelerating his spiritual evolution, and he downloaded a complete trilogy of channeled works. The first volume, Seeds of Light: Channeled Transmissions on the Christ Consciousness, was awarded the 2018 Living Now Silver Medal for Metaphysics. The second volume, Bending Time: The Power to Live in the Now, on how our consciousness is structured around time, was released in 2018. The third volume of the trilogy, A World Without Identity: The Sacred Task of Uniting Humanity, on the relationship between spirituality and social change, received the 2020 Living Now Silver Medal for World Peace. His newest book is Endless Awakening: Time, Paradox, and the Path to Enlightenment (Rhinebeck: Red Elixir, 2022). To learn more about Patrick Paul Garlinger and his work, please visit: patrickpaulgarlinger.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.

— Your psycho-spiritual-emotional health is crucial to a successful divorce. Collaborative divorce is available, both as a legal and a mindset process. Would you like an amicable divorce? Would your spouse be interested in an amicable divorce? Can you resist pressure from friends and family to handle divorce in a confrontational manner and stand up to their pressure? Is it important to you to maintain a functional relationship with your former spouse in the future? Considering collaborative divorce could be a good bet if you're looking for a legal, respectful, and practical divorce process. Making sense of your life during divorce is possible through collaborative divorce, an out-of-court dispute resolution model. Valeria interviews Nanci A. Smith, Esq — the author of "Untangling Your Marriage: A Guide to Collaborative Divorce." - (co-LA-borative) Nanci is an attorney licensed to practice in Vermont and New York. She is the chair of the Collaborative Divorce section of the Vermont Bar Association, a leader in her collaborative divorce practice group, and a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. She frequently writes and talks about divorce, family law, ethics, and collaborative divorce practices. She believes that a good divorce is possible when you show up for it with humility, compassion, and the correct support. To learn more about Nanci A. Smith and her work, please visit: nancismithlaw.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.

— Life is more than just going through the motions. There is more to life than just surviving. It's time for you to thrive! Valeria interviews Linda Feliciano — She is an Intuitive Healer and Awareness Coach. She helps people stop living the life they think they should live and start creating the life they WANT to live. Her multi-dimensional framework takes a practical approach to healing and development by helping you break through your blocks and unhealthy patterns. She combines her gifts for clarity, no-nonsense, intuition & compassion to help you identify and heal the wounds that drive your self-sabotaging behaviors and help you reconnect with your unique gifts and your deepest needs & desires. Linda is a Certified Practitioner of Teal Swan's The Completion Process, a Certified ARCH Healing® Practitioner (C-AHP) and a Certified Soul Realignment™ Practitioner. She is a co-author of the Amazon Best Seller book WOKE: A-ha's, Awakenings, & Illuminations on the Path to Conscious Living & ENLIGHTENMENT. And has been featured in publications like The Elephant Journal, Boston Voyager, Poets Unlimited, the Dare to Feel podcast, the Trauma Transformed podcast & The Mental Health & Wellness Show podcast, among others. To learn more about Linda Feliciano and her work, please visit: thelunahealing.com Linda is offering a gift for The Quest for Well-Being audience at: https://www.thelunahealing.com/thequest — 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.

— Awake energy is fresh, new, and present within us and within all of existence. When we are in contact with awake energy, we trust the goodness, wisdom, and spontaneity of our knowingness and beingness. We are aware that we interact with all of existence and are supported by a network of steady light and kindness through every experience, the ones we humanly term wonderful, and the ones we humanly term terrible. We also understand that as we thrive in insight and caring, we support all beings in their insight, caring, success, and victory on all levels. If our perceptions have carried fear, obstruction, limitation, or have encouraged us to believe in the illusion of separateness, we heal those perceptions. We live in the fullness of the present moment, in overflowing pure love, wisdom, strength, courage, and confidence. We trust the beneficence of life here and now, in our very bodies, hearts, minds, and lives — and in every moment and every time and place. We are in harmony with our own energy and so interact with the energy of other human beings with nonattachment and understanding, caring and good humor. We do not expect our satisfaction to come from other humans acting in any predetermined way because we are aware that satisfaction is within us always — and then naturally, the beauty and preciousness of all life will shine spontaneously in energy, consciousness, and openness, including through unprecedented kindness and gladness shared with other humans. Valeria interviews Swami Nityananda — She is a spiritual teacher and spiritual leader of Awake Yoga Meditation and author of Awake: The Yoga of Pure Awareness. Swami Nityananda became a student of Swami Shankarananda in 2010. Swami Shankarananda, who founded the Awake Yoga Meditation community, immediately recognized her as his successor. He announced that publicly in 2013 when he consecrated her as spiritual teacher and spiritual leader of the meditation community. In 2014 he consecrated her as a Swami and asked her to carry on his lineage and the teaching of Kriya Yoga. As Juniper Ellis, she is Professor of English at Loyola University, where she teaches American Literature and World Literature Written in English. She earned her PhD at Vanderbilt University. She has held Fulbright grants in New Zealand and Germany, and other national awards including an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship and an NEH grant. Her book Tattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin was published by Columbia University Press. Her scholarly articles have appeared in respected journals in many English-speaking countries. Her teaching helps listeners and readers connect with the reality of love, wisdom, liberation, joy, harmony, and kindness. People who meditate with her find Swami Nityananda practices a selfless way of living in the world that asks, "How may I be of service?" and models through open-hearted, generous, and effervescent guidance, a path for us all to recognize our own inherent divine qualities, and to see the same in everyone. To learn more about Swami Nityananda and her work, please visit: awakeyogameditation.org — 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.