A Quest for Well-Being

— "Mother Nature talks to all of us, all the time. Her voice is loud and clear but often muffled by all the noise around us. But if we spent time in the forests, deserts, mountains, oceans, and prairies of the World, we can hear her. the six months I spent in the desert was both soulful and transformational." Valeria Teles interviews Jon Turk — the author of "The Raven's Gift: A Scientist, a Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness." Jon Turk earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1971 and was nominated by National Geographic as one of the Top Ten Adventurers of the Year in 2012. Between these bookends, Jon co-authored the first college level environmental science textbook in North America, followed by 30 additional texts in environmental, physical, and earth sciences. At the same time, he kayaked around Cape Horn and across the North Pacific from Japan to Alaska, mountain biked across the northern Gobi in Mongolia, and made numerous first ski descents and first rock climbing ascents around the globe. During extended travel in northeast Siberia, Jon's worldview was altered by Moolynaut, a Siberian shaman, and his later books reflect these spiritual journeys. Jon has published four trade books: Cold Oceans (HarperCollins), In the Wake of the Jomon (McGraw Hill), The Raven's Gift (St Martin's Press) and Crocodiles and Ice (Oolichan Press). His newest project, Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu (To be published by Rocky Mountain Books in September 2021) delves more deeply into a "mind-body-spirit" theme, supported by adventure storytelling, integrated with an anthropological view of the role of art and mythology in human development. To learn more about Jon Turk and his work, please visit: https://www.jonturk.net/ — 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.

— Sensitive souls not only have to deal with sensitivity to other people's negative emotions, they also have to deal with other types of toxic energies, including electromagnetic radiation, noise pollution, air pollution, and toxins in our food and water. Worst of all, our emotions are easily manipulated by mainstream media and fear can easily become a chronic state of being. By practicing BEING in your own vibration, you'll learn what is YOU and what isn't YOU. Valeria Teles interviews Dr. Karen Kan — the author of "Sensitivity Is Your Superpower: How to Harness Your Gifts, Fulfill Your Purpose, and Create a Life of Joy." Dr. Karen Kan is a medical doctor and Doctor of Light Medicine. As a #1 bestselling author and founder of the TOLPAKAN™ Healing Method, her mission is to help Sensitive Souls heal themselves, harness their gifts as a superpower, and express their Soul's Mission. What she is really passionate about, is empowering sensitive souls like Earth Angels, Indigos, Starseeds, and Empaths to shine their light, so that together, we can pull the world out of darkness. Through her Academy of Light Medicine, Dr. Karen teaches students her 3-step TOLPAKAN™ Healing Method (TKH) which involves aligning with the highest Source of information, asking quality healing questions through Divine Muscle Testing™, and then activating specific healing frequencies to do the clearing and healing. Like a spiritual detective, Dr. Karen can discern, in detail, the foundational reasons for a person's symptoms. With expert mentoring, Dr. Karen empowers her students to get precise Divine answers and teaches them how to activate Divine energies for self-healing. To learn more about Dr. Karen Kan and her work, please visit: https://www.karenkan.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.

— "Take charge of your life and don't allow your life to just happen to you – ensure you happen to it." In Diana Hutchison's book, Creating an Awesome You explores many different areas of life and looks at each one at its best expression. Thus, it encourages you to be your best in each area. If you manifest the potential expressed within, you will be creating an awesome you. It is becoming more and more difficult to sort through the myriad of information out there in the ether, or the World Wide Web, and find the golden nuggets that can help to build your life. It is Diana's hope that those of you who read her book can indeed find that nugget and take action to become your best, to fulfil your potential, and to create a wonderful life for yourself. She talks about the individual within a social setting. No one is isolated, we are all part of a larger whole: society, and humanity. It just depends on your beliefs and feelings as to where you put yourself within that setting. Valeria Teles interviews Diana Hutchison — the author of "Creating an Awesome You: A Practical Guide for Young Adults." Diana Hutchison has a background in psychology and coaching and is passionate about helping people heal themselves on all levels. With more than 15 years counselling experience she was compelled to specialize in grief and loss following her mother's death in 2011. After this loss, she undertook further training in grief and loss counselling. Now based in South Australia and in her own practice, Diana Hutchison designed an integrated therapeutic program of mental and emotional healing, delivered online, that offers both flexibility and accessibility. New You Creations provides self-directed courses with possible support options enabling people to self-heal. More grief courses and self-development courses will be added over time. To learn more about Diana Hutchison and her work, please visit: https://www.newyoucreations.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.

— We are nothing more than the stories we tell about who we are. We are literally the embodiment of that story. Change your story, change what you believe about who you are and what you deserve, and you will create a new life experience. When you can see what things truly are and how they work, when you see the unseen, you can create magic. The Law of Love is the most powerful of all the Universal Laws of Manifesting. Once we realize this truth, we can forgive ourselves and others, and know that we are part of The Source/The Universe/God. Valeria Teles interviews Daniel Olexa — the co-author of "A Pessimist's Guide to Manifesting: A Practical Approach to Making the Law of Attraction and 20 other Universal Laws Work for You." Daniel coaches Dead People. His gift is to bring them back to life by breathing air into their story. He believes fully in anyone's ability to change their story so that they may achieve success. One of his mantras is "We are nothing more than the stories we tell about who we are. We are literally the embodiment of that story. Change your story, change what you believe about who you are and what you deserve, and you will create a new life experience." Daniel is also the Lead Facilitator/Trainer with the Life Coach Institute of Orange County, sharing his skills and experience with the next generation of life coaches. Daniel has been recognized by Feedspot.com as one of the Top 100 Hypnotherapy Blogs in the world. He is an award-winning hypnotherapist. To learn more about Daniel Olexa and his work, please visit: https://www.danielolexa.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.

— "To know yourself, you must sacrifice the illusion that you already do." — Vironika Tugaleva Valeria Teles interviews Bénédicte Flouriot on self-awareness and beyond. Bénédicte built her career in the luxury hospitality industry, working for companies of different sizes and cultures across the Middle East, Europe and North America. Working and living in so many countries has exposed her to human nature in all its differences and similarities. She has held many leadership positions and roles for leading brands from operations to marketing and communications and brings her understanding of what it means to change careers and adapt to challenges to her coaching practice. As a Career & Leadership Coach, Bénédicte works with clients across industries and continents to find the career they were meant for and ways to excel within it. She believes that who we are should define what we do, and that what we do defines who we are, which is why she specializes in coaching that focuses on professional life including: managing career transition, finding and changing career, improving leadership skills, confidence and focus, overcoming professional challenges, opening a business, integrating into a new team or role, creating work-life balance. Her coaching practice is integrative. She draws from her multidisciplinary background that includes experience in luxury hospitality and marketing as well an MBA; a Master's in Career Consulting; and certifications in life coaching (PCC - Professional Certified Coach designation with the International Coach Federation and CPCC – Certified Professional Co-Active Coach with the Coaches Training Institute), psychometric testing (Strong Interest Inventory), alternative therapy approach (Certified Quantum Energy Coaching (QEC) Practitioner), and conscious communication. To learn more about Bénédicte Flouriot and her work, please visit: https://www.benedictecoaching.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 found peace…peace in being present. I realized I don't have to forgive myself for my past as there was nothing to forgive! I finally understood acceptance. I accepted who I was. My past doesn't define me anymore. I love it. I appreciate it. I am not a victim of it." Valeria Teles interviews Kasia Nissanka — a Certified Life Coach, MSc Family Psychology, MSc Occupational Psychology, and Speaker Kasia has been working within mental health field since 2004. As a psychologist at the Social Services Centre in Poland, she was helping those whose mental health struggles and illness made them unable to find a paid job. Whilst supporting others in searching for their life purpose, she started questioning her own life meaning. As a result, she decided to leave her "old self" behind and start a new life. She decided to give up her promising career as a psychologist in Poland and moved to the UK. She found a job as a support worker at the Epilepsy Centre. For over 8 years she was supporting people with brain injuries to live independent lives. At the same time, she decided to return to her passion for psychology and she undertook postgraduate studies in Occupational Psychology. It is during her MSc degree when she came across the idea of becoming a career coach. After graduating, she briefly practised as a career coach at AMAK Organisational Psychologists. Empowering others to find and build their dream career became Kasia's mission at the time. At the same time, Kasia decided to fulfil her own, long-time dream of becoming a mother. She took a career break to start a new family and spent five amazing years bringing up her three sons. Kasia decided to resume her career as a life coach in 2018 and she undertook a diploma in Transformational Coaching. It collided with another life and identity crisis which made her question her life purpose and her mission. Through her own journey to healing she realised that psychology itself was not enough to find her true self. She discovered that in order to achieve real changes in life, the work needs to be done on three levels including mind, body and the soul. This is the approach she adapted into her practice as a life coach and is now successfully using with her clients. To learn more about Kasia Nissanka and her work, please visit: https://www.kasianissanka.co.uk/ — 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.

— Joy is something I can wake up with every day, no matter what happened the previous day, and no matter what I am going to face. Joy can't be taken from me, because it's internally generated. I believe I'm a joyful person. That doesn't mean bad things don't affect me. It means that despite them, I feel good about myself and my ability to control what I do. It leaves me in an incredibly solid place. As a result, I'm a very happy, optimistic person. Valeria Teles interviews Jeff Forte — the author of "Be Happy Forever: Get Immediate Answers to Let Go of; anxiety, stress, anger, sadness, overwhelm, fear, and much more." Jeff Forte is an Executive Peak Performance Coach, Creator of the Magenta System for emotional wellness, and author of Be Happy Forever, and The 90 Minute Marriage Miracle. He is a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 Executives, Professional Athletes, Emmy Award Winners, High Tech Visionaries, Teams, and Couples. To learn more about Jeff Forte and his work, please visit: https://www.peakresultscoaching.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.

— To ignite change, you have to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. According to actress, Regina King, "Comfort zones are where dreams go to die!" If you put yourself in situations that challenge you, then you have no other choice but to rise to the occasion. If you are not successful in the situation, think about what you learned about yourself and what adjustments you can make to go along a different path. Jumping out of your comfort zone means that you are able to see other paths for your life and you muster up the courage to no longer settle with being comfortable. Valeria Teles interviews Dr. Natasha Williams — the author of the "Embracing Selfishness - It's Not What You Think!: How to Redefine Selfishness as Radical Self-Care." Dr. Natasha Williams is a Registered Psychologist with the College of Psychologists of Ontario and the past Chair of the Board of Directors at Women's Health in Women's Hands, a Community Health Centre for black women and women of colour in Toronto. Dr. Williams is a member of the Ontario Psychological Association (OPA), Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) and the American Psychological Association (APA). She was the OPA's diversity delegate representative at the APA State Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. in 2011 and is the past Chair of the OPA Diversity Task Force whose aim is to raise awareness of the importance of diversity and to promote ongoing efforts to influence social change in the field of psychology practice in Ontario. She is also a past board member of the Ontario Psychological Association. Dr. Williams is a past faculty member with the Bridge Training program for internationally trained mental health professionals and a former trainer for TAPE Educational services which provides professional development programs for clinical teams at healthcare centres and human services organizations. She is also the former lead trainer with the Adler Graduate Professional School in the CBT certificate program. Dr. Williams is a guest facilitator/trainer with CAMH in topics such as culturally adapting cognitive behavioural therapy for the English-speaking Caribbean community and Motivational Interviewing. Dr. Williams is the Clinical Director of Allied Psychological Services and she is the current President of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPSI). To learn more about Dr. Natasha Williams and her work, please visit: https://www.drnatashawilliams.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.

— You can let your self-doubt crush you, pin you in a corner and never let you live your life the way you really want to, never feel as good about yourself as you really want to, or you can learn the techniques needed to crush IT. In her book, Corrina Thurston lays out numerous tips and techniques used to boost your self-esteem, manage your anxieties, crush your self-doubt, and gain real, lasting confidence. Through her unique experiences, she uses examples to highlight how these techniques work, how powerful they can be, and why they're so important. You're stronger than you realize. You have more value, importance, and talent than you give yourself credit for. Don't let your self-doubt sabotage you. Don't let it get in the way of creating and grabbing onto opportunities in your life. Don't let it stop you from doing the things you want to do, standing up for yourself, or feeling good about yourself. Valeria Teles interviews Corrina Thurston — the author of "How To Crush Self-Doubt: and Gain Real Confidence." Corrina Thurston is a professional wildlife artist, author, consultant, and speaker working in Vermont, USA. Watch her TEDx Talk: Why we should teach gratitude in school. To learn more about Corrina Thurston and her work, please visit: https://www.corrinathurston.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.

— Uncertainty is one of the most challenging psychological experiences to go through. It's a natural human reaction to try to feel certain about things in order for us to feel more in control. Valeria Teles interviews Sharon Draper — a Psychologist, Relationship Expert for eHarmony Australia, Writer And Speaker. Sharon Draper is a Psychologist in Sydney, Australia. She loves variety so integrates her work with seeing clients online, working with people who have a psychological injury on workers compensation claims, creating online programs, doing media work and working with eharmony as their relationship expert in Australia. Sharon's approach is holistic and person centered and she is informed by Existentialism, Neuroscience, Polyvagal Theory and Attachment Science. She believes, if we can be kinder to ourselves and understand that our emotions are necessary and provide insight into our deepest values, we can live purposeful and meaningful lives. Sharon is also a regular contributor to Newspaper articles (Sydney Morning Herald), Radio (ABC) and TV (Channel 7 Sunrise). To learn more about Sharon Draper and her work, please visit: https://www.sharondraper.com.au/ — 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.