Hello Everyone! I wanted to share some BIG NEWS with you all! Yoga Journal, an Epic Journey! Sharing Your Goals with your friends will keep you on your path. Dedication and Hard Work Pays Off, Remember to share with your friends!

I am so excited to be here with Brant Williams. He is an actor, trained yoga teacher and dedicated yoga student. Brant and I are on an epic journey with Yoga Journal and the 2017 Live Be Yoga Tour. We’re going to 22 cities to experience unique yoga cultures around the nation and we are so thrilled.

We share what it’s been like on the Live Be Yoga Tour so far and what we’re most excited about. You’ll get a behind the scenes look at our journey on the Tour and the fun story of how Brant met his special someone. Brant shares his thoughts on hitting reset, creating deep relationships, and unplugging.

Radically Intrepid Brant

• Earning a degree in Musical Theater and moving to NYC
• Becoming a yoga teacher and giving it up to be a student
• Being a part of a yoga class at a high school in Manhattan

Radically Inspired Clarity

• Even if you begin your relationship on Tinder or online, taking the time to meet in person with eye contact is paramount to a lasting relationship.
• Taking that time to unplug and go inside helps unblock things and helps things run smoother.

Brant Williams Answers…

• What is your number one reset when you get overwhelmed?
• How do we create meaningful relationships in the digital age?
• What has been your most profound finding about yourself?

Radically Loved Quotes

“Not only can we explore the different yoga cultures within each city, but within the United States.”

“We all come to practice for different reasons, but at the end of the day, isn’t it to just come back to who we are?”

“It doesn’t matter how independent you are, there still needs to be that touch and connection.”

“Don’t be scared to dream big.”

A Little More About Our Guest

Brant grew up in Canyon City, Colorado with his younger sister. The most inspiring person in his life was his mother, she worked hard waiting tables and going to college as she raised two kids. As a child, he wanted to be a search and rescue for the Coast Guard but years later would discover he had a hidden talent for acting and singing. With new aspirations of pursuing musical theatre, he went to the University of Northern Colorado to become a singer and actor. After graduating from UNC, Brant moved to New York City for a few years before packing up the U-Haul to make the big move to Los Angeles. An avid yoga practitioner through his college years, Brant wanted to dive deeper into his practice amid the transition to the West Coast. He completed his first Yoga Teacher Training with CorePower in Los Angeles and began teaching soon after. Connect with Brant on Instagram and www.orderfirepickup.com. Keep up with us on the Live Be Yoga Tour on Instagram and LiveBeYoga.com.

Hello Everyone! I wanted to share some BIG NEWS with you all! Yoga Journal, an Epic Journey! Sharing Your Goals with your friends will keep you on your path.  Dedication and Hard Work Pays Off, Remember to share with your friends!

LaRayia Gaston is the incredible creator of Lunch on Me. This fun, interactive, non-profit creates a strong community and create strong bonds between the homeless and the housed by providing fresh, organic foods for everyone in need. Love without reason is the heart of everything they do.

This girl is so incredible and she has the most amazing people working with her. She blew me away when I met her at Wanderlust. I saw the love, dedication and passion she has for this community, and I was floored.

LaRayia is one of the most inspirational people I’ve ever met. We spend time talking about her story and her insight into why we need to give, the importance of acknowledgement, and truly experiencing community.

Radically Connected LaRayia

• Working as an art director and giving her art purpose
• Creating a non-profit to end starvation in America
• Keeping volunteer work a secret and getting inspired when she shared it
• Setting her own standards for a non-profit and living up to it

Radically Inspired Clarity

• Instead of simply having gratitude about what you have, do what you can to help those who don’t have what you do.
• Little things won’t get to you when you keep in perspective what extreme hardships others are going through.

LaRayia Gaston Answers…

• What inspired you to take on starvation in America?
• How many people do you feed and how often?
• What have you learned the most since starting this non-profit?
• How has this impacted your life and how you view your life?

Radically Loved Quotes

“I think everything in my life pushed me to this place.”

“It’s just common sense to me. Someone’s hungry, I have enough to share.”

“Acknowledging everyone has changed my life. I want to be open and acknowledge anyone in my space.”

“My problems aren’t real problems, even hard things.”

A Little More About Our Guest

LaRayia has been volunteering and feeding the homeless for over 12 years. While serving, she’s experienced some of the most life altering moments. Her direct human encounter in poverty and starvation has taught her so much about life, people, community, love and tragedy. One of the most important things about LaRayia’s movement is that "Starvation being alive and well in America is only due to the neglect in redirecting food, that is often treated as waste" In order to make change happen, people have to be educated on the problem. Her mission is to integrate an interactive way to help, by using social media to bring communities together for the greater good. She’s here to end starvation, starting with America.  www.LunchOnMe.org  

Hello Everyone! I wanted to share some BIG NEWS with you all! Yoga Journal, an Epic Journey! Sharing Your Goals with your friends will keep you on your path.  Dedication and Hard Work Pays Off, Remember to share with your friends!

Tara is a powerful voice in the world of sustainable living. She is the bestselling author of Cured by Nature, a soul singer and global motivational speaker. She is an incredible leader, certified lab analyst and environmental technician which shows just how smart she is.

In 2012, Tara started The Organic Life, where she shares her wellness journey. Her bohemian spirit, talent and drive has generated an engaged and inspired following. Tara is also an agency model, actress, and regular contributor to Mind Body Green, Popsugar, Livestrong, and so much more.

Tara is literally a soul sister. She shares her inspirational story about reclaiming her life after living with addiction and learning to become healthy from the inside out. She shares her insight and expertise into natural living and even talks about how she feels about social media today.

Radically Natural Tara

• Going on medication at a young age after seeing her mom relapse
• Coming off 10+ pharmaceutical drugs cold turkey
• Studying genetics in college and becoming a scientist

Radically Inspired Clarity

• Just because someone else has done it before, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. Nobody has lived your unique story.
• The best way to feel better and worthy and valued is to go help someone else. They will immediately value you and you’ll have immediate self-worth.

Tara Mackey Answers…

• How important is it for us to begin to identify what our limiting beliefs are?
• What impact does routine have in our ability to sustain our health?
• How do you manage self care and work?

Radically Loved Quotes

“The more you create empowering beliefs, the more empowered you will feel.”

“The fact that you can create something means you should.”

“Everyone’s just doing what their phone is telling them to do. It was this realization to me that I have to stay present.”

“I have to go experience real life before I stare at a screen.”

A Little More About Our Guest

Tara was born and raised in New York City. She studied biology and worked at Weill Cornell Medical College in NYC before moving to California in 2011 to pursue her passions in health, acting and music. Tara began her blog, The Organic Life, in 2012 to share her wellness journey. Mackey landed a book deal through The Organic Life blog, and her first book, Cured by Nature, became an instant #1 bestseller. Tara has been honored as Woman of the Year and inspires people to make bold and brave moves, take actions to live their dreams and create lives they only once imagined. www.theorganiclifeblog.com

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When we inquire within to identify the source of our reactivity, then share it with our partner, we begin to break free from old, conditioned patterns of behavior that no longer serve us or our relationship.

The four most common strategies that most people rely on when they feel threatened are to:

1. Attack
2. Defend
3. Pursue
4. Withdraw

Dismantling these kneejerk reactions is a courageous process that requires both self-awareness and self-disclosure, but the results are transformational, Taylor says. The key is to focus on your own experience, without blaming or criticizing your partner.

Ask Yourself: What’s Getting Triggered?

In other words: Be mindful:

• Does this response feel familiar to me from childhood or previous relationships?
• Where might I have learned it and what can I learn from it now?
• Knowing this, how do I want to respond to my partner?

For example, if one partner goes ballistic when her beloved is five minutes late, instead of screaming at him and calling a thoughtless jerk, she might stop to explore why she’s so distressed. In doing so, she may discover that her response has much less to do with her devoted and usually on-time partner than the fact that in childhood her mother never knew what time—or day—her angry alcoholic father might turn up.

I cannot wait to introduce you to our guest. Lauren Handel Zander is a life coach, university lecturer, public speaker, and the Co-Founder and Chairwoman of Handel Group®, an international corporate consulting and private coaching company based in New York City. Lauren has created these groundbreaking methodologies she uses in the Handel Method®, which I am a huge fan of practicing and studying.

Lauren is also the author of Maybe It’s You: Cut the Crap, Face Your Fears, Love Your Life, a no-nonsense, practical manual that helps readers figure out not just what they want out of life, but how to actually get there. She has spent over 20 years coaching thousands of private clients from entrepreneurs to families and Fortune 500 CEOs.

Lauren is an incredible woman. If you want to talk about really creating the life you want, you have to talk to Lauren. In our conversation, Lauren shares how to create change immediately, how our past affects our present and so much goodness about transformation.

Radically Grounded Lauren

• Taking 20 years to write her book and share her voice authentically
• Helping people design their own lives for decades
• Having radical love for people and all their struggles
• Playing the make a difference game to never stop working on herself

Radically Inspired Clarity

• Start with personal integrity and being able to keep a promise to yourself. You’ll be able to dive deeper once you build your confidence and prove that you can change.
• If you don’t solve things from your past, they will pop up in your future unexpectedly. The more you face those issues, the more it will do for your current reality.

Lauren Zander Answers…

• What continues to fuel your curiosity to do what you do?
• How are you able to work with people in a confrontational and loving way?
• Why do people have a hard time being honest with themselves?
• Is there a difference between settling and compromise?

Radically Loved Quotes

“I can’t think of anything better than hearing an individual’s life story. That is God coming through.”

“I care way more about your ability to keep your promise to yourself than to pick up your kid from school on time.”

“There’s a gradient to change and that’s my problem.”

“You have three competing voices: head, heart, and hoo-ha.”

A Little More About Our Guest

In the early 2000s, Lauren created a groundbreaking methodology, The Handel Method®, which is supported by top educators and psychologists, and has been taught in over 35 major universities and institutes of learning across the country including MIT, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and NYU. With her unique, honest and irreverent approach, Lauren is a contributor for several publications and media outlets, including: The New York Times, BBC, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Self, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Vogue, Ebony, Cosmopolitan, and The Huffington Post. She has appeared on television and in film, starring in A&E’s Biography Channel TV Special, “Celebrity Life Coach,” as well as the critically acclaimed feature documentary, “My Own Man,” produced by Edward Norton. She has been an expert on The Dr. Oz Show, The Meredith Vieira Show, The Dr. Drew Show, MTV’s True Life and Businessweek’s “Coaches Corner.” www.handelgroup.com

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