Toward A Better Life Podcast

Kevin R Pennell
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Join Kevin Pennell on a journey Toward A Better Life. We can all move together toward creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives. You won't need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart. Toward A Better Life Podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.

  1. Episode 160 The Science and Spirituality of Oneness with Faith Spencer

    5D AGO

    Episode 160 The Science and Spirituality of Oneness with Faith Spencer

    Episode 160 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell 0:00:00 Episode Preview 0:00:54 Episode Opening: The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively. Submissions:  Be a part of the show by sharing your prose, music, poetry, or storytelling.  Just send them to me kevin@towardabetterlife.com.  If it's audio, please send it as an MP3 file. Subscribe AND Spread the word and keep following for magical insights into Earth Based Spirituality, self development, and self care. Free Discovery Call By the way, if you'd like to dive into self-care, self development, or distance shamanic work, drop me a line kevin@towardabetterlife.com for a free discovery call. 0:04:22 Interview with Faith Spencer Faith Spencer, is a certified "Happy for No Reason" trainer and author of "The Oneness Guide for Today: A Book of Insight for Young Women"—a unique and timely book for teen girls and young women navigating pressure, perfectionism, and social media stress. Her work helps young people shift from ego-driven striving to soul-deep connection by exploring the science and spirituality of oneness. Faith is here to share powerful tools for self-acceptance, inner peace, and authentic living. Granted, the focus of her book is connecting with teens and young women, yet, after reading her book, I can confidently say her book, The Oneness Guide is a great guide for everyone!  Won't you please welcome, Faith to Toward A Better Life! 0:59:54 Episode Closing Thoughts Connections: Faith Spencer Website: https://faithspencer.com/ Faith's Book: https://faithspencer.com/oneness-guide/ Contact Faith: https://faithspencer.com/contact/ Toward A Better Life Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/ Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

    1h 2m
  2. You Might Also Like: Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

    5D AGO · BONUS

    You Might Also Like: Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

    Introducing "The Mayor" (w/ Laura Dern) from Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. Follow the show: Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang Um, is this thing on? Because a pink corduroy-clad Laura Dern bursts like the sun into the Las Cultch studio to speak with Matt & Bowen at length and... that's OUR world! That's the world that WE're livin' in. Dern whips out a Reese impression, discusses channeling anger better than anyone in the biz, talks creating Amy Jellicoe alongside Mike White in Enlightened, and gets into both the comedic and dramatic brutality of Big Little Lies. Also, defining wonder whilst looking up at CGI Brachiosaurii, starring as Ellen's gay love interest in The Puppy Episode of her sitcom, and even more on Jeff Goldblum's chest, if you can believe it. All this, growing up in Hollywood in a different era, reflections on the current status of the entertainment industry, going punk rock at 12 years old, David Lynch as niche yet mainstream culture, and Laura's real life interaction with a Real Housewife. See one of Laura's thousands of current projects (Is This Thing On?, Jay Kelly, Palm Royale on Apple TV+), as well as her millions of indelible ones you probably already love. I SAID THANK YOU! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.

  3. Episode 159 Reflections On Resilience with Ashana Kaiulani

    FEB 5

    Episode 159 Reflections On Resilience with Ashana Kaiulani

    Episode 159 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell 0:00:00 Episode Preview 0:01:03 Episode Opening: The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively. Submissions:  Be a part of the show by sharing your prose, music, poetry, or storytelling.  Just send them to me kevin@towardabetterlife.com.  If it's audio, please send it as an MP3 file. Subscribe AND Spread the word and keep following for magical insights into Earth Based Spirituality, self development, and self care. Free Discovery Call By the way, if you'd like to dive into self-care, self development, or distance shamanic work, drop me a line kevin@towardabetterlife.com for a free discovery call. 0:04:32 Interview with Ashana Kaiulani Ashana is a trauma support specialist and reclamation coach whose work is rooted in helping women remember who they are after deep emotional pain or betrayal. She's the founder of Way Home Wellness and host of The Reclamation Room podcast, where she shares real, grounded conversations about self-trust, healing, and coming home to yourself.  Her work, though rooted in helping women navigate toward their better life, can be applied to all when is it some to resilience.  Please welcome my guest Ashana Kaiulani as we discuss Reflections on resilience. 1:01:38 Episode Closing Thoughts Connections: Ashana Kaiulani Website: https://wayhomewellness.com/ The Way Home Wellness Library: https://wayhomewellness.com/store Ashana's Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/search?term=Reclamation%20Room Toward A Better Life Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/ Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

    1h 3m
  4. Episode 158 Insights of Imbolc with Kevin Pennell

    JAN 29

    Episode 158 Insights of Imbolc with Kevin Pennell

    Episode 158 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell 0:00:00 Episode Preview 0:01:01 Dance of the Druids by MortenA (Used By Permission) 0:04:09 Episode Opening: The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively. Submissions:  Be a part of the show by sharing your prose, music, poetry, or storytelling.  Just send them to me kevin@towardabetterlife.com.  If it's audio, please send it as an MP3 file. Subscribe AND Spread the word and keep following for magical insights into Earth Based Spirituality, self development, and self care. Free Discovery Call By the way, if you'd like to dive into self-care, self development, or distance shamanic work, drop me a line kevin@towardabetterlife.com for a free discovery call. 0:07:30 Insights of Imbolc with Kevin Pennell Kevin Pennell is the Podcast Host and Producer of Toward A Better Life a Licensed Massage Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner, and a Bardic member of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids.  He's also an Usui Reiki Master, and Instructor for various self-help and continuing education workshops with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spurgeon College. As a healing facilitator, he devotes his life to being a "hollow bone" or tool to bring about "Compassionate Healing".  Kevin also writes, honing his love of writing through journalism. As an author, he applied his biographical and spiritual insights to complete the work Two Feathers: Spiritual Seed Planter that shares the life and spirit of Ken Two Feathers. 0:20:34 Guided Meditation for Honoring Imbolc 0:39:31 First Blush of Spring by MortenA (Used By Permission) 0:43:10 Episode Closing Thoughts Connections: MortenA Music and More: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=MortenA Toward A Better Life Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/ Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

    45 min
  5. Episode 157 Hedge Witch with Shilah

    JAN 22

    Episode 157 Hedge Witch with Shilah

    Episode 157 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell 0:00:00 Episode Preview 0:00:43 Episode Opening: The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively. Submissions:  Be a part of the show by sharing your prose, music, poetry, or storytelling.  Just send them to me kevin@towardabetterlife.com.  If it's audio, please send it as an MP3 file. Subscribe AND Spread the word and keep following for magical insights into Earth Based Spirituality, self development, and self care. Free Discovery Call By the way, if you'd like to dive into self-care, self development, or distance shamanic work, drop me a line kevin@towardabetterlife.com for a free discovery call. 0:03:19 Interview with Shilah Shilah is a Bardic member with the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids.  She says that while Google may be good for some things, Shilah believes connecting, learning, and growing happen in the more "human" realm.  She calls herself an artist of the Fae Folk which can be seen in her magickal creations that honor the Fae Folk and related realms.  She's walking her path in Earth Based Spirituality and is sharing glimpse of her life as a Hedge Witch in this episode of Toward A Better Life. 0:51:05 Episode Closing Thoughts Connections: Shilah Contact Through Instagram: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/shilahthebard?igsh=MWZ3YXRhamlxdXQ1MA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr  Order of Bards Ovates and Druids Website: https://druidry.org/ Toward A Better Life Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/ Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

    53 min
  6. Episode 156 Creativity and Wellness with Mark Firehammer

    JAN 15

    Episode 156 Creativity and Wellness with Mark Firehammer

    Episode 156 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell 0:00:00 Episode Preview 0:01:01 I'll Play For You by Mark Firehammer (Used by Permission) 0:05:34 Episode Opening: The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively. Submissions:  Be a part of the show by sharing your prose, music, poetry, or storytelling.  Just send them to me kevin@towardabetterlife.com.  If it's audio, please send it as an MP3 file. Subscribe AND Spread the word and keep following for magical insights into Earth Based Spirituality, self development, and self care. Free Discovery Call By the way, if you'd like to dive into self-care, self development, or distance shamanic work, drop me a line kevin@towardabetterlife.com for a free discovery call. 0:08:25 Interview with Mark Firehammer Mark Firehammer is the founder of the Creative Humanity Alliance, a growing ecosystem of artists, educators, and innovators using creativity as a catalyst for cultural healing and human reconnection. Their mission is simple but urgent: to use art and creative practice as keys to unlock the connection that modern life too often makes us forget.  As an author, creator, and entrepreneur, Mark's  work—including the novel The Echo and the Voice—explores how imagination can repair culture and guide us toward a more human, more fulfilling life.    1:14:32  Walk The Heavens by Mark Firehammer (Used by Permission)  1:18:46 Episode Closing Thoughts Connections: Mark Firehammer Website:https://markfirehammer.com/ Contact: https://markfirehammer.com/contact/ Creative Humanity Alliance: https://creativehumanityalliance.org/ Mark Firehammer Music: https://markfirehammer.com/music/ Toward A Better Life Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/ Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

    1h 21m
  7. Episode 155 Bear Facts of Introspection with Kevin Pennell

    JAN 8

    Episode 155 Bear Facts of Introspection with Kevin Pennell

    Episode 155 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell 0:00:00 Episode Preview 0:00:50 Winter Solstice by Awenfire (Used By Permission) 0:04:57 Episode Opening: The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively. Submissions:  Be a part of the show by sharing your prose, music, poetry, or storytelling.  Just send them to me kevin@towardabetterlife.com.  If it's audio, please send it as an MP3 file. Subscribe AND Spread the word and keep following for magical insights into Earth Based Spirituality, self development, and self care. Free Discovery Call By the way, if you'd like to dive into self-care, self development, or distance shamanic work, drop me a line kevin@towardabetterlife.com for a free discovery call. 0:08:25 Bear Facts of Introspection with Kevin Pennell Kevin Pennell is the Podcast Host and Producer of Toward A Better Life a Licensed Massage Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner, and a Bardic member of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids.  He's also an Usui Reiki Master, and Instructor for various self-help and continuing education workshops with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spurgeon College. As a healing facilitator, he devotes his life to being a "hollow bone" or tool to bring about "Compassionate Healing".  Kevin also writes, honing his love of writing through journalism. As an author, he applied his biographical and spiritual insights to complete the work Two Feathers: Spiritual Seed Planter that shares the life and spirit of Ken Two Feathers. 0:24:46 Guided Meditation to Connect with Bear Medicine 0:42:24 Episode Closing Thoughts Connections: Awenfire https://soundcloud.com/awenfire Toward A Better Life Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/ Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

    44 min
  8. Episode of 154 Little Rules For A Better Life With Teri M Brown

    JAN 1

    Episode of 154 Little Rules For A Better Life With Teri M Brown

    Episode 154 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell 0:00:00 Episode Preview 0:00:40 Episode Opening: The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively. Submissions:  Be a part of the show by sharing your prose, music, poetry, or storytelling.  Just send them to me kevin@towardabetterlife.com.  If it's audio, please send it as an MP3 file. Subscribe AND Spread the word and keep following for magical insights into Earth Based Spirituality, self development, and self care. Free Discovery Call By the way, if you'd like to dive into self-care, self development, or distance shamanic work, drop me a line kevin@towardabetterlife.com for a free discovery call. 0:05:51 Interview with Teri M Brown Terri M Brown: Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri came into this world with an imagination full of stories to tell. She now calls the North Carolina coast home, and the peaceful nature of the sea has been a great source of inspiration for her creativity. Not letting 2020 get the best of her, Teri chose to go on an adventure that changed her outlook on life. She and her husband, Bruce, rode a tandem bicycle over 3000 miles across the United States from Astoria, Oregon to Washington DC, successfully raising money for Toys for Tots. She learned she is stronger than she realized and capable of anything she sets her mind to. Teri graduated from UNC Greensboro with a multitude of degrees – majors in Elementary Education and Psychology and minors in Math and Sociology – she just couldn't settle on one thing! While homeschooling her four children, she began her writing career by focusing on small businesses, writing articles, blog posts, and website content. In 2017, after finally getting out of an emotionally abusive 14-year marriage, Teri began dabbling in fiction, a lifelong dream. Upon winning the First Annual Anita Bloom Ornoff Award for Inspirational Short Story for a piece about her grandfather, she began writing in earnest, and published her debut novel in 2022, Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, a historical fiction set in Ukraine. Her second novel published in 2023, An Enemy Like Me, takes place during WWII. Her latest novel, Daughters of Green Mountain Gap, a generational story about Appalachian healers came out in January 2024. In June 2024, her short story, The Youngest Lighthouse Keeper, came out in the anthology Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women. Her latest book, 10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure (Feb 2025), is an inspirational look at the life lessons she learned riding across the United States on a tandem bicycle. In April, her first children's book, Little Lola and Her Big Dream, will launch. 1:09:01 Episode Closing Thoughts Connections: Teri M Brown Website: https://www.terimbrown.com/ Contact: https://www.terimbrown.com/contact.html Order of Bards Ovates and Druids Website: https://druidry.org/ Toward A Better Life Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/ Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

    1h 11m
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Join Kevin Pennell on a journey Toward A Better Life. We can all move together toward creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives. You won't need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart. Toward A Better Life Podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.

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