The Empowerment Show

Melissa Heisler
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Be uplifted and inspired by personal stories of empowerment. Each week brings new stories of courage, support, and overcoming challenges. How do you become empowered? Discover new personal choices from inspiring and practical guides. How can their personal stories inspire you? Melissa Heisler interviews guests from around the world uncovering their journey to empowerment. What did they overcome? How did they find the courage, determination, the stamina? How do they now empower others? Melissa’s guests come from the world of entertainment, business, government, health and the wider world; wherever individuals need, teach, and inspire empowerment. Listen to the shows below anytime to receive information, inspiration, and an ability and desire to make changes in your life and the lives of others. www.itsmylifeinc.com/empowerment

  1. Treating Your Body Right – Robin Westen on The Empowerment Show

    08/10/2014

    Treating Your Body Right – Robin Westen on The Empowerment Show

    “My body is not me. Its mine.” Dahn Yoga How are you treating the vessel carrying you around? Are you giving it love and care or are you filling it with no so good things? In this episode we learn the importance of conscious eating and taking the time to cleanse our digestive system. Caring for our bodies also includes clearing our minds through meditation, using deep breathing for stress relief, releasing our monkey mind chatter, and acknowledging our emotions without judgment. Robin Westen talks about having a respect for our bodies and learning how to care for it properly. Robin received an Emmy Award for the ABC health show FYI. She is currently the medical director for Thirdage.com, the largest health site for baby boomers on the web. She is the author of the Harvard Medical School Guide Getting Your Child To Eat (Almost) Anything, Ten Days to Detox, V is for Vagina (coauthored with Alyssa Dweck, MD), and her most recent books The Yoga-Body Cleanse: A 7-Day Ayurvedic Detox to Rejuvenate Your Body and Calm Your Mind and The 2-Day Superfood Cleanse: A Weekly Detox Program to Boost Energy, Lose Weight and Maintain Optimal Health. She’s written featured articles for dozens of national magazines including Glamour, Vegetarian Times, Psychology Today, SELF, Cosmopolitan, and others. Robin has been practicing yoga, meditation, and cleansing for over fifteen years.    Listen in to this lively discussion of what it takes to be health mentally, physically, and emotionally.

    30 min
  2. Following Your Dreams with Melissa Pettignano

    07/13/2014

    Following Your Dreams with Melissa Pettignano

    At 26 Melissa Pettignano is launching her second book and her first album. She is a shining example of how a positive attitude and a deep faith can help us move mountains. The Empowerment Show host Melissa Heisler and Melissa Pettignano discuss how to be a driving force to bring good into the world. Even when others may attack you, responding with love, understanding, and compassion can heal wounds. Staying positive brings more positivity into your life. Through forgiveness we free ourselves from negativity and create a space for self-care. Through understanding and accepting our differences and similarities we can come back together as one human family. Learn more about author and performer Melissa Pettignano, the People of Distinction Humanitarian Award, and the charities she supports including the Homelessness Group and Persecution International Christian Concern. What can you be inspired to do today?

    29 min
  3. A Shocking New Take on Disabilities – Jane Hash on The Empowerment Show

    06/24/2014

    A Shocking New Take on Disabilities – Jane Hash on The Empowerment Show

    Plain Jane: The Shockumentary is no normal documentary about a woman with disabilities. Because Jane Hash is no ordinary woman. Jane was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, a condition which is manifested by extremely brittle bones. At birth, Jane had twenty-six broken bones and was not expected to live three hours. By the time she was in high school, she had broken two hundred bones. But she doesn’t want your sympathy nor does she want praise for making it through her daily routine. As she says, “I don’t have a degree in sitting on my ass.” What Jane wants is for you to see those with disabilities differently. To see them as people first, not as a resource for what activist Stella Young calls “Inspirational Porn” or as weaklings who need to be rescued. This is not a story of coping with a disease. Jane’s story is about an empowered woman living the life she chooses, making films, starting companies like Classy Little Fashions, and leading a fun and adventurous life. Jane is inspirational not because of her disease but because of her message of acceptance, the courage to try new things, and the desire to live life to the fullest. Listen in to this fun and thought-provoking interview. Then view Plain Jane: The Shockumentary for some eye-opening laughs.

    30 min
  4. Moving Beyond Childhood Abuse – Robin Marvel on The Empowerment Show

    06/24/2014

    Moving Beyond Childhood Abuse – Robin Marvel on The Empowerment Show

    Robin Marvel had a troubling childhood including domestic abuse, parental kidnappings, drug abuse, and homelessness. She never learned to have self-worth. Robin turned to alcohol and partying when she was fifteen years old to receive validation and attention. This led to a teenage pregnancy which motivated her to not be a statistic and to make a better life for her daughter. Because she was an adult too early between caring for her parents and then her own child, she fell back into drinking in her 20’s wanting to experience the freedom of childhood she didn’t have earlier. This relapse became her true wake-up call to make a change.  She said, “This is not how my story is going to change.” Robin is the author of Life Check: 7 Steps to Balance Your Life joins the Empowerment Show to talk about choice, understanding, forgiving oneself and others, loving oneself, acknowledging self-worth, uncovering the lessons, and moving forward. As food pantries were very important in Robin’s youth, she and her husband started United Hands of Change which encourages people give them a hand-up not a handout. Are you ready to break the cycle of abuse and alcoholism, release your victimhood, and make a real change in your life?

    27 min
  5. What To Do When You Don’t Fit In - Lifeworks Psychotherapy on The Empowerment Show

    06/23/2014

    What To Do When You Don’t Fit In - Lifeworks Psychotherapy on The Empowerment Show

    At one time in our life or another we feel like we don’t fit in. We feel like an outsider, like we don’t belong. We don’t feel understood and, even worse, we begin to feel like there is something wrong with us. It does not matter if you feel excluded due to your ethnicity or religion, or if you feel outside society because you are lesbian, bi-sexual, gay, transgender, queer, kink, or polyamorous, the result is the same. You feel excluded by mainstream society. In addition to this you may not have the same rights and privileges as others. Rami Henrich, LCSW, and Cindy Trawinski, Psy. D, of Lifeworks Psychotherapy in Chicago join The Empowerment Show to talk about ways we can accept others and ourselves on a deeper level. By fully seeing and embrace who we are, we can begin to move past our inner marginalization providing us with a platform to change societal marginalization. Listen in to this discussion about marginalization between and within groups, inner marginalization, and how deep democracy may be able to help make a change to how we accept ourselves and others. By recognizing our underlying humanity, we can all start putting Rami Henrich, L.C.S.W., is a licensed clinical social worker and a Diplomate in Process-oriented Psychology (or Process Work), as well as a founding partner of LifeWorks Psychotherapy Center and North Shore Psychotherapy Associates.  Rami has studied, taught and applied Process-oriented Psychology as developed by Arnold Mindell, Ph.D., for over 13 years.  She has a special interest in working with relationship difficulties and those who identify as living an alternative lifestyle.  Rami is also a certified Imago Relationship Therapist. Cindy Trawinski, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, a Diplomate in Process-oriented Psychology (also known as Process Work) and a certified Imago Relationship Therapist.  She is a founding partner of LifeWorks Psychotherapy Center and North Shore Psychotherapy Associates and has offices in Skokie, IL.  Cindy is the former CEO of the Process Work Institute, in Portland, OR and a member of the International Association of Process-oriented Psychology (IAPOP), in Zurich, Switzerland. Cindy is also an assistant professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology where she teaches courses on Diversity and Multicultural Issues.

    35 min

  6. 06/17/2014

    The Energy of Emotion – Donna Scott-Nusrala on The Empowerment Show

    Ever have someone walk into the room and you can feel their anger – or their joy? Do you know people who seem to always have great opportunities just happen to them? And others who always get the short end of the stick? Could your life be affected by what you are unconsciously projecting? In Donna Scott-Nusrala’s new book, The Energy of Emotion, she shows how the emotion energy we project can affect our lives for better or worse and how we can reprogram our emotions to create a better life. We broadcast energy through our emotions. This can be either positive or negative. The more positive energy we have the more we attract positive energy. Negative energy attracts those things we don’t necessarily want. Most of the time we are not aware of the emotional energy we are projecting and how that affects our life. But there is a way to change your broadcast and change your experience. By acknowledging how your energy affects your life you can then be empowered to make a difference in your life. You do not have to be a victim of circumstances nor do you have to attack yourself for what you are unconsciously bringing to you. Once you accept that you have created unconsciously what you have in your life based on what you have learned and experienced in the past, you now have the power to make new choices and broadcast what you really want to receive. Listen in to this eye-opening and life changing show.

    19 min
  7. Neil Findlay is Making the World a Better Place – Learn How You Can Too on The Empowerment Show

    06/06/2014

    Neil Findlay is Making the World a Better Place – Learn How You Can Too on The Empowerment Show

    Neil Findlay says he is just, “An ordinary person out there doing some stuff.” But he is so much more than that. Both Neil and his wife have dedicated some of their working years and now their “retirement” to helping children around the world.  They are both an inspiration for what we can all accomplish. One of the groups Neil assists is Project Madagascar. The primary goal of Project Madagascar is to educate street children, starting at age 5, to help them out of the cycle of poverty. The children in this part of Madagascar have literally nothing and especially no hope, unless we can help. Project Madagascar organizes trips where you can learn about this interesting culture while helping those without. Neil does not only help those in developing countries but also those who need his home country of Australian. Unfortunately there is a very large drug and alcohol abuse issue in Australia, especially with teens. Related to this is also depression, fatigue, violence and suicide. Like many of the underground issues in developed countries like the United States, these are they types of issues that don’t get media coverage. There are many in the world in situations which are or feel hopeless. The question is, are you being called to help? Perhaps it is time to think about who you are? What do you value? Who are you outside of your job? Is it time to think bigger? Is it time to find out ways to make a difference in the world? Learn how you can help with Project Madagascar, Red Frogs, and Metro Church Toowoomba. Learn more about Neil: website and The Mentor’s Diary. What are things you can do locally and beyond to make a difference in someone’s life?

    33 min
  8. Individual and Collective Responsibility for Inclusion – Elizabeth Williams-Riley on The Empowerment Show

    05/31/2014

    Individual and Collective Responsibility for Inclusion – Elizabeth Williams-Riley on The Empowerment Show

    As I was working on this show and post, a Sly & The Family Stone song came on the radio There is a blue one who can’t accept the green one For living with a fat one, trying to be a skinny one And different strokes for different folks At the same time I was alerted to an anti-Gay Christian group who is refusing letter with the Harvey Milk stamp. Ah, we still have so much to learn about inclusion and diversity. Check out this informative interview with Elizabeth Williams-Riley the President and CEO of the American Conference on Diversity. In this discussion we explore how implicit bias affects the way we relate to others and how our self-work on removing our prejudice can create a ripple effect in our community. There are so many messages coming to us every day with blatant and subtle bias and assumptions about those who are different than us. It does not matter if the different is nationality, regionality, gender, sexual preference, disability, or socio-economic status there are implicit biases we all have consciously or unconsciously which affect how we act and react to others. By becoming aware of our implicit biases and how they affect our relationships we can decide if we want to keep them or if we want to learn a new way of being together. Technology is also helping us as a society to become aware of our implicit biases. A recent instance of this is the Instagram post and audio recording of the racial remarks made by the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling. In the past comments such of these may have been made between a few individuals who have the same beliefs. Now the comments can be broadcast, commented on by people around the world, and hopefully used to help educate us as a society about our implicit biases. Elizabeth says, "We've come a long way as far as people being disenfranchised, but we're not dealing with implicit bias." Listen in to learn how you can work on your own implicit bias, help the collective responsibility to make changes to our biases, and support school, community, and business programs which empower individuals to make changes around them. You can learn more about these programs and become involved at www.AmericanConferenceonDiversity.org or by calling 732-745-9330 Together we can recover from bias and racism and learn to truly embrace our unique social identities while accepting those of others.

    29 min
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Be uplifted and inspired by personal stories of empowerment. Each week brings new stories of courage, support, and overcoming challenges. How do you become empowered? Discover new personal choices from inspiring and practical guides. How can their personal stories inspire you? Melissa Heisler interviews guests from around the world uncovering their journey to empowerment. What did they overcome? How did they find the courage, determination, the stamina? How do they now empower others? Melissa’s guests come from the world of entertainment, business, government, health and the wider world; wherever individuals need, teach, and inspire empowerment. Listen to the shows below anytime to receive information, inspiration, and an ability and desire to make changes in your life and the lives of others. www.itsmylifeinc.com/empowerment

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    Melissa Heisler
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