The Conscious Consultant Hour

Sam Liebowitz

Tune in for one hour of consciousness raising talk. Your Conscious Consultant, Sam Liebowitz, will discuss all types of topics to help you raise your awareness. Sam takes a holistic look at life that includes your career, business, relationships, spiritual development, healing, and sustainable living. Most of all, this is all about how to walk through life with the greatest ease and joy. Listen live every Thursday at 12 Noon EST at www.TalkRadio.nyc

  1. Aug 12

    When Integrity Leads with Jeff Abraham

    This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Jeff Abraham, CEO of Promescent, a sexual wellness company he has led for more than a decade. But Jeff's story is not really a product story. It is the story of what happens when someone chooses to run a business by a different set of rules, where loyalty, integrity, and honoring the people who came before are treated as non-negotiable, not optional. After discovering a groundbreaking treatment developed by urologist Dr. Ronald Gilbert, Jeff invested in the product, became the majority owner, and launched what became the company's flagship offering. Since 2013, he has built it into a full-spectrum wellness company with more than five million bottles sold and over four thousand healthcare professionals recommending the brand. What makes Jeff's journey worth telling is not the growth of the company, but how he has grown it. Along the way, there have been moments where he could have taken the easier or more profitable path, and instead chose to honor his friend and business partner in ways he was under no obligation to do. He simply believed it was the right thing. That kind of decision-making is quiet, unglamorous, and increasingly rare in a business culture that often rewards the opposite. It is also, in Jeff's experience, the very thing that has allowed the company to endure and thrive over the long arc. Together, Sam and Jeff explore what it actually looks like to build an ethical business in a world that too often treats ethics as a marketing message rather than a lived practice. They discuss the difference between running a company for profits and running a company for people, the moments that reveal a leader's real values, and why the way we treat our partners, our employees, and our customers is ultimately the truest measure of any business. This episode is an invitation for entrepreneurs to consider that success and integrity are not opposing forces, and that doing right by the people around us is, in the long run, the most sustainable business strategy there is. Tune in and share your own questions and comments about integrity in the business world on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page. https://www.promescent.com/saml15 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  2. Aug 5

    From Force to Flow with Nikolai Blinow

    This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Nikolai Blinow, licensed mental health counselor, coach, and the creator of The Calm Hustle Method. Nikolai works with neurodivergent women in leadership, helping them navigate burnout, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and the quieter, often unnamed traumas of growing up neurodivergent in a neurotypical world. Her clinical training in dialectical-behavioral therapy and EMDR, combined with years as a yoga teacher, gives her a rare vantage point at the meeting place of nervous system science and embodied practice. Her TEDx talk, Yoga and Its Connection to Mental Health, has been viewed over 300,000 times, and stands as clear evidence of her long-held belief that holistic and scientific principles belong in the same conversation. At the heart of Nikolai's work is a reframe that changes everything. Motivation, procrastination, burnout, and the relentless inner critic are not character flaws or discipline problems. They are nervous system responses, often shaped by childhood experience, financial insecurity, trauma, perfectionism, and the way neurodivergent brains process stress, motivation, and reward. Traditional productivity advice largely misses this, which is why so many capable, ambitious women find themselves working harder and feeling worse. Through The Calm Hustle Method, Nikolai helps women break out of survival mode without dismantling the careers and businesses they have worked hard to build, guiding them from the exhausted state of force into the sustainable rhythm of flow. Together, Sam and Nikolai explore what it really takes to move from chronic urgency into regulated, intentional living. They discuss why productivity has become a modern identity, why rest is not the opposite of meaningful work but the very ground of it, and how understanding the inner critic as an outdated survival strategy creates more lasting change than trying to silence it. They also look at what it means to redefine success, not by how much we accomplish, but by whether we are creating a life we do not need to recover from. This episode is an invitation to slow down without falling behind, to work with the nervous system rather than against it, and to remember that the way we get where we are going matters as much as arriving. Tune in and share your own questions and comments about the balance of working hard and having a life on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page. www.ompowermentpsych.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  3. Jul 29

    The Art of Heartful Living with James Woeber

    This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes James Woeber, best-selling author, international consultant, speaker, and Co-Founder and President of The Art of Heartful Living Institute. For more than three decades, James has worked with inspired leaders and organizations to help them unlock their brilliance, manifest their greatest visions, and become genuine agents of positive change. His unique path integrates over thirty years as an energy healing master trainer with twenty-two years as a family and systemic constellations facilitator and trainer, alongside a distinguished career as a multi-award-winning producer, director, and writer whose work spans socially conscious nonprofits and Fortune 1000 companies. What sets James's approach apart is the way he weaves these threads together into a single body of work aimed at wholeness. His encounter with Family and Systemic Constellations changed the way he understood healing itself. He discovered that many of the struggles we assume are ours alone are often carried down through family and ancestral lines, and that when those hidden dynamics are brought into the light, profound shifts can happen with surprising grace. His work is not about fixing or discarding parts of ourselves we do not like, but about expanding our capacity to hold every part with strength and love. When we hold ourselves differently, he says, we begin to transform, and from that place we become people who can create real change in the world. Together, Sam and James explore what it means to soften the old patterns that were designed to protect us, and to reconnect with the authentic power and gifts each of us came here to share. They discuss the wisdom of constellation work, the systemic dimensions of healing that individual approaches often miss, and the kind of heart-centered leadership our moment is calling for. Drawing on more than two decades of facilitation, James speaks to the remarkable breakthroughs he has witnessed in people who did not become someone different, but were finally free to become more fully themselves. This episode is an invitation to remember who you are beneath the conditioning and inherited patterns you have carried, and to bring that authentic self into the world in service of something greater. Tune in and share your own questions and comments about Family Constellations on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page. JamesWoeber.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  4. Jul 22

    The Shadow Side of the Psychedelic Renaissance with Dr. Richard Louis Miller

    This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Dr. Richard Louis Miller, clinical psychologist for more than 65 years, bestselling author, and host of the internet radio broadcast Mind, Body, Health & Politics. Dr. Miller is the founder of the internationally acclaimed Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program and the creator and chief clinician of the Health Sanctuary at Wilbur Hot Springs, California. He has served on the faculty of the University of Michigan and Stanford University, as an advisor on the President's Commission on Mental Health, as a founding board member of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco, and on the national board of directors of the Marijuana Policy Project. His new book, The Adverse Effects and Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelic Medicines, arrives in a moment when the psychedelic conversation urgently needs the full story rather than the sanitized one. What makes Dr. Miller's new work distinct is his willingness to look at both sides of the medicine. Drawing together insights from world experts in psychiatry, neuroscience, and psychedelic research, the book goes where most others do not: into side effects, integration challenges, and the cases where psychedelic use has caused real harm. It also offers evidence-based guidance on how these substances can still be used safely and effectively in a therapeutic context. Coming from one of the earliest advocates for psychedelic research, this is not the voice of caution from the outside. It is the voice of someone who has spent decades inside the conversation, watching what works, what does not, and what happens when reverence gives way to hype. Together, Sam and Dr. Miller explore what an honest, mature relationship with psychedelic medicine looks like in this moment. They discuss the ground where science, spirituality, and public policy meet, the conditions that support genuine healing and the ones that quietly increase risk, and the responsibility of practitioners and participants alike as these medicines return to public life. Dr. Miller brings the perspective of an elder who has walked with these substances since long before the current renaissance and who is unafraid to name both their promise and their shadow. Tune in and share your own questions and comments about the challenges around psychedelics on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page. https://amzn.to/4vMPfDZ https://www.mindbodyhealthpolitics.org/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  5. Jul 15

    Hearts Are Meant to Be Broken with Rachel S. Heslin

    This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Rachel S. Heslin, author, speaker, and student of the psychology of identity and human experience for more than four decades. Rachel is the author of Navigating Life: 8 Different Strategies to Guide Your Way and Rituals of Release: How to Make Room for Your New Life, both available in multiple languages. Her TEDx talk, "A Defense of Victim Mentality," turns condemnation into compassion in just six minutes, and hints at the kind of thinking she brings to territory most of us prefer to avoid. This month brings the release of her newest work, Hearts Are Meant to Be Broken: A New Approach to Grief, a book that could not be arriving at a more needed moment. Rachel's exploration of grief did not come from theory. It came from paying close attention to what happens in a life when loss, of any kind, is not given room to move through us. In her new book, she pushes back on the tidy stages and cultural timelines we have inherited, and offers instead an approach that honors grief as something we are meant to feel deeply rather than manage efficiently. Her title carries the whole thesis: hearts are meant to be broken, not as damage, but as opening. Loss, when met rather than avoided, can crack us into a wider, more honest, more tender version of ourselves. Together, Sam and Rachel explore why our current cultural approach to grief has left so many people quietly disconnected from their own hearts, and what becomes possible when we let loss teach us instead of trying to move past it. They discuss why this conversation matters more now than perhaps ever, in a world carrying so much collective and personal loss, and how a different relationship with grief can shift not only our healing but our capacity to love. This episode is an invitation to soften around what has broken you, to trust that the heart knows how to grieve when we finally let it, and to consider that what breaks us open may be what allows us to become whole. Tune in and share your own questions and comments about grief on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page. https://amzn.to/4vdu2C0 https://amzn.to/3T2Bsum https://amzn.to/4eNt8r6 www.thefullnessofyourpower.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  6. Jul 8

    Where the Body Holds the Story with Robert Weisz PhD

    This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Robert Weisz, Ph.D., retired clinical psychologist, consultant, and trainer whose fifty years of practice have moved fluidly across the worlds of Ericksonian hypnosis, shamanic healing, mindfulness, and nondual wisdom. Robert is co-author of the newly released Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing: A Guide for Patients and Therapists. He has taught through Southwestern College, the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Webster University, the University of Wyoming, and New Mexico Highlands University, and served as co-founder and director of the Milton Erickson Institute for Clinical Hypnosis and Behavioral Sciences of New Mexico for forty years. Robert's path into this work began well before his career did. Born in Lima, Peru, in 1944 to German-Jewish parents who had fled the Holocaust, he spent his early years moving through Peru, Bolivia, and Chile before immigrating to the United States at thirteen. That early experience of exile and adaptation seeded a lifelong curiosity about the human mind and the resilience of the spirit. His doctoral research in sleep and dreams gave way to decades of clinical practice, community mental health work, and a deep involvement with Ericksonian hypnotherapy. Alongside all of this, drawn by the healing potential of altered states, he spent thirty years studying with shamans and healers in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, and the United States, letting that ancient knowledge shape and inform his clinical understanding. Together, Sam and Robert explore what it means to help people heal at the meeting place of body, mind, and spirit. They discuss the somatic wisdom the body carries long after the thinking mind has moved on, the emotional patterns that live beneath cognition, and the mindful presence that allows what is held to finally be released. Drawing on Robert's new book, they look at how mindfulness-based somatic emotional processing offers patients and therapists a grounded, integrative path into deep healing. This episode is an invitation to trust the intelligence of the body, to soften into what wants to be known, and to remember that healing rarely happens through the mind alone. Tune in and share your own questions and comments about somatic healing on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page. https://amzn.to/4eSchBY www.MBSEP.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  7. Jul 1

    The Magdalene Revolution with Andrew Harvey

    This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam is delighted to welcome back internationally acclaimed writer, poet, and mystical teacher Andrew Harvey. The author of more than forty books, including Son of Man, The Hope, Love is Everything, Turn Me to Gold, and Radical Regeneration with Carolyn Baker, Andrew is also the founder of the Institute for Sacred Activism, an organization devoted to inviting concerned people to meet our global crises as inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change. He returns to the show with a powerful new book, The Magdalene Revolution: The Return of the Sacred Feminine and the Birth of Radical Equality, a work that may be the boldest and most timely of his long career. In The Magdalene Revolution, Andrew offers a radically fresh reading of Mary Magdalene, drawing on decades of scholarship in sacred texts, the Gnostic gospels, and the mystical traditions. He examines how she has been portrayed in the New Testament, sometimes splendidly and sometimes dangerously distorted, and recovers the truths revealed about her in works such as the Gospel of Mary. Together, Sam and Andrew explore what this revolution asks of each of us in a world in profound transition. They discuss the return of the sacred feminine, the sacred marriage of feminine and masculine within every human being, and the embodied path of love and equality that the Magdalene Revolution invites us to live. They also touch on sacred activism as the natural expression of this awakened consciousness and the courage required to participate in birthing a new humanity. This episode is an invitation to step into a wider, fiercer, more tender vision of Christ consciousness, and to recognize that the healing of our world may begin with the restoration of the feminine voice that was silenced, but never lost. Tune in and share your own questions and comments about the Sacred Feminine on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page. https://amzn.to/4eSchBY https://www.andrewharvey.net/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  8. Jun 24

    Wisdom from the Akashic Records with Rev. Lisa Barnett

    This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Rev. Lisa Barnett, visionary founder of the Akashic Knowing School of Wisdom and custodian of the 8 Galactic Lineage Akashic Access Keys. For more than three decades, Lisa has dedicated her life to guiding individuals through deep spiritual transformation using the wisdom of the Akasa, the great library that holds every soul's history, agreements, and plan. As the acclaimed author of four bestselling books, she has helped students and clients around the world tap into a source of guidance that has been available to humanity across cultures and ages, yet often forgotten in modern life. At the heart of Lisa's work is the conviction that each of us carries a soul path uniquely our own and that aligning with it opens the door to greater fulfillment, clarity, and abundance. Through her teachings, she illuminates the often-hidden dimensions of our lives: the soul contracts that shape our relationships, the karmic patterns that quietly influence our choices, and the past-life vows that can echo into the present in ways we rarely recognize. Her groundbreaking 5-Step Akashic Access Prayer System gives students a practical way to step into their own soul record and receive the kind of personal, divine wisdom that no outside teacher can ever fully provide. Together, Sam and Rev. Lisa explore what it means to consult the Akashic Records as a living source of guidance rather than a mystical curiosity. They discuss how this ancient body of wisdom can support healing, decision-making, and the unwinding of patterns that no longer serve us and how restoring access to the records is, in Lisa's view, part of humanity's larger awakening in this moment. This episode is an invitation to remember that the answers we seek are not only outside of us and that within each soul lives a library written long before this life began, quietly waiting to be read. Tune in and share your own questions and comments about the Akashic Records on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page. https://akashicknowing.com/ https://amzn.to/4oKYfqu Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Tune in for one hour of consciousness raising talk. Your Conscious Consultant, Sam Liebowitz, will discuss all types of topics to help you raise your awareness. Sam takes a holistic look at life that includes your career, business, relationships, spiritual development, healing, and sustainable living. Most of all, this is all about how to walk through life with the greatest ease and joy. Listen live every Thursday at 12 Noon EST at www.TalkRadio.nyc

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