5 Questions for Inner Wisdom Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer

It is such a delight to bring you this podcast with one of my spiritual teachers, Janet Conner. Join us to learn about the prayer practices and rituals that have sustained Janet through the pandemic and continue to help her connect to the Divine.

Janet Conner is a prayer artist, deep soul explorer, field guide in The Mystic, and mistress of the mystical theta brain wave state—the threshold between worlds. But first and always, Janet is a devoted daughter of the Feminine Divine and Original Prayer. Put it all together and you can see why many consider Janet a 21st century wise and wonder-filled witch.

Her first book, Writing Down Your Soul, became a bestseller, followed by The Lotus and The Lily, Soul Vows, Find Your Soul’s Purpose and more. When “Prayer Artist” came calling, Janet found herself writing a whole new genre of prayer, redefining prayer altogether, and leading radical prayer intensives with fellow female mystics. She launched the Praying at the Speed of Love podcast to host intimate conversations with authors about their private prayer lives. Although she can hear the trees in the Hudson River Valley whispering her name, for now Janet lives with silence, solitude, and joy in the tiny town of Ozona, Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. https://janetconner.com/


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It's August 22, 2020 and my guest Rabbi Amy shares deep wisdom about feeling gratitude, noticing beauty in the world around her and in her home with her teenage children and shares rituals that help her feel grounded and resilient on a daily basis.

Amy Grossblatt Pessah is a rabbi, author, spiritual director and mom. Serving various communities and demographics across the country, Amy has been a Jewish educator for over twenty-five years, with a specialization in Jewish Family Education. She received her masters degree in Jewish education from HUC-JIR and her ordination from Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. She lives in Florida with her husband, Aryeh and together they are the proud parents of three young adults. Amy's recently released book is Parenting on a Prayer: Ancient Jewish Secrets for Raising Modern Children.


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It's May 27th, 2020...and the world is full of the beauty of spring and also so much sadness as people around the world suffer from Covid-19. I am humbled to bring you a conversation with an old friend whom I haven't seen in many years but I carry in my heart. John Fenner Mays, a terrific actor from Chicago, shares his vulnerability, resilience and hope as he tells a story of losing his beloved partner, Lorraine.

We share a lot of laughter, some tears...and even ponder the future of live theater. Take a listen...




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It's April 12th, 2020 and my guest Adina is someone whose life work focuses on asking questions that help us to expand and transform our thinking. As Adina and I reflect on gratitude and beauty during this global pandemic, she shares the important question of 'What can this time give birth to?' We talk about her desire to get creative as a maker, how honoring the Jewish ritual of counting the Omer can be grounding in this moment when days run together, and her intentional practice to consume positive news from the Good News Network.

About Adina:

Adina Laver, MBA, M.ED., CPC is Chief Curiosity officer, founder of Courage to be Curious.
Adina’s degrees and fields of study as well as her varied professional positions, client base, and range of personal interests are all reflective of her insatiable curiosity. She seeks to understand why and how and is most engaged when musing about ‘What would happen if….” or “Where is there opportunity to …” or “How might we…” After years of trying to narrow her focus on one area of interest, she recognized curiosity as the common thread. Whether working with corporations, schools, and individuals, the breakthroughs always emerge because of courageous curiosity. Curiosity is a disposition as well as a skill, and with this as her platform, Adina now teaches and cultivates the practice of curiosity to facilitate leadership development, innovation, and problem solving for positive impact.


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It's April 5th, 2020...This podcast is landing during a week when so many of us are holding anxiety, fear and exhaustion...and also are discovering inner strength and wisdom, resilience, compassion for self and others, community. It's the perfect time to talk with Naila, a person whom I think of as a ray of sunshine! Naila talks about connecting with her body through exercise, moving through grief, coping with isolation and she shares a beautiful, easy practice that we can all try for connecting with our heart centers.

About Nailia:

Naila Francis is a certified death midwife and From Grief to Gratitude™ coach, as well as a wedding officiant, poet and accomplished writer. Over the course of her journalism career, she profiled artists and entertainers such as James Earl Jones, Krishna Das, k.d. lang, Pink, Michael Franti and “Eat, Pray, Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert. Her words have also appeared in greeting cards. Raised on the Caribbean islands of St. Lucia, Barbados and Antigua, Naila is an island girl at heart. She considers herself an ardent joy enthusiast and is also an avid traveler, who especially loves spending time in Tanzania with “her kids” at the orphanage she helps to support.


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It's March 17th, 2020...This podcast is landing during a week when so many people feel like everything that keeps us safe and okay has been taken away from us. Fear and anxiety is surrounding us and it takes practice to feel grounded, thankful and hopeful. I can't have asked for a more wonderful guest than Tami Astorino for just this moment--Tami shares about her experience discovering the ancient practice of 'forest bathing' and how connecting to the beauty and energy of being in nature has been transformative for her.

I hope Tami's experience will inspire you to unplug and connect to the trees, the sky, the flowers, the birds...the natural world all around us.

About Tami:

Rise Gatherings co-founder, Tami Astorino, M.Ed., has spent her career bringing people together over shared experiences to empower each other.

After studying feminism and psychology, Tami brought her passion for building for health to her work as a school counselor and then national non-profits including Moving Traditions and InterfaithFamily. At the core of Tami’s work is a belief in the power of listening to one’s own voice as well as the voices of others to create both individual and systemic change.

She is currently dedicated to creating the retreats she’s always dreamed of for women of all ages and backgrounds to access their fullest potential and rise together.

About Rise Gatherings: www.risegatherings.com

About Forest Bathing: https://www.forestbathing.club/




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