Bridging The Potential Podcast Living The Potential Network

How can Mother Nature best support our well being?
Rajitha Bommakanti, RN, BSN, NBC-HWC, CCM, FCN, is a culinary coach who has been practicing nursing for over 30 years in various medical specialties, and currently works as an ER case manager as well as being the founder of the Healthy You Center where she provides health coaching that inspires positive transformation through educating and empowering people to make small changes to their lives to improve their health.
Cassie Funmaker: Activist, Creative Environmentalist, College Student. LTPN Youth Advisor, and Founder of the Native Wellness Movement
6 benefits/takeaways the listener will experience:
-Impact of Food Choices on mental, emotional and physical behavior
-Holistic strategies for living in a cancer-free world
-Getting to the root cause of disease
-De-stressing the mind, body, spirit and heart: power of the breath
-The many ways that Nature contributes to a healthy lifestyle
-Native Wellness Movement: regenerating ancient wisdom for well being through reconnecting and appreciating the gifts of Mother Nature
 
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What are some key ways to increase focus and resilience and let go of stress?
Monica Cochran, M.Ed has worked with children, parents, and other adults in a wide variety of educational, hospital, and business settings for over 40 years. She has been active in alternative education since 1978, home-educated two of her children, and has worked with other home-educating and distance-learning families since 1997. Currently, Monica works with learners, caregivers, and educators worldwide through her private practice, Learning Without Borders. See her website https://learningwithoutborders.com
James Schmidt is from Salem Oregon, and he is a college student pursuing a major in Psychology and is founding member of the Youth Advisory Council for Living the Potential Network
Six benefits/takeaways the listener will experience:
How to design Self Care as a practice 
Best ways to discover and  leverage your strengths
Learning how to reduce stress and increase FOCUS
Why so many are dealing with "decision fatigue"and what to do about it
Neuro divergent learning strategies for resilience
Best Learning happens in safe community settings-what is needed to create safety?
 
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Amanda and Aaron get us to wonder about:
How does critical thinking emerge from the stories we explore and how might that co-generate a great future for families and communities?
 
Amanda Johnson: Founder of True To Intention and Co-Founder of Saved By Story Publishing, Brand and Content Oracle, Story-healing Guide, Author, and Speaker on a mission to help others write truer personal and collective stories.
 
Aaron Johnson: Published author, young entrepreneur, founding member of LTPN's Youth Advisory Council, Founder of Caterbuilder, and Co-Founder of Saved By Story Publishing is passionate about helping people see the infinite potential of the world and the importance of building communities and relationships that facilitate life-long learning.
 
Some of the takeaways you, as the listener, will experience include:
Three life-changing perspectives to uncovering and understanding your own story
Key questions (from both parent and child) that facilitate the phases of our present-time human development journey
How transparency in family relationships helps build trust with children 
How fear of not having it all figured out can interfere and stunt natural growth
Which movies invite the most meaningful conversations to cultivate character, family, and a culture of freedom and potential
How to recognize the common themes that are present in the universal human story and how to rewrite the pattern for your own best seller called YOUR LIFE
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Noah Gabriel Press McIntyre is a global Gratitude Wellness Coach, Speaker, Course Creator, Poet, and Founder of The Discover Gratitude Movement. He has been a practitioner of grateful living and mindfulness for over 35 years and holds a Masters in Arts and Social Science with a Concentration in Gratitude and Transformative Learning from Antioch University. You can find his work at NoahGabrielPressMcIntyre.com and DiscoverGratitude.com.
 
Samuel Osborne Huerta is a writer, musician, and actor based in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. He is now attending the University of Minnesota as a part of the UMN Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program and is a Youth Advisor to the Living The Potential Network 
 
Tune into learn:
How to best manage uncertainty
Ways to get present in the moment by getting out of your head
Practices to help you get clean, clear, and connected to your real self
Allow yourself to be surprised by trusting your intuition
Trusting the power of the inquiry and allow a well-formed question to guide you to the best next answer 
Ways to return to the heart and soul of who you really are
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Two intergenerational change makers from our LTPN community share their passion for Food, Connection and Gratitude with the stories of how and where food comes from through the process of planting, producing, cooking, and sharing. All are keys to becoming healthy and whole.
Tune in to hear Cassandra Funmaker and Julie Diaz sit down and discuss:

1. How food can be the pathway to healing
2. Why cooking with fresh locally grown food is key for dietary wellness
3. The 7th generation prophecy from Indigenous Elders that predicted their youth would take action for positive change, and how it's happening.
 
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How does embracing the Arts relate to Native Wisdom and the healing of our communities?
 
That's the question these two women tackled and answered brilliantly in this conversation.
 
Tanya Ocana Vigil is a Gallery Owner, Elementary Arts Director, Aztec Dancer, Gallery and Curator of graphic impressions known as one of the 10 Most Remarkable Women of Taos. 
 
Cassandra Funmaker is the Founder of the Native Wellness Movement podcast, a Social Media activist, and a member of LTPN's Youth Advisory Council.
 
And both of these women share a passion for Art and Native Wisdom.
 
Tune in to discover: 

Four Strands of Art and how learning to express using one of these modalities supports well-being for people and the earth
how co-generating a musical play with a diversified group of artists and children helped heal an intergenerational community post-pandemic
what many youth are most concerned about and how they express their hope for a better future
how Indigenous practices that connect us to Nature, combined with Art, support health and well-being for us all
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