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Tracking Yes is the art and practice of tuning in to your curiosity, trusting your inner compass and staying connected to possibility when things go sideways. I'm your host, Liz Wiltzen - professional coach, creator and round-the-clock philosopher. Join me and my guests for stories that will inspire you to meet the unexpected—in your biggest challenges and everyday moments—with a wise, adventurous heart.

Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC Liz Wiltzen, PCC, CPCC

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Tracking Yes is the art and practice of tuning in to your curiosity, trusting your inner compass and staying connected to possibility when things go sideways. I'm your host, Liz Wiltzen - professional coach, creator and round-the-clock philosopher. Join me and my guests for stories that will inspire you to meet the unexpected—in your biggest challenges and everyday moments—with a wise, adventurous heart.

    The Creative Power of Memory and How it Shapes Our Lives with Jessica Waite

    The Creative Power of Memory and How it Shapes Our Lives with Jessica Waite

    I'm so delighted to welcome my good friend and author, Jessica Waite back to the podcast. Today we're talking about memory - how it isn't a fixed, static thing in our brain  but actually a living, evolving force in our lives, and the love that's possible when you're curious and willing to allow a painful memory to be rewritten in current time.

    Learn more about Jessica's soon to be published book:
     "The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards"

    Past episodes with Jessica Waite:
    "The Power of Love Beyond Death" - April 2020
    "The Wisdom of Heartbreak" - November 2021
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    • 50 min
    Wild Yoga: Recovering Wholeness in a Fractured Culture with Rebecca Wildbear

    Wild Yoga: Recovering Wholeness in a Fractured Culture with Rebecca Wildbear

    Episode Summary:
    Rebecca Wildbear is the author of “Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth”. 
     
     On today’s show Rebecca and I explore the connection between mind, body and soul, how to recover to wholeness in a fractured culture, and the path of finding our true place of belonging in the Universe. 
    Join us as Rebecca shares her wisdom on:
     
     Mystery and Soul:
     partnering with the mystery deep within your own body listening with all of your senses for messages from your soul perceiving, integrating and living into the infinite wisdom that always supports you why dreams are an invaluable source of guidance and direction 
     Navigating Culture / Recovering Self:
     the impact of a patriarchal culture on the relationship between mothers and daughters harnessing the power of the feminine practices for refining our attunement to the wisdom of the natural worldwhat drives our self-destructive and harmful practices and why it’s essential to become a love warrior for the earth 
     Wholeness, Healing and Death:
     cultivating wholeness on the journey of healing how her near death journey with cancer empowered her life exploring death as a return to innocenceToday's Guest:

    Rebecca Wildbear is the author of “Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth”. She is also the creator of a yoga practice called Wild Yoga, which empowers individuals to tune in to the mysteries that live within the earth community, dreams, and their own wild nature so they may live a life of creative service. She has been leading Wild Yoga programs since 2007 and also guides other nature and soul programs through Animas Valley Institute.

    Rebecca's Website: https://www.rebeccawildbear.com
     


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    Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

    • 1 hr 45 min
    Collaborating with Mystery

    Collaborating with Mystery

    There is more than meets the eye operating in the background of our day-to-day lives. Today I'm sharing a tale of the threads of connection that weave us intimately into the cosmos and that extend well beyond what the practical, logical mind can imagine.
    It's also a real time story of tracking yes, a journey of abandoning the plan and trusting the clues that are appearing rather than seeking certainty to guide the way.

    If you struggle with decision making, it almost always comes from the idea that you're the one making the decision, on your own. But when you try on the perspective that every decision you make is a collaboration between you and a multitude of seen and unseen forces, then you begin to tune into your felt perceptions, follow clues  that are revealing themselves, and let the best decision emerge as you go.

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    Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

    • 35 min
    Dragons and Power Recast: Farewell to a Beloved Sensei - Leadership Embodiment with Wendy Palmer

    Dragons and Power Recast: Farewell to a Beloved Sensei - Leadership Embodiment with Wendy Palmer

    Show Notes: 
    Wendy Palmer passed away on December 2nd, 2022. In honour of her passing I’m publishing a recast of the interview we had in March 2022. If you’ve not heard this conversation I know you’ll find it compelling. If you have, I suspect it may land a level deeper on second listen, knowing that her words are now reaching us from the beyond the boundaries of this earthly realm. 
     
    In this insightful conversation Wendy offers the wisdom she has spent a lifetime embodying. She held a seventh degree black belt in the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido, and was a mindfulness practitioner for over 40 years. 
     
    Drawing on the skills honed from both of these practices, she shares deceptively simple, fast and effective practices that support you to recover to center in stressful situations and respond creatively when life throws you off balance.
     
    Wendy speaks to: 
     the essential Aikido practice of “letting the attack land in the space” the 3 most essential qualities of leadership what it means to be truly resilient why boundaries don’t work and what actually doesthe levels of challenge we move through when we are practicing masteryShe also addresses the 3 strategies of personality self: 
    head wants controlheart wants approvalgut wants securityAnd she teaches how we can access the powerful antidotes of perception, compassion and courage.
    Wendy’s website: www.leadershipembodiment.com
    7 Guided Practices to Recover to Center


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    Liz Wiltzen Coaching Website Tracking Yes Blog The story that launched the ethos:
    Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

    • 1 hr 16 min
    Tracking Shadow and Rewilding Your Soul with Brian Stafford, MD, MPH

    Tracking Shadow and Rewilding Your Soul with Brian Stafford, MD, MPH

    Dr. Brian Stafford is a former pediatrician and psychiatrist who left his position as an endowed chair in academic psychiatry to rewild and ensoul his own life, and to discover his deeper calling. 
     
    On today’s show Brian and I delve into the realms of mystery and shadow to explore the magic and possibility that emerges when we’re willing to enter a deeper conversation with the natural world, and leave the safety of the known to uncover and reclaim our wholeness.
    Brian shares his extensive understanding of:
    rewilding and ensouling your life—what it is, and why and how to do itshifting from a constricted egocentric to an expansive ecocentric orientation to the worldrediscovering the ancient connection between soul and naturebuilding relationship with the natural world as one of our most loving and essential guidesnurturing the life soul wants for you vs. perpetuating the life culture wants for youThe 4 Windows of Knowing 
    full-presence sensingfull-bodied feeling heart-centred thinkingdeep imaginationThe 3 Realms of Knowing 
    physicalspiritualimaginalShadow Work
    projection and transferencewhy we don’t see others as they truly are understanding repressed facets of self and why it’s essential to claim them backhow healing our shadow creates clear perception and greater intimacy with lifeToday’s Guest: 
    Dr. Brian Stafford is one of the leaders in the rewilding and ensouling movement. 
    A former pediatrician and perinatal, infant, child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, Brian left his position as an endowed chair in academic psychiatry to rewild and ensoul his own life, and to discover his deeper calling. 
    After retraining as a wholistic eco-therapist and depth psychiatrist with the Animas Valley institute, Brian has gone on to rewild and ensoul the world as a wilderness and vision fast guide, retreat facilitator, mentor, trainer, international speaker, and writer.  
    He is a guide, Board member, trainer, and Director of the Wild Mind Training Program, a nature-based wholistic eco-depth psychotherapy training program, at the Animas Valley Institute. He is also the Founder or Co-founder of several institutions dedicated to the rewilding and ensouling of Education, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Christianity. 
    He lives in Ojai, California, USA and is currently finishing a book entitled “Pathwa
    Support the show
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    Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

    • 1 hr 41 min
    The Art of Emergence with Schuyler Brown

    The Art of Emergence with Schuyler Brown

    Show Notes:
    Schuyler Brown left a life of enormous achievement and success by our culture’s standards when a series of events led her to the realization that her livelihood was not in integrity with her soul.

    Join us for a conversation about the courageous path she followed out of that life, the wisdom of embodiment, the creativity and power of magic, and cultivating the skill of tuning in to the emergent field to perceive guidance about how best to move in our lives.
    It’s a deep and playful exploration into:
    becoming embodied in a culture that values intellect over felt perception how the qualities of the divine masculine and feminine support creativity ~ and how to recognize their toxic manifestationswhat magic is, and why it is an essential ally in our path forwardbecoming adept at moving between the subtle and material realmscultivating and trusting the ground of our being vs: an endless quest for safety and happinessthe emergent field: perceiving it, trusting it and skillfully responding to its unwavering guidancethe practice of creating mandalas as a portal into connection and dialogue with the natural worldToday’s Guest: 
    Schuyler Brown offers spiritual guidance, meditation, coaching, and facilitation through The Art of Emergence. 

    She is a former futurist and strategist in the business world who has dedicated herself to the emergence of enlightened culture and commerce. She works with individuals and groups to heal trauma and become more embodied. Her work is grounded in Buddhist Tantra, yogic philosophy, embodiment, and feminine wisdom. 

    She writes about it all and offers guided meditations and embodiment courses on Substack.
    Schuyler Brown Website                         
    Schuyler’s Substack: Art of Emergence


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    Liz Wiltzen Coaching Website Tracking Yes Blog The story that launched the ethos:
    Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

    • 1 hr 34 min

Customer Reviews

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9 Ratings

Eyeris Waves ,

Grounding & Expansive!!

Such healing and joy felt from the wisdom, connection, and fun experienced while listening to Liz and her wonderful guests!

disappointed Yankee ,

Captivating!

If you have ever loved and lost, you will not be pausing this podcast. Liz Wiltzen skillfully draws out the story of Jessica’s marriage suddenly ending when her husband dies in the Houston airport on his way home to Canada. This is a truly heartwarming story of the triumph of love over destruction, doubt, and even death when a woman chose curiosity over living in grief and anger.

DoulaMystery ,

Deep Connections

We yearn for deep connections, especially during the isolation of Covid-19 quarantines. Liz’s conversation here with writer Jessica Waite provides one of the deepest, thought-provoking, and authentic connections on love, loss, and continuity that I’ve ever heard. Thank you for bravely sharing!

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