Professor P’s Podcast - Entrepreneurship - Empowerment - Energetics Natasha Palumbo aka Professor P Coach Consultant Educator Empowered

Welcome everyone to the 37th episode of Professor P's Podcast. I am bringing you another dose of Elixir, the energic power. The topic for this show is LISTENING vs. HEARING #mastery
Did you know there is a difference between listening and hearing? There absolutely is. Many times, we are just hearing the world and people around us. We don’t really listen. Effective communication is where there is an understanding. But when we are only hearing someone, we are not seeking an understanding because we can only do that when we listen intently.
I have the honor of teaching some of the most amazing students around. For the past few years, I have taught business communication, and this is one of our hot topics. My students are always amazed and quickly realize that most of the time they are just hearing. What I love is from that point of revelation, they begin to change and start truly listening. The more intently we listen the better we learn!  
Listeners are some of the highest paid people on the planet. Just look at therapist for an example. They are paid to truly listen to us. Myself as a coach, consultant, and teacher, must truly listen to have a better understanding of my client and my students’ needs. Relationships are important and truly listening to those we have relationships with, and others is mission critical to living the empowered life and to be an empowered entrepreneur.
I have some powerful homework for you this week. So, jump into this episode to hear more and make sure you do that homework. It will help you in so many ways.
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Welcome everyone to the 36th episode of Professor P's Podcast. I am bringing you another GUEST SPEAKER, Tonya Said with Your Yoni Retreat.  From HEARTBREAK         to HEALING! #entrepreneurspotlight  
Tonya is the founder and co-owner of Your Yoni Retreat, deeply committed to empowering all women, including womb holders, through mental, physical, and emotional wellness. She believes that reproductive health maintenance, hormonal balance, and positive psychological stimulation are crucial to women’s GREATNESS, alongside building mental and emotional strength. As a certified wellness practitioner and life coach, Tonya dedicates herself to this mission. Beyond her professional achievements,
Tonya is a true Renaissance woman. She earned her Bachelor’s degree (UOP) and is currently pursuing a Doctorate at (UOS). In addition to her academic pursuits, she is a devoted wife, mother, bonus mother, entrepreneur, and former financial executive for several global Fortune 500 companies. Tonya envisions a world where all women thrive in every facet of their lives. She has dedicated her life to supporting women on their journey to womanhood and reaching their highest potential, offering her guidance every step of the way.
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Welcome everyone to the 35th episode of Professor P's Podcast. I am bringing you another dose of Elixir, the energic power. The topic for this show is DELAYED GRATIFICATION #mastery
Delayed gratification and emotional intelligence are tied together. In our very fast world where everything is at our fingertips, we can get pretty much anything we want right now. But it is important to learn how to have delayed gratification. What does that even me. It means that you wait for greater. Instead of taking a weekend trip to the Bay Area or wherever you might want to go, you save that money for an even greater trip to Rome or some other country.
We are not animals; we are intelligent human beings who can wait. There is great power in patience. Did you know that?  But again, our world today isn’t set up for much patience. Fashion is fast, Amazon is fast, we have microwave moments all over the place. But the real power is being able to delay our gratification for greater. How many of you want greater in your life? Look at all the hands going up! Well hop into today’s podcast to hear more about delayed gratification. I will give you homework as always, make sure you take some time to do it.
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Welcome everyone to the 34th episode of Professor P's Podcast. Welcome to this month’s entrepreneurial tip. The topic for this show is NETWORKING, there is great power in your network. It is a key to the foundation of being an EMPOWERED entrepreneur and one who lives an EMPOWERED life.
“Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come.”—Diane Helbig
According to the Oxford dictionary, networking is defined as “interacting with others to exchange information and develop professional or social contacts...it’s so important to network when starting a new business.” What I love is that even the dictionary states how important it is for startups to network.
There are over 7 billion people on the planet, each one holding a key. Many of them have a key you need. It is important to find them and obtain the key. It is the only key that unlocks the door that you were called to walk through. Far too often, we take for granted how important people are, especially as we become even more dependent on technology. But as you will see when I address the power of human capital, we are nothing without people.
When building your network, you want to think about your target market and then build a circle around them. Start by identifying who they are. Once you’ve accomplished that, I need you to identify where they might be, who might work with them, who might serve them. Here is an example: a large target for me is the underserved. I am here for them. So, I need to build my network with social services that care for the underserved. Then, I’m able to work with my target market and be paid for the work I do. My network needs to be built with nonprofits, county department of health and welfare, and the like. That means I need to be at networking events where underserved people will be attending. You understand? I’m making connections outside of my direct target. The same is true for you.
Your homework: I want you to make a list of the important contacts in your network. These will be individuals who may provide information to you, advice, inspiration, encouragement, and the like. When you write them down, you can note what it is that you get from each person. What value does the exchange you have with them bring to your life? Then, I want you to note next to their name who introduced you to them. How was it that you met? If you introduced yourself to them, then just put “me.” In networking, there are brokers, and if you are familiar with what brokers do, they connect. In real estate, they connect buyers to sellers. My dear friend Henry Einstein, who wrote the foreword for my book Startup to Success, is a real estate broker and a powerful connector. This young man is a business genius, and he is able to not only connect buyers to sellers, but his ability to network is out of this world. Today, he has a strong network of individuals who have influence, affiliations, wealth, and power. For the purpose of this activity, the person who connected you with your contact is the broker. You are going to need to find out who your brokers are. If you see “me” appear too many times, you know that you have an inbred network. Diversity is extremely important to your network. Please make sure to build a diverse network so that you don’t get caught up in group thinking. No more inbred networks!
In an article titled “How to Build Your Network,” which was featured in the Harvard Business Review, Brian Uzzi and Shannon Dunlap write: “According to our studies, if you’ve introduced yourself to your key contacts more than 65% of the time, then you’re probably building your network using the self-similarity principle and your network may be too inbred. The self-similarity principle states that, when you make network contacts, you tend to choose people who resemble you in terms of experience, training, worldview, and so on. We have found that executives, i

Welcome everyone to the 33rd episode of Professor P's Podcast. I am bringing you another dose of Elixir, the energic power. The topic for this show is NECESSARY ENDINGS, brings NEW BEGINNINGS #truthbetold
I am currently listening to a book by Dr. Henry Cloud titled Necessary Endings. The book is so amazing and is my inspiration for this episode. Dr. Henry Cloud is a clinical psychologist. In this book, Necessary Endings, the premise is endings are a normal part of life. Endings matter and are present in all areas of our lives. Learning to recognize endings is critical. Endings are a necessity for life to thrive in areas of existence.
Dr. Cloud offers a mixture of advice and case studies to help readers. He discusses things like pruning, distorted hope and realistic hope, the importance of knowing when to hold on and when to allow a necessary ending to take place.
According to Dr. Cloud, today may be the enemy of your tomorrow. In your business and perhaps your life, the tomorrow that you desire and envision may never come to pass if you do not end some things, you are doing today.
Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth itself demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.
To those who don’t understand how seeds work, it can look like destruction the process the seed must endure. It literally cracks itself open to allow the sprout to appear which then grows and leaves the shell behind. The necessary ending to the seed is the new beginnings of the plant that holds life in it.
Pruning in our lives is so important. It is strategic. I had the blessing of living on a vineyard for close to 10 years. Each year I would watch as the farmers would cut back the beautiful, lush growth of the season. The pruning was so intense. There was nothing left but the bareness of the vine. But then each year like clockwork a lusher vineyard appeared. This is the cycle of life that we do not take advantage of enough. What in your life do you need to cut off? Do you need God to help you? Let Him cut you I say. I am a living, walking, testament to the goodness of His pruning.
If the vine had held on to the lushness of one season it would have been stuck in that season. I don’t care how much hope it had in a new season; it would not have worked. That is what a distorted hope looks like. Many of us have distorted hope when it comes to relationships. We don’t understand the importance of one’s character.
Dr. Cloud goes in depth into false hope and what real hope looks like. He explains, for hope we need a satellite. One that will give you the most accurate predictions is the ability to diagnose character. Once you learn the character traits that give real reason to hope that tomorrow can be different, you can know better whom you want to invite into your tomorrow. You can know that there is a real reason to go forward.
He goes on to explain there are basically three types of people in the world, or better, three styles of behavior that a person can exhibit in a particular time or context.
1. Wise people 2. Foolish people 3. Evil people.
The person who ultimately does well is the one who can learn from his own experience or the experience of others, make that learning a part of himself, and then deliver results from that experience base.
Which brings us to the key to the wise person: When truth presents itself, the wise person sees the light, takes it in, and adjusts. The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meets their demands. And that is the problem with the fool. Whereas the chief descriptor of the wise person is that when the light shows up, he looks at it, receives it, joins it, and adjusts his behavior to align with the light, the fool does the opposite: he rejects the feedback, resi

Welcome everyone to the 32nd episode of Professor P's Podcast. I am bringing you another GUEST SPEAKER, Riva Jean-Paul with Winds of Change.  The GIFT of getting to the ROOT! #entrepreneurspotlight
Riva is a Certified Holistic Health & Life Coach for Women and Trauma Informed Somatic Practitioner. Her approach to trauma recovery is a beautiful blend of spirituality, creativity, and a deep connection with the body, empowering women to find peace after trauma, own their power, and be the woman they want to be.  Breathwork, somatic experiencing, and psychedelic integration are currently her go-to modalities, carefully selected to provide her clients with a transformative journey.
As a perpetual learner, Riva's commitment to growth is woven into the fabric of her ongoing education and practice. Currently pursuing her Masters in Art Therapy & Counseling, she studies the five pillars of women's health: physical, mental, menstrual, spiritual, and relational well-being.
Riva's vision reaches beyond individual transformations; she dreams of a world shaped by healthy, empowered women leading the way, and her work is dedicated to fueling the rise of the feminine and the next women's revolution.
When she's not immersed in learning or fulfilling her life's purpose, you can find Riva cherishing moments with her husband and two cats. She finds joy in cooking, dancing, singing, and exploring new places, all while nurturing her body, mind, and soul.
Below is all of Riva’s contact information. Make sure to connect with her.
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