Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  Today’s episode features Swami Nityananda who has dedicated her life and career to helping humans live in joy and freedom.  Swami is the spiritual teacher and spiritual leader at Awake Yoga Meditation. Her meditations help audiences feel calm and exuberant, and live their fullest lives, strengthening self-awareness, relationships, abundance, and well-being on every level.  Her talks are filled with wisdom, good humor, and authenticity. Swami has spoken to audiences in ten countries and been a featured speaker on NPR and Radio Ireland among other platforms and podcasts.  Her work has been supported by Fulbright grants, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and has received other national and international awards.  Please join Swami Nityananda and I as we talk about Meditation In Daily Life on this episode of Toward A Better Life. Contact Swami Nityananda: www.awakeyogameditation.org Email: swami@awakeyogameditation.org

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Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  This episode features Sharon Hughes Award Winning Author, Speaker, and Confidence Coach.  Sharon asks the questions “What do you believe about yourself” and “Is that true?” She carries a message of hope and healing to those who struggle with insecurity, a lack of confidence and a broken self-worth.  Join me now as Sharon Hughes and I talk about Building Confidence and Self Worth on this episode of Toward A Better Life.

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives. You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  This episode focuses on the Steps to Unleash Your Energy with best selling author and speaker Adam Hart

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  In this episode, Julie Hilsen and I are exploring the magic and joy of life!  Julie Hilsen loves to share her passion for living a life of magic and joy. Her debut book is a powerful tool for self discovery and finding the joy in everyday life. She lives in Cumming, GA with her husband, Mitch and her two sons, Reese and Blake. When she's not talking to angels and creating you can find her hiking, playing tennis or cooking.  She also has her own podcast and has published her book “Life of Love” a Joyful Guide to Self and Sensuality.  Let’s settle in and enjoy our time with Julie Hilsen in this episode Connect With Your Divine Wisdom and Guidance Contact Julie Hilsen through her website Life of Love and Joy https://lifeofloveandjoy.com/

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  I’m talking with Dr. Lynn Carey is this episode who loves empowering others to create their desired life of health, wealth, and perfect self-expression.  Dr Carey gathered a lot of insight learning to heal herself after suffering with sickness and pain for many years. In her 18 years practicing as a chiropractor, she saw that chronic stress was the main issue for most people not healing. Chronic stress came from not enough time, not enough money, and not having passion or purpose in life. She believes creating a desired lifestyle is the key to ultimate well-being.  In this episode, you can learn to Empower Your Life with Dr. Lynn Carey.   Connect with Dr. Lynn Carey https://www.creatingmydesiredlife.com Get her book or sign up for emails with information on her Masterclass, Healthy Habits Coaching and Business Mentorship programs.

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  Today we’re talking with Kathy White.  Although Kathy had been teaching yoga for over 20 years, when she turned 50, her joints were aching, her menopausal symptoms were raging, and she was not gaining any benefit from her practice any more.  After researching, exploring and retraining, she refined her method into a joint-full yoga for active men and women over 50 who want to keep on doing the sports and activities they love.  It's kind of like adding WD40 to your joints!  Kathy offers a unique and mindful approach to body and mind that rejuvenates the body, calms the nervous system and builds strength, mobility and resilience which are vital, especially as people grow older.  Join me an Kathy White as we talk about Yoga Past 50 on this episode of Toward A Better Life Contact or Take Classes with Kathy White through her website https://www.kathywhiteyoga.com/

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  Today we’re talking about Higher Consciousness Meditation with Blair Abee.  Blair shares some very practical doable methods to develop our spiritual awareness including five steps to develop higher consciousness.  Join Blair Abee and I now as we explore Meditation 2.0! Contact Blair Abee through his website https://www.hicmeditation.com/

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  Menopause… what is it exactly?  What are peri-menopause and post menopause.  In this episode, I encourage not only women, but men as well, to listen in as Jeanne Andrus and I discuss this vital subject in a very real and practical way.  We talk about support, reintroducing romance, and creating a new you in Menopause with The Menopause Guru Jeanne Andrus. Visit Jeanne Andrus on her wwebsite https://menopause.guru/ Contact Jeanne Andrus:  jeanne@menopause.guru

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively. Garden Girls Nicole Shah is my guest today and we’re talking gardening and how it can create a better life for you by connecting with the Earth, as a meditation tool, promoting deeper connections with others including all members of you family.  Join Nicole and I now as we talk about Self Care Through Gardening! Connect with Nicole Shah through their website: https://www.gardengirlstx.com/

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  In this episode, we’re revisiting with Amanda Kate.  Amanda is a Life Coach in Australia and authored her book Divine Messy Human.  Today we’re talking with her about Archetypes and Life Coaching from her quilt of knowledge that helps people identify and how to work with their personality traits.  It’s time for Archetypal Life Coaching with Amanda Kate in this episode of Toward A Better Life. For More Information or to contact Amanda www.amandakate.com.au This is a link to Amanda's website where you can find more information about. Divine. Messy. Human. and her additional work. This book contains the tools and techniques she's discovered and used in her own healing to turn her life around from being unwell, out of alignment and miserable to happiness, vitality and connection to the Divine.

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives. You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  In this episode, Michelle DeKeyser will be sharing how to figure out your passion and make your goals happen through making connections in a supportive environment.  Join me now as I talk with Michelle about What’s Your Life Passion. Connect with Michelle https://connectingmamas.com/ Send Audience To: https://www.connectingmamas.com/free-course This is a free course that goes through Michelle's frame work CHECK-IN.  The course includes a video for each letter and activity that should take 15 minutes each. This will help mamas learn to check-in with themselves and other mamas.

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  In this episode, I’m talking with Bill Heinrich.  Bill has been a successful businessman owning businesses since he was 25.  He made money, but wasn’t happy, he was miserable.  He decided to to change knowing there was something he was called to do.  He began his spiritual quest alone on a beach in Mexico which transitioned into a 25 + year journey which continues today.  Bill cracked the code and is able to show people how to identify, access, and live their…Their True Life Purpose.  Join me as Bill Heinrich and I discuss True Life Purpose.  Schedule a time to speak with Bill Heinrich: http://speaktobill.com/ Listeners can dowload Bill's Book through https://www.myfreebook.me/   A message from Bill about his free book... "Listeners can download a free copy of my book "Clarity Has No Story". Everyone has a tendency to get trapped in their stories. This is the reason that we struggle, protecting our stories and beliefs. It blocks our clarity and creates suffering, stress and overwhelm in our life. The book explains how to use your language to create more power, potential and abundance in your life.  Our ability to communicate with clarity is the key to living a fulfilled and abundant life."

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  I’m talking with Tina McDermott Chef, Speaker, and Weight Loss Coach in this episode.  We’re talking about some great tips and insights surrounding nutrition like Tina’s number one health tip, her thoughts on Yo-Yo DIE-ting - Weight Loss the natural way without yo-yo dieting and even the magical and vital part water plays in our lives.  Kickstart Your Nutrition with TINA MCDERMOTT.

Two Words - Spring Cleaning.  Connie Ellefson shares that Whether physical, mental, or possessional, clutter takes up space in our psyches and calendars that could be put to more productive, creative, and fun use.  Hi this is Kevin Pennell your host for Toward A Better Life.  We’re talking clutter in this episode, how to reduce it and even transform it.  Let’s hear what Connie Ellefson as to say about Transforming Clutter  on this episode of Toward A Better Life! Connie Ellefson can be contacted through her website Clear the Space.com

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  We’ll be talking with Marty Machia about hospice care and creating a better end of life experience for patient and a better life for the family and those who are close to the patient. This is a subject not often discussed whether because of its sensitive nature or people just prefer not to think about the subject of death and dying.  Marty has been a hospice nurse in Vermont for several years and had this to say about hospice. “Many people ask those of us who work in hospice, ‘How do you do this work?’ ‘It takes a special kind of person.’ People often say to us, ‘How DO we do it, exactly?’ Though being with death and dying CAN be hard — of course — it is also a deep privilege. What could be more meaningful, more intimate, more raw or real, aside from birth, than to be with those who are at end of life? We are given permission to not only glimpse into this intimate world, but often be in the center of it. To be a part of someone’s life story. And to witness this process, an opportunity not given to many. As Ram Dass paints so beautifully and accurately, death brings you up close and personal to the truth.” So, hospice can certainly be a time to experience deep compassion and limitless love.  Join Marty Machia and me now for conversation about Embracing Hospice Care.

Hi and welcome to Toward A Better Life.  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Think of me as your guide while we travel together, creating more fulfilling, rewarding, and healthier lives.  You won’t need much for this trek, just an open mind, spirit, and heart.  Toward a Better Life podcast features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.  In today’s episode Leah Mazur will be talking with me about the challenges and how to move forward toward a better life following divorce.  Leah has helped women find acceptance, rebuild their self-esteem, confidence and make their best life after divorce.  Join Leah Mazur and I as we help people find Happiness After Divorce   Send Audience To: https://www.mindfullyready.com/ Get your FREE Divorce Empowerment Guide to help you find acceptance, build your self-esteem, & gain clarity on what to do next.

Prioritizing Internal Truth over External Influences.  What exactly does that mean?  Keep listening to this episode of Toward A Better Life for the answer.  Hi this is Kevin Pennell.  Today I’m talking with Amanda Kate, an author, life coach, and kinesiologist based down under in Australia.  I enjoyed a wonderful talk with Amanda a little before the holidays that I’m sure you’ll enjoy as well on this episode of Toward A Better Life Seeking Internal Truth

Hi and welcome to this New Year’s edition of Toward A Better Life… "New Year Nutrition".  This is your host Kevin Pennell.  Resolutions… yep the cliche for the New Year.  They typically last for a few days to a few months.  Doing some brief research identifies The Statista Global Consumer Survey conducting a survey involving several adults between the ages of 18 and 89.  The number one resolution for 2023 from the participants revealed 52% desiring to exercise more and number two, at 50% desire to eat healthier followed by losing weight at 40%.  Health News states “These three connect to the ongoing obesity crisis in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the prevalence of obesity in the U.S. was 41.9% as of March 2020.”  Good Housekeeping says, “If living through a global pandemic has taught us anything, it's that we shouldn't take health and wellness for granted. In 2023, improving your body, mind and soul is a great way to organize your long-term goals for the new year.”  So, maybe we should think of improving and sustaining a healthier lifestyle in 2023 with those lifestyle choices to include our nutritional choices.  When we think of nutrition we may think about what we eat to feel better, to lose weight, or maybe fill an emotional void.  Registered Holistic Nutritionist Amanda Love explores those areas that focus on the physical and emotional aspects of nutrition in her practice, her online cooking classes, and her podcast.  Join us now for "New Year Nutrition".