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Making Peace With Food

July 11, 2018 By Arminda Leave a Comment

A Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Eve Lahijani‘s journey to helping women (and some men) heal their relationship with food, trust their bodies and experience ease with food in any situation is only possible because she first did that for herself.

From the time she was a very young girl, Eve felt unseen, unheard and unimportant, that her voice didn’t matter. The only thing she felt she had any power over was what went into her body, when she fed herself, and what amounts were “acceptable.” Her desire to exercise her innate power became a shameful, unhealthy, obsessive, and addictive relationship with food.

I hope you enjoy this conversation. Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below!

Eve Lahijani Bio

Eve Lahijani is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist.  She works with her clients using a non-diet approach that helps clients separate eating and food from their emotions and other issues.  She specializes in helping those who engage in emotional eating, compulsive eating and other forms of non-hunger eating.  Eve helps her clients from all over the world achieve lasting peace with their eating, having confidence in any food situation and really experience profound freedom!  In her spare time, Eve loves to paint, read and swim.

And here is Eve’s inspiring TEDx Talk

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Divorce Was My Doorway

July 4, 2018 By Arminda Leave a Comment

Episode Seven is where you’ll meet Shawn Richardson: mountain climber (three of the seven summits are complete), mother (three boys, ages 24, 22 & 19), and multidimensional mover and shaker in this world!!

I love this conversation and Shawn’s vulnerable sharing of the raw unknowns she confronted in the wake of her unexpected divorce from her husband of 22 years:

  1. Who am I?
  2. Why am I here?
  3. What do I want to do?

She openly admits that the journey she’s traveled to where she stands right now was catalyzed by her divorce.

My favorite part of our discussion is listening to Shawn talk about her oldest son, Charlie, and how his life with special needs, and how she’s interpreted his life, have been “way showing” and transformational for her.

Through her pioneering work, Shawn helps adults with special needs children achieve transformational shifts in their family dynamics, professional lives, and personal experience. 

I can’t wait to see what Shawn creates next and am certain you’ll be just as excited as I am to watch her shift our global consciousness around authentic workers.

Please share your thoughts in the comments below and thanks for listening to the show!

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The New Sexy: “I Am Enough”

June 26, 2018 By Arminda Leave a Comment

While I love and enjoy all of my guests, this conversation, in particular, holds significant personal meaning. Join me and Shelley Dunford-Hardy as we take the subject of power into the bedroom and what it means for a woman to be in her power in arguably the most intimate spaces of her Self: physically, emotionally and psychologically.

Shelley’s Favorite Tools

  • Kristin Neff and her significant work around self-compassion. Please find Dr. Neff’s website here.
  • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and a link for that method can be found here.
  • Ocean Breathing: Breathe in the nose for four counts and out the mouth for three counts, repeat.
  • Exploration exercise: Checking in with what you want/enjoy and do not want/enjoy.  Each person takes a turn being a giver and a receiver. The basic words used are, Yes/Please (I like and want to keep doing this) / Maybe (I don’t like this now, but I may be open to it in the future) / No, Thank You (I do not like this and do not want to do it).

Shelley Dunford-Hardy Bio

A licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) for over twelve years, Shelley has a bachelor’s degree in Education, and masters’ degrees in both Clinical Psychology and Spiritual Psychology. She has a passion for helping individuals and couples learn, heal, grow and thrive through challenging experiences in their lives. Shelley’s specialty trainings include Emotion Focus Therapy (EFT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She has worked several years with individuals, and their spouses healing from pornography and sex addiction. Shelley loves traveling, painting, hiking and spending time with her family. She has been married for thirty-two years and has four children. You can find her at her website.

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Emma Holmes: I Found Out Accidentally!

May 4, 2018 By Arminda

A scratch DJ, coach and surfer splitting her time between England and Hawaii, Emma Holmes is living the life she imagines every single day and shows others how to do the same.

Emma created and runs School of Scratch – one of the world’s leading online training platforms for Scratch DJs to learn the art of scratching and is dedicated to assisting others become excellent at the art of scratching.

In her work as a coach, Emma is an ambassador of stoke, empowering individuals to create the life they truly want to live.

As a gift to listeners of the show, Emma is giving you one month free access! to her online Stay Stoked Community, which is full of resources to help you create whatever you choose in your life! Please use this special link to sign up!! Once you are signed up, click right here on this sentence for access to the community!

Emma is active on both Instagram and Facebook. She would love to connect with you. 

Here is the Want List Emma referenced, as well as access to her Be Deliberate site. Enjoy the “Curiosity Driven Life” speech Elizabeth Gilbert gave on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday.

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Cirese LaBerge: The Power of Choices

April 26, 2018 By Arminda

Wow. I loved this conversation.

Today’s guest is Cirese LaBerge, who served 20+ years in the California prison system before being released on parole on March 3, 2015.

During today’s episode, Cirese and I talk about the power of our choices: how we always have a choice, even if we may not prefer or like the consequences.

I am so inspired by the question Cirese regularly asks herself because she feels it is her duty to live in her loving:

Would I rather be loving or would I rather be right?

What if we each started asking that same question to ourselves? What might be different? What outcomes might you experience? How might you experience yourself differently?

Thank you, Cirese, for living in your loving and for showing me how beautiful that life is.

Cirese LaBerge Bio

After serving over 20 years in prison starting at age 18, Cirese LaBerge has become an example of how to live in healing. She works in conjunction with the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, #Cut50 and the Freedom to Choose Project, among others, bringing a connection of humanity to people across the state of California, going into the prisons she lived in to help inspire and provide hope for people currently serving a life sentence, speaking to students, from junior high to college, about the power of choices, and inspiring many to work alongside her in helping to change a broken system of “justice.”

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Sherry Welsh: The Trust Model

April 16, 2018 By Arminda

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I got so much out of my conversation with Sherry Welsh, author of Slowing Down: Unexpected Ways to Thrive as a Female Leader, and leadership coach.

Discussing Sherry’s Trust Model illuminated for me a powerful trifecta between integrity, transparency and communication, and seeing more clearly how loss of personal power is directly linked to lack of trust. Here are links to two additional conversations Sherry’s recorded to further illustrate How to Make the Trust Model Work for You and How to Build Trust in Your Relationships.

We referenced Byron Katie’s Judge Your Neighbor worksheets we both love using and you can access them for free, as well!

Thank you, Sherry, for the reminder that I am enough right now and I have everything I need to be powerful today.

Sherry Welsh Bio

Sherry started out with an education in Engineering. Although she didn’t quite know what to do with it, it gave her the technical background to begin a 25 year career in manufacturing. With the introductory job in Southampton, PA, the experience she gained in that first year landed her on the path of a 20-year career with Robert Bosch, GmbH. She moved through plants, corporate offices in Germany and the U.S. and ultimately landed in Michigan where she lived for 20 years prior to landing back home in Charleston, SC. When she left Bosch, she was one of the few women who were in the executive ranks. She was lured away from Bosch to another automotive supplier to be the head of the Global Sales organization responsible for $3 Billion in Sales. Although the future seemed bright there, the great recession of 2008 came along and knocked her out of the game… temporarily. As a single mom, unemployed in Detroit, Michigan, in one of the greatest recessions of all time, the future seemed bleak. It was in that time, Sherry was able to slow down, set up a consulting practice, and use the skills she had developed over the years as a leader. In that year of consultant work, Sherry discovered her love for coaching and mentoring. Another company came along, a British Cosmetic packaging company that invited her into a 2-year stint as a Global Sales leader. Sherry worked with colleagues around the world again and loved the team she was developing and leading in Paris, Amsterdam, Brazil, New York and Chicago, to name a few locations. Working with customers like Chanel, Christian Dior, and LÓreal was a dream! But due to the nature of the location, every week she was on an airplane, at a different hotel, in a different city. Despite her love for travel, this way of life, disconnected from others, while being a single mom, was exhausting. That’s when the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) popped up on the radar! It was exactly what Sherry loved most about working with the multicultural teams she had around the world… inspiring them and coaching them to be their best! Although she no longer belongs to any one corporation, as an independent professional coach, Sherry now works with clients around the world to help them discover and bring into all aspects of their life their innate leadership abilities. She continues to travel and co-parent her incredible son… but more relaxed, with more humor, and an open mind full of possibility.

Enjoy this episode of The All Arminda Show!

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Struggle Doesn’t Equal Value

April 10, 2018 By Arminda

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 Cheryl Sutherland is the Founder of PleaseNotes, a for-purpose company of affirmation-filled products, and my friend. I’m delighted to have her as today’s guest on The All Arminda Show and I hope you enjoy her infectious laughter, her deeply-experienced wisdom, and the beauty radiating from her inside out.
This conversation covers some of Cheryl’s personal insights to her own value and worth, what she has to give and how her love of having “affirmations everywhere” inspired her to start her company, PleaseNotes.
I love how self-aware Cheryl shows up in her world and I love the honesty she shares with me and, by extension, with each of you!
During our conversation, Cheryl offered to share some free affirmation downloads with each of you; please be sure you hop over and take full advantage of them.
Cheryl Sutherland Bio
PleaseNotes creator Cheryl felt restless and underwhelmed at her 9 to 5. After spending over 1400 hours in learning and facilitating personal development, coaching, and reigniting her inner creativity, Cheryl created a company that inspires women to step into their own power by building confidence, clarity, and creativity.
In 2016, Cheryl started her company with one item, the PleaseNotes Sticky Note, and fully launched the brand with a successful Kickstarter campaign. Since then, PleaseNotes has expanded to include a suite of products that cater to customers worldwide, including Spain, UK, Canada, Latin America and Asia. Each purchase contributes 10% of the profits to support women empowerment initiatives in her local community. PleaseNotes has been endorsed by renowned change-makers Les Brown and Monique Coleman with the words,
“This is a gift, this is special and extraordinary and deserves to be shared with the world.”
As a women’s empowerment expert and entrepreneur, Cheryl Sutherland and PleaseNotes have been featured InStyle, Huffington Post, Fast Company, American Express OPEN Forum, Thrive Global, Youngry, and StandOut Publications.
Cheryl resides between Los Angeles and Toronto, Ontario.
You can find her on Instagram, Facebook and on her website.

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Melissa Ford — Love Is Power

April 7, 2018 By Arminda

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It was my unique pleasure to once again interview the remarkable Melissa Ford. My previous conversation with her on service is currently my most downloaded episode. Please take a listen if you haven’t already.

Today’s conversation centers around Melissa’s thoughts on being her own best resource and how she discovered the path to power through service to others.

I hope you enjoy the relaunch of The All Arminda Show as much as I’m enjoying being in conversations with women in their power.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for listening.

Thank you for being in your power.

Loving you,
Arminda

Melissa Ford Bio

Melissa Ford, Business Coach, JD, PCI Certified Coach

As a coach, transformational speaker, entrepreneur and lawyer, Melissa brings deep insights, laser focus and diverse, rich experiences to her clients. For over 20 years she has been empowering people (entrepreneurs, small business owners, executives, parents, individuals) to create positive, permanent change in their lives, enabling her clients to do more and to have more.

You can find Melissa on her website and on Facebook.

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017: Chris Dorris & Emotional Mastery

May 19, 2016 By Arminda

Chris Dorris

Chris Dorris & Emotional Mastery

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Some of you may already be familiar with Chris Dorris. Not long ago I offered my readers access to his powerful audio program on commitment. If you missed that opportunity, it’s not too late. Just send me an email <coach@armindalindsay.com> and I’ll be happy to send you the link. It’s definitely worth the listen.

For those of you not familiar with him, Chris is essentially the psychological equivalent to a physical trainer and has been immersed in the world of pushing people past their perceived limits since 1994 in the capacity of advisor, consultant and Mental Toughness Trainer and Personal Transformation Coach to elite athletes, executives, entrepreneurs and individuals worldwide. He conducts workshops and seminars on Mental Conditioning, Leadership, and Peak Performance.

“Your life unfolds according to the way that you think.” — Buddha

What if you had a class that teaches you how to think and to strengthen the quality of your thinking skills? To practice using your mind to positively improve your world?

Was Freud wrong with his stimulus/response theory?!

The good news is you can IMMEDIATELY change your thoughts with CHOICE, and with practice we can alter our perceptions of reality. Suffering is merely the result of judging your sadness.

Your choice is to either experience the world problematically or opportunistically.

Options/interpretations of reality allow you to have, do and be what you want.

Chris’ Recommended Daily Practice

  1. Catch Your Negative Thoughts
  2. Own Your Thoughts
  3. Replace Your Interpretations With an Upgrade

Becoming aware of the invisible (inside) stuff is unconscious learning!

“If something is troubling you, it’s not the thing itself, but your estimate of it, which you can revoke at any time.” — Marcus Aurelius

Chris makes it very clear: He is not selling happy thoughts; he’s selling options — you have a choice.

You cannot create excellence and mastery in a sustainable way if you choose a low grade interpretation of reality. — Chris Dorris

“Create the state; don’t wait.” — Chris Dorris

Become the person who doesn’t have complaining be a thing that goes on in your life. Start stopping complaining.

Here’s the Louis Schwartzberg video on GRATITUDE:

You always have access to gratitude. The only thing that goes away is your ability to remember you always have access!

Maintain a gratitude journal.

We chat about our friend Andrew McKee and his amazing book titled Change Your Game, Change Your Life.

Love this interview? Please share it.

Loving you,
arminda

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016: Gary Mahler & A Woman’s Sovereignty

March 3, 2016 By Arminda

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Gary Mahler & A Woman’s Sovereignty

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Is it unusual that I’m bringing in a man to talk about women? Not this man, methinks 🙂

What can you look forward to learning?

The woman who knows her power and isn’t afraid of being and showing herself to the world — the world changes because of her

That value, sovereignty, inheritance resides within each of us — and only our stories get in the way

Unless and until I love and value myself, will I be the sovereign of my life and when I step into that value I will bless everyone around me because I don’t need them to be love because I already am love

Loving ourselves is such a deeply powerful experience and you’re the only one who can do it

How to Increase Your Power

  1. Notice what you do and who you be
  2. Choose different
  3. Take actionable steps to live the life you imagine
  4. Choose you

Future Vision Exercise

  1. List all the things you’re grateful for (read daily)
  2. Write personal “I am” statement (read daily)
  3. Live it

Choosing YOU

  1. This is who I say I am, now I only have to choose it
  2. Know your value
  3. Create your sovereignty
  4. Be around men who appreciate everything you bring
  5. Be who you need to be and you’ll attract the right sort of men

Gary references both Steve Hardison & Steve Chandler, remarkable men who have impacted countless lives with their love and service.

Gary’s Bio

Besides women’s surf retreats,  we create bespoke events for team building, leadership work, and executive groups: 3 day events in Malibu & 5 day events in Hawaii.

Gary works with highly-driven people to do that thing they want with all their heart, that thing they might not know how to describe yet. That thing that scares the hell out of them.

He challenges how his clients see themselves, think about themselves and believe in themselves.  Gary firmly believes and lives the principle: when you change the way you think about yourself and you change the way you behave, your life WILL transform. He will never, ever let you forget what you tell him is important to you. When you are ready, he’ll be your Life’s Purpose Operations Manager, building your dreams together.

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