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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.

Filed Under: All Arminda Show, Radio Show, The All Arminda Show, Video Shows Tagged With: choices, create your life, Emma Holmes, podcast, powerful woman, scratch dj, skateboard, surfing, women in power

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.”

Filed Under: All Arminda Show, Radio Show, The All Arminda Show Tagged With: choice, Cirese LaBerge, consequences, freedom to choose, loving, power, powerful woman, prison, prisoner, responsibility, women in power

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!

Filed Under: All Arminda Show, Radio Show, The All Arminda Show Tagged With: leadership, power, powerful woman, Sherry Welsh, trust, women in power

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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Choose Your Own Adventure

June 5, 2017 By Arminda

Reading has always been a vital part of my life. It was not uncommon for me to beg my mother to drive me to the library once a week during the long months of summer vacation so I could restock my exhausted book supply. I would decide how many books were enough to take home based solely on how many I could safely carry at one time wedged between my chin and the farthest reach of my hands in the opposite direction, using myself as a walking bookend.

I immersed myself in books, escaping to lands far away and imagined, some with completely otherworldly plots and some whose stories didn’t seem so far-fetched. I loved nothing more than to escape through the pages of books to places and people and creatures I believed to be as real as the pages I turned in real time, becoming so immersed in these alternate realities I legitimately believed I was part of the unfolding saga.

When Choose Your Own Adventure books hit the scene my enthusiasm could not be sated. I devoured these books, always reading them from start to stop as many times as I could choose a different direction to guide the fate of the main character through one seemingly critical decision after another, never tiring of the delightful discovery of how one choice could lead to such different consequences and possible outcomes. When I came to the conclusion of a series of choices, I happily turned back to page one and started over again, always choosing differently than my previous read through the same plot.

I’ve come to understand that my life is no different than the storybooks I’ve always loved to read. And up until a few years ago, I was so invested in believing my own story to be true that I was no more writing my story as much as I was allowing it to be written by everything and everyone around me. I was a character in my own story, but one who existed at the mercy of the plot unfolding around me.

Through a series of conscious choices that included working with a coach, I realized my life, and the story about it in my own mind, wasn’t one I had to believe as fact any longer. I had become so accustomed to living my life as it happened, attributing the good stuff to luck and faithfulness and the bad stuff to lessons I must still need to learn and faithlessness, that I failed to see the adventure option in front of me, to turn to a different page for a different outcome. So I began testing the idea of my life as a Choose Your Own Adventure instead of a travelogue of What Happened To Me.

Testing this idea of choice felt like a game, and playing inside of my life was definitely more fun than watching it happen in front of me without my participation. It took some practice, certainly, but actively choosing how I interacted with and interpreted the myriad life situations happening outside of my control created a surprising result. Losing my attachment to being in control had the opposite effect! Instead of feeling like an unwilling participant in a game of chance, I slowly became the controller and creator of my own game: The Story of Me.

Stephen Covey, in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, attributes Viktor Frankl, well-known neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, with the following quote:

“Between stimulus and response lies a space. In that space lie our freedom and power to choose a response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.”

Frankl’s theory proved accurate for me. I started to see that I was actually interpreting events and other people’s behavior as having caused me pain or joy, as negative or positive, bad or good. Those interpretations were, in fact, my own personal judgments: thoughts inside of me that I chose to believe as truth, and then I reacted accordingly.

When I practice an intentional period of separation between what Frankl refers to as the stimulus and the response I give myself time to consider my reaction. This practice is not dissimilar to my childhood training of counting to ten before saying something I might regret.

Through this practice, which I still maintain, I spend more and more time in Frankl’s space between stimulus and response. The growth and happiness I experience are directly related to the choices I’m making in that space. No longer am I emotionally exhausted by the constant barrage of my own judgments about what other people are doing or saying as having anything to do with me.

When I feel frustrated or stuck, I simply look to see where I’m not choosing my own adventure and then I happily turn back a few pages and start over again, returning to the awareness that emotional freedom and power are always available to me through a different choice.

Filed Under: Blog, Weekly Wisdom Tagged With: choices, failure, fear, fear of failure, happiness, Viktor Frankl

Create 2017

December 26, 2016 By Arminda

While reviewing your year is a great exercise in seeing all you’ve accomplished and recognizing for yourself what an amazing person you are, it’s in the creation of “What’s Next?!” that you really get the chance to shine.

For this exercise to be most effective, I encourage you to schedule some reflective time for yourself without normal distractions. Really get into a different head space before responding. Allow yourself to fully imagine you in the next year; visualize each of these scenarios and from that place, write down your responses.

Don’t self-correct or talk yourself out of what comes forward for you. Write it all down. There is also no rule that you have to limit yourself to just three responses. Go crazy! Keep writing! This is YOUR 2017 and you get to visualize and create it however you like.

If you’d like to share your responses with me (yes, please), then simply send me an email (coach at armindalindsay dot com) with your 2017 projections. I can’t wait to read your future.

1. What are the top 3 things you will achieve?
2. List 3 challenges you anticipate.
3. What are 3 things you need to learn to grow your business?
4. Identify 3 things you want to grow and/or learn about yourself.
5. Which are the 3 relationships you intend to grow and/or develop?
6. Name 3 things you want to create or bring into the world.
7. What are 3 ways you will make a difference in 2017?
8. List 3 ways you will have FUN in your business.

 

The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
— Abraham Lincoln

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