In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast, I interview Dr. Nathan Riley MD, OB-GYN about how his experience as a physician in the western medical system led him to disillusionment, a spiritual awakening, and eventually to move beyond the traditional medical model to create a practice that is one of the most effective in the nation.
Nathan Riley, MD, is a board-certified OB-GYN and fellow of ACOG who left the medical industrial complex due to his disillusionment with the “standard of care” within the conventional maternity care model. This was hard because “going with the flow” of hospital-based practice was providing him financial security. On the other hand, standing in his truth from having sat with over 1000 births and connecting with women and their families has provided him a lifestyle more in alignment with fatherhood, deepening his connection with his wife, and caring for people in the way that he had anticipated long before stepping into practice.
Dr. Riley now focuses his time on upholding the traditional practice of midwifery. He supports midwives as a collaborative physician for midwives of all varieties in over twenty states. He is an advocate for home birth and still attends births for those in need. He boasts a c-section rate of <5%, which is one of the best in the U.S.
This conversation covers some fascinating perspectives and I'm sure some thought provoking paradigms will be revealed to you in this episode.
If I'm being honest, although I am an author, I am not someone who typically likes to read books. I almost never seek out books, and would rather do many other things in my down time than read. With that said, some books have a way of finding me. When they do, they usually find me because of frequency.
A book recently came into my awareness called 'Returning To Eden' by Heather Hamilton. As soon as I began to interact with the book, I realized that the frequency of this book is refreshing, and one that I deeply resonate with in many ways.
If you identify as a Christian, especially as an evangelical Christian, let me gently encourage you to consider listening to this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast as I interview Heather Hamilton about her new book Returning To Eden. Let me also encourage you to get a copy of her book Returning To Eden.
No, not because you will agree with everything in this podcast interview, (or her book), but because it may cause you to consider a perspective that your current sources of information have not been able to present you with. Growth is important for us all, and it takes conscious effort to remain open-minded and to not fall into a closed echo chamber. This is a typical challenge in belief systems of all kinds.
On the other hand, if you have been deeply damaged by the Christian religion and find anything resembling your previous faith to be distaseful or triggering, let me also gently encourage you to listen to this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast, and also to consider reading Returning to Eden. You may find it to be restoritive in ways you may not have thought possible.
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal, Aly Sousa joins me on the show once again to reveal and discuss another paradigm that keeps many of us stuck and unproductive in life. Ironically, a major tendency that works against our productivity in life is the compulisve drive to get ahead and accomplish tasks. This drive leads many of us to compuslive busyness and multi-tasking.
For many of us, if we are not busy doing many different things, we may feel unproductive and lazy, leading to guilt, shame, and addictive patterns of escape. For others, the feeling of unproductivity may motivate us to work harder and do more things. Either way, this pattern is a major drain of our life force energy which leads to an unproductive life.
Let me encourage you to give this conversation an important listen.
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal Podcast, I had the opportunity to sit down with Rachel King, an award winning attorney & litigator, who founded her own law firm in 2014. Rachel's firm specializes in business law, family law, estate law, real estate law, etc...
Rachel is a serial entrepreneur starting at the age of 12. This work ethic and drive at an early age led to 7 years of military service. Utilizing the disciplined skills to move forward owning multiple business, Rachel acquired the desire to continue expanding her talents. The passion for Law was instilled in her from birth from her father’s law career, so she followed in his footsteps opening her own law firm in 2014.
I enjoyed my conversation with Rachel and wanted to share it with you as it gives us a rare look into the life of an attorney who has a desire to use her talents as an attorney to promote healing and peace in a field of law often filled with anger and division.
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast, Aly Sousa comes back on the show to kick off part one of our seven part series on how to stop hemorrhaging away our vital life force energy. In this episode, we talk about how excessive emotional reactivity (triggers) deplete us of vital life force energy over time leaving us exhausted and energetically spent. This ultimately leads to more reactive tendencies that lead to more energy drain.
Give this conversation a careful listen.
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast, I have an important conversation with Dr. Amanda Barrientez about why our relationship with money is actually a mirror of our inner life, and also why money can be profoundly spiritual.
Dr. Amanda is known as "The Money Healer" and is the founder of NFA - No Fuc*ing Around - Money. She’s a bestselling author, an international speaker, the host of The Woman Entrepreneur Podcast, and the NFA Money YouTube Channel. She's been featured on over 150 podcasts, sharing mindset strategies that magnetize money.
After going from food stamps to building a 6-figure business fast, Dr. Amanda’s been on a quest to teach 5,000,000+ people how to inspire, transform and empower their relationship to money so they can attract prosperity and abundance in all areas of life and business. I invite you to give this episode a careful listen.
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast, my guest Aly Sousa shares about her life and also how her understanding of God and reality have evolved over the years. This is a must listen episode.
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast, I interview an extraordinory human being by the name of Lion Goodman. Several years ago, Lion was shot four times at point blank range in the head. He had an out of body experience, but eventually survived the incident and began to relate to the person who shot him immiediately after returning to his body.
Needless to say, this incident radically changed Lion's life and eventually led him to discover his life's true work as a executive coach and healer. Give this episode a careful listen.
This episode of The Love Cast with Jamal is all about how your relationship with your Self determines and impacts your physical health. Magic Barclay, my guest on today's show, knows all about this subject.
When Magic was a single mother of two small children, she came face to face with her mortality a number of times. As a cancer, Lyme disease, stroke, Diabetes, Heart attack, Morbid Obesity, and hypoxia survivor, Magic has seen firsthand how treating the root cause of her illnesses gave her the tools to acquire a level of health she only dreamed possible.
Magic has addressed the roots of her chronic disease and has completely transformed her health. Magic is now a Mould Toxicity Master Practitioner, an expert in the PNEI (Psycho Neuro Endo Immunology) of trauma, an Advanced Immune Practitioner and an Advanced Practitioner in Innate Immunity and Functional Health Solutions. Magic is also a practitioner of Lymphatic Mojo and CMLD (Complex Manual Lymphatic Drainage). Magic is the author of 4 books and a sought after speaker.
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal, I recap a key intention that I set at the beginning of the year 2022, and I share how this has led to some exciting behind the scenes developments and opportunites for expanding the net, so to speak, in the New Year. In addition to this news, I also share the top ten most downloaded episodes of the year for The Love Cast with Jamal podcast. Give this episode a listen.
Is the new post pandemic phenomenon of 'Quiet Quitting' a move toward laziness, or is it a move toward a healthy work / life balance? In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast, I asked Country Music Artist & Media Coach Amy Scruggs to come back on the podcast to talk more about her recent appearance on the Dr. Phil show where they discussed and debated the post pandemic phenomenon called 'Quiet Quitting'.
This was a controversial topic on the Dr. Phil show, and is one that needs to be unpacked further in our national discourse in my observation. I invite you to listen to Amy's perspective on the Dr. Phil show, and also to listen to my interview with her in today's episode.
It has been said that death ends a way of life, but death doesn't end relationship.
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast, I have a conversation with a very unlikely medium named Isabeau Maxwell. Isabeau was a non-spiritual skeptic in life who studied math in university. All that changed for her when Isabeau's grandmother visted her in her home shortly after she died. This was the first of many encounters with her deceased grandmother.
You're going to want to give this episode a careful listen.
Abraham Lincoln once famously said, "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better".
Are there people with whom you disagree that you also have a difficult time liking? Could it be that you don't know enough of their story?
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast, I have an important conversation with revolutionary educator William Reusch about how to disarm the echo chambers that so pervade our public discourse when it comes to discussions about politics and current events, and also how to dialogue with those we disagree with.
William is a first class educator who teaches High School Civics / Government in the Los Angeles area. William is known to challenge the status quo by teaching his students to question conventional 'group think' by teaching them critical thinking skills. He also threw out his civics textbook.
William has been featured on numerous shows, including the Glenn Beck program, for his unconventional approach to education
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal, William shares important wisdom for us as we seek to bring understanding, unity, and healing to our divided society. Give this episode a careful listen.
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast, I sit down with Emmy Award winning actor Kiko (Ise) Ellsworth. In this episode, Kiko talks about his acting career, his disillusionment with his Hollywood career, his quest to discover his true spiritual self beyond the character he was playing in life, and ultimately how this led him to become an integrated masculine presence and healer.
Kiki (Ise) has appeared on hundreds of tv shows, films, commercials, and radio such as Lucifer, Bad Boys 2, Criminal Minds, General Hospital, and many others, while recently starring in the upcoming film opposite Eric Roberts, Danny Trejo, Shannon Elizabeth and Frank Whaley to be released in 2023.
Give this episode a careful listen. I'm confident there is something in this interview just for you.
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast, I have a conversation with a medical doctor who is also a yogi.
Dr. Rachel Beanland, MD lives in the magical Pyrenees Mountains in southwest France near the Spanish border. Rachel is passionate about helping physicians find balance in their work and is also passionate about helping the world achieve sustainable health from the inside out.
In this epsiode Dr. Rachel Beanland talks about her personal journey from practicing traditional Western medicine to moving to the mountains of southern France to live the life of a yogi / physician.
Listen for the nuggets of gold in this conversation just for you.
Do you like Mondays? Did you know that the average person only experiences about four thousand Mondays in their entire life? How many Mondays have you already spent? How many do you think you have left?
It’s been said that although death is the destruction of the body, it is the awareness of death that actually saves our lives. I feel this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal is timely and very important for all of us as I have a very insightful conversation with Executive coach and speaker Jodi Wellman about her passion to utilize death awareness to bring a higher vitality of life to the world.
Jodi named her business Four Thousand Mondays because it shines light on the finite number of weeks that an average human being has in their life. As a result, we need to live with focused intention and awareness.
Jodi holds a Master’s of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also an Assistant Instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better.
I would like to extend a special invitation to you to listen carefully to this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast today.
My previous conversation with former NFL & College football coach Evan Burk on the podcast was such a pivotal conversation that I asked him to come back on The Love Cast with Jamal podcast to talk about the all important subject of intangibles which is the subject of his book titled Finding Intangibles.
Again, Evan brings invaluable nuggets of gold and wisdom to our perspective in this conversation. As a life coach, I have observed that it is the intangibles in life that determine the difference between suffering and empowerment. I invite you to listen deeply to my conversation with coach Evan Burk about the vital nature of intangibles in this newest episode of The Love Cast with Jamal.
I recently had the privilege of interviewing country music artist, national TV host, author and media coach Amy Scruggs about her success as a musician (she’s been in the country music industry for more than 15 years opening for artists like Clint Black, Trace Adkins, Charlie Daniels, etc… and currently has a newly released single that is charting globally. In addition to her career in the music industry, Amy also thrives in the media world having been the host of several national TV shows.
Amy’s story is the very embodiment of the main message in my book ‘Living for a Living’. You won’t feel fulfilled if you’re just existing to pay the bills. We need to shift our focus beyond simply surviving, to discovering the ‘Why’ of our very existence. Amy’s story is truly miraculous and she is an example for all of us on how knowing our deepest ‘Why’ in life can lead to a fulfilling career of service to others.
Ayurveda is an ancient, yet modern, body of knowledge of health and life. The health modality of ayurveda is responsible for the healing of numerous chronic ailments that most modern Western medical practice has no ability or understanding to address. Ayurveda is a sanskrit word that means "the sacred knowledge or science of life".
In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal podcast, I sit down with Ayurvedic Doctor Victor Briere to talk about the roots of chronic illness and also the roots of holistic health as well. I invite you to listen carefully to this episode. The information contained in this episode has the potential to add great value to your way of life.
When we hear the word 'betrayal', we might simply think of infidelity or an affair. While that is most certainly a form of betrayal, that is only one form of betrayal. Betrayal can be experienced in many different ways by a variety of different people.
When a parent, a friend, a business partner, a spouse, etc... doesn't show up for us in a way that we needed, or when we experience a sense of abandonment from a trusted source, that too is betrayal. Almost all of us have experienced betrayal at some level.
Contrary to popular belief, betrayal isn't something from which you can simply 'forgive' and move forward on an intellectual basis. Unless we address the roots of betrayal, we stay stuck in patterns of insecurity, fear, anger, sadness, a lack of trust, physical disease and illness, and much much more.
In order to heal from betrayal, our sense of 'Self' has to be completely reconstructed. In this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal, I sit down with Dr. Debi Silber to talk more about this all important subject.
Dr. Debi Silber is the founder of the Post Betrayal Transformation Institute and is a holistic psychologist, a health, mindset and personal development expert, and the author of the #1 bestselling book: The Unshakable Woman: 4 Steps to Rebuilding Your Body, Mind and Life After a Life Crisis
Dr. Debi Silber has appeared on FOX, CBS, The Dr. Oz Show, TEDx (twice) and more, she’s an award winning speaker, coach and author dedicated to helping people move past their betrayals. Give this episode a careful listen.
Evan Burk went from coaching fourth grade football to coaching college football at the highest levels, and also coaching for the Miami Dolphins in the NFL in only six years.
More incredibly, Evan did not play collegiate sports, nor did he have any coaching pedigree or experience. So, how did he climb the coaching ranks to the highest level (the NFL) in only six years?
That's what this episode of The Love Cast with Jamal is all about. No matter if you are a sports fan or not, Evan's story will have direct implications for you and your place in life right now. Listen and recieve abundantly from this episode.
What does international terrorism have in common with our own political behaviors and mindsets when it comes to how 'progressives / liberals' and 'conservatives' interact and see one another? More than you may think.
This episode of The Love Cast with Jamal is a historic episode as I sit down with former CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) Analyst Brent Giannotta.
This is the first time I had the opportunity to interview a former CIA analyst on the The Love Cast with Jamal podcast. What Brent learned in the CIA has implications for all of us.
In this episode, we discuss why the roots of 'terror' actually reside in the uncomfortable fact that we all have been programmed to see the world through the primative lens of 'good' vs 'evil'.
As a result, the roots of terror lay much closer to home, possibly even within ourselves. Give this episode a careful listen...
In this episode of The Love Cast, I sit down with renown film producer, author, and meditation teacher Tom Cronin. After spending 26 years in finance as a broker on a trading room floor, suffering from addictions, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, insomnia and ultimately a nervous breakdown, Tom tuned into meditation to find a way out.
Tom went on to produce the documentary film and book The Portal, creating the world's first deep transcending style meditation program online, working with some of the top companies in the world in mindfulness and meditation from Amazon, Coca-Cola and Qantas, speaking on stages at some of the biggest conferences like Afest, Adews Summit, Wanderlust, etc...
In this episode, Tom and I discuss the insatiable nature of the ego and why we must transcend the ego if we are to tap into our ultimate potential as human beings individually, and humanity as a whole.
In this episode of The Love Cast, Jamal sits down with hit TV actress Lisann Valentin to discuss her incredible journey from being a prominent defense attorney to becoming a New York Times best selling author and hit TV actress while also embracing her calling as an empath and spiritual healer.
Lisann Valentin has forty two credits to her name as an actress. She currently has a recurring role on the hit TV series Manifest (NBC / Netflix). Lisann is also known for her roles on The Blacklist (NBC), New Amsterdam (NBC), Blue Bloods (CBS), and many others.
Give this episode a careful listen as there are many nuggets of wisdom in this conversation that I'm confident will speak to you personally on your journey in life.
You can find out more about Lisann Valentin's work on her websites:
https://www.lisannvalentin.com
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