On Wednesday September 1st, we’re interviewing Melody Ivory who combines the eye of an artist, heart of a poet and discipline of a scientist, to help mid-career women get and stay on purpose with their life’s calling. She helps them to connect mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually with their essential selves through inspirational poetry, motivational talks and handcrafted natural care products delivered as part of The Dr. Melody Ivory Experience™. Over the past 20 years, she has worked as a computer scientist, performance poet, college professor, natural care products developer and author of six books. She can be reached at www.MelodyIvory.com.

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Melody’s Passioneer Q & A

SO: What’s your definition of passion?

Passion is bringing your full essence—your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual potential—to what you’re doing such that, in the process, you expand your potential.

SO: What have been the key factors in your success and what one word best describes it?

Intention is the best word to describe my success. The five keys to my success are as follows.

• Intentional living—focusing on the what and navigating the how.
• Inspired changing—proactively moving toward what I want rather than away from what I don’t want.
• Instantly destressing—minimizing my response to stress.
• Intellectual balancing—developing and using both my analytical and artistic talents rather than buying into the left-brain/right-brain myth.
• Introspective Relating—understanding that every relationship begins and ends with me and cultivating desired relationships from the inside out.

SO: What has been your biggest challenge(s) in leaping into your passions, and how you have addressed them?

My biggest challenge was walking away from my job as a computer and information science professor at the University of Washington (something I studied and prepared for nearly my whole life), a 6-figure salary and the prestige of being the world’s leading expert on automated web site evaluation to leap into being a passionate champion of women…with no connections, no clients and no clue how to do so. I choose to follow my heart anyway, because I knew my calling was not to teach about the outer technology, but to teach about the inner technology. I also knew I needed the freedom to be fully self-expressed. For the past five years since walking away from academia, I’ve stayed focused on my intention (using all my gifts to empower women to be the living works of art they’re meant to be and to make the contribution they’re meant to make). I had to rearrange my whole Self and my life from the inside out to get aligned with this intention. Slowly, step-by-step I’m realizing the intention I set years ago.

SO: Who or what inspired you to leap into your passion?

Two years before I left my job, I contracted meningitis and nearly died while working as a professor at the University of Washington. That experience was a major wakeup call for me. I knew that I was a teacher at heart, but I was in the wrong classroom. The question became, “Will you die teaching in this classroom and having never fully shared your journey, gifts and the powerful lessons you’ve learned?” Today, I’m working on my one-woman show titled, “The Road M Traveled,” which chronicles my life of abuse and abandonment at the age of 7 by both parents. It takes the audience through the maze of foster homes I grew up in and describes how, despite these circumstances, I became valedictorian of my high school, ran away to college at the age of 18, became a single parent two years later, went on to graduate with a double major in honor’s computer science and mathematics and, after years of struggling with an attention deficit disorder, became the first African American woman to graduate from the University of California at Berkeley with a Ph.D. in computer science. After my bout with meningitis, I reflected on my life story and knew that I had to switch to the public classroom to teach, heal and lead.

SO: Do you have a quote that you would like to share that speaks of you and your passion?

Be the masterpiece you’re meant to be. This quote is my mantra. It is a reminder that we are so much more than we can even begin to imagine ourselves being. We are the living works of art.

SO: What do you hope people would say about you when you’re gone?

My hope is that people will say that I gave everything I had to give to the cause of uplifting humanity to its highest potential—a reality in which each and every one of us can be the masterpieces we’re meant to be.

SO: What three brief tips can you give to somebody making the leap into their passion?

1. Be comfortable with not knowing.
2. Be willing to be different.
3. Be disciplined to keep going.

On Wednesday August 25th, we interviewed Barbara Shaiman. Throughout her career, noted educator, businesswoman and social entrepreneur, Barbara Greenspan Shaiman, has used her skills and ability to empower others to create social change. In 1995, she founded Champions of Caring, a non-profit organization that has empowered over 10,000 youth in Philadelphia and South Africa to become leaders in public service and active, engaged citizens.  Through her new book, Live Your Legacy Now: Ten Simple Steps to Find Your Passion and Change the World, and her Embrace Your Legacy speeches and workshops, she is guiding adults of all ages and backgrounds to embrace their legacies and use their passions, skills, and resources to create projects for personal growth and social change. She can be reached at www.embraceyourlegacynow.com

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Barbara’s Passioneer Q & A

SO: What’s your definition of “passion”?

The driving force that propels you to make a meaningful contribution with your life. I believe that everyone has a passion, they just may not have found it yet – whether it is something that they love to do, or something that angers them to the point that they are motivated to take action. That is my goal through Embrace Your Legacy – to help individuals to identify their passions, and then translate that into creating social change.

SO: What have been the key factors in your success and what one word best describes it?

One word would be tenacious. I am also a risk-taker and very positive and creative. I believe in networking, networking, networking – I share my mission and my passion for making the world a better place with everyone I meet.

SO: What has been your biggest challenge(s) in leaping into your passions, and how you have addressed them?

The recent deaths of both my father and husband initially stopped me from finishing my book, “Live Your Legacy Now!: Ten Simple Steps to Find Your Passion and Change the World” and starting my new LLC, Embrace Your Legacy. But upon reflection, I realized that writing the book was a cathartic experience which gave me resiliency and enriched my life. It allowed me to get beyond my own challenges and empower others to live their legacies.

SO: Who or what inspired you to leap into your passion?

My parents, who are both Holocaust survivors,  taught me a great deal about humanity and responsibility. My mother, Carola Greenspan, is the sole survivor of a family of sixty-five people. My father, Henry Greenspan, worked for Oskar Schindler. They taught me that the best response to violence and hatred is love and caring, and that it is our responsibility and privilege to make the world a better place.

SO: Do you have a quote that you would like to share that speaks of you and your passion?

“Flaunt Your Humanity.” Instead of flaunting our possessions, let’s flaunt what we are doing to give back and contribute to society.

SO: What do you hope people would say about you when you’re gone?

She embraced her legacy and inspired others to do the same.

SO: What three brief tips can you give to somebody making the leap into their passion?

-       Dream big, but start small

-       Be creative

-       Be deliberate and relentless

On Wednesday August 25th, we interviewing Sandra Boissier,  a gifted angel channel and spiritual activist.  She is a champion of the soul and a catalyst for transformation. Her life’s mission is to invoke a personal revolution that incites progressive action for all mankind. She can be reached at www.angelenergy.org.

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Sandra’s Passioneer Q & A

SO: What’s your definition of “passion”?

Passion is when my heart is aflame with a powerful energy that rises within me and is followed by a profound sensation that there are no choices to be made.  It’s a driving force, a one-way ticket to my destiny!

SO: What have been the key factors in your success and what one word best describes it?

I have great humility.  Every time I sit with the angels and open up the channel to sacred energy, I am in awe and deeply humbled.SO: What has been your biggest challenge(s) in leaping into your passions, and how you have addressed them?  My biggest challenge was self-acceptance.  I only recently realized how valuable my life experience was in conjunction with the angel energy I carry.  I had been influenced and projected into believing that I had to be separate from my humanness.  I have since learned differently and embraced it fully.  Finally, within me lives a newly birthed grace that is authentically powerful.

SO: Who or what inspired you to leap into your passion?

I was a volcanic eruption waiting to happen a few years ago trying desperately to keep my gifts under the radar.  Ultimately, divorcing after a 12-year marriage was my catalyst.  My soul could no longer hold back the gifted energy, the mission nor divine timing.

SO: Do you have a quote that you would like to share that speaks of you and your passion?

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein

SO: What do you hope people would say about you when you’re gone?

That I walked around with an expectation of miracles & angels that touched them deeply and inspired their soul into action!

SO: What three brief tips can you give to somebody making the leap into their passion?

If there is something inside of you that wakes you up every morning and rocket-fuels your energy, it is a message from your soul that you cannot deny.  Do something about it! Take the risk!  Because it is a RISK but do it anyway!  The ever-ready angel net on the other side will catch you!  Have faith…the proverbial leap of faith-kind of faith. Remember always that God has the better plan!  No matter what YOU plan, there is always a better one and it’s divine!  So, no attachments please because you will be limiting an authentic, blessed expression of an outcome.

On Wednesday August 18th, we interviewing Megan Hill who is a nonprofit consultant specializing in grant writing and social media. She’s a two-term AmeriCorps alumna and is writing a memoir on her year with AmeriCorps NCCC. She can be reached at www.serviceispower.com.

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Megan’s Passioneer Q & A          

SO: What’s your definition of “passion”?

I define passion as the unwavering drive towards a goal or ideal.

SO: What have been the key factors in your success and what one word best describes it?

The key factors to my success have been my intense self-motivation and ability to make my own way. The one word that best describes this is “creativity.”

SO: What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned in making the leap and what wisdom do you have for someone who’s scared/discouraged about their own leap?

With determination and a strong sense of self, making your own leap is something you both owe to yourself and will be successful at in the long run.

SO: What or who drove you to be who you are?

This is something that’s hard to put my finger on, but probably goes back to that internal motivation and drive towards my goals. I’ve been described as a “go-getter,” and there’s just a built-in ability to pursue my aspirations.

SO: Your biggest challenge(s) in leaping into your passions for serving others, and how you have addressed them?

My biggest challenge is the fatigue that creeps in from constantly having to work for new leads and find new opportunities. I generally try to take some time to myself, go for a walk or bike ride, read a book for fun, to hit the proverbial “restart” button on my psyche.

SO: Who is your biggest “hero” in your life and why?

I don’t believe in selecting individuals and canonizing them as heroes. It denies them the chance to be fully human, for us to recognize both their faults and their attributes. And in the end it will likely lead only to disappointment for those who hold them up as such. Instead, I find myself admiring certain qualities in the individuals I’ve surrounded myself with, which allows me to take the good with the bad.

SO: Do you have a quote that you would like to share that speaks of you and your passion?

“The value of the smallest good deeds should not be underestimated, for even tiny flakes of snow, falling one atop another, can blanket the tallest mountains in pure whiteness.” –Sherpa Buddhism

On Wednesday July 28th, we interviewed Douglas Busch, who is an inventor, designer, photographer, and teacher.  Hisphotographic work and architectural design has been published in numerous magazines in many countries and collected by museums and collectors worldwide including the J.Paul Getty, Smithsonian Institute, LACMA, just to mention a few.  He has patents on cameras, lenses, filmholders, and accessories as well as sustainable products for organic hybrid hydroponic vertical farming and a zero carbon heating and cooling system.  He lives and works in Malibu, California. He can be reached at buschdesign.com.

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Douglas’s Passioner Q & A

SO: What’s your definition of “passion”?

My definition of passion is to do whatever I wish with fervor, joy, and obsession.

SO: What have been the key factors in your success and what one word best describes it?

Dreaming large and following through.

SO: What has been your biggest challenge(s) in leaping into your passions, and how you have addressed them?

I have not found any challenges, only solutions.

SO: Who or what inspired you to leap into your passion?

Al Weber, my mentor has always been supportive of any direction I chose to go.

SO: Do you have a quote that you would like to share that speaks of you and your passion?

G-d is in the Details.

SO: What do you hope people would say about you when you’re gone?

I have always been giving and supportive of all who came into contact with me.

SO: What three brief tips can you give to somebody making the leap into their passion?

Stay focused on your path, follow it with fervor and conviction, find a supportive network of friends and like minded people.

On Wednesday July 28th, we interviewed Maureen Healy who is the founder of Growing Happy Kids, and parenting author of “365 Perfect Things to Say to Your Kids.”  With more than 20 years of experience she has traveled the world fostering the positive emotional health of children in developing and modern countries.  She also is a prolific contributor to field with a popular Psychology Today blog and as a frequent guest speaker. She can be reached at www.growinghappykids.com.

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Maureen’s Passioneer  Q & A

SO: What’s your definition of “passion”?

A strong interest and willingness to “do whatever it takes” to make your vision come true.

SO: What are your biggest passions for serving others, and how are you expressing them (also include hobbies and volunteering)?

My biggest passion is teaching adults (parents, teachers and others) how to foster a child’s positive emotional health as well as empower kids to live from a place of inner peace or lasting happiness.  My first book, 365 Perfect Things to Say to Your Kids, is how this passion has manifested as well as my organization, Growing Happy Kids (www.growinghappykids.com)

SO: Your biggest challenge(s) in leaping into your passions for serving others, and how you have addressed them?

My biggest challenge was that my family is gone and I needed to start all on my own – so it’s either my biggest challenge or greatest strength (not sure).

SO: Your experience of “prosperity,” as you define it, in making the leap?

Prosperity comes if you believe with your whole heart and mind as well as put the efforts in (big and small) everyday. Prosperity means abundance to me.  An abundance of opportunity opened up when I so fully began living my dream.

SO: What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned in making the leap?

Stay true to your vision (despite what your publicist, publisher and parents want you to do!)

SO: What’s your support system look like; how did you create it?

Wonderful partner and friendships around the world.  I connected to people because of living my passion.

SO: What wisdom do you have for someone who’s scared/discouraged about their own leap?

Trust your instincts.  They are telling you something.  There is also never a time without fear – it’s in doing the things you fear that you grow!!!

SO: What’s your next big milestone?

Good question.  I think it’s so close to my heart that I don’t share it until it manifests!!!

On Wednesday July 21st, we interviewed Ann Ronan who  is the vision generator at  Authentic Life Institute, a training and publishing company she founded to share what she’s discovered about achieving self-employment dreams and minister who founded the Virtual Center for Spiritual Living, using teleconferencing to share ideas about living a spiritual life in a practical world to those who do not live near Centers for Spiritual Living or who are unaffiliated with any religion. She can be reached at authenticlifeinstitute.com.

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Ann’s Passioneer  Q & A

SO: What’s your definition of “passion”?

A feeling of joy, being in the flow, anticipation -when a topic or activity lights you up

SO: What are your biggest passions for serving others, and how are you expressing them (also include hobbies and volunteering)?

Often people see themselves as so much smaller than they truly are -they limit themselves -or are not living THEIR life in a way they’d truly love to live.  Through writing, speaking and coaching I hope to open them up to acknowledging what they truly love and to do more of whatever that is.

SO: Your biggest challenge(s) in leaping into your passions for serving others, and how you have addressed them?

I left a university career to create Authentic Life Institute – faced fear as I shed that “identity” and had to create a new one.  Addressed it by working with a coach to dismantle all my imagined obstacles and then just did it!

SO: What have been the key factors in your success?

Persistence and consistency, listening to that small, still voice within that always guides me in the right direction, not being afraid to make mistakes

SO: What one word/quality best describes your journey?

Enthusiastic

SO: Your experience of “prosperity,” as you define it, in making the leap?

For me a prosperous life is one in which you live where you want to live, hang out with people you want to be with and do what you want to do – and money is a wonderful energy to be in flow with. I’m living in beautiful San Juan Capistrano, married to a man who is wonderfully supportive, have amazing friends and work from home doing things i love. I’ve tripled the amount of money that flows into my life since I left my former employment

SO: What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned in making the leap?

When you have a deep desire you already have everything you need to bring it to fruition -sure you might need to gather information, learn some new things, and ask questions -and you can make it happen!

SO: What’s your support system look like; how did you create it?

Husband -i began expressing the qualities I was seeking in a man – I realized how can i attract someone with certain qualities if I am not embracing them myself.  Friends – I listen deeply and make time to nurture these relationships -join biz groups and stay connected to other ministers via technology, phone calls

SO: What wisdom do you have for someone who’s scared/discouraged about their own leap?

Take the smallest step you can to move forward -that tiny step will be “under the radar” of your resistance.  Keep moving forward -don’t try to do it alone -get support.

On Wednesday July 21st, we interviewed Bill Roth the founder of EARTH 2017 and author of The Secret Green Sauce, a book that profiles the best practices of actual companies succeeding in growing revenues by aligning value with values. He is a nationally recognized expert, including serving as the Green Business Coach for Entreprenuer.com. EARTH 2017 is focused upon helping companies grow revenues by aligning with the growing numbers of customers seeking solutions that will enhance their heath, their pocket book and the environment. He can be reached at http://www.earth2017.com.

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Bill’s Passioneering Q&A

SO: Your definition of “passion” – your “WHY” for being on the planet?

My passion is to enable sustainable solutions to the strategic questions facing our country like Energy Independence, Climate Change, Wellness and Economic Growth. I am passionate about helping individuals and businesses achieve the financial, wellness and environmental results we need right now to get our country, health care system and economy back on track. My focus upon people also exposes me to their individual challenges. I hear their hurt and see the courage that it takes to confront their challenges. So I try very hard to be positive, to be encouraging and if asked, to share lessons learned from others who have survived what I call their wilderness experiences.

SO: Your biggest passions for serving others, and how you’re expressing them (include hobbies, volunteering, if you wish)?

I created my own business around the time of the Enron scandal in response to the issues of ethics and emissions that I saw within the energy industry. This gave me the freedom of working with people and companies aligned with my goal of making money responsibly. Working with companies across the country has convinced me that having a bottom line business focus that solves our big problems is our country’s best path to finding the solutions we need. My business is focus upon equipping companies with proven best practices that achieve top line revenue growth and bottom line profits by aligning with the common good. I work seven days a week. It isn’t work most of the time. It is who I am, what gives me energy and a sense of purpose.

SO: Your biggest challenge(s) in expressing your passions for serving others and how you’ve addressed them?

I feel very privileged to have served as the leader for milestone projects like the launch of the first hydrogen fueled Prius, development of utility scale solar power and pioneering meter linked energy information systems that help companies reduce their electricity consumption and related emissions. At the same time, helping companies make the mental link between doing right and making money has been more of a challenge than I ever imagined. You would think if you had “The Secret Green Sauce” for growing revenues that businesses would beat a path to your door. Fortunately, today there is a growing consumer movement seeking meaningful change. This is beginning to create opportunities for my business of helping companies grow revenues by aligning value with values. And I have been applying the best practices in the book and seeing success in my own marketing and sales success. So by giving, I am now receiving. That is wonderful to experience.

SO: They say that when you do what you love, the rest follows.  What has been your experience of prosperity, as you define it?

I truly believe that. I live well and I see a path for realizing my financial dreams. How many people in this economy today can say that? But more importantly, I am a very rich person in terms of the quality time I have with those that mean most to me. I have had the time to be there for my children, including those challenging teenage years. It is very heart warming when your loved ones tell you that the time I committed to them was more valuable than any material things they will ever own. I was also there for my Dad during his last days and will carry that blessing with me forever. I live in a beautiful part of the world where I can ride my mountain bike during most lunch periods. However, I am a Type A individual that measures myself based upon performance so too often I fail to see how blessed I am. That is a huge challenge for all us in this world that seems to see performance as a measure of a person, when what really counts is what you mean to others and what they mean to you.

SO:The biggest lesson that you’ve learned in making the leap?

Faith and that quitting is not an option. They tie together. Sometimes in life the best you can do is just not quit. Not quitting can be a huge step toward success if you are trying to make a leap. Because leaping can just as often result in falling rather than soaring. So being able to not quit no matter how many leaps end up in a fall is a hugely important strength. And the other strength tied to not quitting is faith. You just have to believe even when there is no evidence. If you wait for evidence you often run out of time or opportunity.

SO: The biggest keys to your success (e.g., talent, quality, skill, etc.)?

God gave me the gift of analysis that enables me to see things as they could be. I have now published enough books and articles forecasting the future that have turned out to have been correct that I figure one of these days someone in media like Bloomberg or Oprah will discover me. I really do have unique insights and best practices for restoring our jobs, economy, individual wellness and the environment. I also have a huge capacity for learning and teaching. My drive to learn has resulted in me finding this unbelievably wonderful national network of people and companies that are teaching me their best practices for making money going green. For example there is a woman that has developed what I believe to be the first healthy fast food restaurant that is price-competitive with McDonalds. There is a hotel in Texas that is toxin free and has a huge repeat customer business because their customers report sleeping better in their toxin-free room than in their own beds at their homes. I love hearing stories like these and I also get to met so many technologists who have great visions for producing the product solutions for our economy, wellness and environment. Then I am have the fun of sharing all these insights via my EARTH 2017 website, books, speeches and coaching. Everyday is fun because I get to meet yet another wonderful person or company that is making a positive difference, and then I get to write or talk about them.

SO: What’s your support system look like; how did you create it?

Great question because no one can do it alone. I have my family who has been wonderfully supportive of my efforts at putting doing right in front of making money. I am truly blessed. And I have a small but highly trustworthy group of mentor/friends. They really have my best interests at heart because they believe in what I am trying to enable. I developed these mentors/friends over a couple of decades of trial and error. One great advantage of putting your neck on the line is you find out who will chop it off for a buck and who will really help you. Going through those experiences are disheartening but really valuable in the long run because you end with wonderful, trusting relationships.

SO: What wisdom do you have for someone who’s scared/discouraged about their own leap?

Look, sky diving is not for everyone. But that doesn’t mean in your own way you can’t try to take a leap. Find a place in your life you think you can take some risk. Maybe it isn’t in your business, maybe it is at church or at school or within the community. And then try. It’s like dating in high school, the goal isn’t to get a date with every request. The goal is to figure out how to date. Try, learn, try again. It’s a path, not an event.

SO: What’s your next big milestone?

I am looking for a path to the “big stage.” I know I have developed answers, insights and best practices that will restore our jobs, economy, individual-wellness and environment. I will keep plugging away a day at a time building credibility one step at a time in the hopes that maybe one of those connections will be the one that gets me to the stage where my insights and best practices can produce the greatest benefit.

On Wednesday July 14th, we’re interviewing Candace Silvers who has dedicated the past 15 years to coaching and nurturing the creative process.  Known for unlocking the secrets of behavior and removing limitations, her students experience profound changes. Every student who works with Candace Silvers gains a new level of insight and inspiration that readily transform daily events into opportunities for purpose and success. As the mother of four children and a daughter of Emmy and Tony award winner Phil Silvers, Candace Silvers continues to coach students around the world transforming obstacles into opportunities, stress into joy and achievement into fulfillment. She can be reached at www.candacesilversstudios.com/site

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Candace’s Q&A

SO: What is your definition of passion?

My definition of passion “Passion: PASS-I(me)-ON”.  When one is passing himself/herself on he/she becomes the vessel that information passes through.  Passion is something we’re born with.  One can see something pop out of the ethers that no one else can see.  He/she has a direct visceral experience with it.  Through the depth of that experience he/she spends his/her life giving that experience back.  Whether he/she is a doctor, actor or plumber is irrelevant.

SO: What are your biggest passions for serving others and how are you expressing them? ( Also include hobbies and volunteering)

Taking care of my grandson and children.  Watching people grow.  Seeing where someone is missing something in their life.  Seeing where a person has a desire to get on in their life and are missing the tools that take them from “hole” to “whole”.  It’s my honor to serve on the board of the New Possibilities Children’s Foundation.  The New Possibilities Children’s Foundation was founded as I took my first group to India four years ago.  It currently cares for 200 children in Rishikesh , India .  We did a heart transplant and a leg amputation.  We’re building a school.  All of this happens in such joy.  None of this is raising money as work.  What begins to happen is you start to want to give more and giving becomes a way of life.  You begin to see how much you could be doing or how much more there is to do from a place of joy or fulfillment, not need or loss. My hobbies are what’s needed.

SO: Your biggest challenges in leaping into your passions for serving others and how have you addressed them?

Wow.  I can’t say I have challenges.  I have no challenges.  There’s a vision of you, a sight, an activity, an investigation and a day. I can’t say I have challenges.

SO: What have been the key factors in your success?

I can’t say that I know what the key factors are because to know would be intellectual and to intellectualize something would be like playing tennis only catching the ball [instead of hitting it back].  I would “stop the ball” in the “I know what it is” which means I would be expecting it and want more of it, which is the beginning of the end.  [The knowing] stops the ability to be available to what is, which is always new and coming over the fence.  Expecting what you believe it to be and speaking about it would take possibility out of the equation and possibility is what sends the world into motion.  That the possibility is always changing and always full of delight is what keeps presence present

SO: What one word or quality best describes your journey?

Magic.

SO:  Your experience of prosperity, as you define it, in making the leap?

I don’t make a leap, I am a leap.  The leap is me.  Prosperity is totality.  Living in the macrocosm of possibility, fully responsible and bowing head below heart.  Prosperity is available and is present to what is, not the minds idea of what’s missing.

SO: What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned in making the leap?

The leap and I are one.  I am in the arch of that leap.  The leap is called my life.  To answer your questions, the biggest lesson is to bow and to keep my head below my heart no matter what.

SO: What does your support system look like and how did you create it?

It looks like the Lotus.  I didn’t create it, it created me.  As it looks in the cultural form right now, I have an assistant and a producer and a team who works for that team and a financial investor and students who all support this team because it’s a village.  People don’t come to get, they come to give and in the giving they receive everything.  The Lotus never stops moving, opening and closing as people move in and out.  Each petal is held by grace.

SO: What wisdom do you have for someone who is scared or discouraged in their own leap.

“Wisdom” is “wise from being dumb.”  “Dom” is “dumb” or wanting it to be different than it is.  “Is” is the leap in the moment.  It is what none of us want to do if our intellect is present and what all of us want to do if our enteloct is present.  My guidance would be different in each individual according to what they energetically manifest and hold in front of them as true.  It would be directly related against the surrender of what the mind is saying they cannot have or do.  The activity can be an action against or it can be laying dormant.  The activity is paradoxical according to how the energy manifests itself.

On Wednesday July 14th, we’re interviewing Ken Ludwig, a speaker, coach and radio talk show host.  He has been sharing his inspirational story of living a more conscious and spiritual life to national audiences for many years through diverse mediums. Like many children of the 60′s, Ken thoroughly enjoyed the sex, drugs and rock & roll lifestyle that gave him an up close and personal look at the bottom of the barrel.  Today, Ken still rocks, but now he does it with a passion for a spiritual practice that saved his life, many times over.  Ken is a coaching licensee with Business Growth Solutions and a Licensed Practitioner for the United Centers for Spiritual Living.  You can hear more from Ken on his radio shows, “What We’re Thinking About” on Co-CreatorNetwork.com and “Making It Out Alive” on Spirit Media Network.  He is passionate about teaching and supporting the teens and young adults at Mile Hi Church, being a regular presenter at The Red Door Sanctuary and facilitating weekly Meditation Mastery groups all in Denver, Colorado. He can be reached at www.MakingItOutAlive.com.

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SO: What’s your definition of “passion”?

Passion is an attitude of life. It’s about living from your heart – wide open and out loud.

SO: What have been the key factors in your success and what one word best describes it?

Knowing that every situation & circumstance is serving my greatness and my highest good. Recognizing that success is the application of a simple formula of discipline, willingness and practice.

SO: What has been your biggest challenge(s) in leaping into your passions, and how you have addressed them?

The usual hang-ups around worthiness and being good enough. Developing the awareness to short circuit those thoughts and affirm the Spiritual truth of who I am

SO: Who or what inspired you to leap into your passion?

A career intuitive indirectly invited me to take a look at why I am here.

SO: Do you have a quote that you would like to share that speaks of you and your passion?

“My life is my message.”

SO: What do you hope people would say about you when you’re gone?

That my life was my message and that it was a great model for others to follow.

SO: What three brief tips can you give to somebody making the leap into their passion?

Develop a daily Spiritual practice – whatever that looks like for each individual. Know that you must practice anything you wish to be good at. Once you have set your intention stand firmly in the truth that you will not be moved.

On Wednesday July 7th, we interviewed Elise and Jill of The Sisters of Sizzle radio show.  Jill Pagano is a passionate advocate for people to stop suffering and start living. A self-described personal growth seeker, she follows her interests, learns about them and then shares them with those looking for more in their life. Her outlets for this sharing are as Co-Producer and Personality of Sisters of Sizzle Talk Radio and as a Black-Belt Nia teacher. Elise Kloter loves helping people turn their fizzle into sizzle! An adventurer with many passions, Elise co-hosts The Sisters of Sizzle Talk Radio, inspiring her listeners to laugh, learn, and love their lives.  They can be reached at www.sistersofsizzle.com.

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Jill and Elise’s Passioneer Q&A

SO: What’s your definition of “passion?”

JILL: That buzz that will not let me go. Whenever I go back to it, there is a shot of pleasure and feeling that I am in the perfect spot.

ELISE: That feeling of being lit up, and in love with life

SO: What are your biggest passions for serving others, and how are you expressing them (also include hobbies and volunteering)?

JILL:Sharing what I learn is a huge passion of mine. And also, sharing/promoting other people’s passions. I get so excited for people who embody their passion I want the world to take notice. Another passion is dancing and cultivating a healthy, sensory relationship with my body. I express that through the joy of movement, teaching Nia and being in relationship with my bodies desires and needs.

ELISE: I love seeing people move from depressed to happy, blah to excited, muddy to clear, fizzle to sizzle, and knowing I’ve been a catalyst in their movement. As a Certified Passion Test Facilitator and Mentor, I help people get clear on their passions and give them the support to begin change in their lives. As co-host of The Sisters of Sizzle Talk Radio, I provide inspirational examples of embracing your passion and taking risks, as well as a forum for guests to share their stories. As a stylist for Stella and Dot jewelry I get to watch gals light up when they put something on that makes them feel beautiful. Aren’t I lucky?!

SO:Your biggest challenge(s) in leaping into your passions for serving others, and how you have addressed them?

JILL: Monetizing my passions has been my biggest challenge. Creating a way to continue to serve others and also serve my desires for sustainable income.

ELISE: Creating a lucrative business around what I do naturally. Lots of educating myself and getting help from the experts.

SO: What have been the key factors in your success?

JILL: Adaptability. Creativity. A willingness and curiosity to learn more, something new.

ELISE: Perseverance, coaching from others, support systems, partnering

SO: What one word/quality best describes your journey?

JILL: Freedom    ELISE: Adventure

SO: Your experience of “prosperity,” as you define it, in making the leap?

JILL: I prosper in what I value the most—relationships and the freedom to dictate what I do with my time.

ELISE: Loving what I do every day, having freedom, making a difference, making enough $ to not have to worry about it

SO: What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned in making the leap?

JILL: Partnering with someone that compliments my weaknesses.

ELISE: I’ve always loved what I am doing at the time…if I don’t, I’m willing to change it. Must be open to change

SO: What’s your support system look like; how did you create it? I’m still learning to do this.

JILL: With the value of freedom also comes the shadow side of autonomy. With autonomy comes a “do it myself” attitude that often hinders creating a support system.

ELISE: Friends that are positive and interesting and passionate, business connections through networking events and organizations, spiritually like-minded people, coaches to keep me on track

SO: What wisdom do you have for someone who’s scared/discouraged about their own leap?

JILL: Know yourself. Be willing to see where you may need help. Look at your habit, places you have been stuck before and reach out for getting past those. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses and preparing for them.

ELISE: My mantra has always been “what’s the worse that can happen?”. When I ask that, I realize I can always go back to the old, can always get a second job to make $. But if I don’t try, all I have is regret, which is worse than anything else that can happen in life.

Thanks Sisters of Sizzle and Happy Passioneering!

On Wednesday July 7th, at 9am PST, we’re interviewing Shannon Cutts, the author of Beating Ana: How to Outsmart Your Eating Disorder and Take Your Life Back and the founder/director of MentorCONNECT, the first global eating disorders mentoring community. Shannon is a proud “survivor and thriver” after a fifteen-year battle with anorexia and bulimia. Her work has recently been featured in Woman’s Day, Glamour, and the Huffington Post. She can be reached at www.key-to-life.com.