Dr. BJ Miller is a hospice and palliative medicine physician and educator. He currently sees patients and families through Mettle Health, a company he co-founded with the aim to provide personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability. BJ has given over 100 talks nationally, and internationally, on the topics of death, dying, palliative care, and the intersection of healthcare with design. His 2015 TED Talk: “Not Whether But How” (aka “What Matters Most at the End of Life”), has been viewed over 11 million times and he has been on Oprah Winfrey, PBS, The New York Times. His book, A Beginner’s Guide to the End, was published in 2019. I found this book to be a must-read, and we discuss why on the show. For those of you who have lost a loved one, or want to prepare your families for your own transition or another’s, this episode is for you. We talk about: ✅ What it means to die well ✅ Why most people find it so difficult to talk about both death and disability in the West ✅ Some of the biggest regrets he has seen family members share as their loved ones approach death ✅ The preparation that goes into the end of life: paperwork, conversations and more You can learn more about BJ Miller here: https://www.mettlehealth.com/who-we-are Special thanks go to our sponsors for this episode, the Hydration Foundation, a non-profit organization, focused on better hydration for people, plants, animals and soil. As the leading authority on hydration, the foundation is dedicated to solving our health on this planet through creating better systems and conversations when it comes to water, and how it moves through our bodies, irrigation and food systems. You can learn more about the Hydration Foundation by navigating to www.hydrationfoundation.org. Donate to the Hydration Foundation’s program to restore soil through water. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about the cosmos and investigating our place in the universe. My next guest almost requires no introduction. We’ll be featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and author of more than a dozen books—like Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. He is the host of StarTalk, a podcast, and Cosmos, televised by Fox and National Geographic. He has received 21 honorary doctorates as well as NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal. We talk about the following and more: ✅ What is our place in the universe and if we are alone ✅ The mysteries of the cosmos and how life began ✅ How the planets are classified today ✅ The most surprising thing that he has learned in the last 6 months ✅ The building blocks of astrophysics for a mainstream audience that may not have access to a lot of concepts in physics, and astrology ✅ How human beings are made up of the “stars” ✅ Something that is important for every human on earth to understand when it comes to the cosmos ✅ How Neil’s approach to science is evolving A special thanks goes to our sponsors for this episode, the Hydration Foundation, a non-profit organization, focused on better hydration for people, plants, animals and soil. As the leading authority on hydration, the foundation is dedicated to solving our health on this planet through creating better systems and conversations when it comes to water, and how it moves through our bodies, irrigation and food systems. You can learn more about the Hydration Foundation by navigating to www.hydrationfoundation.org. Donate to the Hydration Foundation’s program to restore soil through water. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Betty Kay is a New York, fine art, street artist who came from the hills of Napa Valley, CA, and is referred to as "street art royalty" in the spiritual circles that tend to mark her path. She is many things all in one: she focuses on magical realism and fierce freedom. Each of her series is guided by the story of the future pouring through her paintbrush. Her pieces sell swiftly and she adores connecting deeply to the souls of who she creates for. We talk about: ✅ What it means to live a life filled with magic ✅ What creativity means to her ✅ How to create as an artist ✅ How she connects spirituality and art ✅ How the audience can cultivate their creativity ✅ How to bring softness in Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

On today’s episode, we’ll be featuring Neale Donald Walsch. He has written 39 books on contemporary spirituality and its practical application in everyday life. Seven of the nine books in his Conversations with God series have made the New York Times Bestseller list, with Book One remaining on that list for 134 weeks. His latest book is The God Solution, was published in Dec. 2020. He can be reached at NealeDonaldWalsch.com. I first learned about Neale from the Mindvalley community, and read all of the CWG series, and found them to be fascinating. We talk about the following and much more: ✅ What it means to live as an enlightened being in today’s world ✅ What he means by “the God dilemma” ✅ The topic that has been most transformative for his readers and why ✅ The difference between knowledge and wisdom Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

I first learned about Dr. Shauna Shapiro through her Ted talk “Good Morning I love You” and through our mutual friend Nicole Patrice! Shout out to Nicole! Dr. Shauna Shapiro is a professor at Santa Clara University, best-selling author, and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and compassion. She has been an invited speaker for the King of Thailand, the Danish Government, Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Summit, the Canadian Government, and the World Council for Psychotherapy, as well as for Fortune 100 Companies including Google, Cisco Systems, Proctor & Gamble, and LinkedIn. Dr. Shapiro has published over 150 journal articles and co-authored three critically acclaimed book, and her most recent book “Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire the Brain for Calm Clarity and Joy” is available on Amazon and Audible. We talk about the following and much more: ✅ What mindfulness is and it's so important ✅ The difference between mindfulness and meditation ✅ Why people are so disconnected from their mindful nature? ✅ What it means to have compassion, kindness and altruism ✅ The self-kindness morning meditation that she practices every day Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

I often hear men say that they don’t have an emotional outlet, or that their partner is the only person who they can emotionally connect with. Today’s episode is about how to be a conscious male in today’s world with Mike Sagun, a men's coach and an EVRYMAN facilitator. He has a somatic approach to coaching clients and focuses on helping men develop emotional awareness. Mike guides men out of their heads and into their bodies. He is a SF Bay Area Native now living full time in San Miguel de Allende, MX with his husband, Jerry, and his pitbull rescue, Bert. I had the great pleasure of spending time with Mike in San Miguel and felt it was important that we share his work on the show. We talk about: ✅ How Mike has been a leader in the men’s work movement for a long time, and what brought him to this work ✅ Themes he has seen over the years in coaching men ✅ Why men are so misunderstood in society today ✅ Some of the most life-changing questions he’s been asked ✅ How the group Evryman works ✅ Some of the biggest breakthroughs he has seen as a lead facilitator in Evryman You can learn more about Mike here: https://www.mikesagun.com/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard trained and published neuroanatomist. In 1996 she experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain causing her to have a stroke, and lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write or recall any of her life. Her memoir, My Stroke of Insight, which I’ve read, documents her experience with stroke and eight-year recovery. The book spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, and is still routinely the #1 book about stroke on Amazon. In 2008 she gave the first TED talk that ever went viral on the Internet, which now has well over 27 million views. Also in 2008, Dr. Taylor was chosen as one of TIME Magazine's “100 Most Influential People in the World”. On this episode, we’ll be diving into her new book “Whole Brain Living The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life”. We talk about: ✅ Her new book “Whole Brain Living”, and what it means ✅ What the “four characters” are and why is getting to know them is important ✅ What the “Brain Huddle” is and how you can train our four characters to work with each other ✅ How the four characters map to the hero’s journey ✅ How incredible Jill’s opportunity to study a stroke from the inside out was in her position as a neuroanatomist ✅ How it takes less than 90 seconds for the chemistry of that emotion to flood through us how to deal with an emotional response ✅ Her quote “Please take responsibility for the energy you bring” and what that means ✅ Her rehabilitation in the book “My Stroke of Insight” You can follow her here: www.drjilltaylor.com Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Why is there so much misunderstanding between men and women? In this podcast, I interview Alison Armstrong, a behavioral philosopher and one of the top subject matter experts on relationships between men and women. Her exploration of human behavior began in 1991, with her decision to study men, “To find out how she was bringing out the worst in them. And hopefully, how to bring out the best.” Her success in understanding men naturally led to studying women’s behavior and making vital connections between the two. Alison is an author of many books and courses on the subject of understanding both men and women, and she’s a highly referenced and sought after speaker. You can check out her work at: understandmen.com We talk about: ✅ Ending the “war between the sexes” ✅ How women sometimes bring out the worst in men ✅ Major misconceptions women have about men today ✅ Major misconceptions men have about women ✅ How relationships have changed since the start of the pandemic And much more. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about the power of the breath and cold showers, with Laura and Isabelle Hof, Wim Hof’s daughters. Laura & Isabelle Hof are Wim Hof Instructors and have been involved with the company Innerfire, behind the Wim Hof Method, from the beginning. They both have founded the Icewomen Community, a Non profit community that promotes cold water and mature dipping amongst women. We talk about: ✅ Why breath is so important ✅ Their father -- Wim Hof, his breath work method, and his journey ✅ What breath work actually is and how it works ✅ What cold showers are and how they help your immunity ✅ Why BOTH breath work and cold showers are so important together ✅ How to deal with resistance to this method ✅ Isabelle and Laura’s own journey and how they decided to become breathwork instructors You can learn more about them here: https://www.wimhofmethod.com/ Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Today’s episode is about the science behind spherical abundance and rapid change with Xponential Intelligence with my guest Mas Sajady. I’m excited about this episode as I’ve been meditating with Mas for the last year, as he talks about some of the most cutting-edge themes in the world of consciousness. I’ve certainly felt a shift in my own consciousness and perspective since following his work. Mas Sajady is a world renowned consciousness programmer who, through his unique techniques and meditations, shifts people’s lives to an evolved and advanced frequency level that enables them to achieve success, fulfillment, and happiness from a natural and balanced state. As the founder of Xponential Intelligence, Mas facilitates rapid changes through quantum reprogramming, which eliminate old dynamic energy partners. During sessions with Mas, regardless of whether you share your problems with him or not, he will discover and eliminate what has obstructed your life in the past. Mas has counseled tens of thousands of people around the world and has worked with business leaders, influencers, professional athletes, celebrities, royal families, and Fortune 500 executives from companies such as Capital Records, Starbucks, Facebook, Fox, Microsoft, FedEx, and many more. As a philanthropist, Mas donates his time to assist schools, hospitals, special needs organizations, and low income communities. We talk about the following: ✅ What it means to be a high consciousness being ✅ What Xponential Intelligence “XI” means ✅ Major themes like abundance, and other high states of consciousness like forgiveness and joy ✅ What “spherical abundance” means ✅ Where he learned his philosophy from ✅ Some of the biggest areas of pain that people are dealing with, and how he works with people Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.