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Empowered Connection Podcast10 Pros & Cons I Learned While Being In Spiritual Communities with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Spirituality, Self Empowerment, Spiritual Abuse, Spiritual Bypassing, Spiritual Connection, Religious Trauma, Spiritual Community, Healing Journey, YogaIf you are interested in healing, self empowerment, spiritual paths, and spiritual connection, this episode is a must listen!In this solo podcast episode, Daniel Damodar Cordua brings the listener into important reflections he gained spending many years in yoga, spiritual paths and various spiritual communities.Expressing both the deep, profound benefits AND the possible drawbacks and disempowering snares of spiritual paths + communities, Daniel paints a more comprehensive portrait of what it...2024-05-2232 minEmpowered Connection PodcastTraversing Your Own Triggers During Conflict with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Couples, Conflict, Triggers, Self Regulation, Healthy Relationships, Love, Emotional Intelligence,In this solo podcast episode, Damodar dives into part one of a two part (or possibly 3 part!) series on conflict in our relationships. Difficulty navigating conflict can be one of the major roadblocks in the health & connection within our relationships.But, where do we start? First, we start with our own selves.In this episode, part 1, Damodar focuses on how we can be with & navigate our own triggers when in conflict both externally with another and internally within ou...2024-05-0823 minEmpowered Connection PodcastWhen "Conscious Communication" Can Be Unsafe & Even Abusive with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationship Problems, Emotional Abuse, Conscious Communication, Relational Safety, Relationship Tools, Boundaries, Abusive Relationships In this shorter, solo podcast episode Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua shares a pivotal story from his own journey of relationship that explores how "conscious communication" can be used to perpetuate abusive and harmful relational dynamics.In this episode you will explore:- when we tend to betray our integrity for connection- how to tune into our own body and mind when in an abusive dynamic with another person- advocating for ourselves...2024-04-0321 minEmpowered Connection PodcastHow Learned Optimism Can Shift Your Life (& How Pessimism Can Too) with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Empowerment, Positive Psychology, Optimism, Pessimism, Self Criticism, Self CompassionIn this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua explores the researched concept of "learned optimism" and how optimism can shift the course of your life, your happiness, your relationships, and your resilience. Daniel gives researched tips from positive psychologist Martin Seligman and others on how to retrain our minds towards empowering optimistic perspectives and when - and when not - to take on pessimistic points of view... Because, guess what? Pessimism can be helpful too.*2024-03-2028 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Three Main Patterns of Conflict in Relationships with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Conflict, Relationships, Partnership, Love, ConnectionIn this solo podcast episode, host Damodar Damodar Cordua addresses one of the most important topics in relationship and partnership - navigating our patterns of unproductive conflict.In order to do so, he explores and illuminates the three main patterns that couples and dyads move into. Listen to this shorter episode and shine more light on how you may now or in the past danced in a cycle of conflict with your loved one... and gain the tools to shift that dance - and with it, the p...2024-03-1322 minEmpowered Connection PodcastExploring Spontaneous & Responsive Desire For Better Intimacy & More Pleasure with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Sexuality, Intimacy, Relationships, Partnership, Desire, Pleasure, Love, Romance, Sensuality, Connection Do you ever feel your sexual desire is different than your partners? (or previous partners?)Do you struggle to get connected and on the same page sexually with your loved one?Does your sexual desire towards your partner feel unreciprocated?Does the style of sexual desire from your partner sometime shut down your desire?Are you ready for more pleasure in your life?In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Co...2024-02-2826 minEmpowered Connection PodcastHow Defensiveness is Hurting Your Relationships & How to Stop It with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Conflict, Defensiveness, Partnership, Conscious Communication, Self Regulation, How to LoveIn this shorter, solo podcast episode Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua breaks down and helps heal "defensiveness" within our relationships. Although an understandable pattern of protection, too much unconscious defensiveness in our relationships - especially partnership - can wear down the foundation of our connection and create negative cycles of conflict and rupture. Some relationship experts call defensiveness one of the death knells of partnership.Listen in to today's episode and learn:- What is...2024-02-2124 minEmpowered Connection PodcastLove Is a Skill, Not Just a Feeling with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: How to Love, Relationships, Connection, What Love Is, Partnership, Spirituality, Self WorkIn this shorter, solo podcast episode Empower Connection host Daniel Damodar Cordua dives into the levels of what love is: from it being a feeling, to it being our true nature, and, finally, to the necessity to practice love as a skill.We are all entities made up of love, it is our soul’s essence. Yet, the difficulty arises when that love gets blocked, covered, jammed up, overflowed, overused, or dried up.Listen to today’s epi...2024-02-0721 minEmpowered Connection PodcastWhat is Skin Hunger & How to Satisfy It with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Intimacy, Connection, Touch, Happiness, Relationships, Sensuality, Sexuality, Nervous System RegulationIn this shorter, solo podcast episode host Daniel Damodar Cordua explores the relational, sensual topic of "skin hunger" in order to give you, the listener, more self empowerment, relational awareness, joy, and connection. We explore our human need and desire for touch, covering these topics: - What is skin hunger?- How is it beneficial to our lives?- How do we explore more about our own skin hunger needs and nuances?- Examples of skin hunger within our lives an...2024-01-3124 minEmpowered Connection PodcastValidating Another’s Experience is Your Relational Superpower with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relational Empowerment, Conscious Communication, Partnership, Friendship, Conflict, Difference, Healthy Relationships, Human Connection, Relationship Problems, How to Love, Compassion, EmpathyIn this shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua shares one of the most important relational “superpowers” you can start to easily practice in your own life - validating another’s experience.In this actionable episode, learn one of the most common, and negative, liabilities to creating better connection during difference with others in our life.AND, learn a major antidote that will simply, yet profoundly, shift how yo...2024-01-2421 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Truths Underneath Our Need to Give Unsolicited Advice with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Awareness, Conscious Communication, Self Exploration, Relationships, Inner Work, Self Empowerment, How to Love, Couples Wisdom, Self GrowthIn this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection host Daniel Damodar Cordua talks about our proclivity to give unsolicited advice towards people in our life. Problematizing this very human urge, this podcast episode not only gives the listeners a better option of how to mindfully & successfully relate to our loved ones, but goes even deeper in - in order to unpack, why do we tend to give unsolicited advice in the first place?Turning the mi...2024-01-1019 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Two Ways to Deal with Regret with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Regret, Loss, Self Empowerment, Blame, Shame, Self Criticism, Self Compassion, Self Love, Self GrowthIt’s the 100th episode of the Empowered Connection Podcast! We extend our deep gratitude to you - our listeners and to expert special guests who have made this podcast such an inspiring resource for self growth, relational awareness, healing, consciousness, and spirituality. Please join us to celebrate and please join us for our NEXT 100 episodes!In this solo podcast episode, podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua takes on a timely subject - the experience of regret. Some...2024-01-0324 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Three Ways of Knowing Ourselves with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Awareness, Self Exploration, Relational Awareness, Society + Culture, Empowerment, Family Dynamics, Inner Work, Yoga PhilosophyJoin Empowered Connection host Daniel Damodar Cordua for this shorter, solo podcast and explore a simple, yet profound premise that will teach you how to see yourself, your patterns, and your relationships more deeply, more fully and more comprehensively.In the stories of yoga, the divine entities Shiva & Durga both carry tridents. These tridents are viewed as having various metaphors - one insightful metaphor is that the three prongs of the trident represent the three levels - or...2023-12-2024 minEmpowered Connection PodcastBuilding Healthy Boundaries For Couples & Individuals During the Holidays & Beyond with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Boundaries, Family, Holidays, Self Empowerment, People Pleasing, Partnership, Couples Goals, Over-functioning, Self Betrayal, Self Love, Codependency, Conscious Communication, Relationships, Self AwarenessEmpowerment Connection podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua takes a deeper look at how to cultivate better boundaries during the holiday season with family and friends. Even though it is a festive, social and loving time of the year, the holidays can also be challenging when navigating the nuance of relationship.In this solo episode, Damodar gives us a series of helpful tools for navigating this season AND the rest of the ye...2023-12-1324 minEmpowered Connection PodcastLessons on Intimacy Pt. 3: Creating Better Physical Intimacy in Our Relationships with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Intimacy, Partnership, Relationships, Sexuality, Sensuality, Relationship Problems, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Deep Connection, Eroticism, Emotional Awareness, Love, Nervous System RegulationIn this third part of a series of episodes on intimacy, join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua and learn how to nurture the fertile groundwork for deeper physical intimacy in our partnerships & relationships.In many long term relationships, physical intimacy starts to lag or go underground. In this episode, Daniel explores what is need to re-blossom physical connection, touch, intimacy and sexuality. He also gives specific practices and concepts that wi...2023-11-2924 minEmpowered Connection PodcastLessons on Intimacy Pt. 2: Deeply Nurturing & Communicating Self + Emotional Awareness with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Intimacy, Partnership, Relationships, Relationship Problems, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Emotional Awareness, Inner Work, Deep Listening, Connection, Love, Family, FriendshipsIn this second episode in a series of episodes on intimacy, join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua and learn how to develop deeper intimacy through becoming more emotionally aware of our own selves, developing deeper self understanding, and learning to safely + mutually share that awareness + understanding with our loved onesThe depth of our intimacy with another only goes as deep as the depth of our intimacy with our own self...2023-11-1525 minEmpowered Connection PodcastLessons on Intimacy Pt. 1: The Intimacy of Difference, Conflict, & Repair with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Intimacy, Partnership, Relationships, Relationship Problems, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Conflict, Deeper Connection, Love, Family, FriendshipsIn this first episode in a series of episodes on intimacy, join Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua and learn how to find intimacy in a very surprising place: the conflict, difference, rupture - and then repair - we have with our loved ones.Some of us may think intimacy - the rich, connective space of deeply of knowing another - happens when we are not in conflict, when things are easy. Even though there i...2023-11-0816 minEmpowered Connection PodcastDo This To Transform Your Relationships & Transform the World with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Conflict, Conscious Communication, Nonviolence, Relationships, Partnership, Listening, How To Love, Navigating Difference Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua for this shorter solo episode and learn one of the most important practices in transforming your relationships - and the world.During a time of external conflict, difference, and strife, NOW is the time to let your own relational life be an example to others in how to: do conflict with more connection, navigate difference, repair after rupture, and stand for your truth while being in loving, compassionate acceptance of another's truth.2023-10-2514 minEmpowered Connection PodcastWays To Build Intimacy With Your Own Self with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Exploration, Self Awareness, Self Discovery, Parts Work, Self Knowledge, Intimacy, Relationships, Presence, Connection, In this solo episode join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua for an exploration of self intimacy and self discovery.Our ability to become intimate with our own self provides for the intimacy we crave with others.Learn ways to connect deeper to all the parts and aspects of who you are - especially the ones you might hide from or push down - and bridge your self awareness + connection to deeper connection to others...2023-10-1823 minEmpowered Connection PodcastA Few Things I Wish I Knew About Relationships That I Know Now (Pt. 2) with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Relationship Tips + Tools, Self Empowerment, Human Connection, Conflict, LoveIn this shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua talks about some of the key ideas + realizations he has learned over the years being both a relationship coach + expert and living in relationship to others within his own life.Explore practical self and relationship wisdom that will give you the inspiration and frameworks to empower both your life and all your relationships - with friend, family, lovers, and moreThis is a Part 2. following episode #85, showcasing...2023-10-0433 minEmpowered Connection PodcastA Deep Dive Into the Mysteries of Self Through Tarot with Jessi HuntenbergThemes: Tarot Reading, Self Awareness, Self Growth, Self Empowerment, Spirituality, Tarot Cards, Mysticism, Life Inspiration, Human Potential, Relationships, Mysticism Jessi Huntenburg is a tarot deck creator and tarot consultant who helps seekers of all paths invoke and channel their unique creative divine. She’s a three-time Tarot Reader’s Academy instructor, and she’s conducted workshops for Sage Priestess Training and the Fully Lit Business Mastermind. Her tarot deck and guidebook, the Genius Garden Tarot, was self-published in August of 2023.In this fascinating, inspiring, and empowering conversation, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua talks...2023-09-2758 minEmpowered Connection PodcastA Few Things I Wish I Knew About Relationships That I Know Now (Pt. 1) with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Relationship Tips + Tools, Self Empowerment, Human Connection, Conflict, Love In this shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua talks about some of the key ideas + realizations he has learned over the years being both a relationship coach + expert and living in relationship to others within his own life.Explore practical self and relationship wisdom that will give you the inspiration and frameworks to empower both your life and all your relationships - with friend, family, lovers, and moreAnd stay tuned for part 2 for more...2023-09-2023 minEmpowered Connection PodcastYour Patterns Aren’t Wrong & You Don’t Need To Be Fixed with Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Love, Self Empowerment, Healing Journey, Relationships, Self Acceptance, Self Awareness, Freedom In this shorter podcast episode, Empowered Connection host Damodar Cordua gives listeners resource into their own self & relational growth + empowerment through a discourse on wronging ourselves and our patterns.Having compassion and validating the desire to feel as though we need to "fix" parts of who we are, Damodar discusses how our patterns are actually intelligent and arise from our innate - & beautiful - ability to survive. This intelligence, when actually seen, loved, and honored can free up m...2023-09-0617 minEmpowered Connection PodcastWhy People Won't Do the Work in Relationships with Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Inner Work, Partnership, Self Growth, Self Improvement, Love, Intimacy, Relationship ProblemsIn this shorter podcast episode, Empowered Connection host Damodar Cordua gives listeners resource into their own self & relational growth + empowerment by going deeper into our roadblocks… specifically, why we are resistant - and don’t do the work in our relationships.Learn more about your own stuck areas and also learn how to understand your loved ones’ blocks in self & relational growth. Through this understanding, build compassion for yourself and others AND gain more awareness, accountability, and inspiration to start “doing the...2023-08-3026 minEmpowered Connection PodcastSuffering Obligations of Love with Tanya TecceThemes: Ancestral Lineage, Familial Patterns, Self Empowerment, Nervous System Regulation, Nostalgia, Neuroscience, Family Constellations, Yoga, Mindset, Relationships Tanya Tecce helps empaths name what they want without guilt, break inherited trauma, and reinvent family dynamics so they don’t pass that crap onto their loved ones. She teaches Deep Nervous System Restoratives for Safety to turn poison into peacock feathers. A skilled, experienced coach who graduated with Honors in Psychology, Sociology & Mathematics; and is Mastery Certified in Transformational Psychology NLP, Tanya curates decades of study, experience and practices in neuroscience, positive psychology, family constellations, sha...2023-08-2358 minEmpowered Connection PodcastGrounded & Nourished Heart - Embodiment Practice with Damodar CorduaTopics: Breathwork, Meditation, Heart's Wisdom, Self Empowerment, Intimacy, Nervous System Regulation, Relationships, Self Awareness, Embodiment PracticePractices + Tooling Building episodeIn this actionable shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua offers an embodiment breath practice that will give the listener more opportunity to:- bring more self awareness, self regulation, heart connection and intimacy potential into their lives- ground into their body and find deep support & nourishment from the earth- bring energy into the root area of their bodies, opening the sacrum & sexual organs...2023-08-1629 minEmpowered Connection PodcastDevelop Your Psychic & Intuitive Abilities with Kilkenny TremblayThemes: Psychic Abilities, Intuition, Manifestation, Empowerment, Meditation, Yoga, Relationships, Human Potential, Mysticism Kilkenny Tremblay, is a passionate podcaster, professor, celtic priestess as well as an intuitive coach of spirituality, earth infused mysticism, yoga, tantra, meditation and mindfulness. She also is a professional astrologer and psychic medium. Her projects and products all reflect her commitment towards helping people find the mystical in the mundane and the magic in the present moment as well as “alignment” from the inside out and the outside in working with the mind, heart and body. She has been steeping in th...2023-08-091h 06Empowered Connection PodcastFinding & Reclaiming the Desires Underneath Your Complaints with Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Empowerment, Relationship Tools, Self Growth, Manifestation, Healing, Fear, DesirePractices + Tooling Building episodeIn this actionable shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua offers an empowering 5 part practice that can help the listener find more awareness in their lives and relationships… and move past their fears in order to manifest the desires lying underneath their regular complaints Recommended to listen to this podcast at least once while sitting down, with pen & paper in hand in order to gain the full benefit of this 5 part pra...2023-08-0215 minEmpowered Connection PodcastUpleveling With the “Hell Yes & Hell No” Practice with Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Empowerment, Clarity, Self Awareness, Relationships, Personal Transformation, Partnership, ManifestationIn this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua shares one the the simplest & practical, yet most telling & profound, exercises to empower your life and and your relationshipsVia the “Hell Yes & Hell No” Practice, you can find your deepest sense of what moves you, what you desire, and what most aligns with your most empowered sense of self, purpose, habits, relationships and partnership.Grab and pen and paper and dive in with Damodar today and transform your life...2023-07-1919 minEmpowered Connection PodcastHow To Become A Better Listener with Damodar CorduaThemes: Conscious Communication, Listening, Relationships, Partnership, Conflict, Intimacy, Connection, Love, Empowerment, EmpathyIn this shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua gives the listeners some simple yet powerful tools to become better at listening in their most important relationships.This episode will help you create deeper connection + intimacy, navigate conflict more successfully, and become a more conscious communicator in all your relationships - with family, friends, partners, and at the workplace.Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your FREE Discovery Session - 2023-07-1214 minEmpowered Connection PodcastFinding the Mystical in the Mundane with Sophia HornyakThemes: Spirituality, Mysticism, Akashic, Healing, Self Awareness, Occult, Religion, Divine ConsciousnessRaised in a tin-roof house deep in the woods of southern Virginia, Sophia Hornyak is a lifelong seer and comes from a family of root-workers who immersed her in the traditions of their ancestors. She has practiced alongside a diverse group of magical practitioners out of Harry's Occult in Philadelphia, and is an Akashic teacher, having studied under Akashic leaders such as Linda Howe and Helen Vonderheide. As an explorer of the abyss, her core purpose is in facing fears and researching w...2023-07-051h 07Empowered Connection PodcastQuestions To Ask Yourself Before Getting Into a Partnership with Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Love, Marriage, Integrity, Self Awareness, Personal Growth, Unconscious Patterns, Attachment Styles In this shorter, solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection host Damodar Cordua gives the listeners an important list of self-inquiry questions that are a MUST to ask yourself before getting into a partnership .And if you are already in a partnership, they also serve as a MUST to ask yourself right now!These explorations will make your relational potential much healthier, stronger, more successful and in deeper integrity with your authenticity, unconscious patterns, needs, and values....2023-06-2817 minEmpowered Connection PodcastLiving Cyclically & Attuning To Our Soul's Ancient Wisdom with Carleena Lara BregattaThemes: Ancient Wisdom, Mother Nature, Emotional Intelligence, Manifestation, Spirituality, Reconnection, Healing Trauma, Divine Energy, Empowerment Carleena Lara Bregatta is an author, spiritual coach, embodiment mentor and teacher. She teaches people how to return to the ancient art of cyclical living, sharing tools on how to inner resource safety, sovereignty and freedom. Her creative work weaves together modern neuroscience with Five Element Theory and Tantrik Yogic Philosophy for a multi-faceted approach to trauma healing, self empowerment and soulful self discovery.Carleena is a certified Usui Reiki Master, 800 Hour E-RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher), a...2023-06-211h 08Empowered Connection PodcastWhat's More Important Self Growth or Self Acceptance? with Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Acceptance, Self Growth, Presence, Self Improvement, Spirituality, Spiritual Bypassing, Self Love, Healing, WholenessIn this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua dives into the perennial question of healing, self empowerment and spirituality: Is it more important to accept ourselves as we are or grow in ourselves?For those on a journey of self healing & self transformation, this episode gives great perspectives on how to find more wholeness, integration, depth, and potential within your path... and how to discover... what you already are.*Reach...2023-06-1318 minEmpowered Connection PodcastShadow Work Practice: Finding, Knowing, & Integrating Your Shadow with Damodar CorduaThemes: Shadow Work, Self Denial, Self Empowerment, Relationships, Embodiment, Healing, Self Love, Integration Work, Emotional Intelligence, SomaticsShadows are parts of ourselves we repress, deny or avoid.These could range anywhere from anger shadows, to sexual shadows, to shadows of neediness, to shadows of guilt, scorn, revenge, shame, etc. Our inner critic & inner saboteur can often be seen as a “shadow."When we don't build a relationship to our shadows and work to integrate them more holistically into our lived experience, our shadow may come out sideways in manners that compromise our...2023-05-3121 minEmpowered Connection PodcastPain As Our Teacher & the Body-Mind-Spirit Connection with Dr. Sara ScrivanoThemes: Body-Mind Connection, Healing, Pain, Embodiment, Breathwork, Presence, Herbalism, Spirituality, Self Empowerment, Self Growth, Eastern Medicine Dr. Sara Scrivano created New Moon Healing in order to manifest a vision of holistic health care that is not limited to a single lens of health and wellness, but has a broader vision, practice & potential of healing & transformation. She is a Chiropractic physician, a licensed Acupuncturist and herbalist in New York state, and is dedicated to bridging these various therapeutic modalities in order to provide individualized care to every person she works with. Sara is passionate...2023-05-241h 00Empowered Connection Podcast8 Ways to Deepen All Your Relationships with Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Self Growth, Partnership, Love, Friendship, Connection, Self Empowerment, Intimacy, Vulnerability, BoundariesRelationships aren't static, they aren't something we simply "fall into." Rather, they are a choice - be it unconscious or conscious. The relational + self growth person sees relationships as a conscious choice. In this way, relationships becomes an opportunity to forever deepen into, learn more about, savor and grow from. In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar dives into 8 practical, yet powerful, ways we can deepen all of our relationships - in order to find more sati...2023-05-1727 minEmpowered Connection PodcastRelationship Anarchy & Self Authenticity with Gianna CecileThemes: Relationships, Self Growth, Yoga, Empowerment, Partnership, Love, Spirituality, Life JourneyStarting her yoga practice at age 20, Gianna Cecile has used the wisdom of yoga to heal from back pain, depression, ADHD, and a motorcycle accident. She is an international educator teaching yogic practices and Ayurvedic living around the world. She works as a death doula and transitional guide, and runs an online school called the Siddhi School of Yoga. Through her work, she hopes to create space for people to see their options, realize their desires, and create their realities.I...2023-05-101h 04Empowered Connection PodcastHow to Practice Forgiveness without Bypassing or Minimizing Our Experience with Damodar CorduaThemes: Forgiveness, Emotional Intelligence, Spirituality, Love, Freedom, Self Empowerment, Sovereignty, Letting Go, Grief, TransformationForgiveness is, on one hand, the realm of the spiritual. It brings us into the teachings of many religious luminaries, who have showed us that to soften our heart with compassion - even for those who have wronged us - is a gateway into learning how to truly love.On the other hand, spiritual perspectives can also overemphasize forgiveness in such a way that it bypasses our own unique emotional process. These perspectives may pressure us to...2023-05-0223 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Major Roadblock In Creating Positive Change in Our Life & Our Relationships with Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationship Goals, Self Empowerment, Life Goals, Roadblocks, Do the Work, Positive Change, Human Potential, Self Transformation We listen to the podcast, we read the book or go to the class or retreat or ceremony, but we STILL feel stuck in our lives, in our limiting beliefs + patterns, and in our relationships.In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua explores one of the major roadblocks in our ability to move through the stuck areas in our self that are limiting our lives + relationships.Through a powerful perspective a...2023-04-2517 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Shamanic Neurotype: Neurodivergence, Decriminalizing & Re-Imagining Plant Medicine with Colette CondorcitaThemes: Plant Medicine, Psychedelics, Neurodivergence, Community Activism, Healing, Self Regulation, Empowerment, Spirituality, Indigenous Peoples, PsychologyColette Condorcita is a Transformational Coach, Psychedelic Facilitator, Activist, Entrepreneur, Integrative Hypnotist, Psychedelic Consultant, and Regenerative Designer. She describes to her clients and in interviews that her brain “works like how psychedelics do” and considers herself neurodivergent, having what she calls a shamanic neurotype. Colette does not identify as a shaman as she was not born into a traditional shamanic culture, but she neurologically and psychologically identifies with the ways shaman’s and traditional healers’ nervous systems function....2023-04-181h 03Empowered Connection PodcastAn Upgrade On How To Apologize with Damodar CorduaThemes: Repair, Apology, Relationships, Validation, Empathy, Conflict, Forgiveness, Self Empowerment, Self Accountability, Connection In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua breaks down our common use - and abuse - of "the apology" in our relationships... and gives an empowering reframe that will bring your self awareness, self accountability, self growth, and relationships to the next level when repairing with + apologizing to others.A great podcast for those who want to learn how to navigate conflict better, create deeper self accountability + better repair & connection with ourselves and our loved ones, a...2023-04-1118 minEmpowered Connection PodcastNavigating Spiritual Abuse & Religious Trauma with Kayla FeltenThemes: Religious Trauma, Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality, Religion, Trauma, Healing, Relationships, Self Empowerment, Inner Wisdom, Patriarchy, Kayla Felten, MSW, LICSW has been an advocate for religious trauma and spiritual abuse survivors throughout her career, as the co-founder of the Reclamation Collective and as a Psychedelic Therapist in her clinical work. Kayla has been able to support those in the process of reclaiming their inner peace, relational harmony, autonomy, pleasure, and authentic self. She was initially invited to facilitate support groups for survivors of spiritual abuse due to abuses of power taking place in plant medi...2023-04-041h 02Empowered Connection PodcastFind Your Truth in the Present Moment: A Guided Meditation with Damodar CorduaThemes: Somatic Meditation, Empowerment, Breathwork, Clarity, Self Awareness, Self Love, Connection, Self Regulation, Authentic Self, Integrity, Relationships In this solo episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua leads listeners through a beautiful meditation that combines somatics, breathwork, and self-reflection in order to see, hear, hold + validate the truth of our present moment.When our nervous system is strained and tightened, we will inevitability default to the strategies that steer us away from "what is..." strategies rooted in the past or overly desirous of the future. During these moments, we often become maladaptive, push d...2023-03-2821 minEmpowered Connection PodcastHow Vedic Astrology Can Empower Our Relationships with Christine RodriguezThemes: Astrology, Relationships, Self Awareness, Partnership, Love, Dating, Spirituality, Yoga, Jyotish, Ayurveda Christine Rodriguez is a Vedic Astrologer, coach, and host of the Astrology Now Podcast. She has been studying Jyotish, or Vedic Astrology, for over 10 years. Her mission is to combine coaching, Vedic astrology, and other Vedantic studies to support others in living in alignment with their personal constitution, karmic makeup, astrological imprint - and how to use this information to their advantage, creating a life of meaning and purpose. Christine believes that relationships and intimacy act as powerful mirrors for personal de...2023-03-211h 00Empowered Connection PodcastGrief, Loss & Finding Meaning with Damodar CorduaThemes: Grief, Loss, Love, Meaning, Healing, Self Love, Self Empowerment, Emotional Intelligence, Conscious Communication In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua brings a deeper awareness into navigating loss in our life. If we are in a human body, we will experience loss. If we love, we experience loss. If we live, we experience loss. This loss is not limited to losing a loved one because of death, but includes losing a relationship due to breakup or divorce, losing a pet, losing a job, losing a home, losing at time in our...2023-03-1422 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Dance of the Divine Masculine: Community, Consciousness, & Connection with Richie ParrellaThemes: Masculinity, Manhood, Relationships, Somatic Therapy, Partnership, Community, Family, Love, Divine Masculine, Divine Feminine, Self Love, Self Compassion, Ayurveda, Spirituality, Heart Wisdom, Empowerment Richie Parrella is a Somatic Therapist, Certified Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master and Sound Healer trained in Prana yoga, based in the lineages of Kundalini and Tantra yoga and Ayurveda in the lineage of Dr. Vasant Lad. He facilitates sessions, classes, and groups with the intention to create a safe space for others to explore their inner experience, create transformation, as well as reduce stress, anxiety, and support the allowing of the body, mi...2023-03-071h 08Empowered Connection PodcastAm I Codependent In My Relationships? What to Know and How to Change It with Damodar CorduaThemes: Codependency, Relationships, Partnership, Family Systems, Mutual Interdependence, Healthy Relationships, Love, OverfunctionerWe have all experienced codependency in our relationships and most of us are living with a little bit of it. Yet, if a relationship is largely rooted in codependency this could lead to unhealthy patterns and disempowerment for everyone involved.In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast Host Damodar Cordua gives a short history of "codependency," the signs and symptoms of living in a codependent relationship or relationships, the "stability" of codependency, how codependent patterns disempower us and our loved ones, a...2023-02-2825 minEmpowered Connection PodcastRadical Freedom & Radical Awareness: Journey into the Bhagavad Gita with Hari Kirtana DasThemes: Freedom, Spirituality, Dharma, Yoga Wisdom, Relationships, Purpose, Crisis, Suffering, Transformation, Human PotentialHari-kirtana Das is a yoga teacher, spiritual mentor, and public speaker. He's been practicing devotional yoga and other yogic disciplines for almost 50 years, has lived in yoga ashrams and intentional spiritual communities, worked for Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley start-ups, and brings a wide range of spiritual knowledge and life experience to his books, talks, workshops, and courses. Hari-kirtana began teaching yoga classes in 2009 and has been creating in-person and online yoga philosophy courses since 2016. He's on the faculty of...2023-02-2159 minEmpowered Connection PodcastUnreal & Unhealthy Fantasies About Love: A Valentine’s Day Critique & Redo with Damodar CorduaThemes: Romance, Love, Real Love, Valentine’s Day, Society, Romantic Fantasy, Partnership, Self Love, Relationships In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua presents a critique on society’s over infatuation with and unreal fantasy of romantic love. This critique finds its ultimate expression in the stereotyped ideals of the Hallmark holiday, Valentine’s Day.In this exploration, Damodar reveals many of the unhealthy perspectives our society’s ideals & pressures around love & romance - ones that block not only an empowered connection with another person, but also prevent a deeper relations...2023-02-1415 minEmpowered Connection PodcastConnection Is Not a Transaction: Standing for a Better Way of Relationship with Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Friendship, Family, Partnership, Acceptance, Unconditional Love, Real Love, Self Empowerment, Authenticity, Boundaries In this solo podcast episode Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua sheds light on the relationships in our lives - friendships, family, partnerships and more - that are transactional… that say we can only “get connection” if we act this way, please this person, hide ourself, fit in, or have some measurable value to another.Challenging this way of interacting with others, Damodar asks of us to explore the relationships in our lives that are unconditionally in our corner and ST...2023-02-0716 minEmpowered Connection PodcastAccessing the Gifts of Our Innate Creativity with Amy LohrThemes: Creativity, Empowerment, Self Growth, Healing, Vulnerability, Expression, Self Awareness, Connection Amy Lohr is a writer and all-around creative exploring the art of expression through her work. As a creativity mentor and brand designer, Amy helps inspired folks bring their ideas to life; from abstract to tangible. She is the author of Like the Sun at Midday and the host of the In Full Color podcastIn this dynamic + exploratory conversation, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua talks with guest Amy Lohr on these empowering topics:- We are ALL inherently...2023-01-3153 minEmpowered Connection PodcastTraversing Another's Triggers with Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Couples, Conflict, Triggers, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Connection, Self Regulation, Co-regulation, Healthy Relationships, LoveIn this solo episode - part 2 of a series on navigating conflict in relationship - Damodar focuses on how we can be with & navigate another's triggers when in conflict... AND throughout other moments of our relational life with others.An important episode full of practical, transformative & helpful perspectives and tools that will bring you to a better place in successfully managing another person's triggered state and emotional intensity - not only when in conflict with your loved on...2023-01-2425 minEmpowered Connection PodcastInternalized Capitalism from the Outside In with Sarah Bryski-HamrickThemes: Capitalism, Internalized Capitalism, Burnout, Over-functioning, Self Worth, Self Empowerment, Exploitation, Self Healing, Social Revolution, Socio-Economics, TraumaSarah Bryski-Hamrick is a partner, therapist, activist, podcaster, cat friend, plant mom, long time renter and ower of student loans. She is a forever student who loves deepening their yoga and meditation practice while honoring the tradition’s Eastern roots. She loves speaking in her "therapist voice" to calm others down… and desires revolution and liberation for me and all citizens of the world.In this important & illuminating conversation between Sarah and Empowered Connection Podcast host Damo...2023-01-1753 minEmpowered Connection PodcastTraversing Your Own Triggers During Conflict with Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Couples, Conflict, Triggers, Self Regulation, Healthy Relationships, Love, Emotional Intelligence, It’s the 50th episode of the Empowered Connection Podcast! To celebrate, host Damodar Cordua gives his deep gratitude and appreciation for you the listeners coming back each week to learn, grow, and practice new tools for self growth and relationship potential. He also give thanks his special guests sharing their journey & expertise with us on the podcast.In this solo podcast episode, Damodar dives into part one of a two part (or possibly 3 part!) series on conflict in our rela...2023-01-1022 minEmpowered Connection Podcast8 Ways to Uplevel Your Relationships in 2023 with Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Family, Friendship, Love, Relationship Tips, Healthy Relationships, Self Empowerment, Intimacy, Connection, Self GrowthJoin Empowered Connection podcast host & relationship coach & life coach Damodar Cordua for this empowering episode. Up-level all your relationships - from partnership to family to friends, co-workers and other loved ones - as Damodar gives the listening community 8 key ways that can improve your relational capacity, health, success, and potential in the New Year… and beyond!----------------- Connect with Damodar for your Free Discovery Session and...2022-12-2723 minEmpowered Connection PodcastSexual Liberation with Brittany PolicastroThemes: Sex, Sexuality, Authenticity, Empowerment, Orgasm, Sensuality, Eroticism, Connection, Relationships, Trauma, Loving, Intimacy, Women's Sexuality, Human Potential, Self Acceptance, Self LoveBrittany Policastro is a Sexual Liberation Coach, Sexologist, Certified Practitioner of Authentic Tantra and Embodiment Specialist. She guides women through sacred sexual reclamation. Brittany has spent 19 years educating herself on various healing modalities including yogic wisdom, yoga therapy, Reiki, Energy Healing, modern psychology, Somatic Healing and Nonviolent Communication.Her purpose is to support consciously powerful women in releasing the stories that stifle them, healing the wounds and stigmas that define...2022-12-201h 02Empowered Connection PodcastA No Bullsh*t, Honest & Transformative Way to Establish Our New Year’s Goals with Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Empowerment, New Year's Resolutions, Goal-Setting, Purpose, Integrity, Self Growth, Self Improvement, Relationships, Self Awareness, Conscious Living, Values, Lifestyle Practices, Life Coaching As we approach the New Year, there is the common propulsion & expectation to come up with resolutions & goals for the year to come Oftentimes, we get stuck in a fantasy of what we want to do next - coming up with goals that aren’t realistic or aren’t practically aligned as a stepping stone from where we actually are right here, right now.Join Empowered Connection Podca...2022-12-1322 minEmpowered Connection PodcastBuilding Healthy Boundaries For Couples & Individuals During the Holidays & Beyond with Damodar CorduaThemes: Boundaries, Family, Holidays, Self Empowerment, People Pleasing, Partnership, Couples Goals, Over-functioning, Self Betrayal, Self Love, Codependency, Conscious Communication, Relationships, Self AwarenessEmpowerment Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua takes a deeper look at how to cultivate better boundaries during the holiday season with family and friends. Even though it is a festive, social and loving time of the year, the holidays can also be challenging when navigating the nuance of relationship.In this solo episode, Damodar gives us a series of helpful tools for navigating this season AND the rest of the year, in...2022-12-0621 minEmpowered Connection PodcastUnblock Your Body’s Natural Intelligence & Unlock Your Health & Potential with Dr. Jamal FrusterThemes: Health, Healing, Embodiment, Empowerment, Burnout, Healthcare, Trauma, Over-functioning, Self Healing, Stress, Chiropractic, Vulnerability, Presence, GratitudeA hype-man for humanity, Dr. Jamal Fruster is on a life mission of providing for the tired provider, shifting healthcare from the inside out making it more sustainable for those working in it, and powerfully shifting the cultural perspective on chiropractic. The essence of his work goes beyond the pain and into the root cause of the suffering; physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Dr. Jamal is a doctor of chiropractic at The Source in Tucson Arizona & host o...2022-11-2954 minEmpowered Connection PodcastLife’s Great Narrative: Our Story is Still Being Written with Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Empowerment, Self Authorship, Healing, Life Wisdom, Resiliency, Metaphor, Self Awareness, Transformation, Hero's Journey, DepressionIn this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua shares one of his favorite resources for moving through difficulty and finding empowerment in our lives.He also shares some of his own journey as a young person navigating depression, a broken family, and teenage angst + isolation... and the wise perspective an old friend gave him at the right moment to bring life into perspective and create resiliency for years to come.Resources:2022-11-2217 minEmpowered Connection PodcastPsychedelic Integration: Empowering Our Everyday through Peak Experiences with Daniel ShankinThemes: Psychedelics, Psychedelic Integration, Healing, Trauma, Spirituality, Empowerment, Awakening, Somatics, Relationships, Self Love, Self Acceptance, Shadow Work, Yoga Wisdom, AwarenessAs a psychedelic integration coach, Daniel Shankin serves people with emerging spiritual visions as they find ways to weave their new-found truths into their lives in a way that is sustainable, harmonious, compassionate and wise. He works with people from all walks of life and his methods are fiercely practical while maintaining space for mystery and magic to emerge. Daniel offers time tested and scientifically backed tools so clients can create a life...2022-11-1559 minEmpowered Connection PodcastAm I An Overfunctioner? with Damodar CorduaThemes: Overfunctioning, Underfunctioning, Relationships, Codependency, Partnership, Family, Emotional Intelligence, Self Empowerment, Stress, AnxietyIs it easier to get things done, manage your time and manage other people’s time than it is to be with your own experience and emotional landscape?When you take the time to look at yourself - do you tend to fix, rescue, advice-give, and keep busy doing and solving other’s issues?Would you rather take on another person’s responsibilities than deal with the difficulty of interpersonal stress?Is getting your “to-do list” fi...2022-11-0821 minEmpowered Connection PodcastOvercoming Self Sabotage: Why We Get In Our Own Way & 5 Tools to Stop with Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Sabotage, Fear, Disempowerment, Self Betrayal, Relationships, Empowerment, Self Awareness, Self Love, Self Compassion, Imposter Syndrome, Self JudgementHave you ever made decisions that are diametrically opposed to your potential or happiness?Have you acted - consciously or unconsciously - in patterns that throw a grenade into the possibility of living your purpose, succeeding at work or nurturing a positive + loving relationship?In this solo podcast episode, host Damodar Cordua takes a peek into our tendency to self-sabotage and helps the listener understand this insidious tendency (shared by so many...2022-10-2525 minEmpowered Connection PodcastVibration of Connection: How Sound Deepens our Empowerment, Our Healing & Our Relationships with Laura RoseThemes: Sound, Sound Healing, Trauma Healing, Mantra, Music Therapy, Relationships, Empowerment, Creativity, Intimacy, Sexuality, Somatic Healing, Emotional Intelligence, SpiritualityLaura Rose is a cosmic musician and vocal empowerment pioneer with over a decade of experience as a board-certified music therapist and advanced yoga teacher. She blends together modern psychology, sensual embodiment and NeoTantra to inspire others to live their authentic expression and actualize their creative potential. Laura received her degree in music therapy and vocal performance at the University of Iowa. She specializes in vocal embodiment and sensuality, primarily supporting women to heal t...2022-10-1857 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Architecture of a Gaslighter with Damodar CorduaThemes: Gaslighting, Abusive Relationships, Manipulation, Narcissism. Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Relationship Problems, Relationship Tools, Partnership, Emotional Abuse, RelationshipsThe term “gaslighting” is thrown around a lot nowadays. But, in the real world of our relationships, what does it really mean and how can you recognize that it’s happening? How abusive it gaslighting? How common - or uncommon - is it?In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua helps the listener learn more about:- The tell-tale signs that gaslighting is happening- The psychology behind the world of a gaslighte...2022-10-1125 minEmpowered Connection PodcastLove, Loss & Presence: Learning about Death, Dying & Grief with Matthew DwyerTopics: Death, Dying, Grief, Presence, Love, Relationships, Spirituality, Grieving, Connection, Compassion, Emotional Awareness, Healing, Self Healing, Yoga WisdomMatthew Dwyer is grief and death doula, yoga teacher, and kirtan wallah. His deep practice of bhakti yoga has lead him to being of service in end of life care where he educates people on death and dying, works with individuals who are grieving, sits with people who are dying and supports their families. Matthew is the founder of the Being Held Institute, an online network of education and training workshops that helps support others through grief and...2022-10-041h 01Empowered Connection PodcastThe Path to Rebirthing Ourselves with Kate BrentonThemes: Rebirth, Self Growth, Self Empowerment, Storytelling, Elders, Spirituality, Life Inspiration, Hero’s Journey, Personal Growth, Healing Journey, Life Wisdom, Self DiscoveryInspired teacher, author + bodyworker, Kate Brenton, Ed.M, helps people connect the dots between their purpose, passion, and true brilliance. She especially loves meeting women where they are and guiding them back to their center. Kate's holistic work combines life experience with her studies of Polynesian Healing Arts. Clients work with her one-on-one, in intimate online settings + on retreats. She hosts Master Writing courses and is also the host of The...2022-09-271h 04Empowered Connection PodcastLearning Emotional Intelligence and How to Navigate Our Anger with Damodar CorduaThemes: Anger, Emotional Intelligence, Self Growth, Relationships, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, Emotions, Self Empowerment, Self Awareness, Emotional Awareness, Self LoveIn this solo podcast episode host Damodar Cordua brings us even deeper into the need to cultivate emotional intelligence in our lives, specifically with the emotion of anger.In this illuminating & practical talk, we explore:- Our society’s tendency to “make wrong” certain emotions- Spiritual ideas around experiencing emotions- Why learning to be with & hold space for our emotional experience is such a powerful place of empowerment- Gettin...2022-09-2024 minEmpowered Connection PodcastWhat Is Shadow Work? An Introduction with Damodar CorduaThemes: Shadow Work, Healing, Inner Work, Self Healing, Inner Child, Self Awareness, Self Realization, Emotional Intelligence, Trauma, Self Discovery, Relationships, Shame, Guilt, Anger, Sex, Spirituality Have you every wondered more about what lies hidden behind some of the actions, thoughts, patterns and behavior in your life?Ever wonder what the parts of yourself that you judge, dislike or hide from others are telling you?Are you ready to illuminate what lies beneath the surface of the self you present to the world in order for deeper understanding and potential?2022-09-0617 minEmpowered Connection PodcastAre My Partner & I Too Different? with Damodar CorduaAre My Partner & I Too Different? with Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Love, Conflict, Healthy Relationships, Self Worth, Doing the Work, Conscious Relationships, Self Understanding, DifferentiationAre certain differences in relationship incompatible?How alike do my partner & I need to be for this relationship to survive… let alone thrive?Join Damodar on this solo podcast episode as he sheds light on.. & gives tools + perspectives on:- Are differences in relationship good? Bad? - What are the challenges in relationship when we are reckoning with our differences?...2022-08-2316 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe 4 Primary Reasons Couples Fight with Damodar CorduaWhy do partners typically fight about?In episode #25, we discussed the 7 stages of a relationship. Today, and in some following solo episodes, we are going to explore in detail aspects of the stage that many couples get stuck in (or break up during) - the differentiation or challenging stage of a relationshipThis stage can often be characterized by a lot of conflict. Couples fight more & they often don’t know why they are fighting… what they exactly are fighting about… let alone, how to fight with more pro...2022-08-0921 minEmpowered Connection PodcastMoving Past the Paybacks We Get From Holding on to Our Hurt with Damodar CorduaTHEMES: pain, hurt, paybacks, empowerment, attachment, victimhood, healing, self-healing, relationships, self growthSometimes we hold onto our suffering or pain because we are gaining something from itIt might not be a high gain, it might not be a conscious gain...But nonetheless there maybe present some payback that is keeping us stuck - that is preventing us from processing and moving forward into our fullest, most empowered version of who we are meant to becomeIn this solo podcast episode Relationship Coach + Counselor & Life Coach Damodar dives into why we...2022-08-0217 minEmpowered Connection PodcastBecome Empowered by Understanding the 7 Stages of a Partnership with Damodar CorduaBecome Empowered by Understanding the 7 Stages of a PartnershipEmpowered Connection Podcast #25 with Damodar CorduaIn this solo podcast episode, Relationship Coach + Life Coach - and host of the podcast - Damodar breaks down the 7 primary stages of a partnership.Understanding these 7 stages can shed light as to where we are in our relationship and give us perspective on what work might need to be done to step into the next space of our partnership's potential.Even if we have been together for a lifetime, we may r...2022-07-1922 minEmpowered Connection PodcastShifting & Empowering Patterns of Intergenerational Toxic Masculinity with Michael BrasherShifting & Empowering Patterns of Intergenerational Toxic Masculinity Empowered Connection Podcast 24 with Michael Brasher & Damodar CorduaIn this important interview, Damodar talks with Michael Brasher - the CEO of Boys To Men a Tucson nonprofit that strengthens communities by nurturing intentional spaces for boys, men, and masculine-identified folks to practice honest and mindful relationship,Reshaping and healing toxic intergenerational patterns of masculinity touches all parts of our world, no matter our age or gender. In this episode we dive deep into why that is so - and how we can shift the narrative to hea...2022-07-121h 02Empowered Connection PodcastLearning About & Moving Through Burnout with a Burnout Coach with Lauren BaptisteLearning About & Moving Through Burnout with a Burnout Coach with special guest Lauren BaptisteEmpowered Connection Episode #23 with special guest Lauren Baptiste and host Damodar CorduaIn this conversation with burnout expert, coach, & speaker Lauren Baptiste of Acheloa Wellness, we dive into these helpful topics & tools:- What exactly is “burnout?”- Lauren shares her personal story of burnout and how it brought her into her healing + towards her mission- What are the internal stories + patterns from within that bring us to the exte...2022-07-051h 05Empowered Connection PodcastStanding Strong In & Speaking Our Needs in 7 Steps with Damodar CorduaStanding Strong In & Speaking Our Needs in 7 Steps (Needs, Pt. 2) with Damodar CorduaEmpowered Connection Podcast Episode 22 with Damodar Cordua In this solo podcast episode, podcast host Damodar Cordua dives back into the subject of needs in relationship and offers an actionable 7 steps within which to stand strong in + speak our needsCultivating our needs in relationship - a recapIf we don’t develop a culture within our relationships wherein we can speak our most important needs they go “underground” and come out it ways that compromise ourselves and ou...2022-06-2825 minEmpowered Connection PodcastWe Are All Needy: A Framework for Understanding Our Needs in Relationships with Damodar CorduaWe Are All Needy: A Framework for Understanding Our Needs in RelationshipsEpisode 21 of the Empowered Connection Podcast with Damodar CorduaIn this solo podcast episode, Damodar dives into:How “neediness” is pathologized by our current cultureDeconstructing this myth: the essence of who we are is actually needy and interdependent - we are ALL needy people Relational Needs: Our relationships mirror our fundamental survival + emotional needs, regardless of how “independent” we think we are or should beIf we do have relational needs, how do we figur...2022-06-2123 minEmpowered Connection PodcastListening is Loving: Transforming Our Lives Through Intentional Conversation & Amplifying What We Love with K.Lee MarksListening is Loving: Transforming Our Lives Through Intentional Conversation & Amplifying What We Love with K.Lee MarksEpisode 20 of the Empowered Connection Podcast with K. Lee Marks and Damodar CorduaAre you ready to amplify what you love?Do you long for intentional conversation and listening from the heart?Join Damodar as he interviews podcast coach, music producer, and branding consultant K. Lee Marks for a dynamic episode that covers these topics and more:- The importance, possibilities & profound magic of deep listening when in relationship & communication...2022-06-141h 14Empowered Connection PodcastHow To Give Feedback with Damodar CorduaGiving others feedback. What an edgy place.For many of our relationships, this feels challenging & uncomfortable - I know it does for me.Or it feels toxic or hurtful... eliciting defensiveness, shutting down, or resentmentIs it hard for you to give your loved ones honest feedback?Do you give feedback but, when you do, it seems not to land, not to be heard, or it’s resented?Are you looking to bring a culture of supportive + challenging feedback into your relationships for more intimacy, honesty, grow...2022-06-0728 minEmpowered Connection PodcastHeart Perfect: Feeling it All - Creative Expression + Authenticity with Sri KalaHow does creativity bring us to the depths of our authentic self?How can we break past a need for perfection and catapult ourselves into the realm of feeling it all - our" imperfections," our full spectrum of emotions, and all the corners of our self?How can we be "Heart-Perfect?"In this episode of the Empowered Connection Podcast, Damodar interviews Sri Kala, music producer, songwriter, and coach for artists who want to unlock their true creative expression and share that with the world. Sri has created well-loved spiritually-rooted music and c...2022-05-311h 15Empowered Connection PodcastCommunication Up-level: Personhood VS Behavior with Damodar CorduaCommunication Up-level: Personhood VS Behavior Episode #17 of the Empowered Connection Podcast- Ready to communicate more successfully with your loved ones?- Want a simple, profound way to improve your relationships & connect with more love + support to others?Join Relationship Coach + Life Coach, host Damodar Cordua on this shorter solo podcast episode as he dials into a simple, profound way to up-level and improve your communication style with others - especially your most loved ones.~Receive more empowering communication tools and relationship tips via Damodar instagram...2022-05-2414 minEmpowered Connection PodcastDeveloping Conscious Connection to the Natural World & Falling In Love with Nature for Self Preservation + Self Empowerment with Radha CorduaDeveloping Conscious Connection to the Natural World & Falling In Love with Nature for Self Preservation + Self Empowerment with Radha CorduaEpisode #16 of the Empowered Connection Podcast On this episode of the Empowered Connection Podcast Damodar talks with his wife, Radha Cordua, herbalist, Ayurveda practitioner, conscious creator, and developer of Bhava Wellness healing remedy herbal lineIn this conversational episode Radha & Damodar explore connecting to the natural world as a way to heal, deepen awareness, create magical relationships, and empower ourselvesSome Inspiring Topics Covered:...2022-05-171h 00Empowered Connection PodcastSlowing Down, The Benefits of Becoming Present with Ourselves + Our Loved Ones, & Deep Intimate Connection with Damodar CorduaSlowing Down, The Benefits of Becoming Present with Ourselves + Our Loved Ones, & Deep Intimate Connection with Damodar CorduaOn this solo episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua speaks on the need to slow down in our lives and become more present with ourselves and our loved ones. This is the real root He provides the listener with two practices that they can bring back into their own individual life and their relationship. Key Topics Covered:Relationship as a path of self-understanding and self growthWe need to do s...2022-05-1020 minEmpowered Connection PodcastRunning as an Act of Devotion, Surrender, Healing & Processing Grief with Eddie GiedaRunning as an Act of Devotion, Surrender, Healing & Processing Grief with Eddie GiedaEmpowered Connection Podcast Episode #14 with Eddie Gieda and Damodar CorduaIn one of the most powerful, heart-opening, and inspiring episodes to date, Damodar takes some time talking with vegan long distance runner Eddie Gieda - hearing his story of losing his life partner & most loved one in a sudden car accident. Eddie gives the listener an inspirational journey of survival and moving through grief… and powerful path to surrender, devotion and deep healing through the process and pra...2022-05-031h 20Empowered Connection PodcastBoundary Work: A Dynamic Way To Envision + Practice Boundaries that Empower Our LivesEmpowered Connection Podcast Episode 13: A Dynamic Way To Envision + Practice Boundaries that Empower Our Lives with Damodar CorduaDo you have a difficulty envisioning, creating, and sticking to boundaries that bring you deeper into your integrity + empowerment?Are you looking for a framework to allow healthy boundary-making to become a practice - one that can adapt to the changes of life, yet continually bring you back to center?Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua for this solo podcast episode and open up to a process that will h...2022-04-2616 minEmpowered Connection PodcastWhen We Betray Our Authentic Self For Connection: An Exploration + Healing Meditation with Damodar CorduaHave you ever felt like you had to “hide” who you are in order to be accepted by others? By family, friends, communities?Have you developed patterns in life based on this self betrayal? Ones that you may still be stuck in to this very day?In this solo podcast Damodar talks about one of the core human splits: our need to connect & be accepted and our need for self expression and authenticityDuring times in our journey, many of us experience self-betrayal - hiding parts of our true self...2022-04-1216 minEmpowered Connection PodcastConscious Parenting, Conscious Communication + Empowerment with Kelly WhitakerConscious Parenting, Conscious Communication + Empowerment with Kelly WhitakerEmpowered Connection Podcast Episode #8 with Kelly Whitaker & Damodar Cordua- How do we empower our children, see and reveal their greatness?- How do we create conscious communication habits with our kids? And with the world?- How do we heal our own childhood hurt via our role as parents?- What are our unique gifts to this world?In this episode Damodar talks with Conscious Parenting Coach + Women’s Empowerment Coach Kelly Whitaker 2022-04-0554 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThree Things You Can Do As An Individual To Create More Success, Resilience, & Awareness in Your Relationships with Damodar CorduaThree Things You Can Do As An Individual To Create More Success, Resilience, & Awareness in Your Relationships with Damodar Cordua - Empowered Connection Podcast Episode #9⁃Are you an individual and looking to work on your ability in relationships - especially primary partnerships?⁃Are you single & ready to take on some transformative practices that can give you much better mastery - & ultimately, success - over how you do relationships?⁃Do you continue to keep getting stuck in confusing, negative or disempowered patterns with your partner or partners over the years?Then...2022-03-2915 minEmpowered Connection PodcastRelationships as Our Mirror & the Transformative Practice of Deep Listening with Our Loved Ones with Damodar CorduaOn this solo podcast I dive into the realm of relationships...highlighting how relationships are actually a mirror into our own self-healing & self-growth... And highlighting the transformative relationship practice of listening until our loved ones feel fully heard, fully felt, and fully understood.Are you ready to see that reflection?Are you ready to find you own self-growth & empowerment through what you see?Are you able to listen fully to your loved ones and notice what that process nurtures & empowers in yourself, the other, and your relationship?On this ep...2022-03-1517 minEmpowered Connection PodcastReframing Our Blame with Damodar CorduaDo you have the tendency to blame others?Are some of your key relationships plagued with blaming? Is blaming creating difficulty, resentment and a lack of connection?Are you looking for some perspective and tools to move out from and transform your propensity to blame?In this solo podcast episode join Relationship + Life Coach and host Damodar Cordua for a helpful look into a simple but profound reason why we blame... AND some great perspectives and tips on how we can transform our blame into our ability to learn more about o...2022-03-0115 minEmpowered Connection PodcastWhy You Need to Become Emotionally Intelligent - Damodar CorduaOn this solo episode I talk about the dire need for emotional awareness and intelligence in our livesIn fact, this need is one of my main purposes as a relationship + life coachOften we repress, distract, push aside, get overwhelmed by, or betray our emotions. It is not that we are “unemotional” people, rather it is that we don’t have the tools within which to process, understand, and move from what our emotions are showing us.This leads to the emotions coming out sideways in patterns that can compromise ourselves, our lov...2022-02-1617 minEmpowered Connection PodcastOur Pain & Struggle is the Doorway to Our Journey of Healing, Transformation & Empowerment - Damodar CorduaOn this solo episode I talk about why our times of pain & struggle are the signposts for entering into our healing, self-awareness, transformation + empowerment.I share the story of the Bhagavad Gita, the perennial spiritual classic, that starts with existential crisis as the gateway into deeper understanding of the self.I also share a part of my own journey. During a difficulty in an area of my own life - in my partnership - I was able to see my pain not only only an opportunity to grow, but as pathway to look for mentors, t...2022-02-1614 min
Empowered Connection PodcastTrailer - Connect more fully to yourself, to others, and to something greater - Damodar CorduaAre you ready to connect? This is the Empowered Connection Podcast where we empower our listeners to connect more fully to themselves, to each other, and to something greater. We do this with the help of myself & special guests including healers, coaches, artists, seekers, and those on a journey of healing + self growth. WelcomePrepare yourself for conversations that will bring you deeper into your own self-awareness & healing, that will empower your most important relationships, and that will connect you to something grander... within yourself, within others, and within the world This is the Empowered Con...2022-02-0802 min