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The Real Elevation PodcastReal Elevation Podcast : Episode#87 More Humour, Less Heartache – How to Have More Fun With Your Fitness in 3 Simple Steps pt.1Let’s be honest—most men and women over 40 are making fitness way harder than it needs to be. If your workouts feel like punishment and your motivation keeps burning out, this episode is your wake-up call.Host Mike Hendricks breaks down why taking your fitness too seriously is sabotaging your long-term success—and how to flip the script with 3 simple, science-backed strategies that inject fun, freedom, and laughter back into your routine.It’s time to enjoy the process and actually look forward to your workouts.💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode...2025-05-0419 min
Be. Play. Love.From Pitchforks to Peace: How to Lead in Highly Polarized Times w/ Betsy StixOne of the unfortunate truths about our society is that we’re more divided, vitriolic and operating from fear than ever before. When we look at how people interact, there’s no civility and mutual respect anymore. There’s this huge collective tantrum and so much anger in people and it’s completely polarized the culture. This is especially highlighted in the political sphere. From local government to the national stage, there’s more division, more contempt than collaboration, and that was never the original intent. At its very basic level, government is about creatin...2025-03-0439 min
Ramblings of a Restless MindBackstage Pass: Harmonies & High Jinks with Chris Hendricks (Part 2)In this episode, Chris Hendricks showcases his musical prowess with an impromptu cover of TLC's 'Waterfalls' and performs original songs, while engaging in candid discussions about the music industry, the challenges of artistry, and personal experiences. The episode also touches on themes of manifestation, vision boards, and the joy of creating music. The hosts and Chris share humorous and insightful moments, making it an inspiring session for music lovers and aspiring artists.00:00 Introduction and Welcome Back01:02 Chris Hendricks' Performance: Waterfalls05:08 Post-Performance Reactions06:13 Musical Preferences and Song Choices13:10 Vision Boards...2025-02-1132 minBe. Play. Love.How to See Infinite Possibilities Instead of Limited Options“I had no choice”, “this is how it has to be”, and “it is what it is” - for some people these aren’t just statements, these are the basis of their entire reality. Rather than seeing themselves as architects with a wealth of choices to shape their lives, they feel resigned to the idea that things are fixed just as they are. No alternatives and no changes. This way of thinking goes back to the same place: the old stories we run in our minds become the cages that limit our own lives. It’s like we’re sittin...2025-02-1138 minBe. Play. Love.A Symphony Within: The Dance Between Energy, Mass, and Space w/ Gay HendricksAre we mass, energy or space? That’s the question many have pondered time and time again. The answer: we’re all 3 at the same time. We are not just bodies of mass, though we feel the weight of our flesh, the solidity of our bones. Beneath this, there is a huge symphonic panorama inside of us, and when we tap into it, we can experience true healing and freedom. Often we focus on the mass aspect of existence, but the energetic aspect has a lot more power. The ever-shifting flow of energy that rises and fa...2025-02-0433 minRamblings of a Restless MindBackstage Pass: Harmonies & High Jinks with Chris Hendricks (Part 1)Welcome back to another episode of Ramblings of a Restless Mind! In this laugh-filled episode, hosts Jen and DeJah welcome the multi-talented musician, songwriter, and keynote speaker Chris Hendricks. Chris shares his incredible journey from his experiences living with cerebral palsy to opening for major artists like Alanis Morissette and sharing pizza with Dave Matthews. He explains the power of vulnerability, empathy, and the importance of authentic storytelling in music. Chris also gives a sneak peek into his upcoming projects, offers insightful perspectives on the music industry, and treats listeners to an intimate, guitar-backed performance. Tune in f...2025-01-281h 09Be. Play. Love.Willingness, Not Willpower: The Secret to Generating Endless EnergyThe energy of connection knows no limitations. It has the ability to shift us from tired to fully engaged in seconds. It creates a magical space of discovery and joy where there was none. It also creates aliveness, and a limitless resource of energy that regenerates constantly. How do we find this energy for ourselves and tap into it? Accessing the energy of connection starts with a willingness, not a will. When we will ourselves to do something we’re forcing the energy, and that won’t create connection or engagement. Willingness, on the other hand...2025-01-2833 min
Picking DaisiesMotherhood SOS: How Support Now Rescues Moms in CrisisIn this heartfelt episode, host Mary Hendricks sits down with Jordan Arogeti, co-founder of Support Now, to explore the intersection of motherhood, mental health, and the transformative power of community. Jordan shares her personal journey as a mom and the inspiration behind creating Support Now, a platform designed to simplify and normalize asking for help during life’s biggest moments. Together, they discuss how societal expectations and shame create barriers to seeking support and how technology can bridge those gaps.Whether it’s creating a registry for meals, childcare, or emotional support, Support Now is redefining the way...2025-01-2134 min
The Big LeapThe 90-Second Reset with Dr. Joan Rosenberg60 million Americans are affected by mental health issues. One in five will experience mental health issues within a given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. The good news is: you don’t have to stay stuck, sad, lonely, frustrated. You don’t have to feel useless or lost. The pain of that will pass - and it may pass quicker than you think. I’ve known Dr. Joan Rosenberg for 15 years. When I am in a rut, or I feel stagnant or stuck, I talk to her. She is a bestselling author and a...2025-01-1441 minBe. Play. Love.When Yes Becomes No: How to Back Out of An AgreementHave you ever said yes to so many things and then realize you’ve overcommitted and now have way too much on your plate? Or maybe you agreed to something and then your circumstances changed and you just don’t have the bandwidth for it anymore? Or perhaps an initial ‘yes’ is now slowly morphing into a ‘no’ now that you have more info… Noticing and voicing a change in agreement is something a lot of people struggle with - something we really have to practice to maintain and increase our aliveness. We might fe...2025-01-1438 minBe. Play. Love.From Dysfunction to Delight: How to Remap Your Relationship TemplateYou meet someone, start a relationship thinking “this is something new”...and then it turns out to be the same old pattern repeating itself. What gives? Everyone seeks relationships that nourish them - we want to be with people who love us, see us, make us feel safe, and to be regarded with value and appreciation. But so many of us keep finding ourselves in dysfunctional relationships and end up picking the same type of people over and over again. How do we break this cycle and learn to pick the right people for us? How...2025-01-0736 minPicking DaisiesWe are back Picking Daisies...Let's Catch UpAfter a year-long hiatus, Mary Hendricks is back with a brand-new season of Picking Daisies! In this deeply personal and reflective episode, Mary shares the journey that led to her break from podcasting and what inspired her return. She opens up about her struggles with mental health, including PMDD and ADHD, and the lessons she’s learned about healing, community, and the power of honesty.Mary also takes listeners behind the scenes of her podcasting experience, discussing the importance of structure and how embracing both the messy and beautiful parts of life has shaped her approach to th...2025-01-0725 minBe. Play. Love.The Upper Limit: How to Embrace Success Without ApologyBeing told “don't be too much”, “don’t be full of yourself”, or “how dare you earn great money doing what you love?” Only looking for what’s wrong in your appearance. Feeling strange and squirmy when we get a compliment. Diminishing the accomplishments we should happily celebrate or even apologizing when we do something well. Achieving something amazing and then sabotaging yourself right after. These are all manifestations of The Upper Limit Problem, and in many ways, it’s the biggest problem almost all people face. At the heart of this issue is our inability to hold more positive...2024-12-3049 minBe. Play. Love.A Season of Wisdom and Wonder: Unwrapping Inspiration from Our Favorite PeopleIn this wonderful, essence-filled space we’ve created with this podcast, we’ve been joined by some of our favorite people to Be, Play and Love with us! Our guests gave us the gift of their presence and we’re so excited to share that with you as a present of our own this festive season. It has been so delightful to share this space with you and our visitors, and experience first-hand, the powerful wisdom and insights that emerged. An actress brimming with creativity. Business leaders who are choosing to play at work. An author...2024-12-231h 06Be. Play. Love.How to Engage in the Holidays Without Abandoning YourselfHolidays and family gatherings are the ultimate test of our ability to be with ourselves, and how well we’ve healed from our personal difficulties. When people come together, it triggers all sorts of challenges - unspoken tensions and tribal rules, old behavioral patterns, and people acting out because they can’t express their own wants. In these environments, it’s really easy to get outside of ourselves and get swept up by the drama of the dynamic, and stay there until it depletes us…but it doesn’t have to be that way. There’s a way for...2024-12-1737 minBe. Play. Love.How to Stop Saying Yes When You Mean NoThe word “no” is two simple letters, but it’s one of the hardest things to say, especially for women. We’re taught to always be agreeable, accommodating and automatically say yes to anything we’re asked to do. That’s why people can go their whole lives without actually knowing how to say ‘no’. So our default answer is “oh sure” or “yes, of course” even if it’s to our own detriment. Our place of ‘no’ is already inside us, we just have to find it and vocalize it in order to release our genuine power. It might fe...2024-12-1032 minBe. Play. Love.How to Balance Deep Inquiry with Present-Moment Joy w/ Rahul DeedwaniaMany of us live our lives at an interesting intersection. There’s the structure of life and things that need to get done, and the curiosity, inquiry and pondering of the meaning of everything. We’re constantly asking questions from a place of deep introspection. It’s the way we are, and perhaps the way we’ve always been. We just can’t help but immerse ourselves in every aspect of the richness of lived experience. We’re constantly balancing what’s coming through us and what’s coming at us from the rest of the world. 2024-12-0345 minBe. Play. Love.You’re Not too Old For Play: How to Enrich Your Life With CreativityWhen we’re young, we’re encouraged to play, learn new things and express our creativity in endless ways. As we grow up, we find out that we can’t carry that same energy into adulthood - that society places an expiry date on learning new things. If you’re a grown up, it’s time to be responsible, serious, predictable - there’s no room for play and discovery. Not only is that no fun at all, it also robs us of two things that make life worthwhile - curiosity and creativity. Meeting life with an attitu...2024-11-2634 minBe. Play. Love.Drops of Love: How to Cure Self-Destruction and Self-SabotageThe path from self-destruction to self-love isn’t a straight line. Often when we commit to a kinder relationship with ourselves, we falter and self-sabotage and that leads to guilt and shame, which leads to more self-sabotage. But shame will never fuel a real transformation. What if we could interrupt this spiral with something more friendly? What if we could tap into even the tiniest amount of self-love? Most people don’t realize that shame is actually a fuel, and our society conditions us to feed our souls that way, but it doesn’t work...2024-11-1932 minBe. Play. Love.How to Let Your Body Lead in a Crisis: The Power of Feeling to HealIn the event of an emergency ... the body takes notice, but the problem is, people often try to ignore the body or stop it from responding. From panicking and hero-ing to pretending that nothing happened, we tend to come up with ways to avoid the healthiest response of all - feeling. Between a stimulus and a response, there’s this tiny and beautiful opening for us to go with the feeling. When we go with the feeling, it creates expansion, aliveness and a greater capacity to be with big and unexpected things. Ultimately, th...2024-11-0530 minBe. Play. Love.How to Use (Not Abuse) the Medicine of AttentionAttention is one of the most important aspects of human existence, but also the most misunderstood and misused. When we give attention to ourselves in a nurturing and curious way, it’s a powerful medicine that supports our essence and self-love. When we seek it through external validation it becomes a destructive drug we can never get enough of. So many people get these two things mixed up and find themselves leaning more on the attention they receive for what they do and achieve. Of course attention and affection from people who love us is...2024-10-2930 min
The ASK PodcastEpisode 1.3 - Fear and The Unity of The Bible (Ft. Michael Hendricks & Ethan Keffer)This is The Bible Breakdown.
In this episode, we explore what Fear is and and whether it's negative connotation is well deserved or not. We are also delving into what difference there is between Worldly fear and Godly fear. Not only that! But we begin to talk about how the truth of fear of the Lord points towards the incredible unity of the Bible - ultimately pointing to a divine hand on its creation.
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2024-10-2135 minBe. Play. Love.Grief In the Body: How to Heal Through Body Wisdom w/ Abby HildebrandAs mothers, we truly get to experience the magic and miracle of the female body as we carry our babies. Growing another human being makes us bring attention to our bodies in a profound way. But at the same time, that beautiful experience gets interrupted in the birthing process, especially when it’s a traumatic one. Because the process of having a baby is governed so heavily by the mechanics and medicine of it, we can lose that connection with our bodies and struggle to reignite it. Perhaps you stop feeling safe in your body. Or you escape into your b...2024-10-1536 minBe. Play. Love.Generosity Is Easy, Receiving Care Is Hard...Here's WhyThe whole point of living in true connection with others is the social exchange of giving and receiving love and care. Many of us don’t have any problem with the giving part - we do that freely. But when it comes to being the recipient of that gift? Not so much, and it manifests in many ways. You could be the caregiver struggling to carve out space to care for yourself. Or you’re the friend not sure exactly how to be there for someone in a vulnerable time. 2024-09-2432 minBe. Play. Love.Repair, Recommit and Reinvent: A Better Way to Deal With a MisunderstandingIn our relationships with others, there are going to be wrinkles, miscommunications and misunderstandings. Depending on how they are dealt with, they can make bonds stronger or break them down completely. A small dropped stitch of disconnection doesn't have to disintegrate the entire fabric of a friendship. There is a way to express how we feel without completely breaking down the flow of connection and irreparably rupturing the relationship. In fact, we can use these challenging moments to bring things to the surface, clarify our communication and ultimately move through the me...2024-09-1736 minBe. Play. Love.The Unarguable Truth: How to Experience the Deliciousness of Your RealnessOne of the uncomfortable truths about human beings is that telling the truth and saying what's real is very difficult. In fact, some of us believe that lying about our experience preserves trust and makes our relationships stronger. In reality, this discomfort with truth is a discomfort with feeling our feelings and expressing our real emotions. That in turn dampens our spontaneity, disconnects us from our realness, and robs our relationships of the authenticity they need to be strong and fulfilling. It’s impossible to truly BE WITH...2024-09-0337 minThe Real Elevation PodcastEpisode#50 The Voice Behind The Mic: Meet Your Host MikeIn this episode, our host, Mike Hendricks takes the spotlight to share and breif insight into his personal journey, core values, and the vision behind The Real Elevation Podcast.Tune in and learn abouut Mike and his dreams desires and disappointments on life journey so far.Get ready to be inspired by the story of the voice behind the mic.https://www.paulcheksblog.com/are-you-spent/https://www.proctorgallagherinstitute.com/https://www.josephrodrigues.com/What is Haute Horology ?Upgrade your health and reach your goals with MikeAp...2024-08-0421 minBe. Play. Love.Don't Fight a Transition, Let the New Energy In w/ Gay HendricksMost people experience an injury or other setbacks as an enterprise of the universe working against us. But what if the setback is an important transition, a demarcation point between who we were and who we’re going to be going forward? Maybe it’s buried traumas we need to address, or physical healing that will make us stronger. We’re being given the opportunity for a completion so we can move into a deeper level of harmony with ourselves and others. It’s so easy to fall into the old programmin...2024-07-3041 min
The Big Leap3 Steps to Radical Simplicity and JoyA “How-To” with Gay HendricksMike is psyched to share today’s new podcast episode with Gay Hendricks because he guarantees it will have you rethinking your relationship with "stuff."Gay opened Mike's eyes to some profound insights about how eliminating excess possessions and complications can create more space for your true genius to flourish.Gay talked about going through his closet each year and getting rid of anything he doesn't absolutely love wearing. Imagine only surrounding yourself with clothes that give you an "erotic experience" when you put them on!T...2024-04-2440 minThe Big Leap“Your Big Leap Year”- Gay's Brand New BookDon't miss it!Mike has an insanely valuable resource to share with you today - one that's going to blow your mind wide open and put you on the fast track to unleashing your full creative genius.As you know, Mike's brilliant co-host, Gay Hendricks, is the legendary author of “The Big Leap” and other transformational books. Well, he just released a groundbreaking new book called “Your Big Leap Year,” and the conversation about it was truly next-level.Gay lays out a power-packed "owner's manual for your mind" to help you make daily expansio...2024-03-3055 minBe. Play. Love.The Upper Limit is the One Problem: How to Make Friends With It w/Gay HendricksIn the journey towards our most expansive, genius self, one thing likes to trip us up - our upper limit. You’ll see it in every culture, no one goes unscathed. If you’ve ever noticed how your big mess ups happen after something good happens - you might have an upper limit problem. Anytime we grow, a loud alarm goes off in our subconscious. Our job is to integrate our “more-ness” so we can truly experience our own lovability, wholeness, and essence. We have the wonderful treasure of becoming tuned in to our...2024-02-1349 min
Glocal CitizensEpisode 197: Distilling Lifescapes From the Road with Dante Bowen HendricksGreetings Glocal Citizens!
This week I’m joined by a longtime friend as we both were about to hit the road for weekend adventures fitting our global missions. Photographer, Dante Bowen Hendricks found his calling as a young boy in Guyana when his uncle gifted him a rotating globe that sparked Dante's fascination with world cultures. After immigrating to Brooklyn as a teen, Dante set aside his passion for photography to work in his family's shipping business. But a trip back home reignited his love for the art.
Dante dove into developing his skills, studying at...2023-11-1444 minThe Real Elevation PodcastReal Elevation Podcast : Episode 14 Pt.2 The Science of Successful Living SimplifiedYou know that you want to have more success and well-being in your life, but how do you do it?In today's episode, we discuss the second two steps of 4, to living a successful life.You can listen to the last two steps that you can begin to implement in your life if you want to live a successful and healthy life.If you missed the first episode, listen back to it here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2213451/13901662Remember you can access a copy of my latest book when you visit https://hendricksholistic...2023-11-1120 min