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Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCWaking Up and Growing Up with Diane Musho HamiltonI so loved this dialogue with beloved Zen teacher, author and award winning mediator Diane Musho Hamilton. This conversation is for you if you want to learn practical tools for courageous conflict resolution and discover how to transform your anger, fear and grief into potent sources of insight and wisdom.We explore:the distinction between 'waking up' and 'growing up, and how to do bothwhy and how to trust even your most challenging emotionshow to access the trustworthy guidance that comes from true presenceways to skillfully navigate the current intensity of political and societal c...2025-07-181h 18
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCRisk, Flow and the Power of Attention with Ryan LeechRyan Leech was a pro trials mountain biker for 25 years, performing thousands of stunt shows for the likes of Crankworx, Red Bull, and Cirque du Soleil, and also holds an Integral Master Coach™ certification.Ryan offers insight into the complexities of risk and identifies 6 unique flow states, how to cultivate a relationship with uncertainty, the transformative impact of yoga and embodiment on his approach to riding, and the importance of learning and curiosity in both sports and life. We also look at the role of generosity on our path of personal evolution and discuss the digi...2025-06-071h 24
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCRedefining Leadership with Neema NamadamuNeema Namadamu is the visionary founder of Hero Women Rising and an indomitable peace and women's rights advocate from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In our conversation today she shares her warmth and humor, wise insights and no bullshit approach to leadership. We talk about:navigating challenging times of political and social unrestforgiveness and inner strength how a deep sense of purpose helps us overcome barriersliving with fear and uncertaintypersonal resilience and advocacybreaking the cycle of intergenerational traumathe healing, creative nature of communitythe power of women coming togetherthe impact of war on men, and their role in s...2025-03-2255 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCCreating True Wealth with Sarah McCrumJoin me for a conversation with Sarah McCrum, author of “Love Money, Money Loves You”, about how to free yourself from fear and stress around money and create true wealth and well-being in your life.We explore:the true nature of energy ~ and the powerful possibilites inherent in knowing how to work with itwhy we feel fear and stress around money why it’s essential to participate in the circulation of moneyour natural capacity to influence change and create well-being in our personal lives and in the bigger worldthe system of value exchange that generates all the abu...2025-03-021h 21
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC"Caring for the Earth" with Cynthia Jurs35 years ago, Cynthia Jurs met a 106-year-old lama high in the mountains of Tibet and asked him a question that changed the course of her life. In her new memoir, applauded by elders including Joanna Macy, David Abrams, Jack Kornfield and her beloved long-time teacher Thich Nhat Hahn, Cynthia recounts her decades-long quest of burying Earth Treasure Vases to bring care to areas of the Earth most in need of protection and healing.Join us for an inspiring conversation about:trusting intuition and magicletting curiosity lead the waylooking to the stars for guidancea...2025-01-011h 23
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCUnlocking Your Potential: Neuroscience and the 7 Levels of Effectiveness with Ursula Pottinga, PCCThe most current research on the brain has shown us that when you understand how your brain works, you can influence how it operates to increase your emotional and mental well-being. In this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by Ursula Pottinga, PCC, professional coach and co-leader of an intensive neuro-transformational coach training program I completed this year. Ursula has been coaching leaders for years on how to increase the value of their impact using BeAbove Leadership’s Map of the Seven Levels of Personal, Group, and Organizational Effectiveness. The 7 Levels increa...2024-12-021h 07
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCReclaim Your Life Force: Decluttering Your Energetic Space with Lynda CaesaraLynda Caesara is a structural body worker who’s spent decades working with imbalances in the body. She helps people come back into optimal health through both physical and energetic alignment. In our conversation Lynda speaks to managing our electro-magnetic fields and offers five essential practices for connecting to and harnessing energy in the body. Done consistently, these practices will support you in creating a clear and grounded energetic field so you can access the full power of your life force.We explore:working with the body's innate capacity to healunderstanding fear and our ner...2024-10-011h 16
The Wize Wisdom Women ShowTracking YES with Guest: Liz WiltzenI had the honor of having a joyous conversation with Liz Wiltzen. Her "Tracking Yes", a guide to everyday magic methodology is such a life changer.Being out in nature intentionally, being present, notice things, arrange them and carry on- potentially, creating mandalas. Often, we want the thing we don't have until we have it and realize it is not close to what you thought you would experience. Following patriarchal conditioning, forever seeking but never finding fulfillment. What if you COULD?ASK - why are you here?Explore, get curious in midlife e...2024-08-2050 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCThe Healing Power of Psychedelics with Rogers MassonOn today’s show I’m talking with Rogers Masson, a friend and remarkable human, who opens up about his journey with PTSD, and the transformative effects he experienced through psychedelic assisted therapy. We talk about why trauma is such a challenging thing for us to navigate, and ways to orient to it that support integration and wholeness.Rogers speaks about how the effects of MDMA (aka: Ecstasy) were significantly more healing for him than traditional therapy and also shares a negative impact in his treatment that moved him to draw on his 30 year career as a...2024-07-131h 52
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCEight Practices for Living Consciously with Steve TaylorSteve Taylor is a transpersonal psychologist, researcher and author of 15 best-selling books on psychology and spirituality.Our conversation begins with one of his earlier books: “Disconnected: The Roots of Human Cruelty, and How Connection Can Heal the World” which explores the continuum of human nature from psychopathy to spirituality and then we turn toward his most recent book “The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening” which delves into eight qualities of spiritually awakened people: dis-identification from the egogratitudepresencealtruismacceptanceintegration with the bodydetachmentembracing mortalitySteve shares practical exercises and meditations that help us cultivate these qualities, and offer...2024-06-041h 01
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC"Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity and Kindness" with Margaret WheatleyMeg Wheatley is the author of 12 books, a social activist, a global leadership and organizational consultant, a Buddhist practitioner and a guide and trainer for Warriors for the Human Spirit. After a lifetime of activism and a deep understanding of how living systems work, she’s come to realize that life is no longer subject to the kind of interventions that used to be effective. In today's conversation we explore her newest book Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity and Kindness in Ourselves and Our Organizations and what’s possible when we follow...2024-04-061h 20
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCC"Writing By Heart - Discovering the Medicine and Magic of Your Muse" with Meredith HellerIn a world craving genuine connection, Meredith Heller's latest book, 'Writing by Heart: A Poetry Path to Healing and Self Discovery,' offers a sanctuary. Leaving home at 13 to find her own way in the world led Meredith Heller through dangerous and heartbreaking terrain, but she didn't just survive; she thrived. In our conversation today Meredith delves into the challenges of navigating adolescence, the beauty of becoming fully authentic and deeply connected to life through the initiation of adversity, and shares how her profound trust in the natural world supported her as she learned to...2024-03-141h 13
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCTracking Magic Through the Shadows with Liz WiltzenJoin me for a conversation with Pete McLean where we explore the power of finding beauty in the darkest places and how you can keep coming back into a creative relationship with life—no matter what it throws your way.We talk about:Tracking Yes: what it is, how it began and what it means to truly live ittrusting the love that binds us and powerful ways to connect with its guidancedogs as spiritual teachers and what they show us when we’re paying attentiontracking the threads of beauty and magic through the darkest placesI re...2024-02-191h 20
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCThe Power and Grace of Our 14 Foot Falls with Pete McLeanShow Notes: Pete McLean was doing carpentry work when a scaffolding collapsed and he fell 14 feet onto rocks, breaking several bones in his lower body. Sometimes the falls come for us, and sometimes we choose to leap, but either way, Pete holds that our falls are the moments in our lives when something deeper in us is creating an opening to make itself visible and expressed in this world. Could it be that the thing that we spend most of our time keeping beneath the surface- because of fear or shame or s...2024-01-241h 28
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCRitual, Love and Transformation: Navigating the Journey of Death and Dying with Dr. Martha Jo AtkinsIn this insightful conversation with end-of-life counsellor Dr. Martha Jo Atkins, we explore the power of restoring our natural connection with death in a culture that is conditioned to resist it.We delve into:the clarity that happens when we partner with death as an allyhow to cultivate the presence to support our beloved humans and pets at end of lifethe value of ritual and ceremony in the dying journey channelling creativity as a grounding force in challenging timeshow the medicine of kindness creates safetythe unique ways that children are equipped to be with deaththe importance o...2023-12-061h 24
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCAddiction, Perfectionism and God with Celia McBrideCelia McBride is an author, playwright, cinematographer, and artist. She's also a spiritual director who helps others on their own path of seeking. In her work, she draws on her own experience of healing and spirituality, which has been anything but a straight and narrow path.In our conversation today, we talk about:the nature of addiction: what motivates it, what fuels it, and what's essential to become free of it perfectionism: our deep desire to feel connection and belongingthe path of seeking: trusting our personal path to meaningSupport the show2023-09-291h 25
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCThe Science of Wonder with Dr. Rich BlundellRich Blundell holds a PhD in Cosmic Evolution and is the founder of OIKA, which explores the 13.8 billion year story of the cosmos and offers immersive practices that bring us back into dynamic, creative relationship with it. In our conversation today, Rich shares his wisdom about the power of beauty to reconnect us with belonging, meaning, and wonder, and how the magic of science reveals to us how inextricably connected we all are. He offers his scientific understanding of the intelligence of nature and how we can tap into it to generate collaborative responses to the...2023-08-081h 43
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCThe Healing Power of Joy with Tanmeet Sethi, MDHow can you find joy amidst even the most profound pain? My guest today, Dr. Tanmeet Sethi, a board-certified integrative family medicine physician, author, and esteemed faculty member at the Center for Mind Body Medicine, shares her remarkable insights on cultivating well-being and trust in life, even during times of intense suffering. We talk about how negative cultural messaging and trauma can chip away at our trust in life and ourselves, and she shares the science behind the cell danger response and how an extended trauma reaction can hinder our power to thrive.Ta...2023-07-081h 15
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCWhat's in the Way is the Way with Mary O'MalleyWhat if we could break free from the struggles and compulsions that keep us feeling disconnected from life? Join us as we explore the healing power of wonder and the art of showing up for life with Mary O'Malley, a highly regarded leader in the field of awakening and the author of several books, including What's In The Way Is The Way. Mary shares her insights into the healing power of attention in overcoming pain and trauma, and her experiences with Stephen Levine, who opened her heart and taught her to bring curiosity and compassion to her pa...2023-06-121h 05
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCThe Creative Power of Memory and How it Shapes Our Lives with Jessica WaiteI'm so delighted to welcome my good friend and author, Jessica Waite back to the podcast. Today we're talking about memory - how it isn't a fixed, static thing in our brain but actually a living, evolving force in our lives, and the love that's possible when you're curious and willing to allow a painful memory to be rewritten in current time.Learn more about Jessica's soon to be published book: "The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards"Past episodes with Jessica Waite:"The Power of Love Beyond Death" - April 2020 "The Wisdom of...2023-04-2550 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCWild Yoga: Recovering Wholeness in a Fractured Culture with Rebecca WildbearEpisode Summary:Rebecca Wildbear is the author of “Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth”. On today’s show Rebecca and I explore the connection between mind, body and soul, how to recover to wholeness in a fractured culture, and the path of finding our true place of belonging in the Universe. Join us as Rebecca shares her wisdom on: Mystery and Soul: partnering with the mystery deep within your own body listening with all of your senses for messages from your soul perceiving, int...2023-03-141h 45
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCCollaborating with MysteryThere is more than meets the eye operating in the background of our day-to-day lives. Today I'm sharing a tale of the threads of connection that weave us intimately into the cosmos and that extend well beyond what the practical, logical mind can imagine.It's also a real time story of tracking yes, a journey of abandoning the plan and trusting the clues that are appearing rather than seeking certainty to guide the way.If you struggle with decision making, it almost always comes from the idea that you're the one making the decision, on...2023-02-0135 min
The Mystic CaveRomancing the Moon: Inside a "Soulcraft Intensive," as shared with Liz WiltzenClick here to send me a text message (include your contact info if you want a reply).It was indeed intense, but I was learning the ways of Soul and shedding the fears that prevented me from knowing and living out, fully, my purpose on the earth. As we camped in the woods and wandered and drummed and danced and dreamed, I knew something important was happening. I was becoming ... myself. Naturally.To be guided through the threads of my conversation with Liz Wiltzen, click on the Chapters tab, above. LinksLiz...2022-12-111h 17
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCDragons and Power Recast: Farewell to a Beloved Sensei - Leadership Embodiment with Wendy PalmerShow Notes: Wendy Palmer passed away on December 2nd, 2022. In honour of her passing I’m publishing a recast of the interview we had in March 2022. If you’ve not heard this conversation I know you’ll find it compelling. If you have, I suspect it may land a level deeper on second listen, knowing that her words are now reaching us from the beyond the boundaries of this earthly realm. In this insightful conversation Wendy offers the wisdom she has spent a lifetime embodying. She held a seventh degree black belt in the non-viole...2022-12-101h 16
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCTracking Shadow and Rewilding Your Soul with Brian Stafford, MD, MPHDr. Brian Stafford is a former pediatrician and psychiatrist who left his position as an endowed chair in academic psychiatry to rewild and ensoul his own life, and to discover his deeper calling. On today’s show Brian and I delve into the realms of mystery and shadow to explore the magic and possibility that emerges when we’re willing to enter a deeper conversation with the natural world, and leave the safety of the known to uncover and reclaim our wholeness.Brian shares his extensive understanding of:rewilding and ensouling your life—w...2022-11-261h 41
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCThe Art of Emergence with Schuyler BrownShow Notes: Schuyler Brown left a life of enormous achievement and success by our culture’s standards when a series of events led her to the realization that her livelihood was not in integrity with her soul.Join us for a conversation about the courageous path she followed out of that life, the wisdom of embodiment, the creativity and power of magic, and cultivating the skill of tuning in to the emergent field to perceive guidance about how best to move in our lives.It’s a deep and playful exploration into:be...2022-10-091h 34
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCDragons and Power - Leadership Embodiment with Wendy PalmerShow Notes: Wendy Palmer holds a seventh degree black belt in the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido, and has practiced mindfulness for over 45 years. She is the author of 4 books, including her latest: Dragons and Power, which explores the elements of Leadership Embodiment, a practice she founded and has been teaching to high level leaders for over 30 years. Her process draws on principles from Aikido and Mindfulness to offer simple tools and practices to increase the leadership skills of responding to stress and pressure with confidence and integrity. Wendy shares simple, fa...2022-04-021h 16
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCRadical Wholeness with Philip ShepherdShow Notes: Philip Shepherd is an international authority on embodiment and author of New Self, New World - Recovering our Senses in the 21st Century and Radical Wholeness - The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being. This is a specially curated edition of a more extensive interview I had with Philip back in August of 2020. In today's conversation he shares guidance and tools for shifting from the head driven strategies of control and order to an embodied and deep connection with the present moment. He offers thought-provoking wisdom on these important questions:I...2022-03-0153 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCTrusting the Magic of CuriosityShow Notes: Brian Pearson recently interviewed me on his podcast The Mystic Cave. His questions sparked a fascinating conversation about the philosophy and practice of Tracking Yes, and touched on things I haven’t named before, so wanted to share it here with you guys.Join us as we explore what it’s like to:open to the wisdom of your imaginationhone your intuition and perceive the clues life is always sending you replace your fear-based survival strategies with deep presencebring curiosity and the spirit of play to problem solvingtrust yourself to walk away f...2022-02-0258 min
The Mystic CaveTracking Yes: A Conversation with Liz WiltzenClick here to send me a text message (include your contact info if you want a reply).It would be understandable, and perhaps forgivable, if we entered the New Year with fear in our hearts. All we'd have to do is begin listing the troubles confronting us: a worsening climate crisis; festering justice issues; the darkening geo-political landscape. But artist, life coach, and podcaster Liz Wiltzen thinks there's another way to face an uncertain future, a way that beckons rather than threatens, that inspires hope rather than fear. That is the way of curiosity. And Liz should k...2022-01-0856 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCLeaving Church and Tracking God with Brian PearsonShow Notes: Brian Pearson is an author, musician, former Anglican priest and host of the eclectic podcast “The Mystic Cave”. Join us for a conversation about his choice to leave the institution of religion in pursuit of his deepening relationship with wonder.It’s a courageous story of self-trust, bucking the system, tracking God and ultimately walking away from an institution which had become too small for the depth and breadth of his curiosity.Today's Guest:Brian Pearson is an author, musician, former Anglican priest and host of the eclect...2022-01-021h 22
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCTracking Enchantment: Open Your Heart to Delight - RecastA little more magic and enchantment is exactly what we need in the world right now. How do we stop waiting for it to appear from outside of us, and bring our own willingness to be enchanted to the very moments we’re currently in?Today’s show explores how we’ve disconnected from our capacity for wonder, and how to get it back. We’re surrounded by opportunities for enchantment in everyday moments but we’re often too busy, too anxious or too lost in our stories to perceive it.In turning toward wonder, we can rec...2021-12-1830 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCImprov Your Life with Pippa EvansShow Notes:Pippa Evans is an award winning comedian, improviser and the author of "Improv Your Life: An Improviser's Guide To Embracing Whatever Life Throws At You". Join us as she shares the wisdom she's gained about bringing the spirit, spontaneity and skill of improv to your everyday life.On today’s show we talk about how the magic of improv can help you to:let go of perfectionism meet life with flexibility and creativitytrust the adventure of the unknownlean into community and tap into the collective imagination honour our “no’s” - or a...2021-12-011h 08
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCThe Wisdom of Heartbreak with Jessica WaiteShow Notes:My guest today is Jessica Waite, author, friend and all around remarkable soul. Jess was my first guest on the podcast last year, sharing a captivating and vulnerable story of losing the love of her life.A year and a half later, she’s back, brighter, clearer and wiser than ever. In today’s conversation we explore:discovering a more intimate relationship with yourself through loss trusting grief as an ally in your own evolutionwhat happens inside of us when we lose something or someone we loveparallels between addiction and grief...2021-11-011h 05
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCComing Home to a Soul-Centered Life with Doug Van HoutenGo to show website: TRACKING YES podcastShow Notes:My guest today is Doug Van Houten, Nature-based Soul Guide. Join us for a fascinating exploration into the ways we've lost touch with our innate, wild relationship with the natural world, and how coming back into that relationship brings us home to our deepest sense of meaning and purpose. Doug shares the essence of nature based spirituality, and specifically the healing and wholing work he does in his role guiding life-altering wilderness intensive retreats with Animas Valley Institute. H...2021-10-011h 18
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCCreating Yes in a Field of No - Using Resonance to Amplify PossibilityShow Notes:Today’s show is a story of magic, and what's possible when you stay in an expansive, curious orientation to the curve balls life’s pitching your way. Resonance is our most powerful tool for navigating the creative field. It's amplified by what you’re thinking and believing, which impacts how you're feeling and responding to each moment, which influences the attitude you're moving in the world with. The magic happens when you choose to create it with intention.Support the showIf you lov...2021-09-0224 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCRomancing Our True Nature - The Art and Magic of Creating MandalasShow Notes:On today’s show I’m sharing a practice that’s focused on getting out in nature and having a creative dialogue with it, and how that practice helps you cultivate and nurture an empowered relationship between your ego and your soul, including:guideposts for engaging in a dialogue with the mystery of naturereverse creativity - letting the unknown guide your path forwardthe longing for a romance between your ego and your soul, and how cultivating that relationship creates purpose and meaningI share the challenges, rabbit holes and curious mysteries that h...2021-08-0932 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCGuiding Rage Into Power with Bernard MossWhen Bernard Moss was 22 years old, he was convicted of attempted murder and spent 28 years in San Quentin prison. 23 years into his sentence, he engaged in a year long program called GRIP, which ultimately led to his release from prison and his current career as a facilitator of the GRIP program to men still serving sentences. In today’s interview, Bernard shares a compelling account of his life in the culture of guns and drugs, the continuation of his life of crime while in prison and the powerful rehabilitation program that transformed his life.GRIP is...2021-05-091h 30
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCTrusting the Disruptive Energy of Change: Part 3Episode Summary:Opening to change and following its urge creates a momentum that takes on a life of its own and leads us beyond what our current perspective can imagine. The conclusion of this 3 part series on initiatory experience explores how to navigate transition with curiosity and trust that there are always bigger forces at work and magic afoot.Show Notes:Today’s show tracks the final phase of the arc of transition, including:leaping into the mystery and landing on your feetreleasing “first adulthood” achievements to pursue the sou...2021-04-1536 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCTrusting the Disruptive Energy of Change: Part 2Part 2 of this 3 part riff on the cycle of transition explores dropping into the current of change and recalibrating to centre as you navigate its depths.If you can stay present through initiatory experiences, the inevitable waves of anxiety, second-guessing and doubt that arise can lead to clarity, courage and trust in your own inner wisdom.Links to things mentioned:Sarah Kerr Soul Passages WebsiteThe Diamond Approach - Teachings of A.H. AlmaasSupport the showIf you love the show please c...2021-04-0130 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCTrusting the Disruptive Energy of Change: Part 1Disruptive energy is woven into the fabric of our lives. It alerts us that we’re being called away from life as we know it in order to discover something new about ourselves and about this experience of human-ing.Most of us avoid, resist and try to control change, and in doing so we miss the deeper and truer aspect of self that is trying to emerge. Choosing to ride the waves of the unexpected with genuine curiosity--and trusting change as an ally not an enemy--takes us on an adventure of our own becoming.Today’s sh...2021-03-2038 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCThe Magic of Creating Your Own Good Luck with Linh HuynhIn November 2014, Linh Huynh, spurred on by her unwavering commitment to crafting a life of daring and wonder, became the 1st Canadian woman to complete the Four Deserts Ultramarathon Series, four 250 km, self-supported, 7 day races through the hottest, driest and windiest deserts on earth. In doing so in one calendar year, she became the 1st Canadian woman and the 8th woman in history to complete it as a Grand Slam. Her marathon adventure started in 2011 when she won a writing contest through CBC, who then sponsored her to compete in the Antarctic Ice Marathon. In 2013, she...2021-02-161h 18Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCEmbracing a Caring Culture - with Nicole HugueninFor the last 8 years, Nicole Huguenin has stepped away from the structures and systems that favour money as the primary currency of exchange, and chosen to live by the tenants of the circular and gift economies. Moving in a world of alternate currencies such as connection, generosity, trust and co-creation she’s discovered that:healing our personal trauma and helping others navigate theirs are inextricably connectedtaking better care of each other isn’t limited to the realms of fundraising, policy making and institutional structuresbringing our natural kindness to the world and m...2021-01-221h 14
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCTracking Enchantment: Open Your Heart to DelightShow Notes:A little more magic and enchantment is exactly what we need in the world right now. How do we stop waiting for it to appear from outside of us, and bring our own willingness to be enchanted to the very moments we’re currently in?Today’s show explores how we’ve disconnected from our capacity for wonder, and how to get it back. We’re surrounded by opportunities for enchantment in everyday moments but we’re often too busy, too anxious or too lost in our stories to perceive it.In tu...2021-01-0129 minTracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCCrash and Learn: The Clarity of Disorienting ExperienceOne of the best things I’ve learned is that you can’t hear the answer unless you have the question within you. I did a major declutter of my world a while back, and several insights emerged in the process. Not long after, I had a major cycling crash and concussion that presented a new perspective on my relationship with possessions. What if insights aren't answers, they're ignitors of questions? The magic lies in trusting the deeper answers will be revealed not in our brains, but through our lived experience. Links ment...2020-12-0721 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCCreating an Empowered Relationship with Death - with Sarah Kerr, PhDIn this fascinating and insightful conversation with Sarah Kerr, PhD, death doula and ritual healer, we explore how we can expand our relationships with death and life, including:why building a healthy relationship with death is a key part of building a healthy relationship with lifehow Western culture disconnects us from an empowered relationship with deathshifting into an orientation that holds death as a sacred and transformative human experienceleaning into mystery, imagination and gratitude to access the guidance of the spiritual realmthe sense of connection that...2020-11-141h 08Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCNavigating a Mindful Path Through Chaos - with Marlena deCarion, PCC: Part 2Marlena and I explored the freedom of letting go of control in Part 1 of our conversation. In part 2 we look at what we actually DO have control over, and how to direct it wisely.boundaries: why they're an essential aspect of well being, and how to become masterful at setting clear, loving, unwavering onescultivating our empowered adult so the younger parts of self stop dictating our choices and actionsidentity vs. autonomy: breaking the agreements with who we’ve been taught to be and becoming who we authentically areusing mindfulness to...2020-10-3050 minTracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCNavigating a Mindful Path Through Chaos - with Marlena deCarion, PCC: Part 1On today's show Marlena shares a tragedy she experienced in her early twenties, and how the Mindfulness qualities of presence, curiosity and compassion helped her heal from the trauma. We also explore Buddhist teachings on:what's the true source of our well-beingthe 3 steps that lead us away from our direct experience and into sufferingpain is inevitable - suffering is optional: The Buddhist teaching on the “second arrow”why we’re wired to anticipate trouble even when we’re okayhow to release the strategy of "control"Marlena also shares her thoughts on the empowering benefits of remaining...2020-10-1957 minTracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCUn-Cancelling J.K. Rowling - with Kelly Madrone: Part 2Show Notes:In Part 2 of our conversation, Kelly gets specific about what she believes is driving the backlash against J.K.Rowling from some members of the Trans community. She shares how her quest for deeper understanding of the situation led to greater awareness of what's at the heart of conflict. We discuss gender and sexual fluidity and how labels can limit the freedom and complexity of our experience. She also offers insight into the Queer community and why it’s such an important and significant part of our society.Kelly br...2020-10-0537 minTracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCUn-Cancelling J.K. Rowling - with Kelly Madrone: Part 1Episode Summary:Today’s show looks at the toxic, seductive and pervasive tribal behaviour of cancel culture and the echo chambers it creates.Show Notes:Writer, friend and all-around amazing being Kelly Madrone, a member of and advocate for the LGBTQ community and author of the book LGBTQ (now in it’s 3rd edition), joins me today to talk about the backlash against J.K. Rowling’s recent controversial comments on sex and gender, and shares why she felt compelled to write a piece that’s a call to...2020-09-2657 minTracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCCancel Culture, Connection and Clear Sense MakingEpisode Summary:As soon as we commit to a point of view, we’ve shifted out of an ever-evolving, ongoing sense making and into the perceived safety of certainty. Clarity requires a willingness to die to what you believed this morning as you open to integrate the new insights that appear throughout the day.Show Notes:On today’s show I’m looking at the polarization, divisiveness and cancel culture that we’re currently navigating in our public discourse.I’m sharing some thoughts from a brillian...2020-09-0425 minTracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCThe Transformative Power of Self-AwarenessEpisode Summary:Awareness reveals our reaction to life. Self-awareness helps us understand what's really trying to get our attention and why, and supports us in responding with presence, clarity and creativity.Show Notes:On today’s show I’m talking about the difference between awareness and self-awareness and why the distinction is important.Deepak Chopra teaches that no matter what is happening in our experience, we’re in one of 3 mental states:unconsciousawareself-awareThe shift from unconscious to aware can be challenging, because now you’re awake to your...2020-08-1623 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCRadical Wholeness and Embodied Activism with Philip Shepherd: Part 2Episode Summary:Your truth does not live inside of you like a gold coin at the bottom of a purse. Your truth, who you are, what your purpose is, illuminated as you come into felt relationship with the world.Show Notes:Join us today for Part 2 of my conversation with Philip Shepherd. Philip is an international authority on embodiment and author of New Self, New World - Recovering our Senses in the 21st Century and Radical Wholeness - The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being. O...2020-08-0239 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCRadical Wholeness and Embodied Activism with Philip Shepherd: Part 1Episode Summary: The most potent activism doesn't come from the head, it comes from what the body knows and feels. It comes from some 'wrong' that your specific sensitivity feels deeply, and that’s the call. That is the world—activating you to move forward.Show Notes:Join us today for Part 1 of my conversation with Philip Shepherd. Philip is an international authority on embodiment and author of New Self, New World - Recovering our Senses in the 21st Century and Radical Wholeness - The Embodied Present and the Ordi...2020-07-2348 min
Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday MagicDrop the Guilt Trip and Trust Your Wise HeartToday’s show looks at the pitfalls of guilt so you can do an end run around it and navigate the inevitable imperfection of being human with a much truer compass.2020-07-1121 minTracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCThe Guilt Trap - How to Steer Clear and Trust Your Wise HeartGuilt sets us up to perform goodness and avoid consequences, and it has us walking a tightrope between shame and responsibility.Today’s show looks at the pitfalls of guilt so you can do an end run around it and navigate the inevitable imperfections of being human with a truer compass.Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow...2020-07-1121 minTracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday MagicCutting Loose from the "Right/Wrong" ParadigmWhat if the paradigm of right and wrong is a cultural manipulation that’s actually more harmful than helpful? And what if there's a truer compass leading to connection and creative transformation?2020-06-2729 minTracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCCutting Loose from the "Right/Wrong" ParadigmThe idea of right and wrong is binary, separation thinking that keeps us at odds with ourselves and others. It moves us away from possibility and into the energies of control, defensiveness and domination that interfere with moving clearly through conflict.Since conflict is an inevitable aspect of life as things evolve and shift to the next level of expansion - I'm exploring how to welcome and trust the disruption that is inherent in this creative process.On today’s show I share a story of shifting aversion and resistance to conflict into an authentic de...2020-06-2729 minTracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday MagicDeclutter Your Soul with Peggy Fitzsimmons, Ph.D. Part 2In Part 2, Peggy shares the essential questions she asks clients in their decluttering work together, including the game changer: Does keeping this possession, this belief, or this habit help me share my love with the world?2020-06-1137 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCDeclutter Your Soul with Peggy Fitzsimmons, PhD: Part 2In Part 2 of this conversation with Peggy Fitzsimmons, masterful guide in the game of decluttering, we shed light into:releasing what isn’t aligned with who you are nowunhooking from distorted beliefs about money and successconnecting with your inherent generosityputting your Soul in the driver’s seat of your lifeWe also explore Peggy’s list of essential questions to ask when you’re discerning what to keep, and how they’re all guiding you to the question that matters most: Does keeping this possession, this belief, or this habit help me share my love with the w...2020-06-1137 minTracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday MagicDeclutter Your Soul with Peggy Fitzsimmons, Ph.D. Part 1If you’re ready to start clearing out the possessions and beliefs that aren't aligned with your integrity, your joy and your well being - this conversation will definitely help!2020-05-2844 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCDeclutter Your Soul with Peggy Fitzsimmons, PhD: Part 1My guest today is Peggy Fitzsimmons, Ph.D. She’s a gifted psychologist, coach and energy worker. Peggy and I spent a year collaborating extensively to clear a massive amount of clutter out of my life. In this episode we explore the emotional and spiritual aspects of clutter - why we have it, why we keep it, and how to get free of it.You’ll gain insight into:how clutter is a reflection of fearfragmentation and wholeness: how to create beauty and clarity in your personal spacesthe mindset needed to unhook from your attac...2020-05-2844 minTracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday MagicStaying Curious and Creative in Moments of Fear: Part 2Today’s show looks at shifting out of fear into curiosity, and moving from a sense of powerlessness into confident connection with your creativity, your agency, and your infinite capacity to support your well-being in any situation.2020-05-1524 minTracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCStaying Curious and Creative in Moments of Fear: Part 2Episode Summary:Today’s show looks at shifting out of fear into curiosity, and moving from a sense of powerlessness into confident connection with your creativity, your agency, and your infinite capacity to support your well-being in any situation.Show Notes:What if this global pandemic is here to bust open our blind spots, and connect us with something we’ve really been missing, that we now have the opportunity to claim backWhat if, rather than certainty, curiosity becomes the compass that guides your life? It st...2020-05-1524 minTracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday MagicPerfectionism: Unhook and Chart a Course for MagicWhen we set sail on a creative adventure - perfectionism is the anchor our ego tosses overboard to keep us close to the safety of the known. Here’s why it does it, and how to drop the dead weight and chart a course for magic.2020-05-0121 minTracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCPerfectionism: Unhook and Chart a Course for MagicWhen we set sail on a creative adventure - perfectionism is the anchor our ego tosses overboard to keep us close to the safety of the known. Here’s why it does, and how to drop the dead weight and chart a course for magic.Show Notes:Today’s show delves into the trap of perfectionism:Why we obsessively strive for itWhy it never gives us what we wantHow to claim your joy back from its gripYou’ll gain insight into how to get perfectionism in check so you can stop s...2020-05-0121 minTracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCStaying Curious and Creative in Moments of Fear: Part 1There’s a virus running parallel to the Coronavirus. It’s the energetic virus of fear and anxiety, and it attacks our natural resilience and weakens our immune system. The good news is there’s a powerful antidote that we have direct access to. Today’s show focuses on why toxic fear patterns perpetuate, how we can build our immunity to them. The episode ends with a short guided mindfulness practice to get you grounded in your calm, wise, creative self.Show Notes:On today’s show I talk about how the Coronaviru...2020-04-2632 minTracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday MagicStaying Curious and Creative in Moments of Fear: Part 1There’s a virus running parallel to the Corona virus. It’s the energetic virus of fear and anxiety, and it attacks our natural resilience and weakens our immune system. The good news is there’s a powerful antidote that we have direct access to. Today’s show focuses on why toxic fear patterns perpetuate, how we can build our immunity to them, and ends with a short guided mindfulness practice to get you grounded and anchored in calm.2020-04-2632 minTracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday MagicHow Love and Relationship Can Continue After Death with Jessica WaiteEven after someone we love dies, it's possible to continue to evolve and grow together, healing and restoring our fractured relationships to wholeness.2020-04-1152 min
Tracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCThe Power of Love Beyond Death - with Jessica WaiteEpisode Summary:Even after someone we love dies, it's possible to continue to evolve and grow together, healing and restoring our fractured relationships to wholeness.Show Notes:My guest today is Jessica Waite. She’s a talented writer, a widowed single mom, one of my dearest friends— and unwavering tracker of yes. Our conversation explores how, after discovering a series of betrayals and lies in the wake of her husband’s sudden death, she restored their fractured relationship to wholeness.Jess shares how her beliefs...2020-04-1152 minTracking Yes: A Guide to Everyday Magic - with Liz Wiltzen, PCCTrailer: Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic with Liz Wiltzen, PCCTracking Yes is an ongoing conversation that dives into what happens when you make the courageous choice to live a life of curiosity and follow the magic.This show's about tuning into your wise voice—the one that's conspiring with you to create a life of authenticity, adventure and joy!Support the showIf you love the show please consider becoming a patron with as little as a $3 monthly subscription. It’s an unpaid labour of love and your support helps the show grow, and...2020-03-2001 min