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I Am This AgeReplay! From Ordained Minister to Landscape Design: Lola Wright, Age 43Lola Wright and her inimitable charisma join me on the pod today! Lola is a TEDx speaker, ordained minister, jazz singer, life guide, mother, partner, a gazillion more things, and now a landscape design business owner. We, of course, talk about her journey through recent changes. Lola dives into her views on community building and why it’s important for personal growth, and she explains the differences between a scarcity and abundance mindset and how they affect our finances. Enjoy this densely packed episode and join me for ALL NEW EPISODES in a couple of weeks!Contact Mo...2024-06-1052 min
BC's CornerLosing Our Religion: Christian Supremacy & Conscious Spirituality with Reverend Lola WrightWhat is the role of religion in society? With each successive generation becoming less and less religiously affiliated, it’s hard to tell. Bryan hosts spiritual leader Reverend Lola Wright to discuss her journey of faith, the contrast of spirituality and religiosity, and her perspective on how to create positive social impact.Reverend Lola Wright is a noted spiritual leader, entrepreneur, speaker and vocalist. Her gifts have taken her to stages across the world including TEDx, Chicago Ideas, Harvard Divinity School, Agape International Spiritual Center, and Havana Jazz Festival. Her path has included stops at some of th...2023-04-2054 minI Am This AgeFrom Ordained Minister to Landscape Design: Lola Wright, Age 43Lola Wright and her inimitable charisma join me on the pod today! Lola is a TEDx speaker, ordained minister, jazz singer, life guide, mother, partner, a gazillion more things, and now also a landscape design business owner. We, of course, talk about her journey through recent changes. Lola dives into her views on community building and why it’s important for personal growth, and she explains the differences between a scarcity and abundance mindset and how they affect our finances. You can find Lola at the following places:www.lolawright.comInstagram:...2022-02-1352 min
Unconditionally Worthy PodcastEP 35: How Our Religious and Spiritual Beliefs Shape Our Self-Worth with Lola WrightWhat do religion and spirituality say about self-worth? In this episode of The Unconditionally Worthy Podcast, I welcome Lola Wright, an ordained minister, speaker, and entrepreneur, to talk about how spiritual and religious beliefs influence our self-worth. IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT…Lola’s self-worth journey: Growing up in affluent Chicago in the 90s, single motherhood, & repatterning her mindset around abundance.The polarization of religion & How spirituality is different from religion, especially in terms of self-worth.Why YOU are the source of your own salvation.The powerful practice of forgiveness, or atonement.How Lola...2022-02-0848 min
Well, Not PerfectRebalancing The World w/ Lola WrightWelcome back, everyone! I have an AMAZING show for you today. I sit down and vibe with Lola Wright. When I mean vibe, I mean I sit down and find myself immediately absorbed into the conversation with her. She is incredibly smart, insightful, and in tune with the world today. Every guest I have on the show is special in their own way and Lola is special because she is incredibly aware of the bigger picture that we often lose when we live our day-to-day life. She pulls the lens back and helps us see wh...2021-10-0647 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingEndings and Beginnings“Are you surrounded by people that you can lean into? Are you surrounded by people that remind you of what’s true and real, even when you forget?”- Lola WrightWhen I first faced the challenge of having to change my language and the title of this very podcast, I felt deep resistance. But through the power of my practice, my support system, and a little bit of good legal counsel, I’m ready to let go and create something new.On this final episode of Find Your Fierce & Loving, I say goodbye to this won...2021-08-3123 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingGoing Beyond Problems“You and I are not here to suffer. We are not here to struggle. But those are always available if you want to pick them up.” - Lola WrightIt’s tempting to find problems everywhere. In our personal lives, communities, and the world at large, it seems like you can’t go through a day without seeing roadblocks in your way. But while it’s easy to find issues, you cannot solve problems at the level of consciousness that created that problem.This week on Find Your Fierce & Loving, we’re deconstructing the way that we perc...2021-08-2423 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingChange With Me“The gift of change is that it exposes everything that’s going on beneath the surface.” - Lola WrightI live by a principle that I learned in volleyball: keep your knees loose and move your hips. You never know when a ball is going to be hit your way, and you have to be ready to respond with purpose.On this episode of Find Your Fierce & Loving, I reflect on the process of moving into the new Logan Square space. When I found an environment lacking in joy and beauty, I had to figure out ho...2021-08-1723 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingAn Idea Whose Time Has Come“There will be obstacles along the way, and the question then becomes, who will you be in the midst of it?” - Lola WrightI am so excited to celebrate the beautiful new Logan Square space with my husband and our community. Not that long ago, however, it looked like this new chapter wouldn’t work out after all. We almost lost the chance to buy the property when we were faced with an argumentative lawyer who seemed to be looking for a fight.This week on Find Your Fierce & Loving, I explore the ways that t...2021-08-1020 min
Worth The Fight PodcastSave Yourself: No One Is Coming For Us: Lola WrightGot Sacred Activism? Has there ever been a better time for conscious disruption? Probably not. Lola inspires us to reframe our struggles on the path of serving others. She also inspires a healthy dose of unfiltered real talk, eloquently articulating the truth of our being and what might be possible. Lola Wright Show Notes We discuss; -Chronic slumber of separation [4:00] -Lola’s reason for being encouraged [6:35] -Practical tips for integration [12:10] -What if you don’t need...2021-08-0458 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingDeconstructing Spiritual Bypass with Anita Kopacz“It’s like, oh yeah, I believe we’re all one, but before we even get there… How do you feel about Black people? We have to do some work before we can really feel what that oneness is.” - Anita KopaczYemaya is the Yoruba deity of the sea, the original Black mermaid, and the heroine of Anita Kopacz’s new novel Shallow Waters. In her stunning novel, Yemaya intersects with 1800s history as she seeks her love, who has been kidnapped and brought across the Middle Passage to the Americas. Through years of work, rejection, and uncertai...2021-08-0341 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingRight Relationship“We are being called into right relationship as a species. I wonder, how is that stirring in you these days? - Lola WrightI’ve never gotten along well with the heat. Combine a Chicago summer with relentless physical labor, a steep learning curve, intense client demands, and my own transformation and watch me brought to my knees in deep practice. This season of my life has been filled with sacrifice. I have been humbled. I have been inspired. I have been heartbroken. I have been moved. Each day I notice a new encounter with all that is s...2021-07-2724 min
Wisdom Talk RadioHumanity's Glorious Whole: a conversation with Lola WrightDivision. Separation. Judgement. Other. Our airwaves are filled with these stories. As most of you know, if you’ve been here at Wisdom talk Radio before, I’m about another picture entirely. What if we lived in a world where every unique, individual expression was celebrated as part of humanity’s glorious whole? My guest today is about creating just that. Ready to move out of old patterns? Stay tuned.Lola Wright is a TEDx speaker, coach, and host of Find Your Fierce & Loving Podcast. In addition, she’s an ordained minister with a gift for weaving together...2021-07-2143 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingSurrender versus Giving Up“When we’re living a life that is responding to vision, when we’re surrendering to the big idea of life in, as, and through us, we’re not listening for what’s probable, we’re listening for what’s possible.” - Lola WrightOnce I got on board with Nathan’s vision for his business, I was eager to help and be part of making this next step in our lives a reality. Some of the challenges we’ve faced have been harder than I imagined. Accepting my vulnerabilities, asking for help, and releasing perfectionism has been required on thi...2021-07-2023 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingResponding to Vision“When you say yes to a vision that’s moving through you, it may not always be met with a popularity contest… But if there’s a vision moving through you, you have a responsibility to trust it.” - Lola WrightWhen my husband, Nathan, got a business opportunity, he had a vision for his future that I couldn’t see. Gratefully, he was persistent in his belief and I chose to trust him and support his plan. It was only after I accepted his idea that I was able to see the vision that he was drawn to.2021-07-1324 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingThe Law of Positivism with Shereen Öberg“The first healing I got was really apparent, that I was lacking self-love.” - Shereen ÖbergWe are taught limiting belief systems that make us feel like we’re not enough as we are. This feeling of a lack of ourselves is an illusion, and we can reclaim our idea of ourselves. Shereen Öberg shares the power she’s experienced of positive focus and affirmations, without falling into the trap of toxic positivity.This week on Find Your Fierce & Loving, nurturing your awareness of yourself and your relationship with others. Break out of the suffering loops that...2021-07-0632 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingOrient Yourself Around Love“We lose sight of what’s right here. What’s the spirit of life within me telling me to do?” - Lola WrightHow much of your experiences do you actually hate? We don’t tend to ask ourselves questions like that, but we should. When we can see what we hate, and what’s holding us back, we can find our way back to love.Listen in to Find Your Fierce & Loving to hear a talk I gave at Bodhi Center. This episode is full of exercises to help you identify your own inhibitors, and most imp...2021-06-2920 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingConstructing Identity with Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann“There’s an instinct right now on planet Earth for identity groups to be turning inwards, as if that inward turn will protect us from oppression. And that’s the move that we as Jewish people, but also all groups as human people on this planet, need to be turning towards each other.” - Rabbi LizziWhen Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann was growing up, she identified her family as German and Polish, since her grandparents had immigrated from those areas of Europe. However, when she visited Germany, she saw the contrast between a German identity and a Jewish identity...2021-06-2240 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingResistance is a Gift“I am committed to seeing everything in my life as fodder for my own evolution. So when I’m met with resistance, what’s the gift?” - Lola WrightIt’s easy to live in a reactive state, chasing what we’re told to chase and constantly worrying about the past and future. But there’s a different way: the choice to keep our attention in the present moment. Through that active practice, we can recognize the gifts that obstacles bring us.This week on Find Your Fierce & Loving, I’m bringing you another talk from my series o...2021-06-1527 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingCreation not Competition with Joél Leon“I didn't feel like I saw anybody from my perspective, coming from where I came from. So I just started speaking it on my own terms.” - Joél LeonStoryteller and performer Joél Leon didn’t see many people speaking about mindfulness in a way that addressed him and his community. He now uses his own experiences to bring those principles back to Black people, and fostered a thoughtful community through social media.Today on Find Your Fierce & Loving, Joél talks about the joy of creation over competition and how he celebrates seeing ot...2021-06-0839 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingOwning Your Story with Kelley Kitley“Sharing my story actually had the opposite effect. It opened up this whole other culture for me in terms of having platforms to share my experience on.” - Kelley KitleyAfter Kelly Kitley struggled in her relationship with alcohol for years, she decided to stop drinking altogether. She discovered that there are many communities to support sobriety, that there are practically infinite reasons people choose not to drink, and that the mainstream narrative on alcohol doesn’t cover so many experiences. Kelley channeled her own experiences with alcohol, sexual violence, and mental illness into a stunning memoir that h...2021-06-0140 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingCreation from Destruction“Any time you are creating something new, destruction is present.” - Lola WrightWhen I spoke about the heartbreak of the new at Bodhi Center sixteen months ago, I didn’t know how much was about to change for all of us. But while that time feels like a lifetime ago, we had the same concerns that we have now—the role of social media in changing our world, the danger of resting in inertia, and how to consciously rise above the circumstances of our lives. The process of creating something new requires destruction, and you may naturall...2021-05-2519 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingSomething’s Radically Right About You with Rev. Gaylon McDowell“We need to discover and understand that the presence and the power of the infinite lives within us.” - Rev. Gaylon McDowellReverend Gaylon McDowell doesn’t want to make people comfortable, he wants to help them transform. He critiques practices of “spirituality” that are about stillness with no action, thoughts without applications. Everyone is always demonstrating their values, whether they think they are or not. The transformative path forward is to be intentional and actively demonstrate the principles that you want to live by.Listen in to Find Your Fierce & Loving and hear Gaylon’s strong ass...2021-05-1844 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingMake Noise and Do Good with Angela Engel“Books change lives. Books can create a movement in people. And when people are moved, they are able to change the world.” - Angela EngelAngela Engel doesn’t let anyone tell her no. When she didn’t have the right job for her, she convinced a publisher to make a position for her. When everyone in the publishing industry told her “this is just how it’s done,” she founded The Collective Book Studio to shake up timelines, nurture talent, and give stories to the audiences that need them. In 2020, Angela used those same skills and mindset to cre...2021-05-1146 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingOur Egos Are Triggered“The practice for me is the ability to watch, to witness, to notice.” - Lola WrightI once led a series at the Bodhi Center centered around the beautiful book Stillness Speaks, by Eckhart Tolle. Today, I’m bringing you a talk I gave inspired by chapter two, The Egoic Self. When I am seduced by the ego in stressful situations, I am flooded by negative thoughts. I’ve had to learn self-awareness and how to recognize what messages are coming from my ego.This week on Find Your Fierce & Loving, we’re taking a step back...2021-05-0426 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingRadical Redemption with Derrick Wells“It’s you and I showing up authentically every day being led by that which is within us, and that which gave presence to us, and just letting that shine in the spaces that we enter into.” - Derrick WellsAs a community leader, Derrick Wells faces unique challenges right now. He sees a power in all of us to not just go through hard times, but to grow through them. This week on Find Your Fierce & Loving, Derrick shares his extraordinary story from the streets of Chicago to Senior Minister of Christ Universal Temple. Along t...2021-04-2732 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingDefining Your Narrative with Channyn Parker“Are we seeking the gift that this person is, and the gift that this person brought out in us?” - Channyn ParkerOne of the greatest pieces of wisdom that Channyn has learned is that everyone on this earth has their part to play. You may not enjoy their effect on your life, but they are on your path for a reason, whether that reason is to nourish you or to teach you valuable lessons.This week on Find Your Fierce & Loving, we invite you to consider the humanity of every person who exists alongside you...2021-04-2047 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingYou Are The Authority On You“There’s a desire that lives in you. There are an infinite number of ways that you can bring that desire to form, and it is your responsibility, it is my responsibility, to pay attention to how I uniquely want to bring that forward.” - Lola WrightWhen I was doing consultations for my book, I got a piece of advice that brushed against the ideas I had for this community. I had to tune into the intelligence of my own body and instincts to determine whether that expert opinion was really right for me and for my spe...2021-04-1320 min
Law of Positivism76. Shifting the Collective Consciousness with Lola WrightThis week’s podcast guest is the beautiful and so inspiring Lola Wright. An ordained minister with a gift for weaving together the mystical and material, she served for many years as the CEO of Bodhi Center, an organization committed to personal transformation, collective awakening, conscious activism and community-building. Her work has taken her to stages around the world as a speaker and vocalist, including Agape International Spiritual Center, TEDx, Chicago Ideas, and the Havana Jazz Festival.
Her path has included stops at some of the world’s leading global financial institutions and technology startups, training in seve...2021-04-0848 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingBuilding Business and Community with Eric Williams“I try and use this space for good. And hopefully not just for me, but to inspire other folks to do something similar. This could be a restaurant, but it could be something else also. How do we use our spaces to help other people?” - Eric WilliamsEric Williams started his adult life by studying finance in the classroom and selling products on the streets of Chicago. Over many years he built his business into the Silver Room, which operates not only as a store but as a community—supporting the neighborhood, hosting artists, and putting on an...2021-04-0643 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingSelf-Care as a Radical Act with Dr. Janet Taylor“When you move something from your unconscious to your conscious, it’s your responsibility to do something about it. Play in it, trudge through it, be uncomfortable in it, but try to come out with a more informed aspect of a belief that was false before.” - Dr. Janet TaylorDr. Janet Taylor is known as the “self-care doctor.” She knows the enormous benefits of modern medicine, but also sees the weaknesses of the modern medical model. When we have a model that doesn’t account for a holistic view of a person’s life and environment, we are missing...2021-03-3040 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingYou Are Exactly Where You’re Supposed To Be“You have a story: does the story serve you, and are you going to be seduced by it, or are you going to have it serve the scripting of something new?” - Lola WrightMy nine-year-old son recently shared a heart-breaking idea with me: that he wasn’t supposed to be here. I gave him the chance to share why he felt that way, and in our conversation he soon came to his own conclusion: that he really was meant to be here.The distress my nine-year-old felt is the same kind of ordeal we are co...2021-03-2321 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingFinding Power Beyond Fear with Christian de la Huerta“If we put a baseball in the center of a stadium, that’s what the ego is. Who we are, really, is the stadium. And we’ve allowed this tiny, tiny part of who we are to think that it is all of who we are.” - Christian de la HuertaAs our world expands its definition of “hero” in response to the pandemic, Christian de la Huerta knows that we all have the capability to be heroes. We are being called to a collective awakening, and to help each other through this time of great upheaval. We are livin...2021-03-1642 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingOne Year Later: Sharing Grief and Appreciation“The journey of the one that is committed to awakening is becoming comfortable with the unknown. It is the great paradox of our existence.” - Lola WrightTo share in our collective grief and hope, I am releasing this recent practice from the Our Circle community for everyone. I hope you find comfort, vision, and love in these exercises and conversations.You can hear more about living through this anniversary and honoring its gifts and challenges in our recent episode Become Comfortable with the Unknown.(03:44) - Meditation(18:29) - Thrown out of the nest(26:32) - What...2021-03-1342 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingCommitments of Conscious Leadership with Jim Dethmer“If you stop numbing the pain that’s there because you are not living in your deepest, fiercest loving way, the pain will escalate to where you have to do something different. And it won’t just be a temporary fix, you’ll have to do something meaningfully different.” - Jim DethmerJim Dethmer has been called to reduce suffering by targeting the institution that’s more central to our lives than ever: work and business. As the founder of The Conscious Leadership Group, he finds the ways that teams are struggling and shows them not only how to bette...2021-03-0946 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingDefining Four Aspects of Love and Bringing it Alive“What aspects of “me” have I deemed unloveable? And can I fall madly in love with the aspects of self that I believe are unloveable?” - Lola WrightThis week on Find Your Fierce & Loving, I’m bringing you a topic that we’ve been talking about in the Our Circle community: how to define a love that is truly alive. As articulated by Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn, there are four aspects of love: loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and freedom. Join me as we dive into how love must come alive in ourselves, with romantic partners, among intima...2021-03-0219 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingThe Power of Possibility Partners with Angela Montano"If you're loving you, then you're going to have a holy no. You're going to say no as easily as you say yes." - Angela MontanoAngela Montano has spent twenty years guiding people through trust and surrender. She sees the possibilities in life’s challenges, and can help us re-align with the journeys that are right for us.In this episode of Find Your Fierce & Loving, I invite you to join in a vital discussion of prayer, power, and the different forms that these concepts can take. Angela shares why prayer does not exclusively be...2021-02-2347 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingA New Partnership Model with Nate and Kaley Klemp“That conversation led us to the idea of: what’s a different way to do marriage? Especially against this backdrop of "we want to be equals, we want to be teammates, we want to be partners"—but also, we want to be in love.” - Kaley KlempKaley Klemp, an executive coach and expert in small-group dynamics and leadership development, and Nate Klemp, a prolific writer on the “inner technologies of the mind,” knew that traditional marriage models weren’t going to fit their busy modern lives. They struggled to divide work evenly, until they realized the stumbling bloc...2021-02-1648 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingBecome Comfortable with the Unknown“I’d love for you to ask yourself: how am I applying old logic to an entirely new set of circumstances?” – Lola WrightThere is a Jewish ritual called Yahrzeit, which is the day one year following the death of a loved one. It is a time to mourn and honor a loss through ceremony. As a people we are approaching a kind of collective Yahrzeit, a time to both recognize grief and honor everything that has come over the past year.While the future is still as uncertain as it ever has been, we cannot d...2021-02-0930 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingEmbracing our Humanity with Bishop Carlton Pearson“We know how to heal ourselves. Even in the midst of trauma, and drama, and excitement, we know what to do if we just follow the instincts of our nurtured and nature self.” - Carlton PearsonThere are so many mistruths and half-truths in this world about what faith and love actually mean, and what the history of faith actually teaches us about those concepts. Bishop Carlton Pearson reaches beyond these obfuscations and sees us turning to recognize and fight for our shared humanity.Listen in to this episode of Find Your Fierce & Loving to hear...2021-02-0242 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingThe Path of Impact with Xavier Ramey"Love is not simply a quiet acceptance and cherishing of one another. Love is strength." - Xavier RameyWe all have the desire to make a difference, whether that’s in ourselves, our communities, or in the world. However, the path to making that impact can seem insurmountable. How do we turn this want into an understanding and a willingness to do the required work, without hurting ourselves in the process?On this week’s episode of Find Your Fierce & Loving, we take a dive into what a fierce and loving life looks like for a so...2021-01-2638 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingMoving from Obligation to Aliveness"The results of our lives are some level of reflection in consciousness to what we’re committed to.” – Lola WrightMost human beings are living their lives dictated by their unconscious commitments. I want to help you recognize what your commitments are and realize if they are truly where you desire your energy to be spent.On this episode of Find Your Fierce & Loving, I ask you to shed your obligations and instead embrace your truest, most vital life. This audio is from the recent Set On Fire Retreat, when we came together to find the lo...2021-01-2120 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingSet On Fire“What is your holy intention? This is an emergent, dynamic idea. You are literally speaking your life into existence in every single flipping moment—let this holy intention serve you, and you serve it.” – Lola WrightWe are in a pivotal time in human consciousness. While many of us feel trapped in the cycle of survival, taking the next step of growth requires us to welcome joy. By releasing what no longer serves us, we can finally grasp the love and peace that allows us to serve ourselves and others.On this episode of Find Your Fie...2021-01-1929 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingSpeaking Radical Truth About Yourself to Yourself“Slay the stories that no longer serve your highest and holiest expression. Connect with the radical truth of who and what you are.” – Lola WrightI have spent a lifetime seeking affirmation from other people, places, and things. And as I have untangled that pattern, I have learned how to source the truth. When you and I develop the capacity to source our own sense of truth, we become immovable in the best ways.The invitation this week on Find Your Fierce & Loving is to uncover the radical truth about yourself. The more comfortable and compet...2021-01-1227 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingRise Above the Suffering Loop“There is so much investment made in your brokenness and your woundedness. There is so much investment made in the drama of the human condition. How will you disrupt that in 2021?” – Lola Wright2020 was a year of tipping points - from a global pandemic to toxic politics to an awakening around the hundreds of years of racial injustice in the United States. The unworkability that has existed in human consciousness is beginning to surface. This is good news. While awakening is upon us, human beings remain largely pushed by pain, and you may even find yourself attempting to mak...2021-01-0532 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingHonor the Unexpected“Recognize there is an order to this vast universe that transcends our ability to comprehend. There is something that goes far beyond the circumstances and conditions of our lives. There is something that transcends the devastation and despair of our human reality. I invite you to surrender into this unknown, unseen realm.” – Lola WrightThis year we have navigated great loss, great transition, and great trauma. In this mediation, I invite you to scan your memory and bring forward anything that's calling your attention, that lives in the realm of dreams, desires, and expectations for this past year...2020-12-2922 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingCultivating a Forgiveness Practice with Mark Anthony Lord“The world says there are good people and bad people. But we have to surrender the limitations of duality and begin to entertain that there is just one power, it's neutral and it goes where we direct it to flow.” - Mark Anthony LordWe grow up with the world screaming that there are two powers. Dualistic thinking of right and wrong, good and bad leads us to humanity’s suffering loop. Mark Anthony Lord, author and minister, believes that as we fiercely accept ourselves, extend grace to those we meet, and practice forgiveness, we have the capaci...2020-12-2235 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingGet Uncomfortably Close to Your Growth Edge“Dreams worth pursuing will scare you. This thing we call struggle, when understood as growth, is a great gift.” — Lola WrightWhat is pushing your buttons? We have an opportunity to learn to develop comfort with our discomfort. It involves familiarizing yourself with your inner growth edge. I'm talking about your inner state. What rattles you? What throws you off? One one of my early teachers, Denise Schubert, would say, “I may have pushed your buttons, but I did not install them.”On this episode of Find Your Fierce & Loving, I ask you to get close to yo...2020-12-1527 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingBorn Out of Crises with Latham Thomas“Beautiful things can be born out of crises if we move in the energy of gratitude and possibility.” - Latham Thomas What makes Latham Thomas so extraordinary and her work so critical is the lens of liberation that she brings to birth work in this country. All of her training is with Black maternal health in mind and serves as a demand to bring attention to the crises that we tolerate, that we endorse, that we remain asleep to around Black women and the birthing process in this country. Listen in to this episode of Find Y...2020-12-0842 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingFall in Love With the Gifts of Struggle“This is the great paradox - as you cultivate intimate relationship with your struggle, as you bring it forward into the light, into your awareness, it becomes a neutralizing experience. And you will find stillness on the other side of that.” - Lola WrightIt's such an important time of the calendar year to get honest about what is nudging you, weighing you down, and holding you back. It really is true that what we resist persists. When you fight against that which burdens you, what you’re really doing is amplifying your discomfort. And so it's a grea...2020-12-0122 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingAn Invitation to Awaken“So often we move throughout our lives, throughout our days, focusing on the needs of others, focusing on satisfying others. But as you move towards finding your fierce and loving, and reconnecting with your purpose, you bring your awareness to an appreciation for all that you are and all that you have.” – Lola WrightPersonal transformation happens when we move our bodies and awaken our souls. To get clear on your purpose, meditation is an excellent resource you can use to access that place within you that is the keeper of your beliefs and memories.Oftent...2020-11-2424 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingExpand into a Greater Experience of Life“Be graceful with yourself. There's nothing wrong with you. You are here for a right and holy purpose. You have had all of the experiences in this lifetime that have prepared you to move beyond your neurotic navel gazing tendencies - which is not the truth of who you are - into a contribution. You're here to be a gift. You're here to take an inventory of the blessings that you have and then imagine how you can offer them up to those you're in relationship with.” – Lola WrightWhen you do the work of finding your purpos...2020-11-1735 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingYour Purpose Is Where You Are“Your purpose is whatever it is that brings you alive. You get to design your life in a way that works for you.” – Lola WrightWhat is it that brought you alive as a child? Buried in the dreams you left behind in the name of practicality are the clues, the breadcrumbs that will lead you out of the status quo and into the big idea of your life. It is time to untangle the toxic idea that your purpose is a job title and to find the things that light you up.On this episod...2020-11-1033 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingCultivating Radical Love with Bishop Yvette Flunder“If we realized that we have the power as the people, to decide to take back our own decisions and abilities and our own power; to make good and right decisions for the good of the whole, we will leave room and space. There are many different flowers in the Garden of God. And there are many different ways in which those flowers cross pollinate. There's room and space for all of us to grow and be healthy and we can make room.” - Bishop Yvette FlunderWhen society does not accept you for who you are, it t...2020-11-0347 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingWonder About Your Wild“Set the world on fire with you. Because this world is calling for a kind of aliveness that only you know.” – Lola WrightWelcome to the inaugural episode of Find Your Fierce & Loving! If we haven’t met yet, I’m Lola Wright and I want to guide you in finding your purpose so you can live a joyous, wildly alive life.On today’s episode, I make the case for why it is so important for you to move your body. Movement and breath are each cornerstones to getting out of your head and into your li...2020-10-2728 min
Find Your Fierce & LovingAre You Ready to Find Your Fierce & Loving?Something is stirring. Maybe you’ve felt it. We are reckoning with the reality of injustice and binary thinking that feeds the political machine. New conversations are happening around race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. Humanity is in the midst of a heartbreaking and painful paradigm shift. That is a good thing.What I have learned is that the most radical thing I can do is support people in freeing their minds. This podcast is intended to help you disrupt, untangle, and free your mind of personal and collective agreements, patterns, and beliefs that are holding you ba...2020-10-1904 min
Activate with Laura Holloway6. Living in an Integrated State with Lola WrightAs a coach, consultant, and radical truth-teller, Lola Wright is a powerful force for love and transformation on this planet. In today’s conversation, we explore ways to break free from victim, villain, and hero consciousness, how to live with more joy and take radical self-responsibility, and how to move from the thinking mind into the body. We also talk about the collective trauma around racism in America, releasing limiting beliefs, and Lola shares tangible tools to center yourself and connect with your internal guidance.In this episode of Activate:How to break fr...2020-06-2357 min
Life + LeadershipModern Community with Lola WrightThe way we gather is changing. The number of traditional faith communities continues to decline as we move into a post-religious society. The question becomes, where will we go for support when we really need it? How do we create a new kind of community that transcends religious dogma and cultivates consciousness, curiosity and connection? And is it possible to build that kind of community in the workplace? Today, we’re joined by Lola Wright, the CEO and Spiritual Director of Chicago’s Bodhi Center, a community devoted to awakening individuals to live their inherent power and purpose. Known as a fie...2019-04-1051 min
Life + LeadershipModern Community with Lola WrightThe way we gather is changing. The number of traditional faith communities continues to decline as we move into a post-religious society. The question becomes, where will we go for support when we really need it? How do we create a new kind of community that transcends religious dogma and cultivates consciousness, curiosity and connection? And is it possible to build that kind of community in the workplace? Today, we’re joined by Lola Wright, the CEO and Spiritual Director of Chicago’s Bodhi Center, a community devoted to awakening individuals to live their inherent power and purpo...2019-04-1051 min
Fresh Tracks With Kelly RobbinsOn Being Yourself with Lola WrightIn episode 74 of Fresh Tracks I speak with spiritual leader and consciousness powerhouse Lola Wright. Our discussion runs the gamut from the important role being authentic plays in contributing to society as a whole and why self-expression can be such an important value to society. Lola shares her personal journey cutting Fresh Tracks from becoming a mom at 18, to a career in the finance industry to becoming the Spiritual Director of Bodhi Chicago. How do you know it’s time to for you to cut your Fresh Tracks? Lola answers this question and provides a 7-day process fo...2018-12-1739 min