Did any of you ever want to be a superhero when you were a kid and protect your city, neighborhood or community? Like Batman, our guest this week, epidemiologist Dr. Flojaune Cofer, PhD, MPH, is committed to stopping forces that hurt our neighbors through community trust and partnerships. Together we can compassionately solve the homeless crisis.  

Join Theosophist Benjamin W. Decker Dr. Flojaune Cofer in a poignant conversation about how sometimes spiritual awakening means standing up to injustice and inequality and letting our hearts be roused into action.  Dr. Flo encourages listeners to not be deceived into believing the lie that it is hard to fix homelessness and other injustices. The solution to homelessness is simple, it’s providing homes and helping people stay healthy. 

Learn more about our guest here:

Flojaune​ ​Cofer, PhD, MPH i​s an epidemiologist and serves as the Senior Director of Policy for Public Health Advocates. She manages a team of staff leading health equity initiatives focused on California state policy and public health emergency preparedness.

Prior to joining Public Health Advocates, she led the preconception health initiative for the California Department of Public Health, working to ensure vital maternal health and reproductive services were available statewide. 

For her professional contributions and community participation, she was awarded the Young Professional of the Year Award by the Sacramento Urban League, the Exceptional Woman of Color Award by the Sacramento Cultural Hub, the 40 Under 40 Award by the Sacramento Business Journa͕l, Fem Dems of Sacramento: Sheroes Responding to COVID and the Sacramento Black Wellness Award from the Gender Health Center.

https://phadvocates.org/person/flojaune-cofer/

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How did you love, before you knew heartbreak? How did you inhabit your body, before you knew shame? Who were you before the world taught you who to be? 

Join Theosophist Benjamin W. Decker and Somatics Coach/Somatics Healing Institute Founder Angelika Drake to uncover why asking these questions is so important in creating and fostering healthy, honest relationships with your body, yourself and with others. 

Tune into this episode to hear about the language the body speaks, the power of letting go of shame, Game Theory as it relates to relationships, along with the Unconcious Need Fulfillment Cycle and how to break free from these unhealthy patterns by looking at our unconscious mind. 

Learn more about our guest here:

Angelika Drake is your guide to relational and erotic intelligence. She is the Founder and CEO of The Somatic Healing Institute. She's been featured in Vanity Fair, Well+Good & Modern Luxury. She trains coaches and facilitators in her transformational body-based healing method.  

Website:
https://angeldrake.com

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Book a trip to Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica in October 2023,  a special retreat hosted by Benjamin W. Decker.

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What changes when you see yourself and others through a Loving gaze and learn more of who you truly are?  Everything changes. 

 In this episode you will learn to use the intelligence of your heart to create the right conditions for healing not only ourselves, but the failing systems we are a part of. What would a loving politics look like? A loving education system? A loving medicine? 

Join Theosophist Benjamin W. Decker and Author/Speaker Danielle LaPorte to also discuss: 

🌟 How to Be a Heart Centered Person
🌟 The Power of Inclusive Prayer
🌟 The Practice of Thinking With Love 
🌟 Danielle and Benjamin's Support for 2024 Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson
🌟 The Love that, as A Course In Miracles puts it, “Wants to Join Out of Mutual Abundance.”
🌟 Business as a Vehicle for Social and Environmental Healing
🌟 How Greed, Not Materialism is Actually the Opposite of Spiritualism
🌟 Age of Aquarius Defined as Tumbling Structures and Unity Consciousness Saving the Day 
🌟 Going from “Me” to “We” For All the Right Reasons

Learn more about our guest here:

Danielle LaPorte is a member of Oprah's Super Soul 100 and creator of the Heart Centered Leaders Program and Memberships. Danielle supports about 400+ Heart Centered Leaders in 20+ countries.  Her podcast With love, Danielle and site DanielleLaPorte.com receive millions of visits.  Danielle also directed a future-studies think tank in Washington, D.C.  and consulted the Pentagon on the dynamics of social change. 

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https://daniellelaporte.com/about-heart-centered/

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https://daniellelaporte.com/

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Experience Ayahuasca Plant Medicine at the First Ever Medically-Licensed Resort to offer this sacred shamanic experience.  Enjoy a week of deep transformation with plant medicine ceremonies led by shamans trained in the Columbian tradition and plant medicine preparation and integration workshops.

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Everywhere you look, people in all walks of life are “going minimalist” and getting rid of their possessions. Yet as exciting as it can be to throw out half of your belongings, does it really bring happiness? As Light Watkins says: “If you’re unhappy now, becoming a minimalist isn’t likely to change that… unless you do the inner work to cultivate happiness on the inside.” 

Join Theosophist Benjamin W. Decker and Author/Meditation Teacher/Public Speaker Light Watkins to discuss: 

🌟 What is Spiritual Minimalism? 
🌟 The Importance of Following Your Curiosity to Find Your True Purpose
🌟 The Minimalist Approach to Exercising - Counting Reps using Affirmations, Not Numbers
🌟 Training Your Mind To See the Positive
🌟The Meditative Power of Flaneuring, an 18th century French term for aimless walking
🌟How to Hand Wash Your Clothes Like a Minimalist

Learn more about our guest here:

Light Watkins is a long-time meditation teacher and thought leader who has spoken and consulted at Fortune 500 companies around the world on the topics of wellness, purpose, and enlightened leadership.

He is the author of three best-sellers: The Inner Gym, Bliss More, and Knowing Where to Look, as well as the newly released Travel Light: Spiritual Minimalism to Live a More Fulfilled Life. Light has written a daily dose of inspiration email to his tens of thousands of subscribers.

He is the host of The Light Watkins Show, which is a podcast that features the backstory of luminaries who’ve created platforms for social good.

And in his online community, The Happiness Insiders, Light has created masterclasses and challenges to help spiritual practitioners around the globe embody the principles of “inner” work.

Light is a “one-bagger” who has been living nomadically since 2018.

Follow Light on Instagram:

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Experience Ayahuasca Plant Medicine at the First Ever Medically-Licensed Resort to offer this sacred shamanic experience.  Enjoy a week of deep transformation with plant medicine ceremonies led by shamans trained in the Columbian tradition and plant medicine preparation and integration workshops.

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"The power of acting is really sacred. Acting is a way to reveal back to human beings, the human condition. It's the heart of empathy.

This is why I always say I'm going to go to Congress and teach everybody how to act. Can you imagine these congressmen and women?  They would have to look opposite their enemy, and really take in another human being."

- Anthony Meindl on The Modern Spirituality Show 

Join Theosophist Benjamin W. Decker and Acting Coach/Director Anthony Meindl for a riveting dialogue including the following: 

🌟 The Need for more Connected Art in a Toxic Culture 
🌟 The Three P's of Success; Persistence, Practice and Paradigm Shift 
🌟 Getting Unstuck From Your Ideas 

Learn more about our guest here:

Anthony Meindl is a best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, acting coach, and motivational speaker, tackling subject matters around social causes and what it means to be a human being in the 21st century.

He is the author of five books including his latest, UNSTUCK, a creativity manual. 

He founded Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop, now in its 25th year, with locations in 9 cities around the world, known for incubating the next generation of Hollywood actors. He has coached such stars as two time Golden Globe nominee Shailene Woodley, Marvel favorite Pom Klementieff, Netflix’s breakout stars Phoebe Dynevor & Simone Ashley (BRIDGERTON), pop sensation Camila Cabello, and hundreds of others.

As a filmmaker, Anthony has received a number of awards and acclaim. He wrote and directed his most recent feature film, WHERE WE GO FROM HERE, which won ‘Best Screenplay’ and ‘Jury Award’, and was acquired by Hulu. 

He is a passionate environmental activist and member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps. 

Purchase Anthony’s books:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00771CEL8

Train with Anthony: 

https://www.anthonymeindl.com/

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Book a trip to Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica in October 2023,  a special retreat hosted by Benjamin W. Decker.

Experience Ayahuasca Plant Medicine at the First Ever Medically-Licensed Resort to offer this sacred shamanic experience.  Enjoy a week of deep transformation with plant medicine ceremonies led by shamans trained in the Columbian tradition and plant medicine preparation and integration workshops.

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"In acting, when you play villains, rule number one, if you judge your character, if you call a "villain" a villain, you have just lost yourself that role. The second that you judge what you are choosing for that character, you ruin the truth and the authenticity of what an individual who expresses like that, feels."

"The process that an actor goes through is almost the exact same thing as a spiritual awakening. When you look at acting and a spiritual awakening, they become synonymous."

- Actress AnnaLynne McCord on The Modern Spirituality Show

Join Theosophist Benjamin W. Decker and his longtime friend, Actress/Activist AnnaLynne McCord, as they discuss the following topics including:

🌟 Parallels between acting and AnnaLynne's spiritual journey
🌟 The importance of authenticity in acting
🌟 AnnaLynne's award winning performance in her latest film, Condition of Return opposite Dean Cain
🌟 AnnaLynne's perspective on her ex, Dominic Purcell's, recent engagement to Tish Cyrus.
🌟 Marriage vs. Spiritual Partnerships
🌟 Guilt vs Shame
🌟 Conscious Uncoupling

Watch the trailer of AnnaLynne McCord's upcoming film,  Condition of Return, also starring Dean Cain, James Russo and Natasha Henstridge and directed by Tommy Stovall.  In the movie, a churchgoing woman makes a heinous deal with the Devil in order to save her soul.

https://youtu.be/rTU1eIxuxMI

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Learn more about AnnaLynne McCord and her anti human trafficking organization here:

https://www.thelovestorm.com


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Book a trip to Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica on June 18 - June 25, 2023, a special retreat hosted by Benjamin W. Decker.

Experience Ayahuasca Plant Medicine at the First Ever Medically-Licensed Resort to offer this sacred shamanic experience.  Enjoy a week of deep transformation with four plant medicine ceremonies led by shamans trained in the Columbian tradition and plant medicine preparation and integration workshops.

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"When you're going through a change, a transition, facing a big challenge, or whether you're triggered, angry, in grief, heartbroken, or you're moving across town, when we take those moments, and we walk that path out through the guidance of a meditation, we actually then have the alchemy of all that energy. The key in those meditations, is that you're guided into realizing that you have all that energy, and by changing your relationship to it, now it becomes currency."

- Benjamin W. Decker on The Modern Spirituality Show

Your host Ben Decker welcomes Suze Yalof Schwartz, the Founder and CEO of the Unplug Meditation App, and the world's first drop-in secular meditation studio. Suze is also the author of Unplug: A Simple Guide To Meditation for Busy Skeptics and Modern Soul Seekers.  Suze is a leading figure in the world of meditation and her work has touched the lives of countless people seeking inner peace and mindfulness. 

Ben and Suze discuss Ben’s 25 plus guided meditations available on the app, and an array of other cool tips, tricks and fascinating facts about the world of meditation, through the lens of a number of different people who either teach at Unplug or have learned about meditation through the Unplug app. 

Whether you’re new to meditation or a seasoned practitioner, this episode will provide you with valuable insights and practical tools to deepen your practice and enhance your overall well being.

More about our guest:

In 2012, Suze learned a three-minute meditation that changed her life forever. Prior to this, she was a fashion editor and "makeover guru" working at Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and Glamour Magazine with regular appearances on GMA, The Today Show, CBS Early Show, and more. 

Suze's mission is to make meditation simple, accessible, powerful and interesting enough so that everyone will want to practice it and experience the benefits for themselves.

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https://www.unplug.com/

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"The sacred medicines, they have a tradition, they have a root. They have a design and a story.  Cultural appropriation is just taking things that have an entire tradition behind them, and then changing them to suit a different narrative. That's why at Aniwa, we're passionate about that about teaching people to learn from the elders directly, and simply to take that message and embody transmission."

- Vivien Vilela on The Modern Spirituality Show 

Vivien Vilela is the Co-Founder & CEO of Aniwa, an organization amplifying the message of indigenous leaders through a digital platform and in person gatherings. In addition she co-founded The Boa Foundation, a non profit organization working in alliance with indigenous leaders to preserve land and culture.  

Born and raised in Brazil, Vivien has dedicated over a decade to her spiritual studies and the preservation of indigenous culture and wisdom. Vivien has been initiated in the ancient traditions by some of the most respected indigenous elders from South, Central, and North America. She is currently a student of world-renowned Ashaninka leader Benki Piyãko. 

Attend Aniwa Gathering
Aniwa Gathering is a non-profit event produced by The Boa Foundation bringing together 40 of the world's most respected indigenous leaders and elders to share their wisdom over 4 days of cultural exchange and sacred ceremonies. 

https://www.aniwagathering.com

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Book a trip to Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica on June 18 - June 25, 2023, a special retreat hosted by Benjamin W. Decker.

Experience Ayahuasca Plant Medicine at the First Ever Medically-Licensed Resort to offer this sacred shamanic experience.  Enjoy a week of deep transformation with four plant medicine ceremonies led by shamans trained in the Columbian tradition and plant medicine preparation and integration workshops.

https://bendeckermeditation.com/retreats

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