Erin Diehl joins Refractive host Johnny G to discuss the power of perspective in creating a happy life- specifically that when I love me the world loves me too. Erin, an author and motivational speaker who uses improv to help people clear barriers and live authentically, shares her wisdom and experience with Refractive listeners. She and Johnny G discuss creating our reality, opening the heart, and the secret superpower for fulfillment: being of service to others. Find Erin's book "I See You! A Leader's Guide to Energizing Your Team through Radical Empathy" at your favorite bookstore or online. Learn more about how she helps others to live joyful, powerful lives at www.itsErinDiehl.com To contact host Johnny G for spiritual coaching or for speaking engagements, email him at refractivepodcast@gmail.com or visit www.refractivecoaching.com

Author Michael McPadden and host Johnny Guidry discuss the Spiritual Wisdom of Genesis. Pulling from his book, "Genesis to Revelation," Michael shares his insights on how the stories in the book of Genesis are layered through with spiritual and metaphysical significance. He discusses his perspectives on heaven and hell, the creation story, Abraham, and more. He then weaves connecting threads through the Gospels and the book of Revelation. Join Refractive for an enlightening episode that encourages listeners to look closer at some of humanity's most treasured stories in order to uncover rich guidance for spiritual growth. Learn more about Michael McPadden and his book "Genesis to Revelation" at www.Michael-McPadden.com. To contact host Johnny Guidry for spiritual coaching or to book him for speaking events, send a message to RefractivePodcast@gmail.com or visit www.refractivecoaching.com.

Mariko Sakai, aka Mistress Mariko, joins host Johnny G to discuss the spiritual side of romance and intimacy. Mariko, a coach and expert in field of relationships, intimacy, and sexuality, presents listeners with a hard-hitting question: are we REALLY willing to get honest about who we are, what we want, and how we can get there? Whether in romance, sexuality and intimacy, family life, or business, Mariko explains that our inner guidance has all the information we need to reach ongoing joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment. The map to find it is simply the willigness to love ourselves unconditionally and boldly embrace authentic living. To learn more about Mariko's work, visit her website at www.MistressMariko.com or find her on social media: @MistressMariko. To contact host Johnny Guidry to discuss spiritual coaching, speaking engagements, or episode feedback, email him at RefractivePodcast@gmail.com or visit www.RefractiveCoaching.com

Deborah Eden Tull, lovingly known as Eden, joins Refractive with the message of embracing the shadow self. She encourages linsteners to see our inner darkness as sacred and perfect, a necessary part of the whole of creation rather than as a defect. Eden shares her journey of awakening, including 7 years as a Zen Buddhist monk and decades of leaning towards unconditional love, healing, and self-acceptance. Her book, Luminous Darkness, distinguishes between the evil, coloquially synonymous with "darkness," and a broader concept of luminous or regenerative darkness. She discusses a range of impactful topics such as fierce compassion, moving beyond duality, the healing and sacred nature of darkness (physically and metaphysically), and the path to endarkenment, what Eden calls the path to unconditional love of self and of all.

Dr Gary Lawrence, lovingly known as Dr G, joins host Johnny Guidry to review the harmful emotional patterns created by rejection experiences, and why we continue to put ourselves in the path of rejection. Dr G offers us a new, broader definition of rejection, including any number of painful emotional experiences and behaviors: agression, isolation, passive-aggressive tendencies, dishonesty, and more. He explains that we become dependent on these painful emotional experiences, and that form of dependence can develop into symptoms of depression, anxiety, violence, and extreme avoidance. A devout Christian, Dr G weaves in his own faith-based experience to explain that simply possessing faith and deep spiritual beliefs isn't enough to break that addiction to emotional pain. Dr G digs deep into his knowledge and expertise to offer listeners suggestions for breaking these devastating patterns. You can find Dr G's book, Rejection Junkies online at his website, www.RejectionJunkies.com . While you're there, you can also take the free quiz "Are You a Rejection Junkie" and learn more about how Dr G helps people break free from painful emotional patterns. To contact host Johnny Guidry for speaking, spiritual coaching, or just to ask questions or suggest topics, email him at RefractivePodcast@gmail.com or at www.RefractiveCoaching.com. For similarly themed episodes, try Spiritual Healing through Toxic Relationships or A Modern Look at the Sermon on the Mount with Rev Rich Tafel.

Host Johnny G shares one of his all-time favorite episodes, truly among the best of Refractive. This episode originally aired in May 2022. We spend so much of our lives scrounging and begging for scraps when there is a banquet laid out at the next table, and it's been put there JUST for us. The truth is, we humans often trade our birthright of magnificence for a life of scratching and clenching and snatching and wishing. Fortunately, we have a treasure map built into our being, it just requires us to seek to quiet the noise around us and re-learn how to access it. Johnny G discusses how holding tightly to careers, relationships, and ideologies that no longer fit keep us small and block our light. He encourages listeners to remember that no matter how dark and rough and confusing life can be, there is one thing for certain: you already know and you already are.

We hear about self love, and self care, but what about self like? Guest Alan Questel, author of "Practice Intentional Acts of Kindness" talks about the importance of learning to like yourself. In this episode, Alan talks about his journey through life challenges and interpersonal relationships that led to struggles with how he saw himself. He shares how he has been able to heal those wounds and how to find the power to shift out of that painful way of life. To contact Alan with questions, to find his book, or to inquire into how he helps people live a more loving life, visit his website: www.UncommonSensing.com To contact host Johnny Guidry with questions or to inquire on coaching or speaking engagements, email him at RefractivePodcast@gmail.com or visit www.RefractiveCoaching.com.

You know the saying: some people are a blessing when they walk into your life, and others are a blessing when they leave! Why do some people feel energizing to be with while others are draining? And more importantly, does it feel good to be around YOU? Host Johnny G discusses how to manage the energy you put out to those around you. We end every episode of Refractive with the same phrase: "aim your light." What does that mean? Can you enhance the experience of your fellows by simply entering the room? You absolutely can- and it's not difficult at all. This episode reviews some practical methods for maintaining a natural lightness of energy and cleansing and clearing any heavy energy that you might be carrying. For some more great ideas on managing your energy, check out this post from YogaBasics.com: https://www.yogabasics.com/connect/yoga-blog/clear-negative-energy/ For similarly themed content, try these other episodes from Refractive: Energy Work to Support Your Goals, and All About Reiki. To contact host Johnny Guidry for questions, coaching support, or feedback, email him at RefractivePodcast@Gmail.com or visit www.RefractiveCoaching.com.

For the Best of Refractive, turn the dial back to February 2020 for an all-time favorite episode- powerful, raw, uplifting. Enjoy "Surrender to Greatness." Magnificence is our birthright. The illusion of struggle, expectations, status, and what's "fair" causes us to actually fight against our own greatness as we desperately seek to control our existence. We can begin to see life as a series of threats and hardships. The truth is: something IS hurting us, and it's US. The self is the only opponent powerful enough to drag us down. And when we put down the weapon and realize that we were fighting shadows, our true power begins to manifest and doors swing open. In this episode of Refractive Johnny G looks into the saga of our battles through examples of interpersonal relationships, the epidemic of shame, and growth lessons from the allegory of Adam and Eve's fall from grace. Are you ready to surrender? Because despite our best efforts, while we can temporarily blind ourselves to it, our magnificence will win in the end. For coaching services or speaking engagements, contact host Johnny Guidry at refractivepodcast@gmail.com For similarly themed content, try these other episodes: You Already Know, You Already Are and Making Peace with Our Dark Side More information on living your most authentic life is found at RefractiveCoaching.com and RefractivePodcast.com

The fear of abandonment is one of the most common and most damaging types of anxiety. It involves an overwhelming worry that people close to you will cease to be available (physically or emotionally). Whether through walling yourself off, sabotaging relationships, or developing unhealty forms of attachment, it can seem nearly impossible for someone with a fear of abandonment to develop healthy relationships. Author and life design coach Connie Monroe joins host Johnny G as they discuss their experiences with this paralyzing fear, how it contributed chaos in each of their lives, and how they found relief and healing. For more information or to contact Connie Monroe, visit www.MonroeCoaching.com. You can find her book, "Holding onto Joy through Abandonment and Divorce" on Amazon.com. For information on coaching services or speaking engagements, contact host Johnny Guidry at refractivepodcast@gmail.com or visit www.RefractiveCoaching.com. For similarly-themed episodes, try Healing Parental Trauma, Redefining Grief, or Spiritual Healing through Toxic Relationships.

This episode of Refractive offers insights, experience, and guidance on Finding Perfection in Darkness and Tragedy. Host Johnny G offers suggestions on how to learn to see the world as completely perfect, even as we find so much suffering and chaos around us. This episode challenges listeners to recognize the blessings contained in our own shortcomings, and to have compassion and empathy for those who, in their painful confusion, might seek to hurt us. Johnny Guidry is a motivational speaker and spiritual coach who supports people who feel called to a soul-driven life. For questions and support, reach Johnny at refractivepodcast@gmail.com or visit www.RefractiveCoaching.com. For similarly-themed inspiring content, try these episodes: Making Peace with Your Dark Side and If I'm Angry with You, the Problem is Me.

In this episde, "Trusting Your Gut," Executive Coach Matt Hogan Joins host Johnny Guidry to share inspiring stories of self-discovery and practical guidance on learning to follow your intuition towards a more satisfying life. One fateful day, following a period of darkness and intense struggle, Matt decided to end his life. To his horror, he later woke up in a hospital with a bullet in his head and a temporary inability to walk. While recovering in the hospital, in what he describes as a major turning point, Matt felt a message rising within himself that it was time for a new way of living. His path led him out of the hospital and up the corporate ladder before eventually leaving everything behind to pursue a new calling: travelling the world while helping people learn to listen to their intuition. Matt joins host Johnny G as they share their best tips on getting in touch with your gut, discerning between inner wisdom and false fears, and finding the courage and clarity to step boldy onto your best path. You can reach Matt at Matt@MattHoganWorldwide.com, and find his helpful free workbook at MattHoganWorldwide.com/Clarity. For help getting unstuck, or for speaking engagements, reach out to host Johnny Guidry at RefractivePodcast@gmail.com or visit RefractiveCoaching.com. For similar themes, try these episodes: Who Do You Think You Are?, Learning to Use Intuition, and You Already Know. You Already Are.

In this episode, host Johnny G wraps up the Heal Yourself series by sharing how to design a joyful life. Johnny discusses the difference between happiness and joy, the building blocks of joy, how joy relates to love and passion, and offers a tactical exercise for redesigning your life around joy and contentment. The book referenced by Johnny G during this episode is "The Velvet Rage" by Dr. Alan Downs. For episode questions, or for information on coaching services, keynote speaking, or workshop and retreat facilitation, contact host Johnny Guidry at refractivepodcast@gmail.com.

This episode in Refractive's ongoing "Heal Yourself" series welcomes Hally Brooke, Certified Functional Medicine Nutrition Counselor and Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. She joins host Johnny G to discuss Nutrition and Nourishment, how the foods and substances we intake are respnonsible for the great majority of chronic illnesses today, and offers suggestions on simple ways to enhance our quality of life. Johnny shares his experience as a compulsive binge eater and how he found freedom and healing. Finally, Hally speaks on the power of loving yourself through nutrition, and the link between bodily wellness and spiritual wellness.

In part 1 of the Heal Yourself: Inner Peace episode, host Johnny G discussed how security affects our inner peace. Now in part 2, he focuses on how our concept of satisfaction can either enhance or diminish inner peace. Johnny reviews 3 primary factors that affect how satisfied we feel with our lives: fears, expectations, and intuition. Grab a pen and a journal and prepare to go on an inner exploration to challenge and reprogram the ways we unintentionally diminish our inner peace. And, spoiler alert, the solution lies in changing how we relate to this complicated world, not in securing more stuff and more experiences. But you already knew that.

Why is inner peace so elusive? How can we find serenity in a world that feels so chaotic? In the second episode of the Heal Yourself series, host Johnny Guidry explores acceptance and inner peace. He presents the building blocks of inner peace, common roadblocks, and a series of exercises to help you identify where you are sabotaging your own serenity. This topic is broken into two pillars, each with it's own episode. Part 1 covers Security, and the next episode, Part 2, covers Satisfaction. Contact host Johnny Guidry with any questions or to book speaking or coaching services at RefractivePodcast@gmail.com.

Are you ready to heal yourself? Refractive Podcast welcomes you to a special series designed to help you recover from the pain, sabotage, and self-imposed limits that keep life small, chaotic, and draining. This first episode, Rebalancing Your Life with Luke Iorio, offers practical tools and methods for evaluating where your life may be out of balance and then re-establishing harmony, flow, and serenity in those areas. Guest Luke Iorio is a transformational coach who has dedicated his career to supporting people who feel ready to redesign a life according to their highest inner wisdom. He shares with host Johnny G his own journey of rebalancing and pulls back the curtain into how he helps others do the same. To learn more about Luke, check out his spirituality podcast at www.OnThisWalk.com. To contact host Johnny Guidry for speaking, coaching, or other services, visit www.RefractiveCoaching.com. For similarly-themed episodes, try Healing Parental Trauma, Releasing Limits through Neuroplasticity, and Surrender to Greatness.

What would you do if, in a vision and guided by God, you were told to sell your home and your belongings, move across the country, and start helping people heal? Didn't that sort of experience end with the Old Testament? Clearly not! Jennifer Standish shares her inspiring story of faith with Refractive's Johnny G, who also had a revelation to leave his old life and follow a new, God-driven path. Jennifer explains how she handled the enormous shock and was able to honor this divine directive, move through her fears, and build a new life and career from the ground up. Find Jennifer's inspiring book "Permission Granted" on Amazon. To learn about how she can help you change your own life, connect with her at LinkedIn.com/in/JenniferStandish or on instagram at @give_yourself_permission. To book host Johnny Guidry for speaking or coaching engagements visit www.RefractiveCoaching.com or email him at johnny@refractivecoaching.com. For similarly themed episodes, try Reshaping Your Life after a Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Visions with Marlon Fixico.

After experiencing severe psychological abuse at the hands of her stepmother, Lisa Goodpaster couldn't help but see her parents through a highly distorted lens. While it took decades of exploration, healing, forgiveness, Lisa founded The Stephood Project, an organization dedicated to changing the way children experience divorce. Lisa shares with her methods for defining, processing, and healing parental trauma so that we are able to learn, grow, and reduce the cycle of generational pain. To learn more about Lisa and her amazing work, visit www.StephoodProject.org. To contact host Johnny Guidry about speaking engagements and coaching services, visit www.RefractiveCoaching.com. For similarly-themed episodes, try Fatherhood and Spirituality with author Tim Olson, Spiritual Healing through Toxic Relationships with Jean Atman, and Self Care for Parents with Executive Coach Randi Braun.

Jonathan Robinson has spent years interviewing over 100 of the world's most fascinating spiritual seekers. From Mother Teresa to the Dalai Lama, from Oprah to Byron Katie, Jonathan condensed these life-changing conversations and learnings into a single book, The Enlightenment Project. He joins host Johnny Guidry on Refractive to share some of the profund lessons he picked up from these living legends, including the personalized meditation advice from Ram Dass that changed his life. Jonathan explains how he was able to get face time with these incredible people, and offers to listeners a simple, practical way to find and embrace the type of meditation practice that fits each of us best. For similarly-themed episodes, try "Two Weeks in a Monastery" and "Reshaping Your Life after a Spiritual Awakening." Learn more about Jonathan Robinson's incredible life and book at www.TheEnlightenmentProject.net. To contact host Johnny Guidry, or to learn more about his services, visit www.RefractiveCoaching.com.