In this episode Alisha and I discuss…
- Wise Women Wednesday
- The importance of community
- Simple joys
- Using morning pages and art journaling to help with gratitude practices
- What abundance is
- Design thinking – what it is and how to utilize it in your life and job
- Tools to reignite creativity
- Using social media in business, life and dating
- What mindfulness is
- Intuition
- Personality types
Meet Alisha:
Alisha Wielfaert is a Leadership, Life and Creativity coach who works predominantly with women and lives by the motto “We rise by lifting others”. She is the creator of the Yoke and Abundance Wise Women Wednesday interviews, panels and podcast. Alisha spent 11 years as an award winning internal wholesaler in the life insurance industry. Early in her career in corporate America Alisha became a 500-hour certified yoga teacher and went on to found her own yoga studio, Greensboro Downtown Yoga. While juggling a successful full-time job and running her own business Alisha discovered the tools she used to spark creative endeavors and bring mindfulness into her days were the very tools that made her most successful in all other aspects of her life.
In 2017 Alisha left corporate America to found Yoke and Abundance. Alisha is an avid traveler, writer and speaker who enjoys working with anyone who has a propensity to take action towards their dreams.
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Links:
- Morning pages
- Morning Pages Episode on Love Always Jo
- Bella Grace (Magazine)
- Belong (Magazine)
- The Lively Show (podcast)
- Mirror of Mindfulness by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol (Book)
- Pema Chodron (author)
- Living a Charmed Life by Victoria Moran (Book)
- Dare to Lead by Brene Brown (Book)
- Strengths Finder
- 16 Personalities
- The Artists Way by Julia Cameron (Book)
- The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh (Book)
Journal Prompts:
- Who can you send snail mail to this month?
- What are you grateful for and why are you grateful for it?
- Who can you tell that you’re grateful to today?
- What are you intentionally cultivating in your life?
- How do you define abundance?
- How can you love the moment you’re in?
- What are your personal core values?
Quotes:
- Loneliness is more detrimental to your health than smoking a pack a day
- Find and cultivate your community
- Feelings are not wrong or bad – what’s bad is getting stuck in them – Alisha
- Abundance is recognizing what you have – Alisha
- Abundance is focusing on and being grateful for what you have – Alisha
- Abundance is focusing on the solution and not the problem – Alisha
- Design thinking is focusing on the solution and not the problem – Alisha
- Start with the solution and end in mind and work backwards – Alisha
- When you live solely by a checklist there isn’t space for what you really want – Alisha
- Feel the fear and do it anyway – Alisha
- Drop the fear – Alisha
- Are you bringing mindfulness to your life and relationships – Alisha
- Meditation and mindfulness is about paying attention to your thoughts – not getting rid of them. – Alisha
- Mindfulness and meditation is about becoming aware of your thoughts – Alisha
- Mindfulness is a practice of touching the present moment – Tsele Natsok Rangdrol
- Intuition is like a muscle – Alisha
- Embrace the woo – Alisha
- Be led by the fun – Alisha
In this episode of Love Always, Jo, I interview Alisha Wielfaert, a Leadership, Life and Creativity coach who works predominantly with women and lives by the motto “We rise by lifting others.” While juggling a successful full-time job and running her own business Alisha discovered the tools she used to spark creative endeavors and bring mindfulness into her days were the very tools that made her most successful in all other aspects of her life. Listen to this episode to hear more about creativity and living from a place of abundance.
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