HOME Podcast with Laura McKowen and Holly Whitaker takes up the big questions of life through the lens of addiction recovery. Each week, we explore a new discussion about our hearts, relationships, life, love and the universe at large.

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(Note, our hosting has changed. For current episodes, go to beautifulwriterspodcast.com.) Listen in as author Linda Sivertsen (aka Book Mama) brings together the world’s most beloved bestselling authors for chats about writing, publishing, deal-making, spirituality, activism, and the art of romancing creativity. Now streaming on American Airlines, these up-close conversations are a fan favorite, downloaded millions of times, and frequently profiled on “Best Podcast” lists (i.e., The Motley Fool’s “10 Best Podcasts for Women”) while gracing the "Popular Podcasts, Books" (formerly Literature) page of iTunes/Apple Podcasts nearly every day since the show's launch in 2015.

Join Linda (herself an award-winning, bestselling author, writing coach, and ex-ghostwriter + magazine editor) and her celebrity co-hosts for deep, funny interviews w/ top authors on breakout success to staying power. Heart-centered encouragement, street-smart advice, and insider success (and failure!) stories for every writer and creative type. Biggest mistakes, best shortcuts, behind-the-scenes agent, press, and publishing stories help you gain the courage to get your book, blog, ballad, or biz birthed into the world. 

Guests include Jenny Lawson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Marie Forleo, Van Jones, Cheryl Strayed, Nia Vardalos, Terry McMillan, Joel Stein, Deepak Chopra, Tom Hanks, Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Candice Bergen, Meg Wolitzer, Austin Channing Brown, Dean Koontz, Ann Patchett, Maria Shriver, Steven Pressfield, Anita Moorjani, Tosca Lee, Brené Brown, Lee Child, Anne Lamott, Rob Bell, Dani Shapiro, Gabby Bernstein, Martha Beck, Seth Godin, Danielle LaPorte, Marianne Williamson, Arianna Huffington, Mary Karr, Gretchen Rubin, #1 NYT Fantasy Authors Tomi Adeyemi & Sabaa Tahir, US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, and former WME super-agent Jennifer Rudolph Walsh. 

If you’ve ever wished you could sit down with your favorite writers over coffee to ask them how they do it, year after year, book after book, consider this your new, not-so-guilty pleasure. 

Take your dreams from idea to done with us. The Beautiful Writers Podcast. Where inspiration is constant, and swearing, optional (although highly appreciated). Find out more: https://www.beautifulwriterspodcast.com

Over the course of 11 years from, 1987 to 1998, Zen Cryar DeBrucke, formerly a high school dropout, built a tech company of 45 employees in the Bay Area that was skyrocketing, doing business with Fortune 500 companies and global conglomerates. And then came the dot-com bust. And while all of her friends, colleagues and associates were frantic as their businesses collapsed under them, Zen stayed well, Zen…her company was cratering too, but she was able to reconfigure her thinking to easily stay peaceful, even happy, sanguine.
They all wanted to know why…
It’s because she had discovered something so profound -- and perfected it over the years to the point that this discovery drove her company’s success! It was how to navigate all her thoughts, emotions and actions using an Internal Guidance System (IGS) -- bodily clues that enabled her to identify and shift the beliefs and old programs that were false, disempowering and limiting—the “closings” as she calls them are signals that your thinking is off base. By tapping into the consistent ability to “feel into” and refocus on the “opening” thoughts, she could find the thinking that easily attracted the synchronicities and -- as she said ” the magic” -- that fueled her massive success and joy!
Even more importantly, she discovered that these opening were reprogramming the neural pathways of her mind. That stress, worry, fear, overwhelm, guilt, procrastination, frustration, irritation, doubt and misery are simply signals to pivot your thoughts. So that by using ones IGS you are creating a brain that is getting healthier and healthier daily. 23 years later, she experiences openings that lead her to more and more happiness and success.
Here’s the best part…anyone can learn to live completely stress free, too.

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