Hank Azaria and Cyndi Carnaghi-Collins continue their discussion on healing the wounded inner child in this new podcast. Our Chief Operations Officer, Dustin Washington, opens this episode by asking our guests to share their experiences with their inner child while working in social justice. Social justice work is important to our future, but it also create spaces where we are trying to create change without healing. Cyndi found herself exhausted in the social justice movement after she realized...
Dec 11, 2023•26 min
Our Chief Operations Officer, Dustin Washington, leads our new podcast on healing our wounded inner child. He is joined by Hank Azaria and Cyndi Carnaghi-Collins to discuss their journey in healing their inner child, and how they created a new mind that works for them. The wounded inner child is an unhealed part of us that was formed by our survival strategies that help us ignore our trauma. Hank and Cyndi begin this episode with their definitions of the inner child, and what healing tools have ...
Oct 30, 2023•48 min
Anuar Velazquez and Jerry Elster sat down with our host, Martin Friedman, to share their thoughts on restorative justice in the American prison system. Anuar is a former police officer and Jerry was formerly incarcerated. Jerry begins by sharing that restorative justice started within himself and progressed into building, maintaining, establishing, and mending relationships. Jerry realized that he brought harm to his community when he committed his crime, and that was a relationship he needed to...
Sep 04, 2023•53 min
Our CEO, Berwick Mahdi Davenport, joins our Soul Focused Radio hosts to continue talking about innerwareness. Innerwareness is a Soul Focused Group term that we define as the way our first mind communicates with and directs our second mind. In this podcast M begins by exploring why he and a lot of other racial equity workers felt defeated. M spent years being a racial equity trainer and after all his hard work he felt like there was something missing from organizations and movements. He believes...
Aug 21, 2023•47 min
Berwick Mahdi Davenport sat down with our hosts Martin Friedman and Christin Farmer to discuss how he got in touch with his innerwareness during his spiritual journey. M explains how innerwareness is our ability to listen to our intuition and our intelligence. We come into this world and ask for guidance in things we should learn about ourselves. Christin and M discuss how the world gets us to listen to other voices instead of our own intelligence. As children we are discouraged to ask questions...
Jul 24, 2023•53 min
Martin Friedman and Dustin Washington sat down with Gabriel Lugo to learn more non-duality and spiritual leadership. Gabriel was a former atheist that became skeptical and curious about his consciousness. He began to investigate what the nature of reality is, and he found many teachings that brought him closer to understanding his own mind. Gabriel started with The Law of One, but he was really interested in non-duality. From spirituality, mysticism, and psychology, to quantum science and cosmic...
Jul 10, 2023•50 min
We invited Jim McCarty back as our special guest to continue his discussion on The Law of One. In this episode Jim dives deeper into how The Law of One will show up in our lives, and he also share some tools to help us see the creator in everyone. Jim shares his amazing mediation breathing technique that has helped him find balance in his life. This technique can be used to feel closer to humanity by reflecting on an experience at the end of your day. He also uses mediation that focuses on recre...
Jun 26, 2023•50 min
Martin Friedman and Dustin Washington will be collaborating on our new podcast series A New Mind. The first episode of the series features Jim McCarty. Jim started as a teacher in the inner city of Jacksonville, FL after his involvement in the hippie revolution. After Jim found his spiritual consciousness through dreams and journaling he moved to Kentucky where he spent 6 years living a self-sufficient lifestyle. While there he he founded the Rock Creek Research and Development Laboratories in 1...
Jun 12, 2023•51 min
Martin Friedman, Martina Tam, and Christin Farmer are back to continue their beautiful discussion on cultural appreciation. In their last podcast together they defined cultural appreciation as having a understanding, transactional, and empathetic relationship with a different culture . Martin begins this podcast by sharing his thoughts on cultural appropriation. He believes that appropriation involves someone in a position of power stealing something spiritual without consent. Martina goes on to...
May 20, 2023•37 min
In this podcast Martin Friedman sits down to discuss becoming powerful with Berwick Mahdi Davenport and Dustin Washington. Together the three men explore how individual power can create collective power. They have all found that when we are in our internal power we create healthy collective power. We have to see and acknowledge that we came into this world to participate with our power. Mahdi and Dustin also explore how we are programmed to believe and celebrate collective power over our own. Ma...
May 08, 2023•54 min
Martin Friedman is flying solo this week on our new podcast. In a recent episode Martin shared a story about learning to forgive his mother, and he is back to discuss the spiritual benefits we get from forgiveness. Martin explains how forgiveness meditation helped him learn how to see other people and how to treat himself better. The forgiveness meditation he listened to broke down forgiveness into three parts. You learn to forgive yourself for the things you have done to other people, you forgi...
May 01, 2023•26 min
Martin Friedman interviews Chantel Prat in this new podcast. Chantel is a professor in the department of psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience at The University of Washington. Martin and Chantel explore the power of the mind from a scientific perspective. Together they dive deep into what they think makes the mind so powerful. Chantel believes that the perceptions we develop in our minds are what make it the most powerful. We develop our own perceptions of the world based on our observations...
Apr 24, 2023•54 min
Our amazing Soul Focused Radio hosts come together in our new podcast to discuss cultural appreciation. Our hosts define cultural appreciation as a practice to connect with other cultures from a place of interest, reflection, and relationship. It is important to see how cultural appreciation is being self aware and trying not to be someone else. In Kenya Martina saw groups of children playing in the streets, and she shares how free spirited the children seemed there. She realized her toddler was...
Apr 17, 2023•50 min
This week our new hosts come together to discuss reclaiming their inner power. Martin Friedman, Martina Tam, and Christin Farmer have a moving conversation about the importance of self empowerment when healing trauma. They all have found that exploring their inner child has helped them find their inner power as adults. There is a feeling we all get when we get to feel like a kid again. By doing things we use to do as children we return to our natural selves. Our hosts share some of their everyda...
Apr 03, 2023•52 min
Join our host, Martin Friedman, as he shares his story about the recent spiritual and emotional healing journey he is on. For the past couple of month Martin has been helping his mom transition into a different living situation. He has found that this is a difficult journey to take with a parent. Martin and his mother have a complex relationship that has had to go through a lot of healing. In the past few years Martin and his mother have began to explore spiritual and emotional healing together....
Mar 27, 2023•18 min
Our Vice President of The Soul Focused Group, Dustin Washington, hosts this week’s new podcast. Dustin is joined by Anuar Velazquez to discuss possible healing solutions in law enforcement, and how to implement trauma healing in institutions. Anuar shares his own experiences with witnessing trauma as a former police officer. He explains that many police officers come into the workforce with unhealed childhood trauma. Police officers take on more trauma while working, but have no way to heal from...
Feb 20, 2023•58 min
*Trigger Warning Discussing Police Brutality* Anuar Velazquez, Christin Farmer, and Martin Friedman come together in this new podcast to discuss the cycles of trauma that are self perpetuating between police and communities of color. Anuar has been a special guest on Soul Focused Radio in the past, and he is back to discuss police brutality from an ex-cop’s perspective. With the recent events in Memphis we hope everyone realizes we are not immune to racism. Anuar and Christin share their first t...
Feb 06, 2023•50 min
Martin Friedman flys solo in our new podcast to interview Christin Farmer. Christin and Martin met about five years ago, and now have come together to talk about Christin’s healing journey. For many years Christin focused on racial equity in healthcare, and found herself exhausted after many years. She found that she was going to racial equity meetings anxious and leaving angry. Many racial equity workers can feel this way when they don’t see any results from their hard work. Today, Christin sta...
Jan 30, 2023•45 min
This new podcast our Soul Focused Radio hosts discuss the new changes happening this year with The Soul Focused Group. One of our cohosts, Cindy Edwards, announces that she will be stepping away from The Soul Focused Group this year. She has taken a lot of time to think about this decision, and shares her feelings about her exit in this new podcast. We are very thankful for the time and effort Cindy has put in while with The Soul Focused Group. During this time Cindy would like to focus more on ...
Jan 23, 2023•27 min
Martin Friedman and Berwick Mahdi “M” Davenport kick off the new year with a brand new podcast highlighting The Soul Focused Group’s new perspectives. This year we introduced our new podcast format and new hosts. We made this change to bring new voices and perspectives that we thought we were missing. Martin and Mahdi agree that bringing two female hosts on this year challenged them to see things differently. Cindy and Martina brought new perspectives, opinions, and suggestions that both men did...
Jan 09, 2023•54 min
Join our Soul Focused Radio hosts as they come together to share their thoughts and feelings about hosting this year. This year we launched a new podcast format and added two new amazing hosts. Cindy Edwards and Martina Tam joined Soul Focused Radio this year to bring new perspectives for our listeners. In this episode our hosts talk about struggling with their confidence and being anxious to share their voice. We hope that by listening to our hosts it can help others find ways to get over their...
Dec 19, 2022•25 min
*Trigger Warning In 1st & 3rd Segment* In this new episode Martin Friedman has a very moving and informative conversation about healing from trauma with Jackie Roby. Jackie is a wellness and healing travel expert. She is the founder of Inspired Journey Consulting and is the host of The Though Inspired Eyes podcast show. Inspired Journey Consulting provides sales and marketing consulting, curated training, and coaching to wellness and healing travel businesses. Martin was featured on Jackie’s...
Dec 12, 2022•50 min
Our Soul Focused Radio hosts are back together in this new podcast to interview Berwick Mahdi Davenport, AKA "M". Cindy Edwards, Martin Friedman, and Martina Tam dive deep into the path to emotional vulnerability with M. Our journey will always begin and end with healing from our trauma. M explains how we stay emotional intoxicated for a very long time because we don’t allow our souls to grieve. We have to grieve to be able to purge out our pain. We will continue to be stuck in resentment and re...
Nov 21, 2022•49 min
Martin Friedman and Martina Tam come together to interview Dr. Stephanie Jupiter in our new podcast episode. Last week Dr. Stephanie Jupiter was our special guest and she is back to close out her discussion about emotional vulnerability. Emotional Vulnerability can be difficult to introduce into healthcare. Martina and Stephanie agree that to provide good care to their patients they have to set boundaries. As healthcare professionals they can’t let their vulnerability interfere with their patien...
Nov 14, 2022•47 min
Dr. Stephanie Jupiter is back again as our special guest on Soul Focused Radio. She joins Martin Friedman and Martin Tam in our new podcast to discuss her experience with emotional vulnerability in medicine. Dr. Jupiter begins by sharing her core development and the difficulties she has had with suppressing her emotions. Her medical training was always focused on solving the problem and never finding the root to the problem. She believes medical professionals focus on the physical aspect of heal...
Nov 07, 2022•38 min
Cyndi Carnaghi-Collins and Neelofar K. Butt, MD return in this new podcast to close out their conversation about trauma. Martina opens up the podcast by asking our special guests about their experiences with secondary trauma. Our healthcare workers, social workers, and safety workers witness traumas daily. We have been socialized to think that the people taking care of us can handle our traumas. We have to realize that the people taking care of us are human as well. We see our healthcare provide...
Oct 31, 2022•33 min
Martina Tam is joined by Cyndi Carnaghi-Collins and Dr. Neelofar K. Butt in our new Soul Focused Radio podcast. Cyndi has been featured in a previous episode on Soul Focused Radio. Neelofar K. Butt, MD is currently working at Westmed Medical Group, a Summit Health Company. In this new episode the three women come together to have an amazing discussion about healing from childhood trauma. They start by sharing what trauma means to them and how trauma can present itself in our lives today. Cyndi s...
Oct 24, 2022•46 min
Join Cindy Edwards and Martina Tam this week as they have a beautiful conversation about self love and self care. Together our hosts explore the difficulties mothers can have when caring for themselves, and how shameful self love can feel in different cultures. We are excited to share this unique take on motherhood and growing as a mother. Cindy and Martina both share how difficult it can be to find the time for self care. Between work and motherhood they both find it difficult to give themselve...
Oct 10, 2022•34 min
Cyndi Carnaghi-Collins returns in this new episode to close out her conversation about trauma. This episode begins with Cyndi and Martin discussing how difficult it can be to navigate recovery. It is a common misconception that we have to reach an end goal to heal and recover. We see other people on their healing journey and compare where we are. We constantly rush our recovery process because we think healing should be fast. It is the process that is healing it is not the end result. The second...
Oct 03, 2022•22 min
*Trigger Warning* Cyndi Carnaghi-Collins is our special guest this week on Soul Focused Radio. Cyndi joins Cindy Edwards, Martin Friedman, and Martina Tam to have a beautiful conversation about growing beyond our traumas. Cyndi helps our hosts understand and navigate the multiple types of trauma we can encounter in our lives. Cyndi explains that measuring traumas can be difficult because everyone has different experiences. Everyone’s resilience is different and we can experience our traumas at d...
Sep 26, 2022•38 min
