Our discussion will focus on mindfulness strategies for managing challenges and making intentional choices. Microsoft Copilot joined the discussion and introduced the “Stop Method,” which emphasizes pausing, breathing, observing, and proceeding with intention. Microsoft Copilot also introduced the “5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Grounding” exercise that engages the senses to enhance present-moment awareness. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Eartha demonstrates AI features fo...
Jul 01, 2025•37 min
“Does awareness contribute to happinesses?”—Eartha invites us to explore whether developing a keen understanding of our inner life can lead to a more fulfilling state of being. Be open to a discussion which centers on self-awareness as a foundational element for personal growth. During this session, we will explore how self-awareness involves recognizing and understanding one’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, which in turn enables us to make more informed decisions, align our actions with our...
Jun 03, 2025•21 min
In this episode, Eartha explores the science of happiness through the lens of neuroplasticity and the powerful effects of positive experiences on the brain. Using the AI tool Copilot, she demonstrates how technology can support mindfulness practices and enhance presentation development. Copilot recommends incorporating gratitude-based activities—like journaling and volunteering—to boost resilience and well-being. Eartha integrates these suggestions into the episode, including a guided gratitude ...
May 06, 2025•23 min
This podcast may make you feel uncomfortable. Embrace your uneasiness as a sign of your emotional intelligence and sensitivity. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Emotional intelligence is shaped by personal experiences and genuine feelings and is expressed in many ways. Perfection may be a goal; however, humanity is not perfect. Therefore, in mindfulness, we can reflect on our imperfections as learning experiences to improve our lives. AI operates on algorith...
Apr 01, 2025•10 min
Warning: this podcast may make you feel uncomfortable. Embrace your uneasiness as a sign of your emotional intelligence sensitivity. Join Eartha in a heartfelt conversation about the differences between emotional intelligence and artificial intelligence. Emotional intelligence makes us human—shaped by our experiences, emotions, and personal growth—while AI, no matter how advanced, is just a tool running on algorithms (often reflecting human biases). Brace yourself and investigate your emotional ...
Mar 04, 2025•20 min
Welcome to Mindful Guided Journaling , a space where creativity meets mindfulness! Inspired by a YouTube video on guided journaling, I wanted to create an engaging journaling activity for my students. When I asked them, “ What do you think about journaling?” They said, “Journaling is about writing your thoughts and feelings . ” —Their responses were eye-opening. In mindful guided journaling, the goal is to help unlock creativity, thoughts, and emotions. Remember that mindfulness uses our five se...
Feb 04, 2025•30 min
Eartha led a mindfulness session on adapting to seasonal changes and the importance of hydration in colder months. Participants engaged in a calming activity of tearing construction paper to create flowers, which promoted fine motor skills and helped release frustrations. Scented glue sticks added a sensory element, and participants reflected on their emotions throughout. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Eartha concluded the session with a mindful breathing ...
Jan 01, 2025•9 min
This is the final episode on Energy and how Eartha was motivated to write my new book “When Two Worlds Collide”. Eartha summarizes major points from the first two episodes. The major point is you can’t see “pure energy”, but you can see the effects of energy in the form of movement, light, heat, sound, or other changes happening around you, which are essentially how we perceive energy is present and being used. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Key points abo...
Dec 03, 2024•16 min
Eartha explores the concepts of masculine and feminine energies, asserting their presence in everyone regardless of gender identity, and highlights the importance of mindfulness in recognizing and harnessing these energies for better interactions. She also shares her perspective on the evolution of leadership styles towards a more integrated approach that values collaboration and creativity, particularly in response to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and advocates for a balance be...
Nov 26, 2024•32 min
In this episode, Eartha discusses the challenges people face in maintaining mindfulness after initial training, likening it to the fading excitement of owning a new car. She emphasizes her mission to offer engaging, evidence-based mindfulness activities for children to help manage stress, sustain their practice, and improve focus. Eartha shares her mindfulness routine, which includes breath awareness and writing as tools for processing emotions. She introduces her new book, *”When Two Worlds Col...
Nov 19, 2024•19 min
Join Eartha as she leads a discussion on the significance of energy in mindfulness; by definition, energy is the capacity to perform work. As a non-emphasized, the distinction between Eartha begins with a brief summary of energy. She discusses various forms of energy, including kinetic and thermal energy. She introduces adenosine triphosphate (ATP)as a key energy source for cellular functions, linking the importance of nutrition to energy generation. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player A...
Nov 12, 2024•29 min
In this episode, I will guide listeners through a reflective debriefing process. The main focus is on exploring the importance of letting go of past fears and judgments to embrace change and personal growth. Join me in this special debrief as I share a personal story about a near accident that deeply impacted me. The incident left me highlighting the importance of appreciating life and staying focused on our mission for future generations. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcas...
Nov 05, 2024•15 min
Eartha summarized the importance of mindfulness and self-check-ins, emphasizing the need to be aware of our senses, thoughts, feelings, and emotions without judgment. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS During this guided meditation exercise, Eartha will led a guided meditation exercise, encouraging participants to pay attention to their surroundings and body sensations. She invites you to focus on the temperature, the feeling of your feet and ankles, and the s...
Oct 29, 2024•19 min
During this episode, Eartha discussed the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), developed by Brown, K.W. & Ryan, R.M. The MAAS helps individuals identify areas where they may need to focus more on mindfulness attention and awareness. a Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS To get a basic idea of how to use the MAAS, Eartha will read the 15 questions. Participants are invited to write responses according to the Likert scale responses. Eartha discussed a to...
Oct 22, 2024•20 min
During this podcast, I want to spend time checking in with you. How are you doing? Are you taking time for you? Let us take time now to remember the concepts of mindfulness, emphasizing the importance of being aware of our senses, thoughts, feelings, and emotions without judgment. Research indicates often, when we get distracted by thoughts and emotions, we focus on negativity. The goal of mindfulness isn’t to deny reality or live in a non-existent world but to pay attention to the present momen...
Oct 15, 2024•14 min
Please continue your art tour with Dawn Train. Dawn shares more about her talents. I invite you to get into a comfortable position and be open to exploring how my special guest, Dawn Train, transformed her anxiety into art. The podcast is formatted as an art show to give the viewers a walk through what Dawn calls “ColorfulAnxiety.”I hope you enjoy the beauty of “ColorfulAnxiety.” I hope you are open to appreciating Dawn’s meticulous details of taking strips of paper, pearls of glue, and points o...
Oct 08, 2024•13 min
I invite you to get into a comfortable position and be open to exploring how my special guest, Dawn Train, transformed her anxiety into art. The podcast is formatted as an art show to give the viewers a walk through what Dawn calls “ColorfulAnxiety.” I hope you enjoy the beauty of “Colorful Anxiety.” I hope you are open to appreciating Dawn’s meticulous details of taking strips of paper, pearls of glue, and points of needles to create magnificent art pieces to express her philosophy of how she l...
Oct 01, 2024•12 min
Join Eartha in part two as she interviews special guest Mr. Cedric Elevancini. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS (Banker and Financial Advisor). Mr. Elevancini shares his expertise from his 12 to 14 years of experience in banking, real estate, and business advising. During this episode, Cedric focuses more on details about what triggers stress in managing finances. He emphasizes that developing a financial management habit is key to success in avoiding the si...
Sep 24, 2024•36 min
Join Eartha as she interviews a special guest, Mr. Cedric Elevancini Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS (Banker and Financial Advisor). Mr. Elevancini shares his expertise from his 12 to 14 years of experience in banking, real estate, and business advising. Cedric emphasizes the critical need to teach children about financial management from a young age. The psychological influences of buying, money management, and the development of saving habits are passed t...
Sep 17, 2024•18 min
When practicing mindfulness awareness, we pay attention to our breath, thoughts, and feelings. And we pay attention to any discomforts, pressures, or pain. During this podcast, Eartha, your guide, will lead you through the first step of creating a mindfulness action plan. Your mindfulness action plan is your personal tool. Each plan is unique to help focus on refilling. Understand that it may take a little time to grow accustomed to taking personal time to recharge energy. That is OK. You will f...
Sep 10, 2024•12 min
During part 2 of “Caution! Fill your water bottles with care”, Eartha will elaborate more about mindfulness self-care. She will guide you through recognizing how we pour our inner energy into various containers in our lives. Often, we are busy depleting our supply of positive energy until physical symptoms of fatigue take over and distract us from self-care. I adapted this practice (from Gina Biegel of Stressed Teens) into a visual example of what happens when we pour our energy into others with...
Sep 03, 2024•17 min
During this episode, we will talk about the mindfulness part of self-care. We’re going to go beyond talking about our exterior bodies and talk more about caring for our internal world. Eartha uses analogies during this “gardening” episode. Gardeners sometimes use the senses of touch, smell, and taste to determine how healthy plants are growing. From the assessment, nourishment, and water are given to the plants so they can thrive and be healthy. Please try to use the same perspective when we ref...
Aug 27, 2024•12 min
Welcome to the final episode of this series. I hope it has been meaningful for you. Boundaries in a mindful world must be able to express ourselves. To communicate our boundaries, we need to be aware of them. We can explore our boundaries and grow. When we expand our minds or imaginations, sparks of creativity ignite. We develop problem-solving skills and new or more effective ways of handling stress or anger. If we’ve been exposed to anger as a family value, for example, and the anger is expres...
Aug 20, 2024•19 min
As we grow and learn about ourselves, we learn about our boundaries. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Our boundaries cultivated by our values, beliefs, and experiences may reflect a false image of who we are. Learning about our boundaries helps us communicate and understand how our boundaries mold our personalities. Through this process, we get the opportunity to be non-judgmental with ourselves. We can expand our boundaries’ positive qualities and minimize ...
Aug 13, 2024•15 min
During our podcast, we will explore different boundaries and barriers, and I hope you find the information educational and helpful to stimulate the desire to release, let go, and explore beyond your barriers. I’m going to talk about how emotional barriers cause mental blocks, which prevent people from performing the best they can be. I will explore informal obstacles that prevent a person from growing mentally, physically, or spiritually. Sometimes, a person may not recognize they are around or ...
Aug 06, 2024•14 min
Boundaries can help people feel safe and in control, leading to healthy relationships. Boundaries can also help people build trust, safety, and respect in their relationships. Setting healthy boundaries can also help people lower stress, increase life satisfaction, and improve their self-esteem. Self-made boundaries that prevent growth create barriers. (i.e., boundaries made because of lack of experience or knowledge from families or culture). Negative self-talk learned from toxic social interac...
Jul 30, 2024•14 min
Join Eartha on a journey of , “Beyond Boundaries: A Mindfulness Adventure.” In this episode, Eartha invites you to escape the constraints of your daily life and explore a world where limitations don’t exist. Imagine a place unrestricted by time, resources, or physical barriers. Through guided imagery and thoughtful discussions, we delve into landscapes of limitless possibilities, be it vibrant cityscapes, serene natural environments, or abstract realms that defy conventional understanding. Subsc...
Jul 23, 2024•21 min
This is the final episode of “Preparing Today’s Children for a Futuristic Digital Tomorrow.” In a panel discussion with the champion team of educators and leaders of Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy, Mrs. Kathryn Cohen (principal and cohort for 3rd – 5th grade), Mrs. Simran Jawanda (vice principal of middle school), and Mrs. Tracy Smith (principal of k-2nd grade). Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Our panel begins where we left off in episode three, wit...
Jul 16, 2024•20 min
Welcome back to the third part of this series. Join me as Mrs. Cohen, principal of EKHLA, Mrs. Jawanda, and Mrs. Smith(vice principals of EKHLA) discuss how students transition from self-reflection to individuality development. Each student’s voice is valued, and educators encourage self-advocacy. Reviews from some parents who had their children at EKHLA voiced complaints about their child being assigned too much homework or their expectations not being met. Some schools are not for all children...
Jul 09, 2024•15 min
In this episode, Eleanor Kolitz, Hebrew Language Academy’s champion educators, discusses how students in grades K through 8th are guided through self-discovery, self-reflection, and confidence building in one of Texas’ top charter schools. At the beginning of part two, I briefly review the first episode. Join my panel of expert educators of Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy (EKHLA), Mrs. Kathryn Cohen (principal and cohort 3rd to 5th grade), Mrs. Tracy Smith (vice principal of K – 2nd grade...
Jul 02, 2024•15 min
