On this episode Ariel is joined by Melissa Reaves, an executive storytelling coach, to talk about how stories can change lives. KEY TAKEAWAYS Human beings are story telling machines. Everyone tells stories and have done since the times we lived in caves. Dating stories, family stories, in business – vision stories and case stories/studies. What I try to do is help people become “mind movie makers” because someone who really studies this craft can really ignite a lot of emotions inside the listen...
Jul 24, 2022•29 min•Ep. 41
On this episode Ariel is joined by Beverley Giroud, a professional educator, licenced massage therapist, personal trainer and life coach, about the power of transition. If you’re transitioning, or know someone who is, listen on, some great ideas are discussed on this episode. What Color is Your Parachute: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success by Richard Bolles. This book is updated often and has excellent tools and exercises to help you understand your work and life skil...
Jul 18, 2022•34 min•Ep. 40
In this episode Ariel talks about clearing self-sabotage to reap the benefits of one of the most amazing ways to help us prevent stress, anxiety, depression and frustration: The power of exercise. Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, Second Edition: https://health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09/Physical_Activity_Guidelines_2nd_edition.pdf KEY TAKEAWAYS Today, about half of American adults – around 117 million people – have one or more preventable, chronic diseases. Seven of the 10 most c...
Jul 10, 2022•15 min•Ep. 39
On this episode Ariel is joined by Alannah Mae, a spiritual activist and liberation coach who has an incredible story to share about the power of spiritual transformation. KEY TAKEAWAYS Spiritual activism is my way of saying I’ll fight for your spirituality. I really am into everyone having their own conception, their own connection to god – whatever that looks like. I study a number of modalities, I pull from everywhere, but mostly I allow my clients to acquire faith based on experience. We loo...
Jun 26, 2022•31 min•Ep. 38
"Situational awareness is being aware of what is happening around you in terms of where you are, where you are supposed to be, and whether anyone or anything around you is a threat to your health and safety." From https://www.google.com/search?q=situational+awareness&oq=situational+aware&aqs=chrome.0.0i131i433i512j69i57j0i512l8.3473j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 www.torchstoneglobal.com More info on Situational Awareness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_awareness Patriot F...
Jun 19, 2022•15 min•Ep. 20
In this episode, Ariel talks about the power of fun and how and why fun is essential, especially in times of high stress and how it can add a lot of value to your life as an adult. KEY TAKEAWAYS I’ve found a lot of ways to have fun in a lot of really unusual environments and situations. Through the successes that I’ve experienced as a result of having fun, I realised something really important, which is we all need something to look forward to and we all need fun in our lives. During the pandemi...
Jun 12, 2022•15 min•Ep. 36
In this episode Ariel talks about the power of releasing guilt, learning how to gain more energy and light in your life by letting go. Power Versus Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behaviour, Dr David R. Hawkins, p 69 is the Map of Consciousness chart referred to in the show. KEY TAKEAWAYS As we’re in a holiday weekend in several parts of the world, a lot of us are taking time to rest and relax or think about people who have come before us and the sacrifices and gifts they have given. Thi...
May 29, 2022•18 min•Ep. 35
On this episode Ariel is joined by Adrienne Byrd, Senior Living Consultant from A Right Place For Seniors, to talk about planning for senior living and feeling empowered when you or someone you know is looking to make a living transition in their senior years gracefully while taking the burden off their family and friends. KEY TAKEAWAYS We offer free senior housing location referral services for seniors and their families. It’s a hands-on approach and we walk the entire journey from start to bey...
May 22, 2022•33 min•Ep. 34
In this episode Ariel talks about the power of tarot, its history and how the divination technique works. https://apple.news/Awy0lpBzwRzmr6ChYmvD7-A This article details the creation of the art of the Rider-Waite deck, an influential deck in the early 20th century that was actually designed by a woman, Pamela Colman Smith, who got no credit for her work. "Now, over 70 years after her death, the creator Pamela Colman Smith has been included in a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Ar...
May 15, 2022•23 min•Ep. 33
On this episode Ariel talks about the power of women’s rights, after the leak of an impending Supreme Court decision on the Row vs Wade case. Your rights have been hard won and you could lose them. What can you do about it? KEY TAKEAWAYS All women in the United States, and all over the world, need to know that their ability to make decisions for their lives are being eroded, and it’s a significant threat. Normally I don’t talk about negative things like this, but you do need to know that this is...
May 08, 2022•17 min•Ep. 32
On this episode, Ariel is joined by Marriage and Family Therapist and certified Human Potential Coach, Tawny Sanabria, to talk about the importance of managing stress by being present KEY TAKEAWAYS Being present is a state of being where we’re in the body right now and we’re not being consumed by our thoughts about the past or the future and getting worked up about all those things. It’s an embodied physical state that allows us to increase a safety feeling/sensation in the body. If I can help m...
May 01, 2022•18 min•Ep. 31
In this episode, Ariel is joined by certified gemstone therapy practitioner, Kathy Lewis, about stone healing and energy medicine. KEY TAKEAWAYS I enjoyed the Navy, but I knew that when I got out I wanted to do something in the healing field. I thought I was going to be a doctor, but I ended up in more alternative-type things like massage and bodywork. I've been trained in several different energy modalities and with each one I just knew this is great but it’s not my thing. When I was introduced...
Apr 24, 2022•37 min•Ep. 30
In this episode, Ariel talks about the power of lowering stress where she gives tips and ideas about how not to overdo it in life. KEY TAKEAWAYS Imagine pulling a wagon with heavy stones in it all day long. If you clear the stones out of it it’s easier to pull. The cognitive load is everything we think about, feel, learn, process, and have to remember and deal with on a daily basis. The mind and brain can only process so much information consciously, so a lot of it becomes subconscious. We’re co...
Apr 10, 2022•23 min•Ep. 29
On this episode Ariel is joined by cybersecurity expert Laura LeDoux. Cybersecurity is major issue, currently 2million Washingtonians are exposed to potential identity theft, and if you don’t know what RFID wallets are, API keys, two-factor authentication or the ‘the bank statement rule’, you definitely need to listen to this episode. KEY TAKEAWAYS The first part of regulation of privacy setting is self-regulation, a lot of users don’t understand the tools they have at their own fingertips to en...
Apr 03, 2022•40 min•Ep. 28
On this episode Ariel is joined by Christine Lalonde, a woman who hustles in business as the host of the Fifty Shades of Bullshit Podcast, the creator of a docu series about Hollywood and a dating reality TV show, being a mom, as an actress and a model and an event coordinator. KEY TAKEAWAYS I came up with my five door approach to hustle after moving to LA as a model. I was doing so many things, trying to learn all about the business, and people said to me “you should focus on one door, hone you...
Mar 27, 2022•35 min•Ep. 27
On this episode Ariel is joined by Nina Barnett, a marketing and design professional, UX/UI designer, single mom and entrepreneur extraordinaire, to tell the story of her multiple pivots in life, from personal challenges to moving jobs to moving states and cities without a job to go to and what she’s learned from them along the way. KEY TAKEAWAYS After a decade of working as a book designer in New York City for various publishers, I just knew I wanted to live on the West Coast and for the next a...
Mar 21, 2022•29 min•Ep. 26
To get access to the Mindset Reset or the Woo Woo Clubs, email Ariel at arielhubbard11@gmail.com An interesting article about early human hunter-gatherer societies is here: https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/hunter-gatherers#:~:text=larger%20aquatic%20life.-,Hunting%20and%20Gathering%20Society,almost%202%20million%20years%20ago. More about the development of humans: https://www.history.com/news/humans-evolution-neanderthals-denisovans?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-history More about...
Mar 14, 2022•21 min•Ep. 25
On this episode Ariel is joined by psychotherapist and business coach Jennifer Kennett to talk about the power of business boundaries, including how to set boundaries and the cost of not having them. KEY TAKEAWAYS The easiest way to think of business boundaries is they are all the ways you want to set expectations with potential clients and clients in order for you to be able to show up as your best self. It covers a lot of areas including time, money, how you want clients to contact you, how yo...
Mar 07, 2022•36 min•Ep. 24
On this episode, Ariel is joined by Taryn Laakso, who helps people unlock their potential by helping them transform their perspective. They look at how our perspective creates incredible positive results in our lives. KEY TAKEAWAYS I help my clients with a ‘Five I plan’. We investigate what’s working, what’s not working and what they want, I help them intercept the negative thought patterns that are holding them back, then we go into inspire; what do they want, how do they want to impact the wor...
Feb 28, 2022•34 min•Ep. 23
On this episode Ariel is joined by Elisia - Howard, the founder and CEO of College Insights – a private college consulting company – based in the greater Seattle area, who will educate us on how to prepare for college and point us in the direction of finding scholarships from college. It’s never to early to get started, if you have kids in middle school through high school you’ll want to hear this information. KEY TAKEAWAYS The best time to looking at the colleges and universities they would lik...
Feb 21, 2022•43 min•Ep. 22
On this episode Ariel is joined by Eileen Vierra, founder and chief creation officer of her company Memory Books By Eileen. She is a professional memory book maker as well as sells memory book supplies and hosts workshops and classes for people who want to create their own scrapbooks and photobooks. She’s been working on her own albums for over 40 years and has been in this industry professionally for 20 years. KEY TAKEAWAYS Scrapbooking isn’t just gluing pictures into a book, there are digital ...
Feb 14, 2022•30 min•Ep. 21
In this episode, Ariel is joined by Karen Solomon to talk about the power of confidence and how that shows up in a variety of different ways in relating, being authentic and how we show up. Karen is the author of ‘Sexy, Sassy and Starting Over’ and is an intimacy and relationship coach who teaches men and women the keys to confidence from the bedroom to the boardroom. KEY TAKEAWAYS My very first client back in the 80s was a friend how had no idea how to dress, so I took him shopping and spent $1...
Feb 07, 2022•39 min•Ep. 20
On this episode Ariel is joined by Dani Stoller, a high school science teacher who decided to create a calm room using her training in hypnotherapy, reiki, visualization and other techniques to bring calm and peace to her students for the last six years. KEY TAKEAWAYS We facilitate guided meditations, yoga, mindfulness arts and crafts and a safe space for kids to come. We also have staff days. We do it Tuesday and Thursday lunch times and the kids enjoy it and it’s grown through word of mouth. W...
Jan 31, 2022•25 min•Ep. 19
On this episode Ariel is joined by Tina Mitchell who used the power of visualization to overcome incredible challenges and tragedies to create a successful and beautiful life where she serves and empowers others through business, education and supporting the community. KEY TAKEAWAYS Each of our lives is like a road trip. When you travel you use a map to get to you from one destination to another, but even with a map you can take a wrong turn. Along the way there are life lessons and the road tha...
Jan 24, 2022•32 min•Ep. 18
On this episode Ariel explores some tips, trends and ideas for podcasts, books and information to help women make wise money decisions. KEY TAKEAWAYS Money is often a dirty secret in families or between romantic partners or friends, some people would rather divulge shameful personal details rather than give up information about how much they make, what their credit score is and what their debt or spending habits are. The book ‘Creating Money’ is a classic spiritual book and it teaches you about ...
Jan 17, 2022•23 min•Ep. 17
On this episode Ariel is joined by Emily McPhetridge, a banker who is here to educate us on the power of money and expand our understanding of how to relate to it in an empowered way. KEY TAKEAWAYS Your credit score is how banks and credit unions see your dependability – can you make your payments on time? Are you up to date on your loans? This affects your ability to purchase a home, get a credit card, getting a loan, a phone, etc. Credit is so important throughout your life and the foundation ...
Jan 10, 2022•28 min•Ep. 16
The Great Resignation: Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2021/09/who-is-driving-the-great-resignation Do the Change Right: From https://dochangeright.com/the-great-resignation-is-here-look-out-for-these-three-talent-retention-myths/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAzMGNBhCyARIsANpUkzPWLTfByZrUu9yJRjthQLJ-SFKZ3ZbpyG-NUEARGtRpgKeehdQ5JnwaAlF6EALw_wcB Trend Research: The Foresight Factory has an interesting report on upcoming trends: https://www.foresightfactory.co/trends-report/?utm_source=google&utm_medi...
Jan 03, 2022•16 min•Ep. 15
On this episode Ariel is joined by Sharon Parish who has an amazing story to share. She was a corrections officer for 22 years, but has just embarked on another career path and a massage therapist and reiki healer. KEY TAKEAWAYS After my divorce, I had to re-evaluate my life. I was hyper-focussed on what makes me happy. I knew I wasn’t happy in my current career so I wracked my brain to think of something I could do that I’d actually enjoy. My family has always been touchy-feely and would give e...
Dec 27, 2021•21 min•Ep. 14
On this Holiday edition of Woman Power Zone, Ariel discusses the power of celebrations, ideas for Covid-safe activities and ways we can help ourselves and others who may have a hard time during the holidays. KEY TAKEAWAYS During the pandemic we’ve not been able to do our celebrations as we normally would, and we’ve had to make a lot of changes in order to celebrate. People have had to even attend funerals, court dates by zoom, weddings have been changed to be done outside, drive-by birthday pres...
Dec 20, 2021•12 min•Ep. 13
On this episode Ariel is joined by Ruth Werner, a trained Massage Therapist, an author and educator in the massage field with a career spanning over 30 years, to talk about the power of knowing what you want by recounting her path to becoming one of the most influential authors in the massage community. KEY TAKEAWAYS When I left massage school with a licence, I felt underprepared, especially working with people that had certain illnesses, diseases or conditions I didn’t know enough about to be s...
Dec 13, 2021•37 min•Ep. 12
