Today’s episode is a dynamic conversation with Anita Sanchez, Ph.D., Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey, and Tim Harjo about Indigenous Wisdom. Our guests initially came together as a panel to speak about the Hoffman Process during our first-ever virtual Hoffman Conference in April 2021. Their panel discussion titled, Indigenous Voices: Answering the Call to Mend Our World, offered profound wisdom for all of us to heed in these times. Each has been a solo guest on our podcast (links below). Now, we’ve invite...
Nov 11, 2021•52 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Beloved Hoffman teacher and coach, Hilary Illick, is our guest this week. On the first night of her Process in 2000, Hilary experienced a life-changing moment as she first put her bat to the pillow. In those first few moments of bashing, she found permission to feel her emotions and use her voice and body to release in a way she'd longed to. She felt euphoric when done. The Process gave her the permission she'd been waiting for her whole life to no longer constrain her vibrant, vital Spirit. The...
Nov 04, 2021•26 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Listen in to this deep conversation with Cynthia Merchant and Drew about the Hoffman Process, trauma and trauma-healing, Somatic Experiencing®, and the basic goodness that underlies all things. Cynthia's vast knowledge and many decades of experience in working with people to heal trauma have helped her realize that the essential self is "ever-intending toward wholeness." Cynthia is a Marriage Family Therapist and Somatic Experiencing® practitioner. She first completed the Hoffman Process when it...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Linda and Charlie Bloom each did the Hoffman Process thirty years ago. The powerful transformations they experienced at the Process continue to be alive in them today. Charlie tells us how he learned of the freedom and joy in taking responsibility for his own life. Linda shares about grieving the image of 'parents charming,' the perfect parents she didn't get so that she could come to accept and honor the parents she did have. Listen in as Linda and Charlie offer decades of learning, experience,...
Oct 21, 2021•43 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Eleanor Cyrce offers a profound conversation about the nature and benefits of innate play and the journey she undertook to learn to play again. Initially trained as a computer scientist, Eleanor now devotes her life and work to play. This shift wasn't something she was looking for. She wasn't even comfortable playing. But her Spiritual Self found a way to guide Eleanor through this huge life change. Eleanor was deeply harmed at school by bullying and cliques. She has always wanted to put an end ...
Oct 14, 2021•27 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Aimee Song, fashion icon, designer, and influencer, is our guest this week. She shares a powerful story of how she moved from what she calls 'fake' confidence to real confidence. When she was younger, she found that wearing clothes of style made her feel better about herself and helped her feel more confident. Eventually, Aimee began to see that this confidence wasn't sustainable because it wasn't authentic. She realized she had to go within to find the genuine confidence she now knows. The Hoff...
Oct 07, 2021•33 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Walt Hubis is a man who wears many hats. But more than this, Walt is someone who always considers how the work he does can be part of the solution to mend our world. One hat Walt wears is that of Sound Engineer for the Hoffman Podcast. It's because of Walt's generosity and engineering skills that our podcast sounds great. He donates his time to support Love's Everyday Radius. By trade, Walt is an engineer and an artist. He is the father of two daughters, a grandfather, and the husband of Hoffman...
Sep 30, 2021•32 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Paula and Tim Floyd are both graduates of the Hoffman Process. What's it like to be a couple who've both done the Process? Listen in as Paula and Tim Floyd share their experiences of the Process, and of life together, post-Process. Paula was first to attend the Process about three years ago. When she returned home, Tim saw an immediate shift in Paula's presence and vulnerability. Six months later, Tim did his Process. Now, a few years post-Process, Paula shares that she had no idea that life cou...
Sep 23, 2021•50 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Virgil Roberson came to the Hoffman Process just one month before he was to be married. One month later, Virgil broke into a spontaneous song while saying his wedding vows. The Process was profoundly transformative for Virgil. There, he released his song, and also found his joy, laughter, and generously compassionate presence. Listen in as Virgil shares his childhood story of trauma with vulnerability and an open heart. Virgil was adopted at three weeks old. In his adoptive family, he experience...
Sep 16, 2021•46 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast David Stobbe / StobbePhoto.ca Marlene McNab is our guest this week. Many years before Marlene came to the Process, she found sobriety. She came to see, though, that her underlying intergenerational trauma still needed to be healed. Her work at the Hoffman Process profoundly supported this healing. After the Process, Marlene felt she had "mended a broken link in her family chain." A Nêhiýawak (Plains Cree) member of the George Gordon First Nation, Marlene learned about the Hoffman Process from a ...
Sep 09, 2021•31 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Jason-Aeric Huenecke is our guest this week. He did the Hoffman Process in July of 2005 and tells us the remarkable, profound, and lasting effect on him. He shares that through his work as a Homeopathic Practitioner and Spiritual Director, the effect of the Process has 'cascaded like nectar' to the world around him and continues to 'nourish' the people he works with. As a result of doing the Process, Jason-Aeric now has a joy for living and the courage to be himself. This wasn't always the case....
Sep 02, 2021•37 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Tim Harjo, General Manager of KNMQ Television in Albuquerque, NM, is our guest today. Tim's vision is to amplify Native voices into the mainstream conversation around how we live with each other and with Mother Earth. He sees Native voices as a voice for how to live more sustainably and beneficially with our Earth. Tim did his Process as part of Hoffman Institute's Leadership Path while a student at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The Institute worked with the Kennedy School to support g...
Aug 26, 2021•45 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Oliveyah Fisch, Health and Life Coach, is our guest this week. Listen in as she shares how the Hoffman Process brought her the serious change she was longing for. Before the Process, Oliveyah (also known as Liv) tells us she didn't know how to take responsibility for how her life was going to unfold. She was waiting for someone else to fix things and she would often blame others rather than step up herself. Through the work of the Process, Oliveyah learned how to listen to her Spirit and lean in...
Aug 19, 2021•42 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast This is a beautiful episode with Ethan Sawyer, a nationally recognized college essay expert. Ethan is able to articulate things that are often hard to put into words. It makes sense he would be an expert at helping students to do just that. People come to the Hoffman Process for many different reasons. Ethan didn't have a thing he was particularly struggling with and didn't feel particularly blocked. He came because he "was ready." Ethan was really excited to dig deep into himself. He came wanti...
Aug 12, 2021•39 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Hope Edelman, a 2015 graduate, credits the Hoffman Process with changing the course of her life. She's traversed much heartache and loss in her life and she's been a guiding light to many others who have traversed the same. As Hope shares the tale of her life journey, you can't help but see the throughline of her life. When Hope was seventeen her mother passed away. After that day, Hope had always sensed that part of her was stuck back at that point. During a transformational moment at the Proce...
Aug 05, 2021•40 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Taylor Gardner is a passionate person with a big heart who feels deeply. In this episode, she vulnerably shares how she navigated the Process with so much passion. Taylor describes herself as a driven, compassionate, and goal-oriented entrepreneur. The focus of her work in the world changed when she found herself frustrated with the lack of resources and limited opportunities for her sister Lindsay and Lindsay's peers. Lindsay has Downs Syndrome. As a young adult just out of school, there were f...
Jul 29, 2021•30 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Ed McClune, beloved Hoffman Process teacher and coach since, the '80s, is our guest today. As Ed and Drew share at the end, this conversation is a good Hoffman geek-out.* Even though they geek out over all things Hoffman, Ed's whole Quadrinity* shows up in this one. His love shines through as he speaks about the Process, and about how those who come to do this deeply transformational work are courageous heroes. Ed also shares a bit about how the Process now appears in his everyday life. He speak...
Jul 22, 2021•37 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Dan Sterling and his story will open your heart in untold ways. A warm, vulnerable, caring man, Dan grew up in a very conservative family in Alberta, Canada where discipline and life were harsh. Two months before Dan came to the Process, he knew he "had a big problem." In his job as a Canadian police officer, Dan was investigating a case that caused him stress. He realized he was having a breakdown - a silent, stoic one. He came to realize he couldn't cry in spite of feeling great distress. At t...
Jul 15, 2021•51 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Hoffman grad, Julie Faupel, the founder of REALM, a technology platform in luxury real estate, is delightful, warm, and open. Julie came to the Hoffman Process to heal her fear that there was something terribly wrong with her. As a member of YPO, she discovered many other YPO members had also completed the Process so she thought she'd give it a try. But, Julie really wasn't sure what she was getting into. Her biggest fear was that she'd have to share her feelings and deepest secret with everyone...
Jul 08, 2021•36 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Meet Jon Hurry. Jon's story is moving. His story of recovery and healing is captivating. His willingness to be vulnerable is inspiring. Jon's story is one of loss and heartache, but also perseverance and resiliency. He admits he has had a lot of loss but he also reminds us that his life is a normal one, too - a different normal. Jon's desired outcome from the Process was to trust in his wife's love for him. During his Process, Jon came to see he is, indeed, loveable, and in seeing this he finall...
Jul 01, 2021•42 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Julio Alvarez is a first-generation Latin American from the suburbs of New York. At age thirty-three, the Hoffman Process changed the course of Julio's life. Julio came out as gay in high school and was ultimately kicked out of the house by his father. The President of the local Rotary Club took Julio into his home. In this episode, Julio shares his Process story with the kind of compassion and understanding that comes from doing deep transformational work. He shares with us his story of forgive...
Jun 24, 2021•36 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Eboni K. Williams talks about the spirit of disruption in this week's episode. Her work disrupts long and deeply-seated cultural norms and expectations. She shares with us how rewarding her work is as disruption is an essential part of change and change is constant. And yet, she also speaks of how heavy her work can be. "...people, we, don't like change and aren't comfortable around disruption." Eboni came to the Process because, as she says, "I wanted family more than I was afraid of doing the ...
Jun 17, 2021•40 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast We are fortunate to have Serena Gordon on Love's Everyday Radius. Serena has dedicated herself to bringing the powerful healing work of the Hoffman Process to the world since 1995. A friend of Bob Hoffman, the Hoffman UK Managing Director and Co-Founder, and a Process Teacher, Serena offers us some profound insights about the Process. At the young age of five, Serena lost trust in her parents. "I used to carry my own little suitcase with an A-Z map of London in case I got lost and I could find m...
Jun 10, 2021•35 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Hilton Nathanson, entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, is our guest this week. While not a graduate of the Process, Hilton's life, and life pursuits have been deeply touched by the everyday radius of many Hoffman graduates' love. It's amazing to see just how wide a radius our graduates' love and healing travels. The ripple effect of the Hoffman Process worked through Hilton in a wonder-filled, tangible way. In this episode, Hilton shares the effect of witnessing the profound change the Ho...
Jun 03, 2021•46 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Regina Louise, a beloved Hoffman Process teacher, is our guest this week on Love's Everyday Radius. Listen in as Regina shares with us about her time at the Process and how she wanted so badly to leave...but stayed. As a child, Regina lived in over 30 foster homes, group homes, and psychiatric facilities before age 18. She never had the chance to emotionally process the traumas she faced. The Process gave her this opportunity and so much more. One of the most powerful insights Regina shares with...
May 27, 2021•48 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast We begin season 3 with Wilma Mae Basta, entrepreneur and founder of DRK Beauty. Listen in as Wilma Mae shares how profound both the Process and her healing journey have been. Originally from Philadelphia, Wilma Mae did her Process in the UK where she lived and worked at the time. When she arrived at the Process, she knew she was at the point where she couldn't think her way "out of a paper bag." She made the conscious decision to "allow Hoffman to catch" her. Wilma Mae had been told that as a st...
May 20, 2021•43 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Brannagan, Hoffman teacher and coach, is our guest today in this delightful finale for season two. Matt shares about his time in the Process and in the military and speaks to what it is he loves about both. He also shares with us what it was like to help lead the Institute through the rough waters of 2020, which included the pandemic and the fire at White Sulphur Springs. Matt has found support and connection through many communities of meaning. Matt was twenty-five years old when he did th...
Mar 18, 2021•47 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Jo Mattoon, beloved Hoffman Process Teacher and Coach, supports people in developing their whole selves. In her transformational work, both with Hoffman and as an executive coach, Jo sees just how hungry we are to reclaim our whole personhood. At her own Process seventeen years ago, Jo reclaimed her whole personhood. About that week she says, "I actually felt like for the first time in my life I was the driver of my life." More about Jo Mattoon In addition to her work at Hoffman, Jo Mattoon is P...
Mar 11, 2021•35 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Get to know Nita Gage, a beloved Hoffman Process Teacher, and Coach. Before becoming a Hoffman teacher at 63, Nita had a long and distinguished career as a psychoanalyst and transformational retreat leader. Listen in as Nita shares about growing up on Native land and the many gifts of that time. She learned so much from her friend's Grandmother, Grandma Wilson. Nita also speaks of how we must all stand up against the status quo and speak the truth. We can be part of a courageous ripple that brin...
Mar 04, 2021•41 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Karen DeGannes came to the Process when she realized she was not showing up for her life. She discovered just how capable she is of showing up after taking the Process when she faced serious life health challenges. Karen discovered a quiet, gentle, persistent life force within herself that when surrendered, supported her to meet her most difficult life moments. Karen's story is one of learning to take responsibility for one's life with a gentle and persistent resilience. Prior to the Process, sh...
Feb 25, 2021•40 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast 
