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Sol Rising

By: Amanda McKoy Flanagan & Ginny Olivas-Smith
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  • Sol Rising: All In on Love, Loss, and Connection is a bi-weekly podcast where you will hear candid, honest, vulnerable conversations sure to pull at your heart strings and enlighten your soul! Conversations revolve around our basic, fundamental, human instinct for connection. Ginny and Amanda explore how emotions—pain, fear, loss, and grief, as well as joy, excitement, happiness, and love—work to either create connection or to hinder it, personally in relationships, and collectively out in the world. It's time to let your soul rise!
    2023
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  • S2E12 Fear, The Messenger

    S2E12 Fear, The Messenger
    May 24 2024

    Fear. The tiny 4-letter word that runs your emotional show! Fear underpins all anxiety, resentment, and painful relationships that make your life difficult. Can we really rid ourselves of it? Is being completely "fearless" attainable? For most of us, this natural human instinct is here to stay (on some level), so how can we use it as a messenger, showing us where to lean in and grow.

    This episode is packed with tips and tools for becoming aware of when and how fear is driving you and suggestions for how to step into it (scared, not fearless!) and emerge from it transformed. Learn the value of exposing fear with the intention of transmuting it into an energy that no longer hinders, but transforms you into the highest version of yourself, which is love.

    Key conversations to listen for include:

    • The topic of death and how to accept the reality that everyone dies, and how to put this universal fear in perspective
    • How to recognize fear and use it as a tool to set boundaries
    • We cannot let fear consume us, rather we need to acknowledge it, heal it, and move through it with the intention to be love
    • Ginny and Amanda's greatest fears and how they manage them by seeking the real fear under the surface fear
    • Calming fear by asking yourself: What if the story I'm telling myself is not true?
    • Using a frame of reference to show yourself how you walked through fear before and most likely came out the other side wiser and stronger
    • How being of service naturally eliminates fear
    • Fear is ALWAYS under anger, and how to get honest about what's really going on
    • Becoming aware of how the news uses fear as a tactic to divide us and keep us out of our power
    • And more!

    Stick around till the end to hear one of the best suggestions of the show!

    Books mentioned are:

    Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky

    Anna, The Grandmother of Jesus by Claire Heartsong

    The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

    *Email your thoughts about this show or if you have an idea for another show to solrisingpodcast@gmail.com.

    *If you like this show, please follow, share, and leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.

    Sol Rising is now also on YouTube. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/@thesolrisingpodcast

    Follow Sol Rising on Instagram

    Follow Amanda on Instagram

    Follow Ginny on Instagram

    Ginny's furniture rehab website: https://theflippinphoenix.com/

    Get Amanda's book, Trust Yourself to Be All In at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4M137BJ or https://www.amandamckoyflanagan.com/

    Sign up for Amanda's monthly newsletter to receive your free guide, "5 Principles to Be All In" on her website.

    Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • S2E11 Getting Curious in Grief with Nina Rodriguez

    S2E11 Getting Curious in Grief with Nina Rodriguez
    May 10 2024
    Have you suffered traumatic loss and are trying to make sense of how and why it happened? Are you seeking a spiritual and practical pathway to move forward? One filled with curiosity as well as grace. Join Amanda and Nina Rodriguez, founder and host of the Grief and Life Podcast, in a heartfelt, introspective conversation around the questions that come up about our internal experience with loss and how this seeking provides a path forward full of grace, purpose, and a new perspective on what's actually going on beyond the veil. A few points they touch on include: Broken heart syndrome, known as Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy. A physical condition that can reshape segments of your heart as a result of profound and intense grief.Normalizing feelings of grief that can make you feel like you're going crazy. How we are moving FORWARD not moving ON.The necessity to show yourself grace and how to practice grace in action.The importance of rituals as we move through the grief process.The different ways in which people show their support for the bereaved which may look different than the ways you would show support.How a deep spiritual connection within and with the other side emerged for both Amanda and Nina after the loss of their brothers. And much more! The book Nina refers to is Embraced by the Light, by Betty J. Eadie. More about Nina Nina created her podcast after the unexpected loss of her only sibling, Yosef, as an authentic exploration of grief and life after loss. Through each conversation, she aims to give a voice to the griever’s experience, and foster a more grief-informed, hopeful world. Beyond the podcast, Nina extends her grief-informed support through monthly circles, personalized mentorship, speaking engagements, active presence on social media, and forthcoming in-person retreats. Find Nina on Instagram. Check out the work she does on her website. Listen to the Grief and Light Podcast on Apple and Spotify. *Email your thoughts about this show or if you have an idea for another show to solrisingpodcast@gmail.com. *If you like this show, please follow, share, and leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review. Sol Rising is now also on YouTube. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/@thesolrisingpodcast Follow Sol Rising on Instagram Follow Amanda on Instagram Follow Ginny on Instagram Ginny's furniture rehab website: https://theflippinphoenix.com/ Get Amanda's book, Trust Yourself to Be All In at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4M137BJ or https://www.amandamckoyflanagan.com/ Sign up for Amanda's monthly newsletter to receive your free guide, "5 Principles to Be All In" on her website. Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com.
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    52 mins
  • S2E10 Stumbling Into Authenticity

    S2E10 Stumbling Into Authenticity
    Apr 26 2024

    How do you know if you are being authentic? What does it feel like to show up as your true self in all situations regardless of the risk of being judged or losing a relationship? And have you explored your authenticity through the lens of your internal emotional response rather than how you present to the world?

    Amanda & Ginny take the authenticity conversation to a much deeper level, beyond your outward expression of self and into what it means to be true to your heart. They also explore:

    • Tools for stepping into your authenticity and maintaining it, such as consciously and consistently checking motives for your behavior.
    • How to change your conditioned response to things when feeling misaligned.
    • The moment you suddenly realize you don't have to work so hard at being authentic because you finally are authentic.
    • Authenticity may feel strange at first because you aren't used to it.
    • Changing "the dance moves" in a relationship, and how the other person may try different ways to keep dancing the way they are used to because its familiar to them.
    • Why we stay in unhealthy relationships even though they are painful.
    • Unlearning old programming to embrace the real you.
    • The importance of being mindful of how you truly feel in situations instead of reacting out of muscle memory.
    • And so much more!

    Books mentioned in this show are:

    The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie

    The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner, Ph. D.

    *Email your thoughts about this show or if you have an idea for another show to solrisingpodcast@gmail.com.

    *If you like this show, please follow, share, and leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review.

    Sol Rising is now also on YouTube. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/@thesolrisingpodcast

    Follow Sol Rising on Instagram

    Follow Amanda on Instagram

    Follow Ginny on Instagram

    Ginny's furniture rehab website: https://theflippinphoenix.com/

    Get Amanda's book, Trust Yourself to Be All In at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4M137BJ or https://www.amandamckoyflanagan.com/

    Sign up for Amanda's monthly newsletter to receive your free guide, "5 Principles to Be All In" on her website.

    Music credit: "Surfer James" by Tom Deis. Source: Premiumbeats.com.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
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