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The EmPOWERment Couple

The EmPOWERment Couple

By: Zuri Star & Mikey Star
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Are you looking to get educated, entertained, and empowered? Then join The EmPOWERment Couple every Thursday and listen in on Zuri and Mikey Star’s conversations as they deliberately empower you to make impactful and informed decisions to gain absolute clarity for life mastery. Every Thursday Zuri and Mikey show up and serve love with the intent of helping you regain your personal power and live your most fulfilled life. Take a peek behind the scenes into this power couple's busy life and get educated about all things empowering. Each episode contains the following-- Education: Including personal stories, wellness hacks, and health benefits with science-backed studies. Entertainment: Game pertaining to the show along with plenty of banter and funny innuendos meant to make you enjoy the process of being in expansive learning conversations. Empowerment: You will be held to live your life with purpose, loved through doing the hard work, and empowered to embrace the beautiful YOU! If you’re new to this tribe, let us introduce you to your hosts! Zuri Star, is a health and wellness lifestyle coach, singer-songwriter, mother, and author. Her co-host and partner is Mikey Star, an expansion coach who focuses on meditation, yoga, movement, and creativity as healing modalities. These two curious souls cover topics such as healthy lifestyle habits, fulfillment, fitness, self-improvement, conscious parenting, positive mindsets, spirituality, healthy relationships, alternative healing, conscious eating, and emotional health. This power couple's determined purpose is to serve you with information that will empower you in co-creating your most beautiful life.© 2023 The EmPOWERment Couple Alternative & Complementary Medicine Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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  • Vagus Nerve Medicine: Unlock your body’s built-in calm, creativity, and connection system
    Nov 20 2025

    Have you ever felt like your life is stuck in survival mode even when you’re doing “all the right things”? We go straight to the root—the vagus nerve—and show how this quiet superhighway between body and brain can unlock calm, creativity, and connection without fancy tools or long routines. Think of it as your body’s Wi‑Fi for safety and presence: once the signal is strong, everything loads faster.

    We break down what the vagus nerve does, why 80% of its signaling runs from body to brain, and how that flips common self‑help advice on its head. You’ll hear why trauma lives in the nervous system, not just the mind; how chronic fight or flight blocks abundance and intimacy; and what the research says about HRV, cortisol, mood, and resilience. We dig into practical science, from Harvard Health on clinical vagus stimulation to emerging studies showing benefits for PTSD, chronic pain, and depression. Then we translate it all into an everyday toolkit you can actually use.

    You’ll leave with ten free, accessible practices that build vagal tone: deep belly breathing, humming or singing, cold exposure and the face‑plunge dive reflex, saltwater gargling, laughter and play, safe eye contact and co‑regulation, meditation, gentle yoga, targeted neck and foot massage, and daily gratitude. We connect the dots to real life—why regulation is the best strategy for business results, money manifestation, emotional regulation during conflict, and deeper intimacy. And yes, we have fun with a “Vegas vs vagus” game to make these concepts stick, plus a journal prompt to help you hear what your nervous system is asking for next.

    Hit play to learn how to steady your baseline, expand your capacity, and invite more love and abundance by making your body feel safe. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs nervous system relief, and leave a quick review to help others find these tools. Your calm is contagious—let’s spread it.

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    36 mins
  • Roommates or Soulmates? Rebuilding Emotional and Physical Connection
    Oct 30 2025

    Remember when your partner made your whole body light up, not just your calendar? We’re getting honest about how couples quietly slide into “roommate mode” and the simple, repeatable rituals that turn logistics into longing again. From nervous system insights to playful polarity, we share the five-step reset we use with clients to rebuild safety, spark, and trust without relying on grand gestures or perfect timing.

    We start by naming the signs: conversations stuck on chores, obligatory touch, and the edge-of-the-bed gap that feels a mile wide. Then we break down what changes everything—self-connection as the spark, daily appreciations that are actually sincere, and a three-layer check-in that gets right to I feel, I need, I’m open to. You’ll hear why oxytocin isn’t just chemistry trivia; it’s the body’s way of saying “you’re safe with me,” and how pressure kills that signal fast.

    From there, we dive into polarity as energetic charge, not gender roles: steady, grounded leadership meeting warm, receptive presence. When both people collapse into the same pole, attraction flatlines; when difference is honored, desire wakes up. We offer practical ways to schedule intimacy without performance—20-minute micro-rituals, guided breath, and low-stakes touch that rebuilds heat. And we tackle the quiet killers: invisible labor and unspoken resentment. A monthly clearing ceremony, a concrete new agreement, and shared follow-through can dissolve years of friction in weeks.

    Yes, we also have fun—sharing some wild dating app finds as a reminder of why making love work at home beats swiping for novelty. If you’re ready to move from cohabiting to co-creating, press play for tools you can use tonight and a warm nudge to try one new ritual this week. If this conversation helps, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review—it helps our empowered posse grow and keeps these heart-forward tools flowing.

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    Click here: The Empowerment Couple Courses, Codes, Coaching Offers

    Join the Empowered Posse for as little as $3 a month here.

    Looking for Empowerment Coaching?

    • Apply to work with Zuri here
    • Apply to work with Mike here.

    Manifest everything you want in your life, using our HoldTheVibe.com course!

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    32 mins
  • The Pattern Behind the Pain: How Unhealed Hurt Hijacks Your Decisions
    Oct 17 2025

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    If your “gut feeling” keeps talking you out of the life you want, it might not be intuition at all—it might be old pain in a clever disguise. We sat down to unravel decision distortion, the quiet way unprocessed experiences hijack your choices and stall your momentum. From playful banter to straight talk, we map the gap between what your head knows and what your nervous system will allow, and we show how to close it without burning out or blowing up your relationships.

    We start by separating fear from intuition, then dig into the brain science that makes sticky patterns feel inevitable. The amygdala flags danger in a split second, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex leans on emotional memories, and suddenly you’re ghosting instead of setting a boundary or delaying a launch that’s already ready. You’ll learn the telltale signs pain is steering—overthinking simple choices, crowdsourcing your truth, waiting for perfect conditions—and a simple question to recalibrate fast: am I choosing from power or from pain?

    To make this practical, we share a regulate first, decide second framework you can use before any big move. We play a rapid-fire game—Pain Choice or Power Choice—to model what aligned action sounds like in real life, from ending obligatory friendships to pivoting a misaligned business. Along the way, we offer metaphors you won’t forget: record grooves, deep wood grains, and how renaming a pattern can rewrite its script. If you’re ready to trade indecision paralysis for embodied leadership, you’ll walk away with tools to pause, calm your system, and act from your present truth.

    Want support building that muscle? Grab this kit:

    Decision Detox: The Clarity Rewiring Kit

    A transformational clarity kit for soul-led leaders and creatives who are tired of overthinking, second-guessing, and making choices from past pain. This is your energetic reset + decision recalibration ritual.

    🎧 Decision Detox Activation (Audio)

    🧠 Empowered Decision Matrix (PDF)

    🌬️ Energetic Calibration Chart (PDF)

    🎧 Return to Power: Guided Meditation (Audio)

    🗺️ Empowered Decision Workbook (PDF)

    🔊 Affirmation Activation: Clarity Edition (PDF)

    Subscribe, share this with a friend who overthinks, and tell us: what power choice are you locking in this week?

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    Looking for Empowerment Coaching?

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    Manifest everything you want in your life, using our HoldTheVibe.com course! 5 modules led with audio and video by Mikey and Zuri to help you unlock the magic of manifesting using a simple step-by-step process.

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    29 mins
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