The Mindful Steward Podcast

Optimizing Life For Authenticity & A Resilient Mindset - Chatting With Brooke & Chris

In this episode of The Mindful Steward Podcast, Brooke and I sat down for a catch-up over zoom with one of my best friends from back home, Christoper Michael Evans. Chris is a cinematographer, director, and producer who is currently best known for his work directing music videos for artists without household names. Between Chris, myself as a marketing agency owner and mindfulness professional, and Brooke who owns a training business teaching coaches how to establish and scale their businesses, we took this opportunity to discuss some of the challenges and mindset work frequented by most entrepreneurs and creatives in the world today. To learn more about The Mindful Steward visit www.themindfulsteward.com. To learn more about Brooke's coaching and NLP/Hypnosis certification program visit her website at www.createdmindacademy.com. To learn more about Chris and his work follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/chri7z/ .

Studying Ayahuasca, The Art Of Surrender, And Identifying Purpose With Paula Rayo

In this episode, my friend Paula Rayo and I dive into the story of how she found herself researching Ayahuasca in the jungle of South America, what she learned, and what it all led to. Paula has experience leading a lab team of consciousness, neurofeedback, and VR researchers, aiming to better understand the connection between the complexities of our mind and the human condition. Though this all happened a few years back, today Paula is partnering with a Canadian University to launch a unique initiative to mentor students from day one to better find the career path that is right for them, aiming to guarantee employment and job satisfaction to their first cohort. This program would be among the first of its kind across Canada as well as the United States. Follow Paula's journey or get in touch with her on Instagram @paularayo If you are interested in learning more about The Mindful Steward visit my website at https://themindfulsteward.com/.

Paying Attention To Where Our Attention Flows: Instagram & Life's Wonderful Distractions

Our creative power lies in attention and focus. In this short mindset shift, I discuss the creative power we have in the world, and how every ounce of this comes from our ability to narrow our attention toward the goals we want achieve. In a world filled that constantly provides us with more and more distractions, it is often difficult to see this simple reality at play in our own lives. The bottom line is this, where attention goes, energy flows. Social media, among many distractions often serve us little more than to hold us back from achieving and living out the things we are passionate about. Here is the video that prompted this mindset shift from Jason Silva himself: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CGTE3nkDb2b/ Visit my website at: https://themindfulsteward.com/

The Porn Crisis & Modern Masculinity With Chris Evans

This episode has been a long time coming. Needless to say, we live in a highly digital era. In the modern day, many of us have access to any form of content our heart desires. This limitless access, includes porn, and those accessing it includes men and women from a wide range of ages. Many researchers estimate that most boys as young as 12 are watching highly pornographic content regularly. Though this topic is mostly brushed under the rug, the reality is that most young men in the western world are watching porn. Researchers attempting to study its effects struggle to even find enough non-porn watching men aged 20 to 30 to study the topic properly. What we now know about porn is a relatively unanimous set of data backing up the negative effects it has on the human brain. These effects range from depression to anxiety and ADHD. More recently, many young men are coming to the light, realizing the negative contributions their porn habit has had on their lives. To light the way, a community online known as "nofap" has been educating porn users and men about the massive benefits of ridding porn from our life. Mostly men, and of course Women as well, from around the world are finding massive relief from mental symptoms and transforming their lives through quitting porn. As always, this episode was a great conversation with my good friend and director Chris Evans, and I personally believe it is a very important conversation to continue. The Great Porn Experiment Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU. For anybody looking for more information about my mindfulness education company pleased visit: https://themindfulsteward.com/. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU

The COVID Chronicles: Chris Evans On Being Your Authentic Self & The Good News About Quarantine.

This episode serves both as a catch-up with my good friend Chris Evans, as well as the first of hopefully not too many (so we can go back outside) episodes in my new "COVID Chronicles" podcast episode series. As a freelance videographer, I first started the conversation by asking Chris for a little storyline about how the coronavirus pandemic is effecting his work situation. Starting from this point, our conversation flows into a wide variety of different discussions, and I'm actually really happy with how the episode has turned out. Chris and I, both quite positive dudes in general, end up discussing mostly the uplifting impacts and opportunities that the #stayhome quarantine is presenting to many Canadians, as well as people in most other countries around the world. Few sources can be found sharing positive content around some of the good things that are being caused or are triggered to show up down the line from this strange sequence of events, so we found ourselves stepping forward with a little bit of perspective to share about some of 'the good'. Though both of us are far from therapists, self-awareness and how to find more of it has recently become one of the most common discussion points we inevitably end up chatting about. Self-awareness is the root cause of living from a passionate, fulfilling, and meaningful place, so we are suggesting that just maybe, this is the perfect time to find a little more of it. There are a lot of uncertain things about a worldwide lockdown, but we still possess the ability to decide how we are going to show up for the world and ourselves during this time. In a nutshell, it's always great to chat with this guy, and I'll be having him back on the show to dive into a few of the topics we weren't able to cover in this episode very soon. You can visit Chris on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/chri7z/ As always, you can visit my website to learn more about meditation, mindfulness and anything else related. https://www.themindfulsteward.com/