My Best Life

#14 - Lincoln Stoller - Beyond comfort: why growth lives on the edge

A thousand-foot fall tends to clarify what matters. Lincoln Stoller joins me for a wide-ranging conversation that starts on a steep slope of Mount Robson and quickly turns into something bigger: how we meet uncertainty, how we build real resilience, and why the stories we tell about “luck” often hide the role of preparation, awareness, and responsibility. Lincoln’s life crosses borders that most people keep separate. He has worked in science and technology, including time around NASA and years in physics and astronomy, while also practicing as a therapist and exploring altered states of consciousness. We dig into the false choice between science and spirituality, why pop interpretations of quantum physics can mislead, and the more useful lesson he takes from it: outcomes aren’t as clean or exclusive as our minds want them to be, especially in relationships where words like honesty, commitment, and love mean different things to different people. We also talk about indigenous cultures and community-based responsibility, plus the cultural gap between traditional shamanic practice and modern Western psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Lincoln shares a grounded view of plant medicine, set and setting, agency, and the hard part most people skip: integration. We close with practical tools from his clinical work, including heart rate variability, biofeedback, neurofeedback, dream work, and how to create enough mental space to respond instead of react. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves big questions, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.

#13 - Vandana Atara Noorah - Soul healing: where the light enters you

Your mind can replay the past like a broken playlist while your body quietly carries the cost. That’s where this conversation with Vandana Atara Noorah lands: in the real, lived space where anxiety shows up in your stomach, your heart, your throat, and your nervous system, and where healing becomes something you can feel, not just think about. We start with Rumi’s line “The wound is the place where the light enters you,” then move into what Vandana calls divine light energy healing. She shares how her path sharpened through a major life pivot: leaving a painful marriage, protecting her child, and choosing a rebirth instead of survival mode. From there, we dig into what Reiki is (loving universal life force energy), how chakras can help you spot blocks, and why remote Reiki sessions can still be effective when you’re not in the same room. Vandana also opens up her broader toolkit: guided meditation, hypnotherapy, visualization, color therapy, and gentle ways to work with intuition. We talk about “skillful means” for meeting beginners where they are, plus deeper concepts like soul contracts, generational patterns, cord cutting, and why repeating relationship dynamics can be a clue rather than a curse. If you want practical steps, she offers grounded daily practices like walking meditation, earthing, time in nature, movement, and inner child healing that helps you unmask and come back to yourself. If you’re ready for more calm, more clarity, and a healing journey that doesn’t require pretending you’re fine, hit play. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. https://vandanalighthealing.com/ https://www.instagram.com/vandana_light_healing

#12 - Ali Christos - Knowing beyond thinking: Quantum hypnosis, healing, and higher awareness

Your mind already knows more than your anxiety will admit, and sometimes the fastest way to hear it is to quiet the noise instead of fighting it. We’re joined by Ali Christos, a Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) practitioner, music producer, and author, to break down what QHHT really is and why it’s less about “woo” and more about accessing a deeper layer of consciousness. We walk through how Dolores Cannon’s QHHT guides someone into a deep theta brainwave state, the same neighborhood of awareness you touch right before sleep. Ali explains how a full session unfolds, from the long pre-session interview to the trance journey where clients may experience past lives, symbolic scenes, or other timelines, followed by a powerful Q and A with what many call the higher self. If you’re skeptical, we also translate “higher self” into practical terms: the least reactive, most integrated inner intelligence you’ve felt before through intuition, clarity, or sudden insight. We also get real about safety, intense memories, and integration. Healing isn’t always a fireworks moment during hypnosis; it often shows up afterward as dreams, emotional release, new boundaries, calmer reactions, and decisions you’ve been avoiding. Ali shares stories from his practice that highlight what can change when you stop performing your life and start aligning it. If you’re curious about hypnosis, past life regression, the subconscious mind, spiritual healing, and practical integration, hit play, then subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the conversation. https://www.qhhtwithali.com/ [https://www.qhhtwithali.com/] https://www.instagram.com/qhhtwithali/ [https://www.instagram.com/qhhtwithali/] https://www.instagram.com/unapologetically_princeali/ [https://www.instagram.com/unapologetically_princeali/] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL26DDCOAXB8_KAY1qOMSaygSNCaEaWGqp [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL26DDCOAXB8_KAY1qOMSaygSNCaEaWGqp]

#11 - Laura Rose - Knocking on heaven's door: Life, death and inner knowing

Death, grief, intuition, and healing are topics most people avoid until life forces the conversation. I’m joined by Laura Rose, founder of Sacred Soul, an intuitive energy channel, spiritual medium, and end-of-life guide whose work is rooted in a hard-earned transformation through depression, panic attacks, and chronic physical pain. What makes Laura’s perspective land is how practical it is: she speaks plainly about what “stuck energy” feels like in the body, why some of us walk around carrying other people’s emotions, and how energy clearing can create real relief when nothing else seems to work. We also dig into intuition in a world that prizes the analytical mind. Laura breaks down the clair senses in a way that’s easy to recognize in yourself: clairsentience (feeling), claircognizance (knowing), clairvoyance (seeing), and clairaudience (hearing). If you’ve ever had a split-second gut reaction and talked yourself out of it, you’ll hear a new way to understand that signal, build trust with it, and still use logic to take the next step. From there, we move into mediumship and end-of-life doula support, including how Laura thinks about the transition of dying, why proof and closure can soften grief, and how caregivers can find peace when a loved one can’t communicate clearly. We end with simple, actionable ideas for honoring someone’s wishes in hospice or a hospital, including the role of advanced directives in reducing fear and confusion for families. Subscribe for more grounded conversations on healing and growth, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway or question. https://www.sacredsoul444.com/ [https://www.sacredsoul444.com/] https://www.instagram.com/sacredsoul444/ [https://www.instagram.com/sacredsoul444/] https://www.facebook.com/SacredSoul444/ [https://www.facebook.com/SacredSoul444/] https://www.youtube.com/@SacredSoul444 [https://www.youtube.com/@SacredSoul444]

#10 - Aakrist Dongol - Every breath we take: functional breathing for peak performance

Breath is happening all day long, yet most of us never learn how to use it on purpose. We sit with breath coach and Peak Breathing Academy founder Aakrist Dongol to explore why functional breathing is one of the most overlooked tools for mental clarity, emotional resilience, and real-world performance. His lens is grounded in physiology, but he’s not afraid to name the deeper side of the work: when the breath gets quieter, life often gets bigger.  Aakrist shares the turning points that pulled him in, from a meditation retreat that cracked open a new relationship with sensation and awareness, to a cycle of sports injuries that forced him to recover without his usual training identity. That constraint became the experiment: could a seated breathing practice rebuild endurance and speed up healing? What he found reshaped how he thinks about athletes, recovery, and the grind mindset that rewards “huffing and puffing” as proof of effort.  Then we get technical in the best way. We break down CO2 tolerance, why carbon dioxide is the main driver of breathing, and how oxygen uptake isn’t the same as oxygen delivery to the brain, muscles, and organs. If you’ve ever felt winded and assumed you just needed “more oxygen,” the analogies in this conversation will change how you think about cardio, nasal breathing, and training adaptations. Aakrist also explains what he listens for in a new client’s speech and breathing patterns, why he avoids the catch-all label “breathwork,” and how breath cultivation builds a better baseline rather than chasing a quick state change.  We close with a short guided practice you can do anywhere, plus clear guardrails around discomfort versus distress. If this helps you, subscribe, share it with a friend who’s stressed or training hard, and leave a review so more people can find the episode. https://www.instagram.com/peakbreathing/ https://linktr.ee/peakbreathing