Do you feel like in order to achieve success you must make sacrifices in other areas of life? Do these sacrifices create an uncomfortable imbalance, pushing you to hustle to the point of burnout? Are you struggling to step into your full power and purpose in your career? And do you believe you can have it all?

Join Amanda and her guest Amanda Riffee, best-selling author, internationally certified expansion and empowerment coach, speaker, and thought leader for a lively conversation about how you can truly have it all--without burning the candle at both ends!

Get inspired by listening to the ladies explore:

🔥Amanda's journey from corporate America to coaching and what inspired her to follow her passion and make the switch that changed everything for her

🔥The 3 tools Amanda uses to empower her clients to realize their dreams: intuition, fast action, and shift in mindset

🔥What tapping into your intuition feels like: the feeling of "Heck Yes!" vs. "Heck No!"

🔥The art of journaling as an indispensable tool for this work

🔥The power of collaboration and community and how to leverage both to achieve ultimate success

🔥Fears role in helping you rise to your next level and the benefit of getting curious about those fears

🔥Practical tips you can use right now to avoid burnout

About Amanda

Amanda Riffee is a best-selling author, internationally certified expansion and empowerment coach, speaker, and thought leader dedicated to helping ambitious women turn their boldest dreams into reality. Drawing on 18 years of corporate experience, a deep passion for mindset mastery, and the lessons learned from scaling her own business, Amanda specializes in guiding women to create transformational events, write and launch their own books, make courageous career moves, and bring their visions to life- without burnout or sacrificing who they are.

Her debut book, Unleashing You, quickly became a best-seller and serves as a rallying cry for women ready to stop waiting for permission and start creating success on their own terms. Through her writing, coaching, and retreats, Amanda empowers women to trust their intuition, own their brilliance, and take bold, aligned action toward the lives they were meant to lead. She also hosts the Unleashing You with Amanda Riffee podcast, where she shares candid insights and inspiration for women stepping into their next level. A wife and mom of two based in Colorado, Amanda believes deeply in the power of community and collaboration. Her mission is simple: when women open doors for one another, there’s room for all of us at the top.

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Have you considered the amount of power you hold to choose your path during life's major transitions like giving birth, grieving, or dying? And do you exercise your right to tailor your experience to what feels right for you? Or do you go along with the prescribed conditioning without questioning what's available to you during these life-altering choice points?

Join Amanda and her guest Sundari Malcolm, Birth, Grief, and Death Doula, for a straightforward, candid conversation about the incredible power you have to choose what feels right for your soul while on your journey to living a full, authentic life free of other people's opinions and society's judgments and expectations.

They also discuss:

🔥"New age" is actually ancient and "woo woo" is how your ancestors lived for thousands of years

🔥The alchemy of grief: transmuting pain into power due to increased awareness of your limited bandwidth to stand for what no longer serves you and how to reach this place of peace

🔥Ancient practices hold the key to aligning with our highest self and an explanation of some of these modalities such as plant medicine, ritual, sound and song, movement and dance, among others

🔥Your cells hold the memory of ancient wisdom and are beckoning to be witnessed and activated as the path to healing body, mind, and spirit

🔥Your power to listen to your body's inner wisdom for which conditioned programs to listen to and which ones to ignore

🔥The empirical collapse that is happening all over the world (felt as collective grief) is not a collapse but a return to the simple solutions that have always worked and how this disintegration requires a deep surrender

🔥Sundari's fascinating story of being raised between in an ashram in Yogaville, VA and NYC how she translates her yoga practice as a connection point to grief

About Sundari

Sundari Malcolm is a Birth, Grief and Death Doula specializing in yoga, breathwork and meditation. She’s a teacher on a mission to equip people with the tools they need to manage life’s greatest transitions. In 2007, at 27 years old, and after seven years of being her caregiver, Sundari lost her mother to breast cancer. Four years later, her father died from the complications of brain cancer. Those experiences redirected her life and led her to the beautiful path she travels today. A contributor to Help Texts and a grief expert with the For Grief Speakers Bureau, she is the author of the book Grief Gems and the founder of A Healing Doula Academy, a virtual self-paced training academy for the spiritually led grief & death doula with a focus on ancient indigenous holistic wellness.

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Are you a super busy go-getter who should probably slow down but doesn’t always take the time to do so? Do you allow yourself to stop and smell the roses before burning out with physical illness or emotional stress? And does a planned rest at a transformational, healing retreat in the majestic Rocky Mountains sound like a good idea?

Join Amanda and her Sol Rising Retreats co-host and friend Amber LaRusso, an RYT-500 yoga instructor specializing in energy flow, restorative, and yoga nidra, and certified Vibrational Sound Therapy practitioner for an honest conversation about what happens when they ignore their bodies inner wisdom and forego intentional periods of rest in pursuit of "gettin' it done." Listen till the end for what their upcoming retreat this June will look like in a space of empowered cocreation and community support.

They also dive into:

🔥The need for healers to seek their own healers!

🔥Both women’s stories of overworking and ignoring their body’s dysregulated nervous systems and the resulting physical suffering they've each endured

🔥Amber’s suggestions for dropping into the body with sensory practices, grounding, and connecting with self as well as how to create moments of ritual and embodiment

🔥What an immersive and intuitive sound healing experience with Amber feels like and how no two sessions are exactly the same

🔥Why Amanda & Amber are the perfect pair to do the healing work they do together at retreats (Hint: Think yin & yang!)

🔥An upcoming weekend retreat that encourages guests to bring and share their own gifts and experiences to cultivate a space of collective emotional, spiritual, and physical health

Amber LaRusso is a dedicated wellness practitioner with a deep passion for guiding others into states of relaxation, inner connection, and personal transformation. As the founder of Zenna Healing Arts, she integrates Vibrational Sound Therapy, Yoga, Meditation, and Reiki to create immersive healing experiences that help people reconnect with their inner wisdom to cultivate healing and a state of flow in their lives.

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