What do you do when you want to change someone’s behavior because they’ve annoyed, frustrated, or upset you and didn’t show up in the way you wanted them to? It’s really not about our interactions being about you and them. Here I talk about why

Last Notes and My Gift To You

Aug 10th, 2020 29m 11s

Words on the page, words in the air, this concludes our 2020 summer series of This. Life. Now. I leave you with the gift of 5 of my prose poems. So we’ve been around the sun now with coming to understand how the Universe does have our back. Rel

Guided Meditation for Inner Strength and Healing

Aug 3rd, 2020 37m 8s

Today’s episode is a conversation walk that I give you for times when you find yourself needing a meditation for inner strength and healing. When we remember how to access our authentic selves, we discover that all the resources we could ever n

Why We Need To Be Dancers In Body and Space

Jul 27th, 2020 24m 40s

In today’s episode I use dance as a metaphor for honoring the body and personal movemeng unique to each of us, and more largely our phenomenology within the larger world. This conversation is a “wander-ment“ of thoughts where grounding in dance

5 Ways to Rethink Achieving Your Goals

Jul 20th, 2020 29m 51s

Everyone wants to improve their productivity skills and time management, but when it comes down to effective planning, we need to frame the conversation more largely around how to become a boss along the pursuit towards fulfilling the objective

Where Are We Going with Technology and Learning?

Jul 13th, 2020 38m 43s

Today’s conversation is all about having a critical conversation on teaching and learning with technology, which couldn’t be more relevant to the present moment since COVID-19 proving nothing but the fact that we need to have well thought throu

My Experience at a Women’s College

Jul 6th, 2020 43m 36s

In this week’s episode, I discuss my undergraduate experience at the country’s first established women’s college. What values have I learned from an institution committed to intellectual inclusion and critical thinking, gender inclusivity, and

Becoming the Innovative Leader

Jun 29th, 2020 58m 45s

Welcome to another episode conversation where we discuss what it means to become an innovative leader. In this episode, I reveal the process of creating my own self-designed major, taking innovative academic risks, self-advocacy, and how to “ma

Cultivating Sacred Spaces

Jun 22nd, 2020 39m 50s

In today’s cosmic conversation let me share with you how to start cultivating your own sacred space. Rarely do we give a second thought to the everyday mundane spaces we inhabit. Each one of us engages in some sort of purposeful practice, which

The 4 C’s to Any Relationship

Jun 15th, 2020 42m 31s

So you’re in a relationship now, already have been in a few, or want to be in one! Today we talk about two kinds of relationships - first the relationship with ourselves and second, our romantic relationships. I have created a metrics called th

The Universe Has Your Back

Jun 6th, 2020 30m 55s

We all experience times throughout our lives when we are forced to partake in some of the greatest changes, decision making, and transformations about life as we once knew it. How do we reconcile with feeling safe and right in the world when ev

This. Life. Now. Hosted by Madeleine Olson

Jun 6th, 2020 1m 21s

This. Life. Now., hosted by Madeleine Olson, conversations to start your week off mindfully covering emotional wellness and inner aece, productivity skills, and larger life lessons. Whether you need a podcast to start brewing your morning off w

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