BreakThrough BlogCast

BreakThrough Blogcast - Episode 43 with Jaimes McNeal, creator and host of BreakThrough Blogcast, and special guest Sue LeClaire. Sue is a retired teacher and one of the featured students in “BreakThrough.”

In this episode, Jaimes reconnects with Sue and they talk about her experience in the workshop and how she get involved with the movie. Anyone who has experienced a traumatic childhood experience would benefit from listening to Sue’s story of how she forgave a family member for sexually molesting her as a teenager.

BreakThrough in Generosity
RECORDED LIVE: MON 6 DEC 2010

BreakThrough Blogcast - Episode 42 with Jaimes McNeal, creator and host of BreakThrough Blogcast, and special guest Eric Shay. Eric is a personal trainer and one of the featured students in “BreakThrough.”

In this episode, Jaimes reconnects with Eric and learns about the wisdom Eric has amassed in the past year as a result of all the changes in his life. Eric shares the things and people for which he is grateful and how the work he continues to do brings him closer to discovering who he is. This is an uplifting and inspiring conversation about courage and the strength of the human spirit.

BreakThrough in Gratitude
RECORDED LIVE: MON 15 NOV 2010

BreakThrough Blogcast - Episode 41 with Jaimes McNeal, creator and host of BreakThrough Blogcast, and special guest Lauren Flanagan. Lauren is a freelance graphic designer. Lauren is one of the featured students in “BreakThrough.”

In this episode, Jaimes reconnects with Lauren to learn about all the exciting things that have occurred in the past year since starting this journey. She laughingly remembers how she didn’t see the similarities between her boyfriend and her father; and most of all she has reestablished the kind of relationship with her father that she always wanted. The conversation with Lauren is uplifting, inspiring, interesting, and funny as she shares her story about getting to where she is now, which is doing what she loves, realizing she is living her dream.

Check out EarthDance, the organization Lauren recently completed a year long apprenticeship from barista to becoming an organic farmer.

BreakThrough in Gratitude
RECORDED LIVE: MON 08 NOV 2010

BreakThrough Blogcast - Episode 40 with Jaimes McNeal, creator and host of BreakThrough Blogcast, and special guest Tami Scott. Tami is a make-up and hair artist and educator and one of the featured students in “BreakThrough.”

In this episode, we reconnect with Tami and learn about all the changes that have occurred in the past year since starting this journey. She talks about what wasn’t working in her life and how her commitment and intention to follow her dream and step into her dream has paid off. Putting everything on the line, she risked everything and doors have opened as a result.

Tami shares her inspiring story and how she is now an inspiration for others.

BreakThrough in Gratitude
RECORDED LIVE: MON 01 NOV 2010

BreakThrough Blogcast - Episode 39 with Jaimes McNeal, creator and host of BreakThrough Blogcast, with first-time guest co-host Mich Hancock. Mich is the author of The Wizard of Oz Code, a book that uses the symbology of the movie as a map to our next human evolution. Through her book, readers learn to become a physical, mental, spiritual and emotional master!

BreakThrough in Letting Go of The Mask
RECORDED LIVE: MON 18 OCT 2010

BreakThrough Blogcast - Episode 38 with Jaimes McNeal, creator and host of BreakThrough Blogcast, with first-time guest co-host Andrea Pettit. Andrea is a life coach from Denver, CO, and writes the Right from the Heart blog. She is a passionate writer who is committed to coaching people to listen to their own self-talk.

Roundtable Guest: Sue LeClaire.

In this episode, Sue talks about the masks she wears of being “nice” and “keeping the peace,” and the anxiety they create. She shares that as a child, she was shy and wouldn’t speak up. Andrea talks about how humans are driven by pain or pleasure, and invites Sue to focus on the pleasure she’ll receive from taking an action versus the pain she’ll experience if she doesn’t.

Jaimes shares a conflict management skill that he practices in his daily life, and encourages Sue to use it the next time she wants to hold back or not speak up. If you’ve been selling out for “niceness” or worry about what others think, this episode will challenge you to weigh your niceness over the impact you want have on those around you.

BreakThrough in Letting Go of The Mask
RECORDED LIVE: MON 18 OCT 2010

BreakThrough Blogcast - Episode 37 with Jaimes McNeal, creator and host of BreakThrough Blogcast, with first-time guest co-host Sandy Moss, massage therapist, life coach, and owner of Sacred Journeys.

Roundtable Guest: Rachael Shaffer.

As we begin the episode, Rachael talks about her mask and jokingly refers to herself as a chameleon, acknowledging that over the years, as events in life happened, she put on a mask to fit in. Rachael struggles with insomnia and shared her nighttime ritual of playing out various scenarios as “worse case” situations. When asked what she was afraid of, Rachael describes it as fear of the unknown.

Rachael’s first breakthrough of this call happens when Jaimes points out that being afraid of the unknown isn’t possible because what you’re really saying is that you’re afraid of what you think you know, which is like predicting the future. Rachael acknowledged that she doesn’t want to live that way any more.

Sandy suggests that Rachael use her gift for strategizing as a skill to start playing around with a positive vision. When asked if any of her nighttime situations have positive outcomes, Rachael acknowledged that they do not. Listen in to hear how Sandy opens the door for Rachael to experience a miracle and what Rachael plans to do to create positive outcomes from what had been “worse case” scenarios.

This episode is about courage and getting in touch with your true self, connecting with personal power and focusing on what you want instead of what you don’t want.

BreakThrough in Letting Go of The Mask
RECORDED LIVE: MON 11 OCT 2010

BreakThrough Blogcast - Episode 36 with Jaimes McNeal, creator and host of BreakThrough Blogcast, with resident guest co-host Evonne Weinhaus, author, speaker, and relationship therapist with several national TV talk shows under her belt. Most recently, she co-authored A New Fearless You with Cindy Smith.

Roundtable Guests: Bianca Thompson.

As we reconnect with Bianca, who appeared earlier in Episode 30, as a check-in to see if she accomplished what she set out to accomplish in terms of her goals to step out from behind her “corporate” self. Bianca shared that even though she hadn’t accomplished exactly what she declared, she learned a lot about herself along the way. In particular, she learned about her tendency to blame others for her short-comings—something she found herself doing in past relationships, and mostly stemming from the decision she made about herself as a result of an early sexual trauma.

Also in this episode, Evonne “walks her talk” by discussing feedback given to her by a reader of her blog. At the end of the show, Jaimes introduced a new featured segment of the show by playing a caller’s question and asks blogcast listeners give their response to the relationship question left by Laura Simon. Looking forward to hearing your insight!

BreakThrough in Letting Go of The Mask
RECORDED LIVE: MON 04 OCT 2010

BreakThrough Blogcast - Episode 35 with Jaimes McNeal, creator and host of BreakThrough Blogcast, with returning co-host Nathalie Ekobo. Nathalie, affectionately formerly known as “the cleaning lady,” who from now hence forth will be known as “The International Alchemist,” is a teacher from “BreakThrough,” and has appeared on the Blogcast in several previous episodes.

Roundtable Guests: Cyndi Brown.

As we kick off October’s topic: BreakThrough in Letting Go of the Mask, Cyndi talks about the fear she has about starting her new career as a coach. Nathalie works with Cyndi by helping her shift her energy from fear or victim to the authentic power of speaking her truth.

This episode is about understanding that a coach’s job is one of facilitation, as a co-coach, in partnership with a higher power. And, don’t miss your opportunity to receive your three gifts from Nathalie as well as work with her in her 5-week program she mentioned called The Charisma Formula.

Also appearing in this episode: Jacqueline Garwood and Tessa Greenspan.

 

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