Stay Grounded With Raj Jana

“The truth is heart-centered. The truth just beams from your master source of intelligence, which is your intuition.” Kyle Brown was fully invested in the hustle culture. He played competitive water polo in college and was also a competitive bodybuilder. His lifestyle revolved around pushing and going and everything he did was focused around competition and competing against himself. But that all changed in January 2019 when Kyle got sick to the point of near-death. He was diagnosed with double pneumonia. He had sepsis too and his organs were shutting down. Until this point, Kyle was a healthy, strong individual who was 5% lean all year around. He didn’t take any kind of pharmaceuticals and he believed mind over matter was enough to push through anything. Suddenly, Kyle was faced with a situation that his default approach couldn’t solve. He had to surrender and hope that antibiotics would save his life. In this moment of surrender, Kyle realized that his striving lifestyle was actually dig

“Your inner critic is actually meant to serve your brain. It’s not meant to hurt you.” The month of July was hectic, heartbreaking, and healing for me. An incredible friend of mine passed from stage 4 cancer, and yet again, end of life taught me some potent lessons, which I share in this episode. Looking back, it’s clear to me that this month’s events have allowed me to become deeply intimate with the critical, judgy voice in my head. The voice that scolds me for not being enough, not doing enough, or the  “fact that I should have known better.” (how many of you are familiar with that one?!)Thanks to these experiences, I was able to gather some deep insights into the role that my inner critic plays in helping me experience the life I desire.“It takes a daring level of vulnerability to own your shortcomings.” I don’t believe that the negative voices in our minds are here to stop us from being happy. And when we can find the compassion in our hearts to hold space for the voice of our inner c

“I think identity alchemy is finding who you are at the core.” How do you identify and define yourself when you have multiple interests and multiple talents? How do you encapsulate it all under one umbrella with a common message? For Nick Onken, the answer is Identity Alchemy - the creative art of deconstructing who you are [and who you’ve been] so you can discover the essence that sits at your core.    This episode’s guest is Nick Onken - a creative alchemist who dances between the roles of photographer, hat designer, podcaster, artist, and entrepreneur. He’s lived a creative life where his curiosity has guided him to shed identities and redefine himself as his work and life have shifted and evolved.  In this episode, Nick and I explore the creative power we can all access - to unleash our inner genius. “Art inspires, art is the language that transcends and inspires people without language.” Nick Onken has been commissioned by top tier brands such as Nike, Co

“The breath knows us better than we know ourselves.” On average we breathe around 20,000 times a day, but how many of those breaths are conscious? Breathwork is a practice that can deepen your awareness, cultivate presence, and help you find, release, and move through discomfort in your body. Best of all, this tool is accessible to all of us and it’s completely free. I’ve been exploring the power of the breath more and more over the past few years. Breath is the thread that flows through so many healing modalities and it always blows my mind how something so simple [and natural] can be profoundly potent and powerful. In this episode, I’m interviewing a breathwork practitioner - Zach Rehder - for a deep dive into the myriad of ways that breathwork can elevate your life. “We’re here to awaken up to our greatness, to who and what we really are.” Zach Rehder is an international teacher, speaker and healer. Through a series of awakenings, he became a channel for messages and energies

“Belief and trust and faith and ultimately courage comes from understanding that when we move first, the universe actually follows.” When I first met this week’s guest, there were firecrackers! We had an instant connection, and I knew this conversation would be phenomenal. Susanne Goldstein is a high-end coach and mentor for purpose-driven humans who desire to be a force for good in the world. She helps people live life with their souls on fire, and she’s been coaching and consulting everyone from startups to Fortune 100 companies for over 30 years. Perhaps most importantly is how Susanne walks her talk. She knows how to cultivate the courage to upgrade herself and follow her dreams, as demonstrated by her impressive career and life moves.“Courage is this ability to keep walking, to keep stepping, to know that you don’t have to know the next 150 steps... you need to know one.” Through her company, DAREHuman, Susanne helps people crack open their consciousness, fortify their emotional found

“When your power is attached to feelings you can create inside of you, there’s absolutely nothing that keeps you caged.” As I bring you my June reflection, we’re now officially halfway through 2021. This episode is especially powerful for me because I’m noticing how my reflection process is deepening and evolving as I dig in more. As a result, my personal growth is accelerating, and my insights are helping me to step into new possibilities for myself and my life. My reflection process is one of my favorite personal development tools. It’s a catalyst for spiritual growth, it deepens my connection with myself, and it’s taking me to new levels of self-awareness and personal responsibility. I hope that by sharing the way I navigate my reflection [as well as some core takeaways from June], you can extract some ideas to expand your personal practice. “When you feel like you’re on top of the world - when things are just great - that’s when your body finally feels safe enough to open up the d

“The things I’m most grateful for in this moment are actually the lessons and the experiences I had when things were hardest.” One of the things I love most about Stay Grounded is the opportunity it provides to meet people from all walks of life. Over the years, I’ve interviewed some fascinating people, and this episode is no different… Apart from the way that Joseph Billotti and I met. I’ve recently been spending time on the phone connecting with JavaPresse Coffee Club OGs. These are people who’ve been drinking JavaPresse coffee for years and I wanted to know what they love about the brand. 89-year-old Joseph was one of the people I interviewed. “One of the most beautiful parts about life is that there’s so many different ways to do it, and there’s so many adventures to choose and so many different journeys to go on.” What was supposed to be a 15-minute chat about coffee morphed into a deep conversation about life, love, spirituality, service, and more. Joseph has lived a f

“When we’re experiencing peace, we’re authentically being who we are.” I recorded this conversation with spiritual leader Panache Desai just before the first COVID lockdown hit in early 2020. In this interview, Panache gave an insight into his own experience of crisis and suffering and how it created an experience for spiritual and personal growth. I found Panache’s perspective so empowering. In fact, this conversation became a catalyst for multiple personal events that unfolded during my 2020. I wanted to share this episode again because of the powerful reminder of the importance of the journey to self-love, acceptance, peace and surrender. When you listen, you’ll discover how you can walk the path to enoughness with grace, surrender, and divinity. “People, once they are reacquainted with their essential self, have everything.” Panache Desai is a visionary thought leader and a life catalyst in the area of human development. This incredible human has appeared on Oprah’s Super Soul Sun

“Just show up for the plan that the Universe has already provided for you.” We’re living in an age of collective evolution where we’re relearning what it means to be human. More and more people are challenging the old paradigms of success and fulfillment; finding new ways to be, have, and do the things we desire. Dr Bo Cicak is one of these humans. Voted San Diego's #1 Chiropractor in 2019 and 2020, Dr Bo is an embodied example of what it means to prioritize health and create a life attuned to a spiritual calling. In this episode, Dr Bo explores his journey to trusting in an unseen power as he’s learned to prioritize the inner world and live a more responsive life. Tune in now to hear how chiropractic philosophy can increase your capacity to surrender to the pull of life - as you stay grounded in what matters most to you. “Your body has the ability to heal itself. All you have to do is just give it the opportunity to do so.” Dr Bo Cicak is an educator of health and a student

“To me, the courage to rise in love is the idea of facing everything in front of us with the lens of love.” It’s that time again! The episode where I take you through my monthly reflection and all my learnings from May 2021.This is my fifth reflection this year and I’m seeing such a huge benefit from this deep-dive process. When you get intentional about your life and pay attention to what’s actually happening, you unlock the gifts, lessons, and experiences of the moment. For me, this level of self-reflection is an accelerator that leverages hindsight as a personal and spiritual growth tool. Reflection helps you get the lessons faster, so you can bend time and condense your life. It’s one of the ways I’m able to have my cake and eat it too.  “It’s the greatest gift to find the thing that cannot be taken away when things get hard.” May has been a growth-fuelled, wildly fulfilling month most notably marked by the end of my 20s. This milestone inspired me to purge things that aren’t

“To get to that emotion, to get to that connection that I think we all crave, you have to be a good listener.” Humans have been connecting through stories since time immemorial. There’s something about stories that hook us in, build meaningful connection, and even leave us forever changed. This episode’s guest has been extracting and telling other people’s life stories for decades. Mike O’Krent’s journey started in 1996 when he spent four years interviewing Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. [Now the USC Shoah Foundation.]  This life-changing experience inspired Mike to master the art of listening - honing his interviewing skills to bring out the heart and essence of his interviewees.Through Mike’s work at Lifestories Alive, powerful stories don’t have to be left in the graveyard. Instead, they can be captured as a legacy for future generations to tap into their ancestry.“When you shut up long enough to really hear somebody you real

“There is a fundamental and universal... almost like a human right, for us to be happy.” If you ask parents around the world what they most want for their kids, most will answer happiness. You could say that happiness is the core aim of the human experience.So why do so many people struggle to experience one of the feelings we crave the most? This episode’s guest is Dr. Elia Gourgouris who’s a keynote speaker, author, and president of The Happiness Center - an organization of world-leading experts in the field of Positive Psychology dedicated to creating personal success and happiness. Dr Elia believes that happiness is a choice. In this episode, Dr Elia shares what he’s learned about the 7 pathways to lasting happiness - and how these paths can lead to self-love, success, and greater work-life balance. “If you want to be happy in life, do something good for somebody else, every day, and you will be a rich man.” Dr Elia is the author of the #1 bestseller 7 Paths to Lasting Happiness.

“My story about the world and everyone in it is what’s making me feel these things, and so I’m the one that has the power to shift that story.” Have you ever wondered why people don’t implement good advice… even advice that they pay for?The answer is your underlying belief system. If advice contradicts or conflicts with who you believe yourself to be [and what you believe is possible], the advice won’t stick. No wonder belief work is so powerful…It’s in our rewiring of our deeply held beliefs that meaningful change and transformation can happen - something that this episode’s guest is a master of. Britt Lefkoe is a business and personal development coach, who specializes in coaching entrepreneurs and executives who are looking to push through glass ceilings, uplevel in their business, and create more joy and authenticity in their lives. For over 20 years, Britt has been expanding upon the groundbreaking work of her father, Morty Lefkoe, whose belief-based, neuroscientific approach to busin

“When you can trust in the unfolding, you know that every hardship you’re experiencing is only a hardship because it hasn’t fully blossomed into the blessing yet.” I’m super excited to release this latest reflection episode. April 2021 held a lot of teachings and because it was also the last month of my 20s, this reflection holds an extra special meaning.This month, I’ve been learning to cultivate faith. Sometimes, life doesn’t unfold in the way you imagine. Sometimes, projects and plans can take longer to come to fruition than you would have liked - and that can create inner friction! But when you believe that everything is happening FOR you, delays create an opening to explore uncomfortable emotions and experiences. In the process, you grow and evolve at lightning speed!    I’m super grateful for this month. April has given me the circumstances that have allowed me to experience who I am at a deeper level - and as always, I’m sharing all the juicy details with you in this

“Loss is part of life and we have to be able to support people better.” COVID interrupted our lives in so many unexpected ways. As the fallout of the pandemic continues, people across the world are experiencing loss and grief in ways we couldn’t have predicted. Some people are working through job losses, business closures, and shifts in the way we socialize, travel, and work. Others are navigating the grief of losing a loved one. In this way, COVID has brought the subject of death to the surface. Death is a conversation many of us in the western world are ill equipped to hold, handle, or lead - at work and in our homes. Serial entrepreneur - Tracey Ivanyshyn - is on a mission to change this way of being by helping founders and companies create a culture that holds space for good grief at work. This work is so important - especially during these times - because companies that can hold space for ‘good grief’ are stronger; as are their people. “Grief is like a wave.” Tracey is the CEO of

“When you reflect on your journey, you’re better able to connect the dots.” What do YOU think about the world? How can you differentiate between the knowledge you’ve acquired from books and the wisdom you’ve embodied as your own? What is the truth of who YOU are - and how can you go about finding it all? Vipul Bhesania’s life transformed when he developed severe eczema while studying at university. His condition was so extreme that even sleep became painful because his skin tore so easily. Physical pain made Vipul question his ambition to become a successful, highly paid city of London lawyer. Instead, he got interested in philosophy and began asking bigger and bigger questions. Who am I? What is this force behind science? What is underneath all the layers of my identity? As a result of these conversations, Vipul transformed his relationship with himself - and cultivated the beautiful skill of expressing emotions through words. “When I connect with the feeling, the

“Inspiration really comes in the quiet moments.” We all have the ability to be creative, the question is, how do you access your unique talents and allow yourself to be inspired? The good news is there are specific acts you can take to awaken your creative being so you can express your essence and become your authentic self. This episode’s guest is Tracy Matthews - a jewelry designer, entrepreneur, mentor to creative visionaries and host of the top-rated podcast, Thrive By Design. Tracy’s life has been inspired by creativity and imagination ever since she was a child. Tracy has unique insight into what it means to be creative, and in this episode, she reveals it all! “The more open you are to hearing someone else’s perspective or point of view, the more knowledgeable you become about yourself.” Tracy has a passion for helping people tap into their unique creative brilliance factor to make more money and impact. She’s been featured in InStyle, Elle, Us Weekly, Real Simple, Martha Stewa

“If we truly want to heal as a country, as a society, as a world, we need each other.” Rewind the clock to 2020 and consultant, coach, author, speaker, and connector Andy Storch was riding a momentum train. He’d re-designed his in-person training business post-COVID and was getting ready to launch and promote his new book - Own Your Career Own Your Life. During this same period, Andy was experiencing some abdominal pain, which he’d planned to “tough out”. Unfortunately, the pain didn’t subside so Andy went to an urgent care facility. Shortly after, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. This diagnosis guided Andy’s life down a path that required a shift in priorities. He faced surgery and chemo as well as redesigning his life so he could manage his mindset and his health.  “Even though I have these challenges, I have so much to be grateful for.” Andy is the host of two podcasts including The Talent Development Hot Seat and The Andy Storch Show. He’s also the founder and ho

“The more you can allow yourself to be seen, the more you heal.” For me, reflection is a practice that sparks accelerated growth. I’ve always got a journal near me because I know the value of capturing insights and deep-dives when they show up. Moving through life with this level of awareness helps me bend time around my learnings and lesson. It’s one of the reasons I can move fast, but with a level of depth that keeps me grounded. These monthly reflection episodes are quickly becoming some of my favorite to record. There’s power in riffing off some great questions and weaving out the narrative of my month. I benefit from this practice because it crystalizes my growth. It’s my intention that you get some benefit too by seeing behind the curtain on my life this March. “The voice that I’m supposed to be paying attention to is inspiration and love and joy and passion.” As usual, Georgina El Morshdy is here to interview me. Together, we always stir up some magic! Georgina is great at

“A legacy is living in a way that the world is better every day, not just when you’ve gone.” We’re at a pivotal point in human evolution. As a collective, we have huge challenges to solve, and a growing number of people want to make an impact and create a better world. The desire to make a difference has been at the core of society for millennia. As humans, we instinctively want to help each other. Contribution is one of our core needs. The problem is, change-makers often sacrifice their own well being and needs in the pursuit of helping others that are less fortunate. As “noble” as that sounds, the stark imbalance between the acts of giving and receiving isn’t sustainable. But what if there was a different way to impact that held space for you - as a change-maker - to live an abundant, fulfilling life? This episode’s guest is Lisa Wynn - an award-winning Master Certified Coach (ICF), Certified Wealth Creation Coach, author, speaker, and host of the International No 1 Rated Legacy Creation