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25: The Power of Focus: Achieving More by Doing Less with Productivity Coach Jen Theuriet

Productivity coach Jen Theuriet shares her secrets for staying focused, completing tasks, and making the most out of your time. Discover the tools and techniques to prioritize your tasks and keep your life balanced, as well as how to break out of the hustle culture and the ‘Superwoman Syndrome’. Jen also provides practical strategies to help you create a ‘work mode’, establish a time budget, and use the Focus feature on your phone to eliminate distractions and maximize efficiency. Tune in and learn how to get more out of life with less effort!

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24: Finding Creative Flow Through Healing Your Inner Child with Damla Aktekin

Damla Aktekin shares her expertise in inner child healing and energy healing to help us tap into the power of creativity to heal our minds, bodies, and souls.

Through her journey of self-discovery, Damla shares her wisdom in how to manage our time and energy as we work to break through blocks in our creative process.

Learn how to tap into your intuition, how to use crystals to open up the flow of energy in the body, and how to give ourselves grace and stay present in the moment. Join Damla on a journey of unlocking creativity and healing, and discover how to feel your best and live your best life.

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Episode #15: Wire Art Hobby: Building a Community, One Wire at a Time

Want to learn about wire art? Today, my special guest is Heather Boyd. Heather is a wire artist who creates and sells custom wire art and jewelry on Etsy. She, along with her husband, specialize in wire wedding cake toppers, tandem bikes, musicians and sports figures. Listen in as she talks about her hobby of wire art, how she got started and how you too can dip your toes into wire art.

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Episode #14: Foraging Fun: Nurturing Mind, Heart and Stomach

Have you ever heard of the hobby foraging? Well, me either until I interviewed Dorien Morin-van Dam about her hobby that she stumbled upon after moving to Vermont. Listen in as she tells us why she loves foraging, how she got started, what's needed and where to go to get started with this fascinating hobby.

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Episode #13: How to Tap Into the Mindful Nature of Photography

In this episode, I chat with Karin van Mierlo who is the founder & course creator at Photography Playground. Karin strongly believes the world needs more authentic and open-hearted photographers who want to be fully present in the world with a camera in their hands. That’s why she founded Photography Playground, an online photography platform to empower humans with cameras.

Listen in hear Karin’s tips on how to tap into the mindful nature of photography and how it can improve your mental well being.

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Episode #12: Get Started With Bullet Journaling the Fast and Easy Way

In episode #12 on the HobbyScool podcast, I chat with Masha with Masha Plans. As a completely disorganized person with not a single creative cell, she decided to give Bullet Journaling a try. It changed everything and helped her build the life she always wanted. Listen in while we chat about all things bullet journal and how you can get started as a beginner.

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Episode #10: Educating Children Through Hobbies With Sonia Hubly

In this episode on the HobbyScool podcast, I chat with Sonia Hubly who is the Founder of Mom, Wife, Homestead Life. Sonia creates content to help families become self-sufficient in simple and creative ways.

On her family 14-acre homestead, you can find her raising livestock, growing and tending a large garden, and preserving as much healthy organic food as she can for her family. Having grown up in the woods of Wisconsin, where she often gathered maple sap and cooked it down with her family, Sonia has held a passion for agriculture and gardening her entire life. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls with a degree in Agricultural Education and enjoyed an early career in education by holding the role as a middle and high school agriculture instructor.

Listen in as we discussed how Sonia turned hobbies and life skills to further her children's education and how she has turned her hobbies into thriving businesses.

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Episode #9: Haunted Hobby: Paranormal Investigation with Kristy Sumner

In this episode on the HobbyScool podcast, I chat with Kristy Sumner with Soul Sisters Paranormal. Dr. Kristy Sumner holds a PhD in Public Affairs with an emphasis on Criminal Justice from the University of Central Florida. She is the founder of Soul Sisters Paranormal, which is a team of paranormal investigators that travels the country documenting the narrative of historic and, reportedly, haunted locations.

Kristy is a paranormal investigator who has turned her hobby into a business. Listen in to learn more about this fascinating hobby!

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Episode #8: How to Plan a Fall Garden with Courtney Johnson

In this episode on the HobbyScool podcast, I chat with Courtney Johnson with The Kitchen Garten. Courtney is a wife, homeschooling mom of 3, a lifelong gardener as well as a certified master gardener and garden coach. She enjoys teaching others about how to get started gardening right in their own backyards, as well as how to take garden fresh produce and use it in delicious recipes or preserve it for use later.

Listen in to learn all about fall gardening including the space required, fall garden staples and so much more!

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Episode #7: Growing Food at Home Can Be Simple with Marc Thoma

In this episode of the HobbyScool podcast, I chat with Marc Thoma about how growing food at home for your family can be simple.

With over 15 years of experience growing fresh vegetables, fruit and herbs for his family in a small suburban backyard, Marc is passionate about helping other families grow their own food too, regardless of space, time or knowledge. He is a published author of two books for beginner gardeners with a blog and YouTube channel teaching simple, time-saving techniques to grow healthy, fresh homegrown food in whatever space you have.

Specifically, we covered the kind of food Marc grows and how much garden space he uses. The easiest vegetables to grow and his top tips for saving time taking care of his garden.

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Episode #6: Starting a Plant Based Diet for Your Health with Cindy Newland

In this episode of the HobbyScool podcast, I chat with Cindy Newland, who is the CEO of Intentionally Eat.

Twenty years ago, Cindy was morbidly obese, had high blood pressure, high cholesterol and a family history of cancer and heart disease. After experiencing an excruciating back injury that immobilized her for over a month, she reached a turning point. She realized her diet and lack of exercise had brought her to that low point. Slowly, she began to make better choices like exercising and eating more fruits and vegetables. Cindy lost 125lbs, became a personal trainer and health coach, and created Intentionally Eat in order to help others on their health journey.

In this episode, we had a conversation about how Cindy lost 125 pounds and kept it off for 20+ years. We talked about her plant-based diet and the tips she provides on how you can get started with a healthy plant based diet in an way that works for your lifestyle and personal tastes.

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