Stay Grounded with Raj Jana
368 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsThe Stay Grounded Podcast is your go-to resource for conversations that help you become the most grounded, authentic, and loving version of yourself that you can be.
Each week, host Raj Jana -- founder of Liber8 -- uses his relentless curiosity to interview a diversity of guests who have mastered different concepts for living a life that’s true to them.
With the help of Raj’s deep questions and his ability to distill complex subjects into digestible takeaways, regular listeners discover empowering perspectives around mindset, emotional well-being, and spirituality as well as tools and frameworks for developing the self-awareness needed to show up fully for the people and things that matter most in their lives.
Our hope is that your mind can take a rest as your heart tunes into conversations that are designed to help you feel calm, uplifted, and loved.
Each episode is designed to help you discover something new in yourself, offering messages that feel as if they were recorded just for you. You’ll feel like a fly on the wall as you witness honest and vulnerable conversations between friends that track the highs and lows experienced when you’re working to embody your true nature and purpose.
No matter where you come from or what you’re going through, you’re not alone. This podcast is predicated on the idea that by authentically sharing our stories, we can inspire healing and insight for each other.
In the words of the late Ram Dass, “We are all just walking each other home.”
Welcome to the Stay Grounded family.
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Episodes
18. Austin Felton - Two Men On A Mission
March 31, 2018 10:00 - 59 minutes - 68.8 MB“Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about eliminating the things that you are not.” This podcast is like none I’ve done before. Not only was this episode recorded live and in-person with this week’s guest, but it was a tandem job! As I’m sharing this episode with you, so is Austin sharing this exact same episode on his podcast. Austin is the CEO and founder of Entrecloud - a forward-thinking WordPress hosting company that helps amplify entrepreneur’s voices online. Austin is...
17. Heather Vickery - Embracing The Real You
March 24, 2018 10:00 - 47 minutes - 54.8 MB“I wanted to show my kids that they should go out and want all the best things and not settle for anything less.” Today’s guest, Heather Vickery beams. Her energy, passion, and excitement for life just oozes out of her. But it wasn’t always that way. When you’re not connected with the truth of who you are, life feels out of alignment - and that can make for a miserable existence. This was the experience faced by today’s podcast guest - just four short years ago. A slow, but s...
16. Todd White - Life Architecture For Peace & Presence
March 17, 2018 10:00 - 49 minutes - 57.4 MB“I can teach you business in one word - meditation.” Todd White is the founder of Dry Farm Wines - a passionate business based in Napa Valley that’s busy transforming the way people drink and view wine. In this podcast, Todd talks about the practices and principles that enabled him to learn from a previous business failure (that cost him millions), to create Dry Farm Wines. A business that did $37,000 in revenue during 2015, $15m in 2017, and is in course to generate $28m in 2018. ...
15. Hal Elrod - Stressed Out or Blissed Out - Your Choice
March 10, 2018 11:00 - 48 minutes - 55.6 MB“I live my life by the five-minute rule. When things go wrong it’s OK to be negative - but not for more than five minutes.” Hal Elrod needs no introduction. As the author of the best-selling book, The Miracle Morning, Hal is best known for his six-part SAVERS morning routine that has changed lives and is practiced by over 500,000 people across the world. It’s a book that has influenced me hugely - both personally and also as I was building JavaPresse and crafting our message. I a...
14. Brad Hart - Change a Habit, Change Your Life
March 03, 2018 11:00 - 45 minutes - 52.5 MB“I love 30 day challenges. In 12 months you can have 12 new habits that can transform your life. In 3 years you have 36 new habits and you’re a whole new person.” Brad Hart is an experienced entrepreneur, investor, trader, advisor, and mentor to people who want more from their life. We met at a mastermind and connected immediately. Brad is a bundle of fired up energy and a force for good. His articles have been read over a million times and his charity works keeps changing lives for ...
13. Edward Bryan - Complacency is the Devil
February 24, 2018 11:00 - 43 minutes - 50.5 MB“Even when you’re firing on all cylinders there’s always something falling behind that you can improve on” Edward Bryan is my incredible personal trainer who I work with in Houston, Texas. But rewind to his youth, and you’d never imagine health and fitness would be his path. At the age of 17, Edward weighed 380lbs. He was also diagnosed with hypertension and atrial fibrillation - an incredibly rare condition for a man of his age. So he took the meds he was prescribed and kept par...
12. Matt Kazam - Laughing at Death
February 17, 2018 11:00 - 57 minutes - 66 MB“You are the best doctor for your body. You are the best therapist for your mind. You’ve just got to do the work.” Rewind the clock 4 ½ years and today’s guest was recovering from a heart attack. The cumulative effect of a lifetime on the stage had led to everything from diabetes to sleep apnea, to fertility problems, heart disease, and seriously high cholesterol. But there was something about facing death that shifted professional comedian, Matt Kazam’s perspective. He shock...
11. Bryan Miles - The Way We Work Doesn’t Work Anymore
February 10, 2018 11:00 - 41 minutes - 47.9 MB“If I’m going to make a dent in this world, I have only a certain amount of time… So rather than watch that time be wasted away, I’d rather be intentional with it.” Along with his wife Shannon, Bryan Miles is committed to rewriting the workplace mindset. Driven by his manifesto that “the way we work doesn’t work anymore”, Bryan inspires businesses to liberate their employees and transform their culture with remote working. Far from losing control over staff, Bryan argues home-bas...
10. Lauren Raja - Pajamas Changed My Life
February 03, 2018 11:00 - 41 minutes - 47.8 MB“Life’s too short to not follow your dreams.” On October 10, 2014 Lauren Raja’s life was turned upside down. After watching her husband, Justin die in a boating accident, Lauren became a widow. She was just 32. Crippled by grief, Lauren spent hours staring at the wall - not knowing how to live, until memories of ‘Mamma Jean’ gave her the strength to get back on her feet. Lauren realized she had to learn to channel her anger and grief in a better way - so she created Justin Jean ...
9. Coffee Break with Raj Jana - Gratitude is Your Cheat Code
January 27, 2018 11:00 - 7 minutes - 9.33 MB“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.” - Brene Brown In my search for contagious happiness, I’ve explored a number of practices and strategies. And daily gratitude is one of those simple practices that has fundamentally changed how I feel. That’s because gratitude is a source for instant happiness. Find something appreciate and good feelings fill you instantly. Better still, gra...
8. Marc Gutman - Walking Away From Millions
January 20, 2018 11:00 - 45 minutes - 52.2 MB“You are the author of your own story. You can create any reality you want.” Nearing the peak of his Hollywood screenwriting career, Marc Gutman walked away from it all. This decision wasn’t in the life plan! In love with stories and the movies, Marc had a shot most writers only dream about. Working for the likes of Disney and Oliver Stone, Marc rubbed shoulders with some of Hollywood’s greats. But looking down the road, he was shocked at the people further ahead. 30-year-old sc...
7. Coffee Break with Raj Jana - Breakfast With a Shark
January 13, 2018 11:00 - 11 minutes - 13.8 MB“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” - Daymond John Last month I had a close encounter with a Shark. It wasn’t in the water and it wasn’t in a tank either. Instead, I was one of four lucky winners (out of thousands of entries in a competition organized by Belay Solutions. And my prize was pretty epic! I got to have a one-to-one mentoring session with the People’s Shark himself - Daymond John. I’m hugely grateful to Belay Solutions for organizing such an epic prize -...
6. Nataly Kogan - Happiness Is a Practice
January 06, 2018 11:00 - 51 minutes - 59.9 MB“The best teachers are those to whom the material they teach did not come easily.” Nataly Kogan is a TEDx speaker, the CEO Of Happier.com and a recognised expert on the subject of happiness - so I’m super pumped to be able to get her onto the Stay Grounded podcast. Nataly’s story is an inspiration too. Born in the USSR, Nataly and her parents became refugees when she was just 11. Making her way through numerous refugee camps, Nataly eventually arrived in the USA - excited about h...
5. Coffee Break with Raj Jana - Put Yourself First
December 30, 2017 11:00 - 13 minutes - 16.4 MB“Putting yourself first is not selfish Quite the opposite. You must put your health and happiness first before you can be of help to anyone else.” - Simon Sinek With the New Year just around the corner, it’s a perfect time to reflect and think about the year ahead and get clear on what you want to leave behind. You got it! It’s that time for New Year’s Resolutions and goal setting! But goals can be hard to achieve when you lack foundations that inspire success and enable accomp...
4. Allen Brouwer - From Rock-Bottom To 30 Under 30
November 30, 2017 02:40 - 43 minutes - 50.1 MB“There’s no such thing as natural born talent.” Rewind to December 2014 and my guest today was at rock-bottom. With a negative bank account he couldn’t even afford to buy his fiance a Christmas card. But it was in this lowest of places that Allen Brouwer found the clarity he needed to transform his life. Faced with the cold realization that he’d been a ‘wantrepreneur’ playing at business, he decided to stop pointing the finger elsewhere and take 100% responsibility for his life. ...
3. Coffee Break with Raj Jana - What Will You Gladly Struggle For?
November 30, 2017 02:37 - 12 minutes - 14.8 MB“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” - Frank A. Clark In the search for happiness, you will encounter struggle and challenge. It’s an inevitable, unavoidable fact of life. Struggle and fear is something we inherently want to avoid, because it doesn’t feel good, but by avoiding a core human emotion, we can lose out on the fullness life has to offer. It’s why I loved chatting with Akshay Nanavati - bestselling author of Fearvana. Akshay’s ...
2. Akshay Nanavati - The Fear Fueled Route to Happiness
November 28, 2017 01:54 - 48 minutes - 56.3 MB“If you don’t seek out struggle, it will find you anyway.” Today’s guest persuaded the Dalai Lama to write the foreword of his new book - FEARVANA: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear Into Health, Wealth and Happiness. Akshay Nanavati is used to living life at the extremes. Akshay has battled with drug addiction in high school, was diagnosed with PTSD after serving as a marine in Iraq, and is now obsessed with all kinds of extreme sports ranging from marathon running to...
1. An Introduction with Chief Brewing Officer Raj Jana
November 28, 2017 01:48 - 7 minutes - 8.05 MBWelcome To The Stay Grounded Podcast “You measure yourself by the people that measure themselves by you” - Phil Knight Today I’m super excited to let you in on something new that I’ve wanted to do for AGES. One of the driving forces behind JavaPresse is the search for contagious happiness. Now happiness means different things to all of us. There’s no real formula, just different ideas. But those ideas can inspire us, which is why I wanted to start the Stay Grounded Podcas...