Bliss Happens
203 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome to "Bliss Happens: Your Journey to Joy” a vibrant podcast where diversity meets unity, and spirituality intertwines with soulful beats. Expect infectious, uplifting energy and meaningful conversations on living an authentic life of joy. We'll share a mosaic of experiences, perspectives and well-being practices including special guests. Let's celebrate the bliss that happens when we open our hearts, expand our minds, and connect authentically with the world and others around us.
Your Co-hosts: Meet Faith Rivera, Emmy award winning music mom with melodies to ignite your spirit and raise the vibe. Chad Bradford, a theatre artist, and director bridges the world of classic art and modern dilemmas. Rev. Skip Jennings, a gay black Reverend with a deep love for house music whose wisdom and beats are a balm for the soul.
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Catch a Vision, Shape Your Life
March 11, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutesWisdom teacher Sri Ram Kaa and Master Lady Kira Raa join us for an exciting conversation on catching a vision—just as they did in creating their community at TOSA Blue Mountain in Ecuador and their upcoming event, Unifying Voices: Gathering of the Tribes. The visioning process is a powerful way of catching God’s vision. Embody that vision and see it for yourself. Then together we can shape our lives intentionally as one harmonious family! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
Spring Into Spring with Jennifer Jiménez
March 04, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutesFounder of the health and well-being division for the Brave Thinking Institute, Jennifer Jiménez joins Voices of Unity to help us spring into spring with TranscenDance, transformational movement that includes somatics, breath work, and life visioning. Move your body! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Recovering from Heartbreak
February 25, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutesLicensed Unity teacher and coach June Dillinger joins Voices of Unity to talk about her book The Benefit of the Ex: Making Love Visible When Everything Changes. If you’re in a relationship where you can’t be yourself, you’re playing a role in your own life. June is here to share how to be authentic for yourself and for the benefit of others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Love Never Leaves
February 18, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutesOrdained Agape minister Marilyn Pelz and spiritual counselor Kent Pelz join the Voices of Unity cohosts to talk about the eternal presence of love. Having overcome heartbreak, betrayal, and deception in their 55-plus-year marriage, Marilyn and Kent are here to share how they faced these challenges together and remain forever just married. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Love Is My Career
February 10, 2022 06:00 - 55 minutesYou might have a job title, but your divine calling is to be the presence of love. How do you support your career goals and ambitions through the lens of love? You can’t help but be the expression of Spirit made manifest, so let this truth be the driving force in everything you do! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Love Yourself Truly
February 04, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutesWe kick off February, a month of love, by renewing a practice for loving yourself. Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others, and let love flow to you before it flows through you! Cohosts Faith Rivera and Rev. Skip Jennings discuss what it means to truly love yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Create an Action Plan for 2022
January 28, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutesExecutive coach Tamie Rising is a guest on today’s show to help us create an action plan for 2022 goals and intentions. Tamie helps leaders and individuals who are stuck in the muck get on the path to success! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Spiritual and Physical Fitness
January 21, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutesCohost Rev. Skip Jennings is a spiritual fitness guru who combines body, mind, and metaphysics in his work with people. Cohosts Faith Rivera and Rev. Jacquie Fernández have questions for Rev. Skip! Let’s get (meta)physical with our mind/body/spirit wellness! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New Year Intentions and Predictions
January 14, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutesGuest astrologist and intuitive Quan Cherry joins the show today to discuss the relationship between intentions and predictions. Quan specializes in integrating brain hemispheres, intuition, and logic to help people create a better life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New You in 2022!
January 07, 2022 02:00 - 55 minutesRing in the new year with a new or renewed you! Cohosts Rev. Jacquie Fernández, Faith Rivera, and Rev. Skip Jennings explore how to focus on goals and intentions with a healthy mind, heart, and soul! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our Favorite Things
December 17, 2021 02:00 - 55 minutesWith a nod to Oprah, Voices of Unity cohosts will be sharing their favorite things of 2021! Everything from artists to music, books, and spiritual practices. We will review what has been life changing and life giving in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Presence in the Presents
December 10, 2021 02:00 - 55 minutesMuch of our focus during the holidays is on generosity and gift giving, a seeming outward focus. But when we draw our attention to what truly matters, we discover our own divine presence in the presents. Deepen your holiday cheer with us at Voices of Unity! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Practice of Gratitude
December 03, 2021 02:00 - 54 minutesAs we launch into this Thanksgiving week, we see that it’s easy to say “thank you” when all is well, but when challenging times come up, gratitude may seem like a stretch. That’s where practice comes in! Together we’ll chat about cultivating this attitude of gratitude no matter the season. We will brainstorm methods we have personally used or learned to create a toolbox full of resources, tips, and tricks to embrace thankfulness as a powerful daily practice.
Celebration of Lights
December 03, 2021 02:00 - 55 minutesFrom Diwali to Hanukkah to Advent and Kwanzaa, many faith traditions celebrate with sacred light this time of year. Join us as we reflect on the power of divine radiance shining in, through, and as each of us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Gifts of Gratitude
November 19, 2021 02:00 - 55 minutesGiving thanks feels good, and there are scientifically proven benefits—from physical to mental, emotional, and spiritual—that come from living a life centered in gratitude. Let’s look into our own lives and share real ways that thankfulness not only lifts others up but positively affects you, the person boldly praising and appreciating. Yes, gratitude is the gift that keeps on giving! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Ultimate Prayer, the Law of Gratitude
November 12, 2021 02:00 - 55 minutesWe are excited to have an insightful conversation on the law of gratitude, which is not as widely known as the law of attraction and yet holds the key to not only having a life filled with riches, but living a life that is truly rich from the inside out! As Meister Eckhart says, “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” Let’s talk about just how big that “enough” can be when you apply this powerful law of gratitude. Learn more about your ad choices...
Steeped in Thanksgiving: The Power of Gratitude
November 03, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesLet’s take a cue from master teacher and way-shower Jesus, who started and ended each prayer with thanksgiving! This month we take a deeper look at gratitude—the power and possibilities available to us through this age-old practice that is now widely seen in the mainstream as a viable tool to a happier, more grounded life. Let’s explore how living a life steeped in thankfulness can affect not only our own lives, but the lives of those around us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...
Yes to Gratitude! Goodbye to Shame!
October 27, 2021 01:00 - 54 minutesWhat happens when you get the job, the house, the girl? Can you celebrate when so many are suffering through a pandemic? Is it selfish to be happy? Is it better to block your blessings? These are real questions we have asked as we began to manifest and allow our dreams to unfold in real time. Let’s have a heart-to-heart about this habit of ours to play small so others feel okay. Let’s have an aha moment together so we can move into that freedom calling us to celebrate our wins, immerse oursel...
Flowing or Forcing
October 20, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesThe Beatles said, “Let it be,” but so much of the time, in an effort to achieve our goals and dreams, we force, push, and fight our way there. New Thought offers us another way—one that is about riding the now moment, releasing to something greater, and allowing all that is queued up for us. Let’s break down what it means to lean into our good that is calling us instead of fighting upstream and trying to do Spirit’s work. We’re meant to flow, not force, so let’s go! Learn more about your ad c...
Enoughness Matters
October 13, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesIt’s one thing to want to manifest success and riches in our life and another to feel worthy enough to receive it all! Let’s dive into this key element of creating a life of your dreams—“I am worthy” consciousness. We’ll share ideas and practices on how we personally deal with issues of being good enough, desirable enough, and worthy of our biggest dreams. Today is the day to fully appreciate the beautiful unique glorious God-expression that you are! Join us as we break the myth of our not-en...
COVID Pandemic or the Scared Reset? You Choose!
September 29, 2021 01:00 - 54 minutesAs we wrap up our spiritual education month, we dedicate our entire show to uncovering what this strange time may be inviting us to learn personally and collectively. It’s been more than a year of watching numbers and implementing short-term solutions. What have we learned so far? With our special guest Rev. Julie Moret, author of What’s Your What, we will discuss the insights, victories, and possibilities for writing the next chapter. With the focus on the body, mind, and spirit, our new sto...
Finding Well-Being During Challenging Times
September 22, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesAs we continue our month of education, we reach into our spiritual toolbox. In these highly stressful times, we are experiencing a rise of anger, depression, and loneliness in the world—maybe even in ourselves. Join Voices of Unity for a truthful talk about what it means to find and maintain our well-being in a toxic environment. From airplanes to grocery stores, our homes to churches, with the right intention and practices, we can be a healthy space, a source of love and well-being regardles...
Wellness—New Thought/Ancient Wisdom Style
September 15, 2021 01:00 - 54 minutesToday we dive deeper into our month of divine education, focusing on the importance of spiritual wellness through the lens of New Thought teachings as well as the wisdom from ancient and indigenous cultures. Faith will share her family’s firsthand experience of COVID and how she applied these life-affirming beliefs in real time. Also joining the family this week is special guest Karen Mills-Alston, dean of Agape University. We’ll chat honestly and exchange ideas on cultivating a spiritual wel...
Holy Health Is Calling, and Remembering 9/11!
September 08, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesIt’s back to school, and this month the Voices of Unity fam is dropping into spiritual education. We launch this month with a vibrant discussion about Spirit’s undeniable call during this pandemic—holy health! Join us as we uncover ways to answer the call for healthier, holier ways of living and being. We also remember 9/11, one of the greatest global lessons of our lifetime. Let’s not miss the true gifts available to us from these life-changing experiences! School is in session. Let’s get do...
The Rhythm of Transformation with David DiLullo
September 01, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesSince ancient times, drumming has played an integral role in sacred ritual. It continues to bring people together and create a soothing space of healing from the inside out. We’re excited to talk with David DiLullo, founder of Global Drum Circles, HealthRHYTHMS-trained facilitator, and sound worker focusing on wellness in corporate and church settings. He hosts sold-out Sacred Sound Meditation events, drawing hundreds to experience healing through sound and music. Together we’ll explore the t...
The Sound of Healing and Wholeness with Joshua Inacio
August 25, 2021 01:00 - 52 minutesBetter than popping a pill, the power of sound and vibration can ease the mind, soothe the body, and lift the spirit. Joshua Inacio, featured artist for the 2019 Unity World Day of Prayer, will join Voices of Unity to share his insight and experience as a vibrational sound healer. We’ll chat and learn from this gifted sound shaman and spiritual teacher who uses many modalities to help move energy and welcome well-being. Together we will gain a deeper understanding of using sound and vibration...
Grooving to the 12 Powers with Kim-Char Meredith and Valerie Mackey
August 18, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesToday Voices of Unity celebrates the 12 expressions of divine power, as taught by Charles Fillmore, that are born in each of us and hold the key to a wow life! What if we can up our experience of these creative energies with music, lyrics, and groove? We’re excited to find out more with our special guests Kim-Char Meredith and Valerie Mackey, both active members of the UWM Music Ministry Team and leaders from the brand-new 12 Powers Club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
Change Your Music, Change Your Life with Daniel Nahmod
August 11, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesWe continue our conversation about the undeniable way music can transform us from the inside out. We’re excited to welcome Daniel Nahmod, leading songwriter, producer, and artist in the New Thought movement and beyond! With songs like “One Power,” “Love Is My Decision,” and “Everything New (Bring It On),” Daniel has helped our spiritual beliefs become mantras for living a more grounded, loving, and fulfilling life. Together we’ll celebrate and highlight his body of work and take in nuggets of...
The Medicine of Music with Karen Drucker
August 04, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesTo start this month, Voices of Unity will dive into healing and wholeness, specifically the power of music and sound to effect real change in our daily lives! Our special guest is Karen Drucker, one of the most influential and beloved New Thought songwriters, artists, and teachers. Her chants have filled our Sunday services. They have walked alongside us during our darkest times and have welcomed us in the best of times. The impact of her music is deep and far-reaching! Join us as we share an...
Unleashing Your Spiritual Gifts
July 28, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesUltimate freedom is doing and being all that you are! What are the gifts and talents you are meant to share? We are all blessed with “gifts from Spirit” and all on a spiritual journey uncovering our purpose. Join us as we talk about sharing your divine talents and feature one of our personal faves in all of positive music, multiplatinum songwriter Harold Payne, who continues to bless the world with his mighty gift of song! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Creative Freedom: Music Frees Your Soul
July 21, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesMusic is the energy that heals and frees the soul. This week Voices of Unity celebrates the power of music and how it has transformed the planet with special guest Rev. Richard Mekdeci, president and cofounder of emPower Music & Arts, the leading organization bringing New Thought music to the world! Together we’ll highlight the global impact of New Thought music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oh, to Be Struggle-Free
July 14, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesMyrtle Fillmore wrote, “Just rest your mind and heart and emotions and body in God-Mind.” The road to freedom is learning to give up the struggle. Let’s talk about ways to really surrender in heart and mind, and embrace a life of freedom and ease. It’s time to flow and be free says Voices of Unity! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Divine Freedom, Baby!
July 07, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesIt’s July—the perfect time to celebrate divine freedom! As we mark America’s independence, we will uncover the true meaning of spiritual liberation and what this can look like in our everyday lives. With all the heated talk of masks, vaccination, and more current topics, let’s dig into the idea of liberating our consciousness first—can it truly free us from the inside out? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Colorful Changemakers
June 30, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesAs we close Pride Month, we honor our LGBTQIA+ community that has always led the way for social and political change. Let’s celebrate our very own LGBTQIA+ leaders in Unity and all of New Thought making a mighty difference in our movement and beyond! Let’s reignite our own fire for change by remembering those who’ve come before and cheer on the everyday spiritual activist in each of us making a difference right here and now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Skip’s Birthday Celebration
June 23, 2021 01:00 - 52 minutesPride Month continues and this special day is an all-out celebration for our very own Rev. Skip as he celebrates his birthday! We’ll party with music and laughter, prayer and blessings, and stories highlighting Rev. Skip’s colorful life and what’s next for him and all of us! It’s a New Thought kickoff to the summer season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writing a New Story, from Brokenness to Wholeness
June 16, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesThis now moment is rife with opportunities! As we continue this journey of spiritual evolution, we get to heal the historical trauma of separation, not only for ourselves but for all time lines, and together begin a new story. Let’s uncover brokenness, reveal wholeness, surrender to Spirit, and emerge anew! Woo-hoo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oneness in a World Full of Color
June 09, 2021 01:00 - 54 minutesUnity does not mean uniformity. So what does living from oneness really mean? How do we live from this spiritual truth amidst our differences? Join Voices of Unity as we break down true connection, divine autonomy, and global oneness. Let’s share practical ways to appreciate and celebrate this full-color experience from a place of spiritual wholeness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Celebrating the Light, the Dark, and the Full Rainbow of Experiences
June 02, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesThis month we celebrate the power of inclusivity! What does it mean to be inclusive as a New Thought community? What practices can we use to be more welcoming and truly embrace those who have traditionally been marginalized? As we launch into LGBTQ Pride Month, join Voices of Unity as we discuss the challenges, breakthroughs, and victories in celebrating the full rainbow of divine expressions called you, me, and all of us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Experience—Embody and Embrace the Divine Feminine
May 26, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesWhen the talking and thinking are done, we move even deeper to go higher and bigger as we experience the sacred feminine rise in each of us. This is our time to play, pray, sing, stretch, meditate, affirm, and let the Goddess shine through us in a nurturing cocreative space! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Divine Feminine on the Rise
May 12, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesFrom indigenous cultures to New Age and New Thought, the rise of the divine feminine is undeniable, and it is here and now! Let’s explore and celebrate what it means as the sacred feminine begins to shine its light into an old paradigm and bring about newness through each of us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Healing Mother Earth
May 05, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesThrough prayer and spiritual practices, a new earth is being born! Join Voices of Unity as we discuss healing practices from a New Thought perspective for creating a renewable and sustainable planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Experience: Embody and Embrace
April 28, 2021 01:00 - 54 minutesWhen the talking and thinking are done, we move even deeper to go higher and bigger by letting Spirit simply be, to move and express as pure love in motion. This is our time to play, pray, sing, stretch, meditate, affirm, and let Spirit shine through us in a nurturing, cocreative space! It’s time to embody and live from our spiritual truth! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Reemergence
April 21, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesWho are we after this pandemic fades? Who could we be at this expansive time of transformation? How do we move from the hero’s journey and emerge with feet on the ground, hearts transformed, and Christ consciousness truly leading our lives from the inside out? Let’s chitchat about that, spiritual gangsters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your New Thought Birthday
April 14, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesBefore New Thought, there was old thought, old beliefs that were shaken and stirred by a God that is always new in each moment. Rev. Jacquie, Rev. Skip, and Faith share those transformative moments of heart-opening a-ha, OMG, and wait, what?! Wow! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Voices of Unity 2.0: Origin Story
April 07, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutesRev. Skip Jennings and Emmy Award-winning artist Faith Rivera join Rev. Jacquie as cohosts on the show! There are those magical moments when the stars align, hearts connect, and something new is born. Hear how the pandemic brought together these three voices of unity, and maybe even discover your own unexpected blessings in such an unexpected time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This Life Is Yours!
March 16, 2021 21:00 - 55 minutesRev. Linda Martella-Whitsett and her daughter Alicia Whitsett have written a brand-new book, This Life Is Yours. They will join Rev. Jacquie on today’s show to talk about the inspirational and empowering ideas in this book: understanding healing, the power of the mind, reinforcing your wholeness, and asking the right questions about who you are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s Good to Be Alive
March 09, 2021 23:00 - 55 minutesRev. Kelly Isola joins Rev. Jacquie to celebrate life, health, and the spiritual tools that help us maintain and increase good living. When life brings us challenges, how do we persist, thrive, and find our way out of apparent darkness? Tune in and tune up in Spirit for this lively conversation! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Little Book for Big Transformations
March 02, 2021 23:00 - 55 minutesSkip Jennings, ordained through Agape International, is a fitness guru of the body and soul. He joins Rev. Jacquie on the show today to talk about transformation, well-being, and a whole lot more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SoulMapping the Sacred Feminine
February 23, 2021 23:00 - 55 minutesDr. Rima Bonario joins Rev. Jacquie on the show to lead us on a profound journey of awakening into personal sovereignty through the power of the queen archetype. Her newest book, The Seven Queendoms: A SoulMap for Embodying Sacred Feminine Sovereignty, is packed with potent and practical teachings that you can use to up-level your life immediately. Be guided through each domain, head and heart, and finally arrive at the gateway to the soul! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...
Thoughts, Emotions, and Reality
February 09, 2021 23:00 - 55 minutesThe third principle of Unity says that we create our experiences through the activity of our thoughts, and more specifically through the sum total of our thoughts and emotions. Rev. Jacquie is joined by Rev. Kelly Isola for a conversation about the power of our thoughts and emotions and how to harness this power! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices