Courage to be Curious with Adina Tovell
179 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhich question will be the one to transform your life, your leadership, and your most precious relationships for the better? After feeling shamefully frustrated at the age of 43 that I could not answer the simple question, ‘What makes you happy,’ I went on a quest to find the answer. I couldn’t locate it in the many books I read, people I talked to, or adventures I pursued. Rather, the answer was revealed over time as I asked myself a simple question again and again and had the willingness and patience to discover the answer. Since that moment, I have embraced Courageous Curiosity as a way of life and this podcast is where I - along with my valued guests - share how we engage with courageous curiosity. It has absolutely transformed our lives, our leadership, and our relationships, and we are excited to see how it will transform yours for the better as well.
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What is Your Story of Transition?
June 25, 2017 11:00 - 15 minutes - 5.79 MBIn today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I talk about the stories that we associate with transition or tell during times of transitions (ours or other people’s transitions), and how we experience the mixed pot of emotions that arise during a transition. As I have often indicated, a transition is natural, as natural as aging, leaves falling, and the earth spinning. It is neither bad nor good. It takes on the characteristics or qualities that we attribute to it. It becomes what it wi...
How to Ride the Roller Coaster of Change and Transition
June 04, 2017 09:30 - 25 minutes - 10.2 MBJust like animals that go into hibernation or trees that become dormant in winter, I have been in a period of quiet which often accompanies a period of transition or reinvention. While I am not yet ready to share the nature of the transition (more to come soon), in today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I do share my tools and strategies for navigating transition. Just a trees lose leaves and then grow them again, waves come in and out, the moon waxes and wanes, we - as humans - ar...
What Does it Mean That We are 99.99% Energy?
April 23, 2017 10:00 - 14 minutes - 6.53 MBIn today’s episode of I Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I go a bit out there. We are familiar with facts like two-thirds of our body is made up of water. Or.... We have 206 bones in our body. But what does it mean that we are 99.99% energy? Actually, that we as humans, and all other matter, are almost all energy! Listen and explore what it means to be an energy being and how understanding this can change your life.
What We are NOT and What We ARE
April 09, 2017 09:00 - 31 minutes - 10.4 MBIf we are not your thoughts, feelings or flesh, what are we? If we are not defined by the roles we play, things we do, or awards we earn, then who are we? The questions are both intriguing and unusual. Join me for today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant when April retreat co-facilitator, Henry Yampolsky and I continue to explore the essence of BEING. In addition to facilitating at Brilliance of Being, Henry brings an eclectic mix of interest in motorcycles, yoga, meditation, mediati...
What are the Qualities of Your Unwounded Heart?
April 02, 2017 10:00 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MBThis episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant may truly be one of the most transformative conversations I have ever been part of. I talk with Dr. Christine Kiesinger, an Integrative Wellness Education & Coach on BEING. What does Being mean? What is our Being? How do we connect with our Being? What is that experience? Christine generously shares why connecting with our being is so extraordinary and how we can begin doing this. You do not want to miss this episode and please share with others. ...
How Does the Way in Which You Invest Your Time Reflect Your Priorities and Values?
March 26, 2017 10:30 - 13 minutes - 6.45 MBIf you acquired a precious artifact, piece of jewelry or rare memorabilia, how would you care for it? Most of us would handle these items with kid gloves, wouldn’t we? We would store or display them in a safe or special place. We would handle with care. We would protect them, wouldn’t we? On today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I get curious about how we handle time. Isn’t time a precious resource? Aren’t our life’s moments finite and irreplaceable? Isn’t our time as precious as ...
What Seeds Will You Plant for This Season of New Beginnings?
March 19, 2017 17:39 - 11 minutes - 5.6 MBToday is the Spring Equinox - the day on which there is an equal amount of light and dark, a pivotal moment as we turn toward a time when the days grow longer (if you are in the northern hemisphere :). Symbolically, the spring is a time of seed planting, new beginnings, and birth. How will you harness the energy of this time? What will you plant for this next season? Join me on today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant for some tools to align with the energy of the Equinox.
How Does Your Relationship With Time Shape Your Life?
March 14, 2017 17:10 - 17 minutes - 8.13 MBTime is so omnipresent in our lives that it is easy to overlook its significance. Many of us struggle with time, race against time, feel oppressed by time, pang for more time, but what does this really mean? Why do we have these experiences? And what do these experiences mean for our lives? In today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, we take a closer look at time and our relationship to it. What is within our control and why it matters in our quest to live happy and fulfilled lives.
How to Make PLAY a Priority
February 26, 2017 10:00 - 17 minutes - 8.17 MBLast week I promised (at least in my post-script) that this week’s podcast would be fun and light. As I mentioned last week, February is typically a challenging month for me. This is why I made a special point of PLAYING BIG this month too. Like many people, I can be known to put PLAY at the bottom of the priority list. But not this month. This month, it rose up…. LITERALLY! Join me for today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, during which I share why things like indoor skydiving ar...
How to Cope with the February Blues
February 19, 2017 10:00 - 17 minutes - 8.2 MBI don’t know about you, but February is typically the most challenging month for me of the year. I know I am not alone because the ‘February Blues’ is actually a thing, especially if you live where it is cold and dark in February. The trees are bare, the air is raw, and for many people, there seems to be a lot of change to cope with. This is why today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, is about coping with discomfort. Whether this discomfort is the result of a relationship challenge,...
How the Expectation Gap (and Valentine’s Day) is Impacting Your Happiness
February 12, 2017 10:00 - 14 minutes - 7 MBValentine’s Day has always been very curious to me. Hallmark created a holiday and the next thing you know, there is a day during the year on which more people than not - whether in a relationship or not - walk around with a faint or very strong feeling of insufficiency and unmet expectations. When the expectation is set all around us about what LOVE is supposed to look like (and this idea is very far from the reality, depth, and complexity of what love is actually like), the result isn’t pr...
How to BE in This New Reality?
February 05, 2017 11:00 - 43 minutes - 24.1 MBAre you feeling affected by the current state of affairs in the country? Do you find yourself wondering how to BE and cope and what to do? In this week’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I muse with Darwin Carlisle and Matt Loftin from the Lofty Darwinism podcast show about how we find our place in this new world we are living in. Join us for this 3-way conversation.
How to Transform Reactions to Responses
January 29, 2017 11:00 - 13 minutes - 6.49 MBDoes life ever make you crazy? Does your job, family, traffic, news ever trigger you, make you feel anxious or get you down? In this week’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant we talk about how to make how you react to the outside world the object of your curiosity. All of us are affected by things from the outside world and the amazing thing is that our reactions can teach us a lot about ourselves as well as helping us find a path to greater contentment. Listen in for tips about how to ...
What is Curious About You?
January 08, 2017 11:00 - 19 minutes - 8.89 MBDo you have the courage? In this week’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant - the first of 2017 - we will be talking about having the courage to be curious! Perhaps you have no idea why the host company of this podcast is called, Courage to be Curious. This week’s episode makes it all clear. Listen in as we explore why Curiosity is one of the foundations of personal growth and why real personal growth is not for the feint of heart! Join us for the journey and gear up for an amazingly br...
The Gift of Feeling Heard
December 25, 2016 10:00 - 16 minutes - 7.53 MBAll month we have been talking about listening and today I want to offer that perhaps the greatest gift we can give to someone else and to ourselves is the gift of feeling heard. In today’s episode, I offer guidance on how you can give this gift in these final days of 2016 - and well beyond, of course. To whom might you want to give the gift of feeling heard by you? Why might you wish to give yourself the gift of feeling heard by you? How might you do this? This is the subject of today’s epi...
The Most Important Listening You Can Do
December 18, 2016 10:00 - 19 minutes - 9.22 MBMost of our listening experiences are oriented outward, but I honestly believe that the most important listening we can do is oriented inward. We look at the galaxies, the seas, the rainforests, and marvel at how complex, wondrous, and rich these environments are, and today I invite you to consider that your inner world, your mind, body, and spirit is equally as complex, rich and wondrous - and absolutely worthy of your curiosity. In today’s episode, I explore WHY we should bother listening ...
What Does it Feel Like to Listen With Your Entire Being?
December 11, 2016 10:00 - 18 minutes - 8.75 MBThe foundation of all relationships is effective communication, and the key to connected communication is being able to really listen. While we hear things all the time, true listening is a highly engaged process; a full being experience. On today’s episode, we delve more deeply into what gets in the way of our really listening to others, what the consequences of this are, and how we can become more engaged and connected through deep listening. www.couragetobecurious.com
Have You Ever Really Listened?
December 04, 2016 10:00 - 16 minutes - 7.7 MBWhen you think about Curiosity, do you think about Questions? I used to think that questions were the primary tool of a curious person … and then I discovered LISTENING! This month, Wonder Your Way to Brilliant is dedicated to episodes on the topic of listening because without the capacity to listen deeply, we cannot truly be curious nor can we wonder our way to brilliant! This first one dedicated to exploring what it really means to listen to yourself and others. At the end, I share a Game ...
How to Place Worthiness at the Center of Your Brilliant Life
November 27, 2016 10:00 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBI honestly believe that no matter how confident any of us seems, none of us is without a gap or fracture in our sense of worthiness. We all experience doubts in our sense of self-worth and value. I also believe that the world needs us to own our value and strengthen our sense of worthiness so we can bring our fullest self to this world. The world needs our contributions, gifts and ways of seeing the world. This is why this week’s episode is dedicated to offering a tool for tending to the str...
Feeling Unworthy and Incomplete in Relationship
November 13, 2016 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBCan a relationship make us feel worthy or complete and should that be our expectation? Never having learned how to cultivate our own worthiness, it totally makes sense that many of us adopt the paradigm that we are a ‘part’ and we can partner with another ‘part’ (hence ‘partner’) to become whole. But is that really what is supposed to happen? Is that how we become whole? Is this the function of relationship? In today’s episode, I explore and challenge this paradigm and offer up a new one t...
What is the Experience of Feeling Worthy?
November 06, 2016 11:00 - 11 minutes - 5.58 MBFor over 40 years, I suffered from a chronic lack of worthiness. I was exhausted, felt persistently empty, and could not offer the kind of love I knew was inside of me. My guess is, I am not alone. A lack of worthiness is at the root of so much unhappiness and shows up in myriad insidious ways in our lives. If any of this resonates with you, join me this for this episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant in which I explore why we feel so unworthy and how we can approach a deeper and lasting se...
What Makes Unhappiness so Seductive?
October 26, 2016 16:14 - 12 minutes - 6.17 MBWhat IF - to live a brilliant life - all we had to do was to learn how to sift the depleting energies into more joyful, loving and peaceful ones? Would we learn? Would we be committed? would we invest our energies to grow in this way - or is our unhappiness too seductive? Join me for today's episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant and let's explore together.
What to Do With All the Fear, Shame and Anxiety?
October 18, 2016 11:48 - 13 minutes - 6.37 MBAs much as we would like to think that we can free ourselves, it is clear that we will never eliminate fear, shame, and anxiety from our lives. They are part of the human experience. A word, gesture, or interaction can trigger one of these emotions in a split second, and at other times, we can spend most of a day, week or even month + steeped in these emotions. So if they are not going away, and we want to live a life that is present and inspired, what can we do with them? On today's episode...
How Do You Want to FEEL By the End of the Day?
October 13, 2016 01:23 - 11 minutes - 5.44 MBOur To DO lists are long and by the end of the day we may have checked off a lot of boxes but yet not feel as though we have really engaged in anything meaningful or important. And yet, if we experience this again and again, why can’t we stop it? On today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, I explore what makes our TO DO lists so powerful and how we can integrate our BEING selves and DOING selves and feel more fulfilled.
If this challenging time was here to deliver a gift, what would the gift be?
October 06, 2016 00:16 - 30 minutes - 17.4 MBEach of us encounters times when things are not going right for us, we feel overwhelmed, we are sure the sky is falling or that the floor is crumbling beneath us, or that we simply are not ok in one way or another. It may relate to money, health, job, family, personal sense of worthiness, … There are so many things that can knock us off our feet and drag us under. On today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, I offer some insights and tools for navigating these difficult times. We ca...
What impact can you have on improving education for all young people?
September 28, 2016 19:17 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MBWe all ask questions all the time, but are we asking the Right Questions? In this podcast with Luz Santana, Co-Director of The Right Questions Institute (RQI), we explore how learning to craft and developing the confidence to ask high-quality questions is the foundation for self-advocacy and rich learning. Using a process known as the Question Formulation technique (QFT), RQI has empowered thousands of students, parents, patients and citizens in a wide range of roles to literally Wonder Thei...
What is most unique and beautiful about your child [or you] and how can you accentuate that uniqueness?
September 21, 2016 23:41 - 37 minutes - 17.3 MBAll of us went through school and some of us met with more success than others, but how many of us ever really understood the purpose of schooling? The purpose of schooling has changed since the first grammar school opened in America in 1635, but for the last 100+ years, since the founding of the Association of American Universities, there has been a clear focus in K-12 education on preparing students for college and career. We have been focused through testing and success measures on succes...
If ‘good grades’ were not the measure of success, what would be?
September 06, 2016 14:44 - 24 minutes - 11.2 MBWith the start of the 2016 - 2017 school year upon us, students, teachers, and parents begin or resume play of this ‘Game of School.’ Whether this is a game you love or one that resembles the Robin Williams movie Jumanji (the game that trapped the players until they played until the bitter end), today’s podcast suggests that it is nonetheless a game we invented and we must treat it as such. As an educator, I am passionate about learning AND I recognize that school as a learning institution ...
If playing more could guarantee more joy, productivity and success, how would you rearrange your schedule?
August 25, 2016 18:20 - 15 minutes - 10.3 MBIf playing more could GUARANTEE you more joy, productivity, and success, how would you rearrange your schedule? We have been exploring play all month and I am completely convinced that PLAY is a critical component of a joyful, love-filled, productive and successful life. What is play? What does it look like for you? How do you give yourself permission play? Where do you find the time? Well, listen in. Today on Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, I share my thoughts and musings based upon...