Do you slog through your day like it's something to get through? Or do you seek to add small bits of enjoyment to each moment—even the mundane yet necessary tasks of life? We all know life is short. So make those low vibe, annoying and sometimes menial to-do's at work and home slightly more playful, and perhaps even joyful.

Join Amanda and her friend and Castle Rock neighbor, Acey Holmes, speaker, facilitator, researcher, and the founder of Playful Work Design, for a lively conversation about what it looks like to turn the grueling spreadsheet into something stimulating, interesting, and if you're creative enough, entertaining.

The friends also get into:

🔥 The definition of play & how it has very little to do with fun and games

🔥 The science behind play & the feel-good chemicals released when we enter a flow state

🔥 The importance of finding alternative and creative ways to approach work that is conducive to your learning style

🔥Acey's original template for a Playful Work Design in the workplace

🔥 Simple ways to reframe the most unenjoyable task into something interesting, making you more willing to do it

🔥 How play ignites your cognitive ability allowing for greater memory, critical thinking, and nonlinear thinking

🔥 The different types of play identities

Acey draws from neuroscience, psychology, and her background as a speech-language pathologist and educator to help organizations create environments where people can think more creatively, connect more meaningfully, and work more sustainably.

Her work explores the relationship between play, flow, resilience, belonging, and well-being, challenging the idea that engagement comes from working harder or doing more. Instead, she helps individuals and teams rediscover the conditions that allow humans to thrive.

Acey has spoken for organizations, conferences, and leadership groups across the country, including TEDx, SHRM, and industry associations. She is passionate about helping adults reconnect with curiosity, possibility, and the parts of themselves that often get left behind in the pursuit of productivity.

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Can you feel it? Has the energy of collective awakening reached you? Are you curious about those nudges you're feeling, the signs you're getting, and all this consciousness talk? Yes? Then this is the episode for you!

Join Amanda and her guest, Vialet B. Rayne, Spiritual Educator, speaker, author, podcast host, and psychic medium for a high-level conversation about the mass awakening happening right now and how you can step into what you are feeling called to become.

These two spiritual friends also discuss:

🔥 Signs that you are on the cusp of an awakening

🔥 Why it's scary to step into awakening and how to move through the fear

🔥 What it looks like to step into awakening vs. avoiding it (escapism)

🔥 Questions you might start asking yourself during an awakening

🔥 What it feels like in your body when something feels right or wrong

🔥 The egos place in awakening and how to put it in its place when it tries to convince you to stay safe

🔥 The importance of spiritual teachers keeping their egos in check and remaining teachable and humble

Vialet B Rayne is the founder of Discover Your Spiritual Gifts and Sacred Temple Mystery School. With a background that bridges higher education, business leadership, intuitive development, and energy healing, she has dedicated her life to helping individuals awaken their spiritual gifts, deepen their connection to Spirit, and live with greater purpose and authenticity. Vialet is the host of the award-winning Sacred Magic Podcast, recipient of the 2024 COVR Gold Award, and has guided thousands of students through classes, workshops, certifications, and mystery school teachings focused on consciousness, healing, intuition, and spiritual empowerment. Her mission is simple: to create sacred spaces where people feel seen, empowered, connected, and supported on their spiritual journey.

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Has the loss of someone or something close to you radically changed your life? Has it changed the way you view death and/or the spirit world? Do you believe that "Grief sucks but life doesn't have to?"

Kera Sanchez, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Get Griefy Magazine does! Join Amanda and this rock star changemaker for a great conversation about how even though loss events can be brutal, you don't have to suffer forever—in fact, you can grieve and laugh at the same time!

Their fun and lively conversation also explores:

🔥Why creators need to take risks that may trigger people and say things that result in backlash in order to stay true to our mission

🔥The serendipitous spirit-led moments that occur right before a person dies—they, or you, say something or do something that is a bit out of character yet necessary

🔥How tragic events can serve us if we choose to attach a personal meaning to them

🔥How to recognize a nudge to do something in alignment with your soul

🔥Spiritual ideas around grief and the afterlife are now being discussed in real and relatable language and the importance of people in the grief space being consciously aware of how the messages are received by the mainstream

🔥The difference between toxic positivity and hope

🔥The need for a different type of grief support as time passes vs. the acute phase, and respecting everyone's individual place on the continuum of grief.

Following the unexpected death of her mother in 2022, Kera Sanchez channeled her personal experience with loss into meaningful resources for others navigating grief. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Get Griefy Magazine and the Get Griefy Small Business Collective, she is the also the author of two guided journals, Legacy Letters and No Legacy Lost, both created to help individuals preserve memories, honor loved ones and process their grief journeys.

A former high school educator, Kera now dedicates her work to grief advocacy and education. She is also the founder of Grief U for EDU, a professional development program designed to equip secondary educators with the tools and understanding needed to support grieving students and colleagues.

In recognition of her impact, Kera was named the 2025 People's Choice Grief Educator of the Year by Talk Death. Through her writing, teaching, and advocacy, she champions a simple but powerful philosophy: grief sucks—life doesn't have to.

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