Episode 167 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell

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• The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.
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0:04:05 Interview with Michelle Walters

• Michelle is a voracious imagination advocate, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and AI Advocate. She writes and speaks on themes associated with the subconscious, self-improvement and personal growth. Michelle has blended her passion for marketing with hypnosis and AI to create "MakeMyHypno", a first-of-its-kind custom hypnosis app that makes you a personalized audio recording delivered to you inbox in a matter of minutes.

0:55:34 Episode Closing Thoughts

Connections:

Michelle Walters

• Website: https://michellewalters.net/

Toward A Better Life

• Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/
• Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

Episode 166 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell

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• The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.
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• • Be a part of the show by sharing your prose, music, poetry, or storytelling. Just send them to me kevin@towardabetterlife.com. If it's audio, please send it as an MP3 file.
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0:04:52 Interview with Belinda Coker

• Belinda is an Australian hiker, writer, and educator who helps women rebuild confidence through practical adventure and responsible travel. She has completed solo hikes from Australia's Red Centre to crossing Greenland's Arctic Circle, experiences that shaped her belief that confidence grows through action, not theory. Through her platforms, Soul Treader and The House Sitting Collective, she teaches how structure, trust, and responsibility create genuine freedom and stability in life.

1:08:48 Episode Closing Thoughts

Connections:

Belinda Coker

• Website: https://soultreader.com/
• Contact Belinda: https://soultreader.com/contact-us/
• Free Resource Booklet: https://soultreader.com/hike-it-right/
• 10% Off House Sitting Courses - hstravel: https://housesittingcollective.com/

Toward A Better Life

• Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/
• Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

Episode 165 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell

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0:01:10 The Door with Spiral Dance (Used by Permission)

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• The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.
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0:08:24 Interview with Dana O'Driscoll

• Dana currently serves as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America. A lifelong student of nature spirituality and druidry she has been practicing for 18 years. Dana has authored multiple books that focus on nature spirituality and neopagan practices through the lenses of reverence, respect, and direct action on behalf of the living earth. Her writings include Ecospirituality for the 21st Century, which she co-authored withNate Summers. She also wrote Land Healing: Physical, Metaphysical, and Ritual Approaches to Healing the Earth, I have also painted and published Oracle/Tarot Deck and Books: Tarot of Trees, Plant Spirit Oracle, and TreeLore Oracle. A few years ago Dana wrote Sacred Actions: Living the Wheel of the Year through Earth-Centered Sustainable Practices and the Sacred Actions Journal.

1:10:30 - Raise The Flag of Green - Damh the Bard (Used with Permission)

1:14:26 - Episode Closing Thoughts

Connections:

Dana O'Driscoll

• Website: https://thedruidsgarden.com/
• Contact Dana: https://thedruidsgarden.com/about-the-druid/contact/
• Sacred Actions: https://thedruidsgarden.com/sacredactions-4/
• Sacred Actions Journal: https://thedruidsgarden.com/sacred-actions-journal/

Ancient Order of Druids In America

• Website: https://aoda.org/
• Contact: https://aoda.org/contact/

Spiral Dance

• Website: https://spiraldance.com.au/

Damh The Bard

• Website: https://www.paganmusic.co.uk/

Toward A Better Life

• Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/
• Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

Episode 164 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell

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• The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.
• Submissions:
• • Be a part of the show by sharing your prose, music, poetry, or storytelling. Just send them to me kevin@towardabetterlife.com. If it's audio, please send it as an MP3 file.
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• • AND Spread the word and keep following for magical insights into Earth Based Spirituality, self development, and self care.
• Free Discovery Call
• • By the way, if you'd like to dive into self-care, self development, or distance shamanic work, drop me a line kevin@towardabetterlife.com for a free discovery call.

0:04:52 Interview with Michael Dorfman

• Michael is an 83-year-old certified Health & Nutrition Life Coach, investigative author, and thriving example of plant-based longevity. Based in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, he has spent the last 17+ years living—and coaching—on how to age vibrantly without chronic disease.

  Michael adopted a vegetarian diet in 1976, transitioned to a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle in 2008, and earned his certification in Plant-Based Nutrition in 2019. His book, The Thriving Vegan, exposes how the food and pharmaceutical industries mislead the public—and how individuals can reclaim their health.

  In his latest book, The Longevity Wellness Revolution, Michael shares practical tools from the Blue Zones, as well as his discoveries, including breathwork, intermittent fasting, stress reduction, and more. He's passionate about showing that it's never too late to live with energy, purpose, and joy.

1:03:04 Episode Closing Thoughts

Connections:

Michael Dorfman

• Website: https://longevitywellnessrevolution.com/
• Contact Michael: https://longevitywellnessrevolution.com/contact-me/
• Free Guidebook: https://longevitywellnessrevolution.com/guidebook/

Toward A Better Life

• Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/
• Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

Episode 163 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell

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0:00:41 Liminal by Nymphya (Used By Permission)

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• The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.
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• • Be a part of the show by sharing your prose, music, poetry, or storytelling. Just send them to me kevin@towardabetterlife.com. If it's audio, please send it as an MP3 file.
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• Free Discovery Call
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0:10:08 Celebrate Spring with Kevin Pennell

• Kevin Pennell is the Podcast Host and Producer of Toward A Better Life a Licensed Massage Therapist, Hypnotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner, and a Bardic member of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids. He's also an Usui Reiki Master, and Instructor for various self-help and continuing education workshops with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spurgeon College. As a healing facilitator, he devotes his life to being a "hollow bone" or tool to bring about "Compassionate Healing". Kevin also writes, honing his love of writing through journalism. As an author, he applied his biographical and spiritual insights to complete the work Two Feathers: Spiritual Seed Planter that shares the life and spirit of Ken Two Feathers.

0:22:09 Guided Meditation for Celebrating Spring

0:36:36 Almost Through the Dark with Emrys Abner from Mac and Cheese (Used By Permission)

0:41:18 Episode Closing Thoughts

Connections:

Nymphya

• Music and More: https://nymphya.com/home-mobile/

Emrys Abner

• Music and More: https://cheesebrowmusic.com/

Toward A Better Life

• Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/
• Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

Episode 162 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell

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• The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.
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0:04:08 Interview with Ranbir Puar

• Ranbir is a TEDx Speaker, Author, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Life Strategies Coach, and Nervous System Architect and Certified HeartMath® Coach who has been helping adults and children transform their lives since 2009. She blends neuroscience, somatic regulation, neurofeedback, and mindset training to rewire both mind and body, creating breakthroughs where traditional coaching or talk therapy often plateau. She is also a licensed provider of the Integrated Learning System (Focus), the Rest & Restore Protocol, and the Safe & Sound Protocol, providing her clients with access to cutting-edge tools that accelerate transformation.

  Ranbir is a 20-Time Staff Pick on Insight Timer, the world's largest community of meditators, and has spoken at global parenting events such as the Mindful World Parenting Summit alongside Eckhart Tolle and Dr. Shefali. She is the creator of the popular Today I Practice life strategies app and has been featured in publications around the world. Please welcome Ranbir Puar as we discuss Life Rhythms on this episode of Toward A Better Life.

1:05:44 Episode Closing Thoughts

Connections:

Ranbir Puar

• Website: https://freewithin.me/
• HeartMath® Tools: https://store.heartmath.org/emwave-pro.html
• Work with Ranbir: https://freewithin.me/work-with-me/
• Further Leanring Options: https://www.innerchampion.me/

Toward A Better Life

• Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/
• Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

Episode 161 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell

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• The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.
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0:04:40 Interview with William Gadea

• William Gadea is a Peruvian-American author, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist practitioner. He has written ARROW: The Power and Poison of Story, which explores how storytelling shapes our minds, our sense of self, and our happiness. Drawing on neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and personal experience, William looks at how the stories we tell can both heal and hinder us - and how awareness of this process can help us live with more clarity and compassion. He is also the creator of What Is Mind?, a YouTube channel about consciousness.

1:03:24 Episode Closing Thoughts

Connections:

William Gadea

• Website: https://www.williamgadea.com/
• YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@whatismind-williamgadea
• Contact William: https://www.williamgadea.com/contact

Toward A Better Life

• Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/
• Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/

Episode 160 Toward A Better Life with Kevin Pennell

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• The podcast that features like-minded people sharing stories, ideas, and activities, on what we can do to generate a Better Life individually and collectively.
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• • Be a part of the show by sharing your prose, music, poetry, or storytelling. Just send them to me kevin@towardabetterlife.com. If it's audio, please send it as an MP3 file.
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• Free Discovery Call
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0:04:22 Interview with Faith Spencer

• Faith Spencer, is a certified "Happy for No Reason" trainer and author of "The Oneness Guide for Today: A Book of Insight for Young Women"—a unique and timely book for teen girls and young women navigating pressure, perfectionism, and social media stress. Her work helps young people shift from ego-driven striving to soul-deep connection by exploring the science and spirituality of oneness. Faith is here to share powerful tools for self-acceptance, inner peace, and authentic living. Granted, the focus of her book is connecting with teens and young women, yet, after reading her book, I can confidently say her book, The Oneness Guide is a great guide for everyone! Won't you please welcome, Faith to Toward A Better Life!

0:59:54 Episode Closing Thoughts

Connections:

Faith Spencer

• Website: https://faithspencer.com/
• Faith's Book: https://faithspencer.com/oneness-guide/
• Contact Faith: https://faithspencer.com/contact/

Toward A Better Life

• Website: https://towardabetterlife.com/
• Kevin Pennell: https://towardabetterlife.com/contact/