Summary
This week, Jodi speaks with Pearl Lopian.  Pearl is an EFT Practitioner. Jodi and Pearl chat about how tapping can be used to unpack tramas and change one's perceptions for a better life. Tune in to also hear about how tapping can also lead to healthier relationships with other people, especially one’s children. 

About Our Guest
Pearl Lopian is a certified EFT (Emotional freedom technique) practitioner and the Executive Director of The EFT Tapping Institute. She specializes in anxiety, trauma, weight issues and surrogate work for parents to better their relationship with their children.

Show Notes

5:28 What is tapping?
“When they [people] are tapping, changing brainwave states into the more hypnotic areas, and we get to see what is going on in our deeper mind that makes us behave the way we do.”

7:30 Clearing the memory
“We take memories and we move them to healthier places in the brain so that we no longer feel them, there's no need to still feel them in our body…we feel better, perceptions start to change.”

9:34 Unpacking  the perceptions around  clients' issues before a tapping session
“When we want something we say it, it is really important to articulate what we want then our brain wants to make it happen for us,we say the words that we want and then we use the body to notice how the body reacts to those sentences…no [we] don’t go into perception…we are accessing it in a different way

12:43 Following the breath  and finding success in something you love
“It's just never too late to follow a calling or make an impact and really and really feel very good about where you are and what you're doing.”

Connect with Pearl Lopian:
Website: efttappinginstitute.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pearllopian/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pearl.lopian
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWcBgwaDjEChxhtJ_wBvt0w

Email Jodi:
jodi@loveadventuremom.com

Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Guest: Pearl Lopian
Editor: Brandon Martinez

Here at the To (Mom) Life podcast, we are so lucky to have college interns who join our editing team each semester. These individuals do the behind the scenes work and work on the very content that is put out live for listeners like you to enjoy!

As our previous cohort's program wrapped up, we wanted to honor the interns from our spring 2022 semester program. Tune in to hear the interns reflect on their time with us.

This is a special episode. Listen in... You might learn something you didn't expect. 

Let Jodi know what you thought!

Featured Interns in alphabetical order:
Autumn Michaels
Gabrielle Topping
Iris Nelson 

In today's episode, Jodi speaks with Rivka Malka Perlman. The two discuss the what it means to be modest and why it matters. Rivka Malika shares how presenting oneself with modesty can still allow one to be beautiful inside and out.

Connect with Rivka at:
https://rivkamalka.com/

Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Guest: Rivka Malka Perlman
Editor: Max Suib

Episode Summary: On this weeks installment of the To (Mom) Life Podcast, Jodi sits down to give some reflections on the holiday of Passover as  well as her series of workshops for her program Power up for Pesach. She dives into an array of topics such as the importance and strength of sisterhood between Jewish women. Jodi also speaks about her journey putting together Power up For Pesach.


Email Jodi at: jodi@loveadventuremom.com
Power Up for Pesach: powerupforpesach.com
Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Editors: Max Suib & Autumn Michels 

Summary:

This week, Jodi chats with Devorah Sisso about fostering positivity in your home. As a professional motivator and life coach, Devorah offers key insights about the dangers of toxic negativity and offers up her own experience with overcoming a negative mindset. With all the stress and business of motherhood, Devorah explains how to conquer those feelings through gratitude.

About Our Guest: 

Devorah is a Torah Educator, Motivational Speaker, and Life Coach.

Show Notes: 

1:18 Reinforcing positive habits in your children 

“We need to stay away from negativity because that negativity comes as energy and that energy sticks, and we end up seeing the world from a negative lens.”

6:54 Fostering a positive mindset

“Let’s get real, your kids are a copy paste of what you are. You and your husband, that’s what they see, that’s what they are.”

9:36 Devora’s journey overcoming negativity

“The steps of breakthrough are when you understand that gratitude is a must. You have to stop, every single day, and you have to sit yourself down and you have to do this. "

12:11 Talking to your children about Lashon Hara (speaking badly about others)

 “It’s crucial that first and foremost, that your children know they can talk to you about anything, you’re literally a one stop shop for anything. Now, you’re gonna navigate them just like you navigate them with screen time and sugar and all that. You’re gonna navigate them in the way they talk.”

Follow Devorah:

Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gcIAgT

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/torahbydevorah

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devorah_sisso

Email Jodi:

jodi@loveadventuremom.com

Credits:

Host: Jodi Fried

Guest: Devorah Sisso

Editor: Gabrielle Topping and Iris Nelson

Summary: 
In this week’s episode, Jodi chats with Chani Schreibhand, the founder of www.theupliftmagazine.com, about Chani’s experience creating her magazine. Chani personally speaks about how this magazine was formed and how she used her personal experiences of witnessing women helping other women to feel inspired to create this magazine. In this episode Chani addresses how she prepares for Pesach and what she values about this time. 

 Show Notes: 

 6:22 Up-lift magazine
“The uplift is about reaching out to women, I would say from the age of 35, and up. Women who are in the stage of life that have maybe a very young child at home, then a teenager, or late teens getting married, the first child getting married, or the grandmother who is at the stage of her menopause, and that stage of life. And it's a conversation that you would have about your health, about your kitchen, about doing Pesach about anything that you would like to ask a friend.”  

11:13 Why there aren’t no images of people in the magazine
“ I really feel that when you see a person you right away judge the person … we right away make an assumption even though we might not want to but we automatically do that. And I feel very much that articles speak for themselves and we don't have to know who wrote it.”

 13:23 How did uplift evolve?
“We had a charity, it was called ‘informal project’ and it was to do with education and homes and counseling … I started this Whatsapp group and the Whatsapp group was just for the women…but there's a lot of people who are not on Whatsapp or have no social media at all … and that's when I said, let's make a magazine”

19:44 Some of the most inspirational stories Chani came across
“This woman came to my house, and I saw that she wasn't happy. And I asked her, you know, what's the matter? She started talking and she had just experienced a really horrible thing with IVF. And she had lost the baby on that day … I said, I'm really sad. You're really sad. We'll give each other a breath. And let's hope that you'll see goodness, I'll see goodness, and we'll be fine. And it just all came together … that was really an amazing thing of how a woman could be good to another woman and how we could connect.” 

 22:22 Core ideals of Uplift
“It was meant to be a space that another woman should recognize your need for some space … It was all little things of women just reaching out to other women.” 

 24:41 Pieces of advice for ladies listening and preparing for Pesach
“I think you have to remember that the main thing about making a Seder, in any Pesach, is not about the cleaning. And it's not about the cooking. And it's not about making your fancy, fancy fancy. It's about the memory that you're giving your children” 

Resource:
Uplift Magazine: www.theupliftmagazine.com 

Connect with Chani Schreibhand
Email at chani@theupliftmagazine.com 
Instagram: Theupliftmagazine

Email Jodi:
jodi@loveadventuremom.com

Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Guest: Chani Schreibhand
Editor: Autumn Michels & Max Suib

Summary: 

In this week’s episode, Jodi chats with Chana Mason who is a life coach and author. Her books are Hold That Thought and Inner Voices. In this episode, Chana shares how her childhood trauma shaped her worldview and how she has worked towards healing.

Show Notes:
2:51 Chana’s mom was held at gunpoint
“There was a knock at the door and five armed men barged into the house. They had my mom at gunpoint for two hours and they were trying to figure out how to embezzle money. This was a real thing that happened in Colombia. My family knew of people who had been kidnapped and never returned. They were targeting our family. They knew everything about us.” 

 4:51 Fleeing the country
“Once people follow you and know everything about you, you basically have to flee the country. Within 48 hours, we fled the country. My father still had his factory in Colombia so every single time he had to go back he made sure his routine was different so people couldn't keep track of him.”

 5:35 Traumatized and no therapy
“None of us got therapy. None of us got help. I came to the conclusion that the world wasn’t a safe place. I had nightmares. Everywhere I went, I was scared I would be kidnapped or raped. There was so much anxiety and eventually depression.” 

 9:30 Healing
“I’m a person who lives with soul and that consciousness was deep within me. Having people reflect back to me a higher level of spiritual consciousness was huge.”

 11:47 Questioning beliefs
“In both of my books, I teach people tools of how to look at the stories, beliefs and thoughts that they have about a specific situation or themselves or life in general and question those beliefs to shift to a different mindset.”  

 14:12 The Slow Poke Technique
“Slow things down and figure out what the moment was before you got upset.”

 20:55 Connecting to God
“Deciding to connect to God no matter what, even when life looks bleak.” 

 22:22 Children need to learn how to heal trauma too
“Kids aren’t good at interpersonal relationships when they’re younger but they get better at it every day.”

 23:18 Distancing yourself from false beliefs
“In questioning the truthfulness of that belief, it takes you a step away from it and it allows you to realize that it doesn’t belong to you. Embedded in that belief are lessons to teach you.” 

Chana's Links:
Website: chanamason.com 

Books: chanamason.com/books/

Other Links:

Painless Pesach Challenge: bitly.com/painless2022

Organized Jewish Life Planner: https:/amzn.to/3uZs8cJ 

Email Jodi: jodi@loveadventuremom.com

Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Guest: Chana Mason
Editor: Gabrielle Topping and Iris Nelson

Email Jodi at: jodi@loveadventuremom.com

Rebekah Saltzman's Painless Pesach Decluttering Challenge at: bitly.com/painless2022

Power Up for Pesach: powerupforpesach.com

Credits:

Host: Jodi Fried

Editor: Max Suib