The Mindful Living

We're good at moving through the day. Meetings, messages, the small fires we keep putting out. Somewhere in it, we lose touch with our own inner voice, not the one that schedules, but the one that knows.

Ellen Edmondson joins Sana to talk about reconnecting with that inner truth, and finding balance from the inside out, especially when life feels too full to hear yourself think.

About the Guest:

Ellen Edmondson is an author and intuition coach, and a former senior executive who left that path to follow her inner guidance. She wrote...

We spend most of our lives running. Toward something, from something, or just to stay in place. Somewhere in it we forget the simplest thing: harmony was never meant to be earned, only returned to.

Polis Xinaris joins Sana to slow down and ask what it feels like to live in tune with yourself. Harmony, he says, is not a calm life; it's living close to your values through whatever comes.

About the Guest:

Polis Xinaris is a mind, body, and spirit performance coach based in Cyprus, a Master Reiki practitioner, and a...

Most of us have tried to change through sheer willpower, made the lists and the promises, and ended up back where we started, quietly disappointed. This conversation asks a gentler question: what if the behavior was never the real problem?

Erik Fredrickson shares 17 years on his own path out of addiction, and what it taught him about living intentionally: change is built in small daily habits, and in listening to what sits beneath the patterns we try to outrun.

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Erik Fredrickson is a life and recovery coach, 17 years on hi...

This is for anyone quietly carrying a healing they keep trying to force. What happens when your old worldview stops fitting the life you are living?

Host Sana sits with Will and Karen, a couple who entered healing from opposite doors. Their invitation is gentle: stop fighting, start listening, and let your spiritual awakening unfold at its own pace.

About the Guests:

Will Rodriguez and Karen Endsley, married nearly twenty years, co-host The Skeptic Metaphysicians, a top 1% spirituality show. Will arrived as the skeptic and former TV executive; Karen was always open to...

There's a quiet loneliness we rarely name: you can hold a room and say all the right things at work, then come home and feel like a stranger in your own conversations.

Award-winning author Sandy Gerber shares why connection starts with understanding yourself, the emotional needs that drive us, and simple tools to self-regulate so you can respond instead of react.

About the Guest:

Sandy Gerber is a TEDx speaker and best-selling author of Emotional Magnetism, named a top global guru in communication. She teaches emotionally intelligent communication for work and home.

ou roll up the mat and for a few minutes the world feels softer. Then, between the car and the inbox, it slips away. How do we carry that peace into the loud parts of the day?

Leadership coach and yoga teacher Crystal Bell shows how yoga lives far beyond the 60-minute class. Through the Yamas and Niyamas, it becomes a way of treating others, and ourselves, all day.

About the Guest:

Crystal Bell is a leadership coach, longtime yoga teacher and studio owner, and corporate executive who brings the philosophy of yoga...

The body knows things before the mind does, the tightness before we admit we're overwhelmed, the calm we feel only when we stop to notice. What if happiness isn't something to chase, but to feel?

Positive psychologist Max Weigand shares his framework of psychosomatic intelligence, why true happiness is felt in the body, and gentle ways to raise your everyday baseline.

About the Guest:

Max Weigand is a positive psychologist, former competitive runner, and founder of Psychosomatic Intelligence (PSQ). He draws on neuroscience, psychology, and somatic practice to help people feel and perform...

What if happiness isn't waiting on the other side of the promotion, the move, or life finally settling down? What if the part of you that says "I'll be happy when…" is the very thing standing between you and the joy already quietly present?

Former doctor turned opera singer and coach Ulrika Torquato joins Sana to explore happiness not as something we achieve, but as something we notice. A gentle conversation about chasing approval, the difference between gratitude and appreciation, and learning to taste your own ordinary, remarkable life.

About the Guest:

Ulrika To...

Listener Note: This episode discusses addiction and recovery. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to a qualified professional or a helpline in your country. Support is available.

Sometimes the moment that changes everything doesn't look like a moment at all. It looks like the same weekday, the same empty glass, the same quiet promise that tomorrow will be different. And then, one day, something shifts.

Brittany Peeler shares her path from 17 years of active addiction to nearly three years of sobriety: the fear she carried, the podcast that planted a...

We meditate. We journal. We notice our breath. We have done some of the inner work, or at least we have started it. And still, when Monday morning comes and we sit down at the desk, something does not feel like ours. The awareness is there. The alignment isn't. So what lives in that gap between knowing yourself and actually building a life that reflects what you know?

In this episode of The Mindful Living, global impact investor and purpose strategist Florian Kemmerich joins Sana for a deeply human, gently confronting conversation about vocation, the inner child...

We talk about presence constantly. It is on mugs, in captions, at the top of wellness articles. And yet most of us spend our days somewhere else entirely: mentally replaying the past or quietly dreading the future, while the only moment that is actually real slips by unnoticed. So why is something that sounds so natural so genuinely difficult to do?

In this slow, grounding conversation on the Mindful Living Show, host Sana sits with Safra Turner, a holistic guide who works with people on the art of returning to themselves. Together they explore why the modern...

Have you ever made a decision and felt something quiet inside you, almost like a whisper, telling you the answer before your mind caught up? Most of us learn to talk ourselves out of that feeling. We call it irrational. We override it with logic, opinions, fear. But what if that quiet knowing is the most honest part of you?

In this slow, honest conversation on The Mindful Living, host Sana sits with Cameron McLean, a UK-based psychic medium and intuitive guide, to explore what it really means to live by your own intuition instead of someone...

If you've ever wondered why stress, urgency, or that low hum of anxiety keeps finding its way back to you, even after all the healing work, this conversation is for you. Kristen Crabtree opens up a reframe of emotional sobriety that goes deeper than thoughts. It goes into the body itself.

In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits with Kristen as she shares how her body became chemically familiar with survival, and how naming that addiction, rather than blaming herself for it, opened the door to real change. A slow, honest conversation about trauma...

When we think about our hardest moments, we usually remember them as pain, loss, or uncertainty. We rarely consider that those moments may not have been an ending at all, but the quiet beginning of something we had not yet found. Not a silver lining. Not a tidy lesson. Something real, that could only have come from going all the way through.

Host Sana sits with Dr. Holly Porter, transformational leader, 17-time best-selling author, and founder of the International Retreat Association. After surviving a 70-day near-death experience during COVID, including two intubations and weeks on a ventilator...

We chase the next number, the next milestone, the next round. And somewhere in all that chasing, we forget to arrive. This conversation is for anyone who has been moving so fast they have started to lose touch with who is doing the moving.

Damon Flowers spent two decades scaling businesses while quietly studying his own mind. In this episode, he shares the moment that changed everything, what he has learned about why we run ourselves down, and a simple, sustainable practice for going inward, so the rest of life can grow outward.

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There is a conversation happening inside you right now. It has been happening all day. And for most high-achievers, it is not a kind one. Not because they are unkind people, but because nobody ever taught them to notice it.

In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits down with Stephen McConnell, founder of the Growth Myndset Initiative, to explore the often-invisible link between how we speak to ourselves and how sustainable our leadership actually becomes. From the journaling habit that started as curiosity and turned into a practice of self-honesty, to the simple system...

Most of us have been taught to manage pain. To push through it. To get to the other side as quickly as we can. But there is another way, quieter and far less rushed, that begins with stopping long enough to ask the body what it has been trying to say all along.

Sana sits with TEDx speaker and energetic healer Pearly Montagu for a slow, tender conversation about presence, grief, and the small, daily rituals that bring a person back to themselves. They explore the language of the body, the gentle weight of generational stories we...

There is a quieter kind of stuck. The kind that settles in after the courses, the coaches, the books, the breath practices. The kind that whispers, maybe the answer was never going to be out there. This Mindful Living conversation is a soft place to land if any part of that sentence feels like yours.

Sana sits with TEDx speaker and decoder Natalie Bouchard for a slow, honest conversation about what it looks like to come home to yourself after years of seeking outside. Together, they explore inner authority, the wisdom hidden inside life's harder seasons, and...

Most of us were taught how to earn money, and maybe how to save it. But the deeper conversation — what money actually means to us, how it shapes our choices, and how it can quietly run our lives if we're not paying attention — that one rarely gets addressed.

In this episode of the Mindful Living podcast, Dr. Jacob Guidi, Account Director at Thrive Benefits Group and a Doctor of Musical Arts, brings a rare and refreshing perspective to financial wellness. Drawing on his journey from concert cellist to financial professional, Jacob explores the invisible emotional architecture we buil...

Separation does not just change your address. It changes the ground beneath you. And if you are a parent, it changes the ground beneath your children too, no matter how carefully you try to shield them from the tremors. The question most parents quietly carry through this season is rarely how do I survive this? It is the harder, more tender one: how do I make sure my children are okay when I am barely keeping myself together?

In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits with Jacintha Field — counsellor, art therapist, breathwork facilitator, and fo...

So much of mindfulness is taught in the language of softening. Slow down. Let go. Breathe through it. And yes, all of that is true, and all of that matters. But there is another part of a balanced life that we rarely give language to: that steady inner core that holds when life pushes you hard.

In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits with Eric Hoffman — a former trial attorney turned author and founder — to explore grit not as armor, not as aggression, but as a quiet, rooted form of self-respect. They talk about why...

Have you ever felt a quiet ache inside, a longing you couldn't name, and wondered if something was wrong with you? This conversation is for anyone who has spent years chasing worth, significance, or validation, only to find themselves still searching. Tom Anderson brings a grounding perspective: what if that longing isn't a flaw, but the very beginning of coming home to yourself?

In this episode of the Mindful Living Podcast, Tom and host Sana explore how the story of creation, seen not just as religious text but as a deeply human narrative, speaks to the universal...

We celebrate action. We reward speed. But reflection? I don't have time for that. And yet, if you have ever reached a goal and felt an odd emptiness, you already know something is missing. The problem isn't that we're not doing enough. It might be that we're not pausing long enough to understand why we are doing anything at all.

Kurt Bush, leadership coach and co-founder of Brimstone Coaching Group, joins Sana on The Mindful Living to make a quietly radical case for reflection, not as a luxury or a personality trait, but as a necessary practice...

There is a quiet exhaustion many of us carry that has nothing to do with burnout in the traditional sense. It is the low-grade hum in the background: bills, savings, am I doing enough, am I already too late? What if financial peace isn't about earning more, but about thinking less about it?

David Nassief, author of One-Page Wealth Compass, joins Sana on The Mindful Living to share one of the most counterintuitive personal finance stories you'll hear. Fired at 63 after an 18-year career, staring at near-certain financial collapse, David rebuilt from scratch using a radically simple...

Mindfulness has become one of the most talked-about practices in wellness, business, and personal development. And yet, so many of us still find ourselves performing in our relationships, shrinking in our conversations, and quietly accumulating resentment from things we never said out loud. Why does awareness alone not seem to be enough?

In this unhurried conversation, host Sana sits with Louis Brantmeyer, dating, relating, and sex coach and author of A Creationship's Inception, to explore what it really means to be present with the people in our lives. From people-pleasing patterns that quietly erode intimacy, to the...

You have tried changing what you eat. Maybe you have tried changing how much. But what if the part that actually needs changing is the relationship underneath? This episode is for anyone who has lost weight, felt hopeful, and then watched it slowly return — not because they failed, but because something deeper was never addressed.

Dr. Pavi Kundhal, a surgeon with 15 years of experience in both surgical and non-surgical weight loss, shares what he has seen again and again in his practice: lasting change does not come from the tool, whether that is a medication, a surgery, or...

In a crisis, everyone starts talking. But very few people are truly communicating. The gap between noise and clarity can cost an organization its reputation, its relationships, and the trust it spent years building. This episode of The Mindful Living explores how to communicate honestly, simply, and effectively when the stakes are highest.

Sana sits down with veteran crisis communications expert Mike Swenson, founder of Barkley Public Relations and creator of the CrisisTrak framework, to unpack the principles of message discipline, active listening, and the goodwill that organizations build long before a crisis ever arrives. Listeners will...

Have you ever used something — alcohol, substances, scrolling, shopping — not because you wanted to, but because you didn't know how else to cope? This episode is for anyone who has ever reached for a quick fix to quiet what's happening inside.

Sana sits down with breathwork facilitator and sobriety advocate Jon Paul Crimi for an honest, grounded conversation about addiction, recovery, and the unexpected tool that transformed his life. From the window of opportunity that opens in a rock-bottom moment, to the emotional weight that surfaces when the substances finally go away, Jon Paul shares what healing actu...

You wake up. You go through the motions. You tick the boxes. But somewhere underneath all of that doing, a quieter question lingers: am I actually showing up for my life? This episode is for anyone who has ever looked successful on the outside while feeling disconnected on the inside.

Sana sits down with author, entrepreneur, and mentor Daryl Dittmer, who has spent decades learning the difference between lowercase showing up and the real thing. From blue-collar beginnings and a recovery journey that began at 19, Daryl brings a grounded, lived-in wisdom to what it means to tend...

Entrepreneurship looks confident from the outside. But behind most businesses, there's a quieter conversation happening — one full of doubt, self-questioning, and the fear of not being ready. In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits down with Hollywood actor turned business strategist Armando Leduc to explore what actually blocks entrepreneurs from showing up with confidence, and what it takes to move past it.

Armando draws on decades of acting training and entrepreneurial experience to connect storytelling, mindset, and visibility in a way that feels both practical and deeply human. If you've ever wondered whether you're go...

Most of us know, on some level, what needs to change. We can name the patterns. We can trace the loops. But knowing and actually shifting? That's where the real work begins. In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits down with functional health and wellness educator August Rivers to explore what genuine self-awareness actually looks like, and why so many of us get stuck between insight and action.

August shares how early experiences quietly wire our neurological responses, why micro-shifts outperform grand resolutions, and how a profoundly personal turning point taught her the difference...

There is a voice many of us carry without ever questioning it. It says you're not enough. You're behind. You should be doing more. And for most of us, it has been speaking so long we've stopped noticing it at all. In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits down with Polish-born author and poet Karina (K. K. Biernath) for a deeply honest conversation about the inner critic, where it comes from, and what it actually takes to begin quieting it.

Karina shares how her inner critic shaped decisions she made across two continents, how...

Most of us aren't struggling with a lack of information. We're struggling with a lack of steadiness. In a world that feels louder and more uncertain than ever, this episode asks the question many of us quietly carry: what does it actually mean to live a spiritual life in real, everyday human terms?

In this conversation, Sana sits down with Kevin Roth, renowned dulcimer artist, author, cancer survivor, and spiritual life coach, who shares how a stage 3 melanoma diagnosis in 2015 became the wake-up call that transformed everything. Together, they explore practical spirituality, the difference between information and...

You are functioning, you are doing life, but your nervous system is always braced, always waiting. And stillness, when it finally shows up, feels like a foreign language your body doesn't quite trust yet.

In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits down with Cindy Costley, a Mast Cell Wellness Coach, author, and creator of the Electromagnetic Body Desensitization Technique (EBDT), to explore what it really means to move from survival mode to stillness. Not by forcing calm, but by learning to listen. If you have ever wondered why your body keeps reacting, why symptoms...

Birth is one of the most powerful transitions a human being can go through. And yet most families walk into it prepared for the medical event, and underprepared for the emotional one. In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits down with Suzzie Vehrs, a certified birth doula, childbirth educator, and founder of She Births Bravely, to explore what changes when parents bring mindfulness into the birth experience, not as a way to escape pain, but as a way to change their relationship with it.

Research suggests that just eight weeks of mindfulness training can...

The justice system was built for decisions. Fast ones. Binary ones. But human beings, especially those whose brains process the world differently, are anything but binary. This episode of The Mindful Living sits with one of the most uncomfortable intersections in modern law: what happens when someone accused of a crime is neurodivergent, and a system built on behavioral cues reads their difference as guilt?

Host Sana is joined by veteran New York criminal defense attorney Saul Bienenfeld, a former prosecutor who has spent decades navigating both sides of the law. Together, they explore how autism spectrum...

There are days when nothing is technically wrong, but your body is acting like something is. Your chest is tight. You're short with people you love. You're too exhausted to begin the thing you actually care about. If that sounds familiar, this conversation is for you.

In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits down with Dr. Amy Grimm, a certified success and well-being coach and former veterinarian, to gently unpack what nervous system regulation actually means, and why the goal was never to stay calm all the time. Together, they explore the biology of...

What if the problem isn’t your body—but the version of yoga you were taught to fit into? On The Mindful Living, hosted by Sana, this episode gently challenges the idea that yoga must look a certain way to “count.”

This conversation is for anyone who has ever felt out of place in a yoga class—whether due to body image, pain, anxiety, or simply not feeling safe. With guest Jo Stewart, listeners discover how aerial yoga can become a deeply supportive, adaptable practice that meets you where you are—physically, mentally, and emotionally.

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Stress rarely arrives loudly. On The Mindful Living Podcast, host Sana sits down with psychotherapist Dr. Vassilia Binensztok to unpack how stress shows up in real life—through irritability, overworking, checking out, and losing presence.

This episode is for anyone who looks fine on the outside but feels stretched within. You’ll walk away with practical ways to spot early warning signs, reset during a busy day, and ask for space without damaging your relationships.

About the Guest:

Dr. Vassilia Binensztok is a psychotherapist with over 15 years of clinical experience. She shares practical insi...

What happens when a woman looks like she has it all together, but feels disconnected inside? On The Mindful Living Podcast, hosted by Sana, Bella Krutik explores feminine embodiment as a grounded path back to presence, truth, and self-trust.

This episode is for anyone who feels stuck in people-pleasing, emotional disconnection, or resentment in relationships. Listeners will walk away with a clearer understanding of embodied boundaries, how the body stores tension, and why healing begins by listening inward.

About the Guest:

Bella Krutik is a feminine embodiment coach based in Sydney. In this...