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E124_Top 10 Podcasts Most Likely To Help You Grow from 2020-12-25T03:18:52
We hope everyone has been well and pushing through this crazy time in a thoughtful and peaceful way. Over the last few months, we’ve had quite a few partnerships with businesses and schools looking...
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The Murder of George Floyd and So Many Others... from 2020-06-08T13:46:15
We can't even begin to describe how your girls have been affected by recent events. We've been in Minneapolis for some time and the feeling in this city is fraught with anger, frustration and ultim...
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E123_Foods That Heal from 2020-04-27T19:13:24
This is definitely one to get your pen ready for taking notes! The more we looked at how to start viewing food as medicine, the more information we found. In our final episode of this month's topic...
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E122_The Real Danger Behind Toxic Foods from 2020-04-20T16:01:03
Now that we have a handle on some of the great foods we should be incorporating into our diet, we decided to use this week to find out which foods to avoid to ensure we’re living our best life. We ...
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E121_Foods That Support the 4 Happy Hormones from 2020-04-13T16:02:05
Last week we discussed the 4 happy hormones that keep our spirits up and our lives feeling healthy and full. We’re following that up this week with the low cost, easy access foods we can incorporat...
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E120_The 4 Happy Hormones from 2020-04-06T16:27:44
Last month Jas and I talked about creating your own personal wellness and meditation retreats and we hope you’ve been able to implement that in your home, especially now! One of the most direct act...
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E119_March - Part V: How To Navigate In This New Normal from 2020-03-30T16:16:55
With all this extra time on our hands, your girls were digging through the archives to find things that would help us all navigate this "new normal". This week's podcast includes 3 of the most impo...
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E118_March - Part IV: The Meditator's Response to Covid-19 from 2020-03-23T16:00:30
With all that's going on in the world right now with the corona virus outbreak, it's definitely putting all of our inner-peace skills to the test! In this week's podcast, we take a detour from our ...
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E117_Your Personal Retreat - Part III: Navigating Your New Self in Your Old Life from 2020-03-17T16:00:28
In this week’s conversation, we continue discussing how to get the most out of your personal meditation or wellness retreat. One of the trickiest parts about taking time out to center yourself and ...
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E116_Your Personal Retreat – Part II: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Retreat Experience from 2020-03-09T16:38:22
In this week’s conversation, we discuss the most crucial ingredients you need to craft a thoughtfully planned personal wellness retreat. We take the guess work out of what to prepare, how to find t...
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E115_Your Personal Retreat - Part I: Setting The Expectation from 2020-03-02T17:05:30
The Black Zen Team has been debating for the last few days about meditation versus wellness retreats and the benefits of each. After numerous discussions about our own personal experiences, we did ...
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E114_Relationships - Part IV: How to Make It Last! from 2020-02-24T17:34:43
Don’t you hate how every romantic comedy stops right at the end of the “meet cute” moments? This week we wanted to find out what happens once we’re finally in relationships and passed the honey moo...
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E113_Relationships - Part III: How Does Your Partner Stack Up to These Crucial Measurements? from 2020-02-18T16:11:36
When it comes to choosing a partner or determining if the one we're with is right for us, how do we know what to look for? On this episode, the Black Zen team spills some personal tea from past rel...
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E112_Relationships - Part II: The Subtle Thing That Might be Damaging All Your Relationships from 2020-02-10T17:00:40
In part two of this month’s series on relationships, we take a look at the unfortunate side effects of putting your relationship to the test and discuss the 1 subtle thing that could be damaging yo...
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E111_Relationships - Part I: The 2 Most Important Elements in Every Relationship from 2020-02-04T17:00:40
Since February is always associated with love, we thought it was the perfect month to take a deep dive into relationships! In Part I of this topic, we include the 1 key thing to remember about all ...
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E110_Power: How to Know What to Focus On to See Results from 2020-01-27T17:00:40
Now that we know that each of us has power, which is the ability to impact or create change - what do we do with it? How do we know where to focus our power to see the most impactful results in our...
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E109_Power: The Top 3 Things To Do To Wield Your Power Wisely from 2020-01-21T17:00:40
To continue the conversation on this month’s theme, we talk about how to double down on the power that you have or how to get it back if you think you’ve lost it in a certain situation in your life...
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E108_Power: Who Has It & Why? from 2020-01-13T17:00:37
To continue the conversation on this month’s theme, POWER, we used this week to look closer at what happens when we unknowingly give ours away – whether it’s thinking we’re stuck in a situation, le...
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E107_New Year, New Offerings & What Power Looks Like from 2020-01-06T17:00:33
We're back! Another year, another day, another opportunity for a fresh new start. Speaking of fresh (shout out to the 80's babies!), you may have noticed our new website (blackzen.co) but the most ...
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E106_The Best Advice of 2019 - Part II from 2019-11-25T20:40:03
It's official. Your BZ Team is on its annual December break. As you know we take wellness seriously, so incorporating mindful pauses into our business is not only true to form, but we find it neces...
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E105_The Best Advice of 2019 - Part I from 2019-11-18T17:35:25
For the folks that have been with us for a while, you know that we take a holiday hiatus for the month of December and devote that time to our personal wellness. We use that time not only to rest a...
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E104_Meditation in the Current Political Climate from 2019-11-12T17:00:23
If we look throughout history, every generation before us thought the world was going to hell in a hand basket. And yet, here we are. Our lives continue to evolve and the most important things like...
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E103_One of the Most Surprising Things Impacting Your Well-Being from 2019-11-04T17:32:28
It may come as no surprise that the same person who invented water torture for prisoners also came up with sleep deprivation as another form of punishment. Fam, the struggle is real! This week we’r...
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E102_When Life Has You "On The Ropes" from 2019-10-28T16:05:01
No one likes to feel like their back is against the wall, whether it’s literally or figuratively. Being physically pinned in a corner, or “caught on the ropes” to borrow a well-known boxing term, c...
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E101_Who Is In Your Winner's Circle? from 2019-10-21T16:00:32
At Black Zen, we consistently look for ways to create the best conditions for our success and our peace, and the most important factor we've found in achieving this has been surrounding ourselves w...
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E100_What Is Zen? from 2019-10-14T19:26:35
We’re celebrating our 100th episode of the Weekly Wellness podcast! In honor of this milestone, we’re taking some time to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about meditation. As we ...
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E99_Present While Planning from 2019-10-07T16:00:24
As people interested in meditation or for those of us with a developed meditation practice, we tend to hear a lot about being "present". Generally, we equate being present with mindfulness in our d...
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E98_Less Work, More Play from 2019-09-30T16:23:43
I'm going to go ahead and date myself here and say I miss the 80's! Gone are the days when I can hop on a bike and head to the Boys and Girls Club after school. There I would squander my days away ...
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E97_The Two Words to Avoid When Talking About Your Big Dreams from 2019-09-23T16:00:36
Recently someone asked me, "What do you want out of life?" and my immediate (conditioned?) reply was, "To just live comfortably and be happy." It wasn't until the "to just" came out of my mouth tha...
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E96_The Butterfly Effect from 2019-09-16T17:05:21
The butterfly effect concept was articulated best by meteorologist and mathematician Edward N. Lorenz. His theory stated that the flapping of a butterfly's wings has potential to cause a hurricane ...
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E95_How to Answer, "What Are You Up To?" from 2019-09-09T16:33:39
I'm not sure why the "What's going on in your life?" question leaves me unnaturally inarticulate, but it does. It makes me question what the hell I've been doing for the last year and if anything h...
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E94_The Connection Between Yoga & Meditation from 2019-09-03T16:42:46
I imagine all good habits from working out to eating right starts with a plan. When I started doing yoga, my only plan was to shrink the arse following me and to lose an extra chin. It was never my...
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E93_Less Talk, More Action from 2019-08-26T16:00:26
Let's be honest. You know what you need to do to move forward on your goals. So the question is not, "What do you need to do?" but rather, "Why aren't you doing it?" You've read every "do better" a...
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E92_The Prison of Perception from 2019-08-19T16:24:13
"Most people live their entire lives in prison, not physically but mentally, a mental prison of their own making, the mental prison that you have accepted to be confined in. You hold the keys withi...
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E91_How To Overcome Any Fear from 2019-08-12T16:00:37
In the spirit of confronting our fears, this Weekly Wellness is all about how to name what we're afraid of so we can finally put it to rest - or at least have it close enough in our view that we re...
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E90_The Room of Requirement from 2019-08-05T16:00:25
It's been a minute since your girls have completely nerded out on a Weekly Wellness, so let's get into it! In this week's post, we're studying The Room of Requirement. If you are not a Harry Potter...
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E89_Hurry Up and Wait from 2019-07-29T16:15:05
The keys to a more balanced way of life are none other than patience and equanimity. Equanimity is a $400 word defined as mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, especially in a difficu...
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E88_What To Do When Life Feels Bland from 2019-07-22T16:00:34
Imagine for a moment going into the store and getting every ingredient for the perfect meal. You come home excited to cook because you’ve already thought through all the steps to make sure this mea...
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E87_How To Think About Money Mindfully from 2019-07-15T16:00:44
You may be asking, "What do my personal finances have to do with wellness?" In short, it’s about having peace of mind. When I first began meditating, the common theme that ran through my thoughts w...
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E86_Embracing Imperfection from 2019-07-08T16:00:44
Embracing imperfection in ourselves is about looking at our internal cracks and personal quirks without disapproval, and instead seeing them as an opportunity to paint those perceived flaws with so...
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E85_Summer Break! from 2019-06-03T16:15:05
Think back to when you were in school, there were really only two important days - the first day of school and the last day of school. I distinctly remember organizing and re-organizing my pencil b...
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E84_Age Is An Illusion from 2019-05-28T16:00:07
The most surprising discovery at any stage of life is that we're still in the process of creating our story. Given the average age of life expectancy in the U.S. is now 81 for women and 76 for men,...
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E83_What To Focus On Now from 2019-05-20T16:00:27
I found myself curiously unable to sleep last week. For those that know me, this is especially rare as I've been known to sleep standing up, or if really exhausted, even in mid-conversation! So sta...
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E82_Time To Shine! from 2019-05-13T16:05:09
I don't know if it's the weather changing or watching all the dry trees sprout new leaves, but there's something in the air right now and it's got your Black Zen Team feeling like it's time to shin...
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E81_How We Create Our Story from 2019-05-06T16:00:39
Through our previous experiences we've developed habits, defenses and thought patterns to deal with the rough spots. We continually create habitual responses to certain circumstances, people and si...
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E80_Are You Ready for Meditation? from 2019-04-29T16:07:25
Jas and I often discuss how meditation can assist and/or fix any difficult situation in life, and while we stand by this, there is another hitch to this cart to make it work. What meditation won't ...
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E79_How To Celebrate Every Moment & Why It's So Important from 2019-04-22T16:00:24
I was digging through my purse a few days ago and found a $50 dollar bill. Now there are three things you should know about me before I continue this story:
1. My loved ones have frequ...
E78_The Silent Stalker from 2019-04-15T22:02:11
We talk a lot about letting things and people go that no longer serve or help us. This week, we want to add guilt and shame to that list! At some point in time, despite our best inclinations and in...
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E77_Your Time Is Valuable from 2019-04-08T16:00:22
In last week's Weekly Wellness, we touched on the slight difference between being unmotivated and just plain tired! So once we've taken the needed rest to help us jump back into the swing of things...
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E76_How to Tell the Difference Between Being Unmotivated & Burnt Out from 2019-04-01T16:00:22
Jas and I were out to lunch today and we laughed for a good 5 minutes over the following statement: "The juice ain't worth the squeeze, and the squeeze ain't worth the juice!" Given the state of ou...
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E75_The Unwritten Rules in Relationships from 2019-03-25T16:55
In sharing time and energy with the people we surround ourselves with, we've come to expect certain things. Whether we want to admit it or not, there are unwritten rules in every relationship - fro...
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E74_Who's Steering The Ship? from 2019-03-18T16:00:29
The idea of mind, body and spirit has been used by many to describe our human make-up. If we breakdown this concept in its simplest form, it suggests that the body informs the mind of what it needs...
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E73_The Last Swallow in the Container from 2019-03-11T16:00:28
We might be aging ourselves here, but does anyone else remember that hilarious scene in Harlem Nights when Della Reese's character goes off about the orange juice? For those not familiar with the m...
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E72_The Emperor Has No Clothes! from 2019-03-04T17:00:34
As mindful people, we're usually able to clearly see when things (in the words of my grandma) make no damn sense. And it wasn't until I was watching the 10 o'clock news that I became confronted wit...
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E71_What We Owe Each Other from 2019-02-25T17:06:22
T.M. Scanlon coined the idea of contractualism which examines our obligation to be moral human beings. In reading some of his work, really interesting questions pop-up like ... “What are we obligat...
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E70_Don't Throw The Baby Out With The Bathwater from 2019-02-11T17:00:25
I make fun of Jasmine often. It’s a light-hearted ribbing based on the old school “dozens” that comes naturally when knowing someone so well. The jokes this week started while I watched her tear he...
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E69_Don't Take Anything Personally from 2019-02-04T17:00:25
The insensitivity or criticism of others has a tendency to trigger our insecurities like nothing else. For the ultra-sensitive person, even a quick glance from a stranger can have you questioning y...
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E68_Fasting - The Willpower Workout from 2019-01-28T17:00:33
I'm not gonna lie, good food brings me joy! Should it though? Don't care. I refuse to even ruminate on this as I mentally plan my next meal. Food and I have been best pals for a minute and the only...
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E67_Fearlessness & Unconventional Wisdom from 2019-01-22T17:07:03
Jas and I had the benefit of growing up around wise people. And not wise by traditional standards, but wise in how they moved about the world and navigated through and around hardship or difficulty...
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E66_How To Choose The Right Partner from 2019-01-14T17:30:52
Ever been in a three-legged race and your partner has a broken leg? I haven’t either, but I imagine you wouldn’t get very far! This is what happens when we tie ourselves to the wrong people. It mak...
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E65_Mad Dash to 2019! from 2018-11-27T18:11:18
As much as we try to stay in the present while enjoying the holiday season, we can't help but think back to the goals we set at the beginning of the year. If you made New Year's resolutions and sti...
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E64_Checkers, Pain & Progress from 2018-11-19T17:00:28
It’s that time of year when your BZ team prepares for its annual December break. This is when we re-center, re-charge and practice personal wellness just as we encourage you to do each week. Don’t ...
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E63_The New Definition of Success from 2018-11-13T17:00:29
Usually when we hear the word success, we think wealth, perfect relationships, professional accomplishments, and essentially, all the typical outward examples of doing well. But the truth is that o...
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E62_Not Your Typical Proverb from 2018-11-05T17:00:37
Have you ever had a day where everything and everybody seemed to be working on your last good nerve? Maybe it's not even a person, but a situation that just brings on a rant as to why this [insert ...
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E61_The Best Way to Play Your Hand from 2018-10-29T16:07:41
For the longest time, there was one card game I could never seem to win. One day, I finally realized it was possible to win by playing each hand I was dealt (good or bad), really really well! I sta...
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E60_Winter Is Coming! from 2018-10-22T16:01:13
Maybe it’s just me, but as soon as I hear the days are about to get shorter all I can think is…winter is coming! It’s a time when I usually stay in the house more often than not, and end up sitting...
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E59_From Hustler to Stockbroker: Billy Ray Valentine from 2018-10-15T16:31:16
One of our favorite movies from the 80's is Trading Places. For those who have never seen it (I'm looking at you millennials), Billy Ray Valentine (hilariously played by Eddie Murphy, and btw, best...
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E58_What's On Your Bucket List? from 2018-10-08T17:48:17
I remember waking up on my 31st birthday and realizing I hadn't done a thing on my bucket list. While I had the means (despite my early twenties spending habits!) and the opportunity (free time and...
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E57_Don't Miss Your Boat! from 2018-10-01T16:00:39
This week reminded me of a story my dad told us when we were younger (some of you preacher’s kids may have already heard this one). A man finds himself in the middle of a storm (yes, the eye of the...
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E56_Room To Grow from 2018-09-24T16:05:45
Have you ever been dead wrong about something, but swore up and down it was true? This week I found myself lost in these city streets with nothing but the strong conviction that I was right, and my...
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E55_A New Political Tactic...Guard Your Joy from 2018-09-17T16:16:17
Sometimes, all it takes is one Fox news story or an ignorant tweet to rock our peaceful boat. That was the BZ Team experience this week that led to this Monday's all-too-important topic… how to pro...
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E54_Out of Sight, Out of Mind from 2018-09-10T16:04:58
Sometimes we can get so caught up in making sure that we're focusing on the parts of our life that we want to see movement in, that we can easily neglect other areas that need attention as well. I ...
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E53_No More Drama from 2018-09-04T16:00:16
The competitive nature of us as people is to do what people say can’t be done and excel in areas we’re not supposed to. And doesn’t every epic movie trailer start out that way? The down and out co...
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E52_What Position Do You Play? from 2018-08-27T16:02:13
With the NFL pre-season just about wrapped up, it's time for our annual family fantasy football league to begin. In scouring the internet to get tips on how to ensure I set up my team for the win, ...
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E51_Hacking Your Code from 2018-08-20T16:18:07
Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? For you Westworld fans, you've heard this question many times throughout the series. While the humans in the story are base and uninteresting, i...
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E50_Your Secret Sidekick from 2018-08-13T16:00:25
Last week was all about discovering our superpower, but in any good hero movie there is always a sidekick. It’s the teammate that quietly kicks butt in the background and helps the superhero comple...
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E49_Re-Discovering Your Superhero Self from 2018-08-06T16:00:24
We've all had times when we thought we'd never recover or bounce back only to return stronger than before and triumph over setbacks or adversity. How many times have we surprised ourselves with our...
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E48_Surprise & Delight from 2018-07-30T16:02:16
I recently attended a 4th of July event that ended in fireworks and it was life changing! I’ll tell you why. If you’ve ever believed you had a good time watching fireworks, try watching a kid watch...
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E47_The Seeds We Plant from 2018-07-23T16:00:34
Being raised in a large city, I always fantasized about life in the country. More specifically, I admired folks who were able to live off the land and make their own food. So like any adventurous u...
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E46_Bossin Up! (w/ special guest - The Memo) from 2018-07-16T16:35:23
Let's be honest - we all want to be successful. That's why we get up day after day and work as hard as we do. No matter the type of job we have, whether that's blue collar, white collar, member of ...
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E45_How To Move Past Survival Mode from 2018-07-09T16:07:03
There are numerous stories of animals that have been held in captivity for so long, that even when they are moved to larger spaces or freed altogether, they still end up living within a confined ar...
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E44_Making Lemonade from 2018-07-02T16:05:29
It can be frustrating to put in work, be diligent and consistent about the execution of a plan, and still seem like we're not making progress in life. Or, when we do start to gain momentum, feel li...
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E43_Taking Radical Responsibility from 2018-06-25T16:02:40
There are two main ways to think about life. It is either happening to us or the choices we make determine our current circumstances. As children, we experience more of the first. Our parents deter...
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E42_Silent Authority & Quiet Confidence from 2018-06-18T16:04:40
When we were growing up, we had a healthy fear of our father. He could give one look and we found some "act right" quick, fast and in a hurry. He smiled often and rarely raised his voice, but somet...
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E41_Time vs. Money Trade Off from 2018-06-11T16:16:22
Time is money. Not sure who said it, or when that phrase became popular, but that has been the focus of our week. Why? Because your girls are exhausted! The Black Zen team has spent countless hours...
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E40_How to Shut Up & Just Listen from 2018-06-04T16:02:43
When was the last time you felt listened to? I mean really listened to. Somebody looked you straight in the eye and took in what you were saying without interjecting, making the conversation about ...
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E39_The Age Issue from 2018-05-29T16:00:12
Ann Landers famously wrote, "At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don't care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all." After going ...
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E38_What Is The Sound of One Hand Clapping? from 2018-05-21T16:01:10
We found some new and nerdy info this week that we just had to share. I was reading a book from one of my old meditation classes and came across the word “koan” a few pages into my reading. I didn’...
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E37_The Value of Sharing Your Knowledge from 2018-05-07T16:00:16
There's a great quote by author Louis L'Amour that says, "Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value." If we ...
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E36_What to Do When You Don't See Options from 2018-04-30T16:00:07
Sometimes all the positive self-talk in the world doesn’t change the fact that some situations leave us stuck. During these times, it may seem that no matter how much we try to have perspective, we...
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E35_The Magic Behind Time Management from 2018-04-23T16:00:14
There are 1,440 minutes in a day. How are those minutes being spent? This week’s wellness is all about how to make sure we’re incorporating what we value most in life into our busy schedules. For i...
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E34_When Will Enough, Be Enough? from 2018-04-16T16:00:24
When I was a kid, I promised myself that when I became an adult I would have ice cream every day and then I would be completely satisfied. In my teens, I said I’d be satisfied as soon as I had a ca...
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E33_What We Wish Someone Had Told Us from 2018-04-09T16:06:14
Fam, we're getting back to basics! With all of the topics we discuss, this week we wanted to re-emphasize and focus on the real root of all lasting change - developing a meditation practice. When w...
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E32_Patience With Your Progress from 2018-04-02T16:02:13
Often, go-getters have two speeds – run and stop. Personally, I am either busting my hump to get things accomplished to the point of burnout, or I'm doing nothing at all and lamenting about life an...
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E31_Treat Yo'Self! from 2018-03-26T15:57:13
As ambitious people, sometimes we can be so busy focusing on the big breakthroughs that we forget to give ourselves credit for the bite-sized improvements we've made or the mini milestones that we'...
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E30_The New Version of the Old You from 2018-03-19T17:19:23
Many of us use spring as a symbol that it's time to go through our closets and take an inventory of what's inside. We allow (and sometimes force) ourselves to get rid of pants that no longer fit, t...
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E29_Pushing Past Pain from 2018-03-12T16:06:18
So many of us are dealing with past hurts and traumas, and many times we hold on to them because we are afraid to fully feel them. I don't know about you, but I held onto my pain for so many years ...
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E28_Two Options...Grow or Stay Stuck from 2018-03-05T16:57:51
Every now and again, I write an open letter to myself. This holds me accountable for what I say I want to do and tracks my progress. What follows is an open letter I wrote a few days ago about my l...
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E27_Dieting from the Inside Out from 2018-02-26T21:59:22
As March approaches, I expect the magazine stands to be filled with articles around weight loss and getting to work on that Summer body. While we at Black Zen think it's great to be active and inte...
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E26_How to Change a Habit from 2018-02-20T17:03:18
You may have noticed the last few Weekly Wellness' were centered around mindfulness and making moves. What we've recently discovered, while trying to incorporate these strategies in our own life, i...
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E25_Relationships & Spiritual Life from 2018-02-12T17:22:17
As active meditators, we can be quite comfortable alone or left to our own devices for long stretches of time. Solitude is no longer scary. The "need" for a romantic relationship can sometimes be r...
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E24_You Are Wiser Than You Think from 2018-02-05T16:57:59
Has anyone else found themselves taking bad advice from folks who “knew better” or mentally kicked yourself after seeing what happens when you don’t follow your gut? Too many times in our lives we ...
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E23_Gratitude from 2018-01-29T17:18:33
You know that moment in Monopoly when you pull the card that says, "advance to go collect 200 dollars"? Well, gratification can feel like that. You get to bypass all of the circumstantial pitfalls ...
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E22_What Are We Consuming? from 2018-01-22T17:09:26
You may or may not have heard the term “influencer marketing” before but it describes a person with the ability to sway thoughts, ideas and even purchasing decisions. Social influence occurs when a...
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E21_False Assumptions from 2018-01-16T17:06:51
In last week's wellness, we talked a lot about how to start living more strategically and really setting up the conditions for our success (both personally and professionally), but what happens whe...
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E20_Are You Playing Checkers or Chess With Your Life? from 2018-01-08T17:00:49
For this year, our new year's resolution list should include: stop making resolutions and start putting boots on the ground in service of our vision and life goals. This week's wellness is all abou...
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E19_Looking Forward to 2018 from 2017-12-18T08:09:05
Since Winter is a time of reflection, we found ourselves looking back at all the great topics we've covered in 2017. We received such a warm reception from our readers and we hope these letters hav...
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E18_Party Like a Meditation Rockstar from 2017-12-11T17:13:49
The holiday season is upon us and meditators do the holiday season right! While we may get a bad rap around the social set for being woo-hooey, I assure you some of us know how to turn up! Granted,...
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E17_On Being Authentic & How to "Do You" from 2017-12-04T16:59:07
We’ve all heard the expression, “to thine own self be true,” but what’s implied here is that a “self” has already been clearly identified. How well do we really know ourselves? In many cases, our p...
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E16_Knowing Which Season You're In from 2017-11-27T14:27:22
The holidays are a time to be with our families, either the ones we were given at birth or the ones we’ve chosen over time. This togetherness usually prompts our family to ask – or for us to ask ou...
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E15_Life: The Ultimate Treasure Hunt from 2017-11-20T16:59:25
Call us nerds, but we've always found the idea of a treasure hunt exciting! Even as far back as elementary school, choose your own adventure books seemed like the most fun and interesting ones to r...
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E14 - The Power of Silence from 2017-11-12T22:05:13
In a world full of noise, both figuratively and literally, sometimes silence is golden. It can be the most powerful tool at our disposal and, even though it can feel counter-intuitive at first, ove...
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E13_Your Secret Superpower from 2017-11-06T09:48
Almost every superhero movie starts with the main character not knowing just how badass they are. It takes some major circumstance of threat or danger to bring out the latent abilities that were in...
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E12_Rocks vs. Tumbleweeds from 2017-10-30T16:39:16
From my vantage point at the base of the mountain looking up, I saw a circular object start to roll down. It only took a moment to realize I was standing at the bottom of the path and so inevitably...
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E11_#SquadGoals from 2017-10-25T07:42:11
Out of all the Jim Rohn quotes, one of our favorites is "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." Truer words were never spoken. At Black Zen, we consistently look for ...
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E10_Sage Advice from 2017-10-25T07:24:56
So many aspects of life can be difficult to comprehend while you’re in the throes of living in it. To make sense of it all, sometimes having a larger perspective on life is key. But how do we step ...
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E9_Better Relationships from 2017-10-25T07:04:55
With all of the books and articles about how to work on relationship goals, for this week's wellness we sought out to find advice that was not only novel in its simplicity, but actionable tips that...
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E8_What's Worth Holding On To? from 2017-10-12T02:37:51
Our prescription for getting back on track and aligning our to-do list with what we say we want is simple - STOP. Stop trying to fit it all in. Stop trying to squeeze the minutes out of every day a...
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E7_Failing Forward from 2017-10-12T02:31:03
Failure and success are more linked than we think and the word failure can be turned on its head and actually used to launch and motivate yourself. It is one thing to fail, and quite another to fai...
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E6_Keep Calm & Stay There from 2017-10-12T02:28:11
There are plenty of times in our lives where taking in too much of the news, interacting with difficult bosses or co-workers, or even just the internal pressure we create for ourselves when tacklin...
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E5_What Does Your Energy Attract? from 2017-10-12T02:17:17
It’s Labor Day and a perfect time to start relaxing if you’ve been an uptight person recently or if you’ve been in a great place and want to keep the good vibes and energy flowing. In this week’s w...
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E4_Enjoy The Ride from 2017-10-12T02:12:18
As ambitious and driven people it makes sense that we are constantly working towards our goals with feverish passion and a clear eye on the prize, but what happens when all we end up doing is worki...
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E3_What's Your Story? from 2017-09-19T10:41:24
Once we understand that thoughts become things and that some of our thoughts aren’t doing us any favors, the next step is to intentionally create new ways to see ourselves and change how we talk ab...
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E2_A Glimpse Into The Real! from 2017-09-19T10:29:39
This week’s wellness is all about openness, and since honesty is the best policy, I’ll go first. I hit a wall last week. I got some news that was as surprising as it was disappointing. I let one t...
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E1_Staying Centered & Successful from 2017-09-19T10:16:14
The definition of success can be a bit tricky. Truth is, it’s so relative since we all have different goals in life and our goals and objectives can change as we’re living it. Sometimes we can unin...
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