Ep 162 - Go with the Flow: Trusting Your Wild, Willing and Wise Self with HeatherAsh Amara
09/11/24 • 29 min
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Ever wondered how embracing your wild side can spark more joy and wisdom? HeatherAsh Amara can be your guide. That is, if you’re willing. During this conversation with host Hilary Russo, HeatherAsh Amara shares her journey of self-discovery from Nepal to India with stories filled with laughter and insight to inspire us to explore self-trust and playfulness, no matter our age. It’s such a big part of her journey, HeatherAsh wrote a book about it to encourage you to embrace your wild, willing, and wise. Tune in as shares her unique tools for balancing passion and flow, and hear about her personal experiences...including firewalking! This episode is all about igniting your inner spark and embracing the power of community. But also, what it takes to know when to paddle, when to rest, and when to jump naked into the river of life!
KEY MOMENTS/CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:05 Discovering Inner Wisdom and Wildness
4:51 Growing up Around the World
7:00 The Indian girl that changed her life
09:30 Spiritual Connection and Community
15:00 Traveling book tour
16:37 The Importance of Play
22:45 Rapid Fire
24:00 What’s in a Name?
27:51 Guest’s Final Thoughts
28:00 Hilary’s Final Thoughts
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Ever wondered how embracing your wild side can spark more joy and wisdom? HeatherAsh Amara can be your guide. That is, if you’re willing. During this conversation with host Hilary Russo, HeatherAsh Amara shares her journey of self-discovery from Nepal to India with stories filled with laughter and insight to inspire us to explore self-trust and playfulness, no matter our age. It’s such a big part of her journey, HeatherAsh wrote a book about it to encourage you to embrace your wild, willing, and wise. Tune in as shares her unique tools for balancing passion and flow, and hear about her personal experiences...including firewalking! This episode is all about igniting your inner spark and embracing the power of community. But also, what it takes to know when to paddle, when to rest, and when to jump naked into the river of life!
KEY MOMENTS/CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:05 Discovering Inner Wisdom and Wildness
4:51 Growing up Around the World
7:00 The Indian girl that changed her life
09:30 Spiritual Connection and Community
15:00 Traveling book tour
16:37 The Importance of Play
22:45 Rapid Fire
24:00 What’s in a Name?
27:51 Guest’s Final Thoughts
28:00 Hilary’s Final Thoughts
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Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/hilaryrusso
Grab a copy of “Wild, Willing and Wise: An Interactive Guide for When to Paddle, When to Rest, and When to Jump Naked into the River of Life”
Paperback https://amzn.to/3ze15yQ (Amazon)
Kindle https://amzn.to/3z4PmTo (Amazon)
CONNECT WITH HEATHERASH AMARA
https://wildwillingwise.com https://www.instagram.com/heatherashamara https://www.facebook.com/heatherash.amara
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https://www.hilaryrusso.com/braincandy
JOIN ME AT ONE OF MY FREE EVENTS https://www.hilaryrusso.com/events
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https://www.hilaryrusso.com/podcast
Music by Lipbone Redding https://lipbone.com
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HIListically Speaking with Hilary Russo - Ep 162 - Go with the Flow: Trusting Your Wild, Willing and Wise Self with HeatherAsh Amara
Transcript
We tend to make ourselves smaller, be really serious and effort, like paddle a lot, and so learning the skill of how to put the paddle down, how to jump and play and how to increase our wild because I see so often we diminish our wild we get to be adults and then we're like okay, childhood is now over, that sense of play is now over.
Hilary RussoI remember reading a quote by Golda Meir, the Iron
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