Bridging The Potential Podcast

Bridging The Potential Podcast

What happens when you bridge the experience, education, and expertise of elders with the curiosity, energy, and innate wisdom of the youth? It’s simple. Everyone grows and the world changes for the better -- one conversation, one connection, one collaboration at a time.

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June 7, 2025 41 mins

In this heartfelt episode of Bridging the Potential, Angelyn Toth shares her deeply personal journey of awakening, surrender, and radical trust. From a childhood immersed in nature to a soul-crushing corporate career, she describes how a vision “had her” and led to the founding of Xenia, a retreat center on Bowen Island. Through stories of personal transformation, addiction, loss, and spiritual insight, she emphasizes the power of ...

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This podcast reveals an empowering perspective: What if life is happening FOR YOU not TO YOU?

 

This conversation between a young author and entrepreneur and an experienced intuitive teacher/author is a timely one especially during this amazing time of unprecedented change.   

 

How to help yourself and others see the Gift not the Curse opens up new possibilities for observing the growth that is naturally occurring even though it m...

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February 16, 2023 26 mins

How can Mother Nature best support our well being?

Rajitha Bommakanti, RN, BSN, NBC-HWC, CCM, FCN, is a culinary coach who has been practicing nursing for over 30 years in various medical specialties, and currently works as an ER case manager as well as being the founder of the Healthy You Center where she provides health coaching that inspires positive transformation through educating and empowering people to make small changes to...

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What are some key ways to increase focus and resilience and let go of stress?

Monica Cochran, M.Ed has worked with children, parents, and other adults in a wide variety of educational, hospital, and business settings for over 40 years. She has been active in alternative education since 1978, home-educated two of her children, and has worked with other home-educating and distance-learning families since 1997. Currently, Monica works...

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Amanda and Aaron get us to wonder about:

How does critical thinking emerge from the stories we explore and how might that co-generate a great future for families and communities?

 

Amanda Johnson: Founder of True To Intention and Co-Founder of Saved By Story Publishing, Brand and Content Oracle, Story-healing Guide, Author, and Speaker on a mission to help others write truer personal and collective stories.

 

Aaron Johnson: Publish...

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Noah Gabriel Press McIntyre is a global Gratitude Wellness Coach, Speaker, Course Creator, Poet, and Founder of The Discover Gratitude Movement. He has been a practitioner of grateful living and mindfulness for over 35 years and holds a Masters in Arts and Social Science with a Concentration in Gratitude and Transformative Learning from Antioch University. You can find his work at NoahGabrielPressMcIntyre.com and DiscoverGratitude....
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    Two intergenerational change makers from our LTPN community share their passion for Food, Connection and Gratitude with the stories of how and where food comes from through the process of planting, producing, cooking, and sharing. All are keys to becoming healthy and whole.

    Tune in to hear Cassandra Funmaker and Julie Diaz sit down and discuss:

    1. How food can be the pathway to healing 2. Why cooking with fresh locally grown food ...
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    How does embracing the Arts relate to Native Wisdom and the healing of our communities?   That's the question these two women tackled and answered brilliantly in this conversation.   Tanya Ocana Vigil is a Gallery Owner, Elementary Arts Director, Aztec Dancer, Gallery and Curator of graphic impressions known as one of the 10 Most Remarkable Women of Taos.    Cassandra Funmaker is the Founder of the Native Wellness Movement podcast,...
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    What would it take to create a political system we love?   That's the question Rand Strauss and Aaron Johnson tackled in this conversation. Rand is a Stanford-educated expert problem solver and software engineer who has created reliable solutions in complex systems for a wide range of organizations, from startups to NASA over the last forty years. Today, he’s the founder of PeopleCount.org, enabling voters and politicians to work t...
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    How do we access divine guidance for designing a successful life?

    Sales Expert and Coach, Motivational Speaker, and 5-Time Bestselling Author, Ursula Mentjes, sat down with our founding Youth Advisory Council Member and new entrepreneur, Aaron Johnson, to talk about potential and what it takes to design a successful life.

    In their conversation, they covered a lot of ground and you’ll love ever...

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    What does theater have to do with therapy?

    Tune in to listen to Lathe Haynes and James Schmidt answer this question and so many more. 

    Lathe has over 30 years as a clinical psychologist, including organizational and industrial psychology, career counseling, and cancer research related to the psychological factors that impact the immune system; and James is just getting started as a college stu...

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    What if students are the customer and they have the answers to designing self-fulfilling learning?  How might education change for the better?   These are the questions Founder of Career Bridge app and student-led corporation Aspire Enterprise, Eloy Garza, engaged with Aaron Johnson, a nineteen-year-old entrepreneur who plans to make a difference in education. View Eloy Garza, MPS-IMC’S profile     Tune in to hear both the educat...
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    Why is it important to reveal the real story about Indigenous People?

    Educator and Social Justice Advocate Elizabeth Digby-Britten sat down with activist, creative, environmentalist, and humanitarian Cassie Funmaker to discuss this mutual passion for establishing more equity for Indigenous People. 

    They tackled important topics and inquiries that will help listeners discover:  

    1. how to look at history with fresh eyes and the ques...

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    What happens when we combine Activism and Indigenous Wisdom?

    Professor, Theater Director, Writer, and Facilitator, Annie Smith sat down to explore this question with high school senior Izabella Britten who is the founder and president of the Indigenous Peoples Club and VP of the Feminist Equity Movement. 

    Their kindred commitment to social justice and the earth made this a conversation you won’t want to miss.

    Tune in to discover ho...

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    How can we pursue our passion, make money, and be a force of good in today's world?

    Visionary entrepreneur, Jyl DeHaven, brought her 30 years of business ownership and 15 years in the business of sustainability to this powerful conversation with Faheem Dyer, a recent college graduate employed in commercial real estate, who is committed to using his skills to provide communities access to transformative opp...

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    How does Art provide liberation from the identities that enslave us?

    Join Dr. Anthony Fleg, a New Mexico Physician and Founder of the Native Health Initiative, and one of our Youth Advisory Council members and first-year UCLA student and artist from Santa Fe Indian School, Zelo Jade Rael, as they dive deep into this topic.

    You will be empowered and equipped as you listen to them talk about how we can more effectively: 1. depressuri...

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    What happens when we focus on CREATING technology instead of CONSUMING it?

    When Caryn Warren, author of Cybersecurity: The Children's Guide to Being Safe Online, and Founder and Executive Director of Innovators of Tomorrow Inc., shared her insight from more than two decades of success in Information Technology with James Schmidt, a 19-year-old Psychology major who is deeply interested in the role of technology in our culture, wisdo...

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    How do we navigate life's opportunities and make career choices to maximize our sense of purpose? Can we create meaning from the tragedy we experience in ways that positively impact the world around us? How do we mindfully engage in change-driven work in the world while protecting and caring for our well-being along the way?

    This is quite the journey...

    Dimple Dhabalia, a leadership and mindful performance coach and founder of Root...

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    How can a family-owned business be a model to positively impact humanity?

    Cheryl Herrick -- co-founder of Global 1 Habitats LLC, founder of Ponytail Racing and Racing for Warriors, and innovative systems-thinking entrepreneur -- and Faheem Dyer, a young business man who shares her dream of and commitment to sustainability for individuals, businesses, and the environment had an incredible conversation about just that.

    You will be in...

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    What music and art inspires you? And what does it inspire you TO DO or BECOME

    Whether you are an artist who creates, or someone who deeply appreciates art, you will not want to miss this conversation with music producer, social media influencer, activist, and entrepreneur Marcus Bell and Samuel Osborne-Huerta, a young actor, activist, and LTPN Youth Advisory Council member.

    These two men are devoted to creating social change throug...

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