The Mindful Living
by Avik Chakraborty and Sana
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About this podcast
Welcome to The Mindful Living, where we explore mental health and mindfulness. I’m your host, Sana, and in each episode, we’ll hear from inspiring guests—experts, thought leaders, and individuals with remarkable stories—who share their insights on living a healthier, more mindful life. We’ll dive into managing stress, overcoming challenges, and finding balance. Whether you seek inspiration, support, or a moment of relaxation,.Want to be a guest on The Mindful Living? Send The Mindful Living a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/themindfulliving
Episodes
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- Beyond the Happiness Trap: Mark Fabian on Fulfillment, Values and the Good Life · 29 minWhat if the problem isn't that you're moving too slowly? What if you've been chasing the wrong finish line? In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana welcomes Mark Fabian…
- Caregiver Burnout and Self-Care: Otanthia Williams-Brady on Making Space for Yourself · 28 minA cup of tea goes cold on the counter because someone else needed something. If you care for others and have quietly put yourself last, you are not alone, and this conversation…
- Remembering Every Day: Frank Healy on Healing Memories and Burnout · 29 minWhat would it mean to carry every day of your life and still find peace? If old memories visit you at quiet moments, or stress has worn you down, this gentle conversation is for…
- Whole-Body Healing and Nervous System Regulation: Andrew Scheim · 33 minWhat if the body is quietly telling a story we have not yet learned to hear? If you are curious about nervous system regulation, trauma and whole-body wellness, this unhurried…
- Rebuilding Identity After Loss: Chris McCarthy on Faith and Purpose · 26 minWhat if the thing that broke you is also the beginning of who you are becoming? If life has split into a before and an after, this slow, honest conversation is for you. Sana and…
- Living With Chronic Pain and Disability: Angel Willard on Coming Home · 21 minWhat does home mean when everything has been taken apart? If you are carrying pain, shame or the weight of past choices, this conversation offers a gentle place to rest and begin…
- Breaking Free From Hidden Patterns That Keep High Achievers Stuck with Steve Barton · 29 minYour life may look impressive on paper, yet something quieter runs underneath. This episode is for high achievers driven by fear, self-doubt, guilt, or shame. Sana and Steve…
- Can We Consume Our Way to Well-Being? Mindful Consumption with Dr. Tejvir Sekhon · 41 minThink of the last time you felt low. Did you open an app, add something to a cart, or buy a beautiful journal? This one is for anyone who has tried to shop their way to calm…
- Leadership Under Pressure: Staying Grounded When Life Feels Chaotic with Silvia Rizzo · 28 minWhen everything feels loud at once, how do you make a decision you can trust? This episode is for anyone carrying pressure at work, at home, or inside their own head. Sana and…
- Kingdom Over Empire: Finding Freedom From Political Fear and Outrage | Brian Drinkwine · 35 minThe news can leave the chest tight and the mind restless. This episode is for anyone who wants to stay engaged with the world without being owned by outrage. Pastor and author…
- When the Life You Built No Longer Fits: Reclaiming the Dream You Shelved | Diane Van Buren · 30 minYou followed the map. You achieved the goals on your vision board. So why does something still feel incomplete? Diane Van Buren, an award winning architect who walked away from a…
- Taking the Wheel: How to Quiet Autopilot Thinking and Reclaim Your Mind | Alan Bodnar on The Mindful Living · 22 minWhy do you react before you even decide? This episode explores the answer. Neurophilosopher Alan Bodnar spent ten years studying five hundred books on neuroscience and…
- From People Pleasing to Assertiveness, with Bradley Gabbert | The Mindful Living · 37 minIn this episode of The Mindful Living, Sana talks with Bradley Gabbert, author of the memoir The Agreeable Child, about how a near-fatal accident at thirty months old shaped a…
- Finding Perfect Glory in Ordinary Moments, with Marcia McFarland | The Mindful Living · 27 minIn this episode of The Mindful Living, Sana sits down with Christian author Marcia McFarland to talk about her book Perfect Glory, a collection of short reflections on identity…
- Rewriting the Inner Story: Healing Overwhelm From the Inside Out with Liz Coleman · 19 minIn this episode of The Mindful Living, host Avik sits down with certified transformational life coach and NLP practitioner Liz Coleman to explore what really keeps us stuck in…
- Why Healing Was Never Meant to Be Solo: Christy Thiel | The Mindful Living · 42 minChristy Thiel, master nutrition therapist and founder of Soulfull Bloom, joins Sana to explore why healing is never meant to happen in isolation. Drawing on two decades of work…
- Why Wellness Works Better Together: Dr. Maria Van Der Maaten | The Mindful Living · 24 minDr. Maria Van Der Maaten joins Avik to challenge the myth that self-care has to be a solo act. A sociologist and community development practitioner, she shares the research…
- Rewrite Your Money Story: Estelle Gibson on The Mindful Living · 34 minOur relationship with money is rarely about the numbers. It's about a story, one inherited from family, written during hard seasons, and rarely ever questioned. Sana talks with…
- The Body Keeps Score: Carolyn Hatton on Aging and Body Image · 34 minFor many women, the relationship with their own body has been adversarial for decades, something to manage or apologize for. Underneath that managing, the body has been trying to…
- Core Transformation: Tamara Andreas on Healing Beneath Your Emotions · 32 minMost of us try to fix an emotional issue by working directly on it, talking it through, analyzing it, managing it. But what if the real shift happens underneath the emotion? Sana…
- You Are Not Your Thoughts: Anthony Johnson on The Mindful Living · 27 minMillions of thoughts run through our heads every day, and most of us never question whether they're true. We just assume they are, because they're ours. Sana talks with coach and…
- Mindfulness Isn't About Being Calm: Kirana Sidin on Intentional Living · 28 minThere's a version of mindfulness we're sold: calm, still, figured out. But nobody shows the laundry pile growing while you're trying to find five minutes to breathe. Sana talks…
- Breaking the Doomscrolling Habit: Sam Brooks on Rethinking the News · 32 minMost of us reach for our phones before our eyes are even open, and by the time we're out of bed, we're already carrying a weight that wasn't there when we woke. Sana talks with…
- Why Healing Isn't a Fight: Zach Rehder on Boredom, Feelings, and Triggers · 28 minFor anyone who's ever fought their pain harder than the pain itself, this episode asks a slower question: what if healing isn't something you chase, but something you stop…
- Facing Cancer Twice in One Marriage: Jonathan Brandt on The Mindful Living · 26 minWhat does it look like when two people in one home face cancer, one after the other, and still find their way back to joy? Jonathan Brandt returns to share how he and his late…
- Systems Over Willpower: Sandi Glandt on Ending Working Mom Burnout · 29 minThis episode is for the woman who has been told that if she just breathed deeper, thought more positively, or organized better, the overwhelm would finally lift. Sana sits down…
- Rewriting the Fear Program After Trauma: Fadi Sarieddine on The Mindful Living · 31 minTrauma doesn't just live in memory, it writes code, a program running quietly in the background of your mind, deciding what feels safe long after the danger is gone. Sana sits…
- Greening Your Own Life, Not Just a Building: David Gottfried on The Mindful Living · 1 h 10 minIt's one thing to green a building, it's a very different thing to green your own life. Sana welcomes back returning guest David Gottfried, widely known as the father of the…
- Rethinking Rest and Recovery Through Sleep Posture: Bryan Bourgeois on The Mindful Living · 22 minA note for listeners: This episode features the inventor of a commercial product and includes his own claims about its health benefits, including specific figures about oxygen…
- Prioritizing Inner Balance Over Work-Life Balance: Chris Vasiliadis on The Mindful Living · 37 minWhat if the imbalance so many of us feel isn't between work and life at all, what if it's something quieter, happening inside a person no matter how well their calendar is…
- What Balance Actually Looks Like for Mothers: Beth Wilson on The Mindful Living · 33 minSo many mothers carry an image of balance that looks like a perfectly divided pie chart, equal time and energy for everything. Sana sits down with Beth Wilson, intuitive guide…
- Becoming a Nowist: Billy Mandarino on The Mindful Living · 23 minThere's a specific exhaustion that comes from living everywhere except right here, replaying yesterday, rehearsing tomorrow, and somehow missing the only moment actually…
- Giving Yourself Permission to Start Over: Joy-Yafit Pascal on The Mindful Living · 19 minWhat if the life you're longing for isn't somewhere in the future, but quietly waiting on the other side of one courageous decision? Sreemedha sits down with Joy-Yafit Pascal…
- Living Without Self-Imposed Limits: Tom Cladis on The Mindful Living · 30 minA note for listeners: This episode includes the guest's personal stories involving physical stunts (such as alligator wrestling and cliff-edge activities) as well as his…
- From Busy Fool to Ironman: Changing Your Identity, Not Just Your Body, with Matt Davies · 27 minTwenty years in banking, long hours masking unhappiness nobody was naming, and a slow slide toward a breaking point that didn't feel dramatic until Matt Davies looked back. A…
- Everything Is Always Working Out: Terry Bean on Mantras, Presence, and Magic · 28 minEverything is always working out for me, a mantra Terry Bean has lived by for the better part of two decades, earned across sixty two years of living, losing, and reinventing…
- Executive Eats: Adam Kingl on Nutrition as a Leadership Performance Tool · 23 minHow many times have you talked about food at work as fuel for focus, mood, and pressure, not just as a diet trend? Adam Kingl trained as a chef before he ever stood in a…
- Futurize Yourself: Tom Meyers on Finding Stability in a Fast-Changing World · 42 minOur bodies and minds were never built for the pace of change we're living through right now. Tom Meyers knows that mismatch personally, it once took him to the edge of a suicidal…
- From Fighter Pilot to Fantasy Author: Finding Purpose After Retirement, with Terrence L. Rotering · 35 minTwo decades flying fighter jets, fifteen more years at NORAD, and then a completely different chapter: eleven books blending science fiction, fantasy, and faith. Terrence…
- Fact vs Story: Dr. Lauren Fine on the Camera Test for Career Doubt · 38 minIn this episode of The Mindful Living, Sana sits with Dr. Lauren Fine, a physician turned medical educator turned coach, to slow down and look at something most of us never…
- When the Body Remembers: Bridging Medicine and Energy Healing, with Dr. Noushin Hart · 25 minome of us have been taught to pick a side, either the world of medicine that measures and treats, or the world of energy that feels and holds. Dr. Noushin Hart spent thirty years…
- The Result Gap: How Your Nervous System Sabotages Success (Even When You Work Hard), with Dr. Siobhán Ewert · 49 minYou worked hard, did everything right, and the results still did not come. Or you finally got what you wanted, and instead of relief, the same old pressure stayed. Physician…
- Blades of Resurrection: Writing Through Grief, Addiction, and Survival, with Michael Grayson · 33 minSome lives accumulate so much that the only honest response is to write it down. A gambling addiction, both parents lost to cancer, then a rare cancer of his own. Michael…
- From Life-Led to Joy-Led: Ted Kopecko on Finding Joy, Journey of You · 27 minThis episode is for anyone who has looked up at 50, 60, or 70 and realized they built a full life without ever asking whether it actually brought them joy. Ted Kopecko…
- Enduring vs Endurance: Marc Hopkins on Grit, Vulnerability, and 200 Miles · 30 minIn this episode of The Mindful Living Show, Sana talks with ultra runner and author Marc Hopkins about what happens when the grit that built your career or your body quietly…
- Beyond the Vision Board: Brad Johnson on the Actor, the Character, and Real Manifestation · 38 minIn this episode of The Mindful Living Show, Sana sits with consciousness teacher Brad Johnson to name a strange, quiet exhaustion many of us carry, the feeling of manifesting so…
- Neurodiversity Is Not Something to Fix: Thomas Wilson on Belonging, Storytelling, and Human Potential · 30 minWhat if neurodiversity isn't a disorder to overcome, but a different way of experiencing the world? In this inspiring episode of The Mindful Living Show, storyteller, educator…
- The Sanctuary Bond: Building Emotionally Safe Relationships with Gaylen Wilson | Part 2 · 42 minWhat if the strongest relationships aren't built during life's easiest moments, but through the way couples protect each other during the hardest ones? In Part 2 of this…
- The Monument Method: Rebuilding Emotional Safety and Intimacy with Gaylen Wilson | Part 1 · 29 minCan a marriage truly recover after years of emotional distance, conflict, or even sexual disconnection? In this first part of an inspiring conversation, Gaylen Wilson shares his…
- Is This It? When a Successful Life Still Feels Hollow, with Sarah Collins · 31 minThis episode includes a brief, retrospective mention of depression and past suicide attempts, shared as part of the guest's healing story. It is not graphic and not the focus of…
