Marissa Nash | Rediscovering Yourself | WellCo
I was lucky enough to catch up with Marissa Nash and chat about how she is leading with spirituality in her thriving coaching business.
Her career in wellness started at lululemon, and since she has worked in the wellness industry for over 9 years. She has been a Certified Professional Life Coach for 5+ years, a 1,000+ hour Yoga Instructor for 9+ years and she specialize in teaching self-care, meditation & mindfulness techniques.
Marissa is a certified Executive Coach and Corporate Wellness Consultant. She is also certified in The Science of Wellbeing from Yale University and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction from Thomas Jefferson, developed by Meditation Teacher Jon Kabat-Zinn.
She developed The Well Method out of a gap that she witnessed in the wellness industry as well as the practices, techniques, and holistic modalities that she has used to heal and transform her own mind, body, and soul.
She has coached over 300 women and have worked with clients across the U.S. and abroad, including California, Pennsylvania, New Zealand, North Carolina, Texas, South Carolina, Michigan, and New York!
She graduated from Penn State University in 2011 with a B.A. in Corporate Communications and completed my Master's Degree in Organizational Leadership and Executive Coaching at Concordia University with Dr. John Townsend.
She is also a dog-mom to my mini-goldendoode, Finn (check her out on my instagram!)
Connect with Marissa here:
https://instagram.com/marissarosenash
https://www.facebook.com/thewellcobymarissarose
Brandon Handley 0:00
54321 Hey there podcast listener and welcome to spiritual dope today I've got Marissa Nash joining me and she is a woman's life wellness coach, executive coach, meditation teacher, yoga instructor, corporate wellness consultant, you know, she embodies all these things and, but she pulls it together in a holistic manner. So she has a holistic life coach. And her mission is to teach you how to tap into the wisdom of your mind, body and soul. And learn to trust your intuition and step into your personal power both personally and professionally. As a certified life coach for over five years, a over 1000 hours of yoga instructor for nine years, specializes in self care, meditation and mindfulness techniques. And she's also a certified coach and a corporate wellness consultant. There's There's quite a bit more so you know, you've got you've got it all gone down. But as it kind of relates to this, you believe in Many holistic modalities that you use with your clients such as Lifestyle coaching, yoga, mindfulness, visualization, and Reiki. And I'll leave it for anyone who wants to find out more about all that you're doing to head over to your website after they kind of check it out. But welcome, and thanks for joining us.
Marissa Nash 1:19
Thanks, Brandon. I'm really excited to be here.
Brandon Handley 1:22
You have no idea what you're in for do you're like, I have no idea what's happening.
Unknown Speaker 1:27
But like the energy of it.
Brandon Handley 1:30
I love it. I love it. Um, so you and I were connected by a good friend of mine, Jeremy Todd, who we started our podcast adventure years ago with each other. He was quite literally my first interview. And and YouTube connected and he said, you know, you got to talk to Brandon, you're, you're right down the street from me. You're over in Philadelphia, you're from the area as well. And let's kick it off. I mean, what what what, that's what I want to start with cards at the every card. Nearby your tarot cards because this is how you start your this so So, you know Marissa starts her podcast with a, you know, a kind of a card reading. I don't, but I love the idea so I figured I'd spring that on you let's find one do you want to pull a card and tell us what we're up for?
Marissa Nash 2:15
I love it. Yes, I would love to do that I do on my podcast and in sessions with all my clients, I pull cards. I find that it's really important just to connect spiritually with you know, you and I are humans on this earth doing the best we can but you know, what, what is the divine guidance that we need to be tuned into and also for your listeners. So I use Oracle cards. I'm a big fan of Gabby Bernstein. So I'm using her super attractor deck.
Brandon Handley 2:41
She, you know, I wasn't aware of like she's a spiritual junkie. Right? Is that right? Yeah. I love it. Right like it plays in line with spiritual dope, right. Come on now.
Unknown Speaker 2:51
Yes, I love it. Yes. Okay, so this is a cool one. So I'll read this over. So it says the more I attune my energy with appreciation, the more the universe will deliver.
Brandon Handley 3:03
Hmm, love it. What's that mean for us today?
Unknown Speaker 3:07
Yeah, I think it's really interesting. I, you know, I, I don't know where this conversation will go. But a big belief that I have is around manifestation and in order to manifest, you really have to appreciate what you have and you have to be in energy and in alignment with appreciation and gratitude. It's a big part of my story. And what I help clients with is really focusing on living a life in alignment with gratitude and appreciation and a state of abundance. So I imagine that will come up today.
Brandon Handley 3:35
Absolutely, I mean, look, so that's all the line is the line is, uh, you know, appreciate what you have, right? Just Just in general. You know, just be grateful for the things that you do have. It doesn't matter if you've got a lot, but at least want what you have, right? Because if you've got a lot and you don't want it, that's not serving you. Right. Right. So for you For your for your information. So I grew up with a hippie mom. Right? Well, and, and yeah, we'll see there you go and and it was like, you know, she was caught like these these lifestyle trappings, right like you know, these are all the trappings, like if you've got all these things and you're kind of trapped with those things right because you have to, you're trapped with those things you're maintaining them. Right. So let's let's I mean let's jump into, you know your journey a little bit I want to share a little bit of your backstory. realizing you're from the Philadelphia area, you're a Penn Stater Penn State, right. So Penn State, my wife went to Penn State as well she, she still talks about it, she still loves it seems like it must have been a good time there. But you also you've traveled around a little bit. And most recently if I if I'm following the story, now you're back here from Texas. Right? Is that right? Okay. So, walk us in the journey from you know, Penn State to where you are today? Any synopsis any way you want to?
Unknown Speaker 5:03
Yeah, I would love to because my journey actually in wellness did start nine years ago at Penn State, which is a little surprising because you think Penn State party school, I was in a sorority, and I had this moment, my junior year of college, where I just knew that I was seeking more. I felt like you know, did the college thing. There's something more for me, but I didn't know what it was. And I remember my best friend Becca, I came back from summer break. And she just looked different. She looked radiant. She looked, you know what I would call really well. And I just asked him like, Becca, what have you been doing? It's yoga. And I'm like, yoga. What, what's yoga all about? Let me try it. And so we would do a 90 minute hot yoga class at this little apartment in State College on campus at Penn State. This guy named Doug owned it and he was just plugged heaters into the wall of this apartment studio that he rented. And we would do hot yoga for 90 minutes and then it would end with a yoga nidra. a pretty long 30 minute I feel like sometimes even 40 minute Yoga nidra practice which is so good. It's a deep meditative practice. So you're going deep into your subconscious through guided meditation. So I was introduced to meditation, spirituality and yoga, you know, one of its deepest levels at a very young age. And I don't think I knew how powerful that really was, but it worked for me it calmed a lot of my anxiety. I have been a dancer when I was in middle school, I quit around High School. And I think that creative element was really missing from my life. So I felt like I had found my place I did one yoga class and call my dad the next day as a college student. I said, Dad, I'm going to get certified to be a yoga teacher.
Unknown Speaker 6:53
I have two or three grand
Unknown Speaker 6:57
Are you back and I did it. I honestly took one yoga class. Sign up for teacher training the next day with the philosophy that, you know if I pay for the teacher training I get for yoga classes and I get paid as a teacher. So it made sense to me. And from there my journey took off actually worked really well lemon for a while and two different stores in Philadelphia and in Charleston, South Carolina. And Lulu lemon was a great setup for me at a young age. They were really big on goal setting, there was a lot of transformational leadership that was happening within the organization, and just a lot of ways to really connect with the wellness community as well. So I really do a credit a lot of my early career to what I learned at lemon. And that that ended me up in Charleston, I ended up moving to Charleston before Charleston was, you know, the place that it is today. This was, gosh, six years ago, and stayed in Charleston for a little while. Where to Lou lemon didn't teach much yoga there. But then I really started teaching yoga when I moved to Southern California
Brandon Handley 7:57
because there's a there's a Bill Murray story in Charleston. Yeah, let's highlight that just for a second. Because you know, listen, when my wife and I were in North Carolina for a little bit you and I had talked a little bit about this before. And we're like, the only reason we would go to Charleston would be to catch up with Bill Murray. What happened between you and Bill Murray?
Unknown Speaker 8:16
I don't know very. I've never met him. But
Unknown Speaker 8:20
no, no.
Brandon Handley 8:22
Yeah, no. Did we have this conversation? He became me. That's not you. Ah, are you sure?
Unknown Speaker 8:30
I never met him. I mean, he lives there. But yeah,
Brandon Handley 8:33
that was told me the story then.
Unknown Speaker 8:36
I don't know.
Unknown Speaker 8:38
I've been talking to Okay, keep moving then.
Unknown Speaker 8:40
Oh, no, the girl said. Um, yeah. Now he has a restaurant though. Apparently. That's really good. I
Brandon Handley 8:45
was I wasn't so I was in this conversation. Mm hmm. Man. All right. Yeah, she's pretty good with this, but go ahead.
Unknown Speaker 8:52
Um, yeah, so then I actually ended up moving to Southern California. I got a job teaching stand up paddleboard yoga in Laguna Beach. and manage this little paddle, paddle board shop and Laguna on the ocean. And it was awesome. You know, living in Southern California being in my early 20s I really got to live out a lot of the dreams that I had. And I then got connected with core power yoga. So I taught full time yoga in Southern California. I also managed the core power yoga studio for a little while. Another amazing organization to be a part of great, great leadership, great leadership development inside of the organization. And then I honestly moved back to Charleston and did some nonprofit work for a little while. And all along have been a life coach. So I've been a life coach for five years, I've always specifically focused on women, helping them to transform their lives, whatever that looks like for them, whatever their end goal is. In the recent couple of years, my my primary focus has been on holistic wellness, and really helping women to map out what their wellness plan looks like. I found For me when I really got in touch with Okay, my wellness is a priority took me a little while to figure out it was almost difficult it was it was hard like this undercover topic of like, I would walk in like a crystal shop and be like, Do you know anyone that practices I already know or let you know, like, do you know when doing energy healing and it's like, why was this so hard to find? And
Unknown Speaker 10:23
so yeah,
Unknown Speaker 10:24
yeah, exactly but what I knew worked for me um, and so that's really led me to design you know, the welco which is my wellness coaching firm, as well as my corporate wellness programs. And you know, as of late, the well method, which really guides women through a one year program, where they actually get to meet with me as their transformational leadership coach, but then also get access to for other holistic healers that they get to do private sessions with within the year because that's what I've found works for me is being able to work with a lot of different modes. realities and a lot of different healers to make sure that I'm well in all different areas of my life.
Unknown Speaker 11:06
Now, I love it. I love it.
Brandon Handley 11:08
And I love Look, I mean, it's initially right even back in college when you're doing kind of the body movement, right with the yoga and then you go right into, you know that Yogananda right, like going into the deep meditative state. And, you know, the things that that's, it's a lot of people know, to move their bodies, right and work their bodies, and that's really important, but what they don't do after that is take some time to kind of go with it.
Unknown Speaker 11:35
Yes, I,
Brandon Handley 11:37
um, I want to know more about your hippie mom. Yeah. Yes. I mean, you know, so, you know, Was it easy for you then to for, for me to kind of jump into this space mentally. It was kind of an easy transition for myself, because of a hippie mom. Right. So I'm just curious if that was similar for you. Yeah, so
Unknown Speaker 11:57
my parents are both deadheads, so Grateful Dead all day long in our house still. And yeah, I think my mom, so my dad I would describe is like, yeah, deadhead, he still goes to like cover shows and Yeah, super into it just um, my dad was always so supportive of me and my dreams. He's also an entrepreneur. So I think that helped me. So I've never been limited in that. And my mom is very spiritual. She's very open minded. I love that about her. I remember she would buy me books of, you know, different world religions, and she always just encouraged me to explore and to really honor people and faith in their spirituality, their race. I mean, you know, what, what they believed and I'm, I'm really grateful for that. It's something that you know, as you get older, you realize that not everybody is raised that way. And I really raised to be empowered to make my own decisions in my faith and spirituality career. And it's helped me a lot, I think, be a leader in this space.
Brandon Handley 12:56
Now, I love it and it seems like you know, you're totally aligned with Kind of your purpose? Um, and what would you say purposes because, you know, bring in, I think as a coach, right, coming from the coaching space as well as a coach, you know, it's our job to help others bring out the best and others. Right? Bring. And I had another guy I had a coach and look, I have a, I'm not a Christian, I don't come from a Christian background, but you know, my coaches like my job is to bring people to Christ. I was like, Okay, tell me what that means to you. Right? Because I mean, that could mean anything to anybody. Right? And when he explained it, to me, it was, you know, to kind of bring you to your Divine Self Help you step into your power, that's a good thing. So what does that? What does coaching mean to you? What's your end game? Like when you're coaching somebody? What's that transformation? really mean to you?
Unknown Speaker 13:46
Yeah, that's a great question. So for me, I would say since I work specifically with women, it's to help them to live a life that feels in alignment. So I do a lot of limiting beliefs work. I also really do believe in meditation because I think that We can get covered in beliefs about ourselves, or we have the world works that aren't true. And for me, it's been most healing, to clarify, but what beliefs do I choose? And then from that place, I can then make empowered decisions about my life. And, you know, it's difficult. And that's why I think coaching is so valuable, because, you know, it's difficult making decisions for my life that don't fit the mold for what everybody else is doing. And I know I've always kind of been that way. But through coaching and having my own coach, you know, you're you're validated, you're affirmed, you're reminded that that's okay. I'm also really big on community. So I do have a community called the well and that's really designed so that women can come together and explore who they are and still be loved along the way. So that that's really important to me, the way that I do that I can talk about later, but it's really about making empowered decisions for your life, based on you learning how to live a life that's in alignment for you, not based on what anybody else wants for you.
Brandon Handley 14:57
No, absolutely right. I mean, there's the public process of kind of going to unlearn everything you've been taught. Right? But but in the sense and and and try not to do it too dramatically, right? Like you always think about a good buddy of mine. And we always talk about, you know, the matrix, and nobody makes their first jump, right? And just trying to like, yeah, look, you're gonna make that first jump. And if you you know, quote, unquote, fail, or if you fall down, I hit your face. I mean, that's all in your mind. Right? Like, you just get back up and you keep at it, right? How do you know, how do you help these women to expand and understand their limiting beliefs?
Unknown Speaker 15:35
Yeah, definitely. I like what you said about you know, I don't think it's a hard and fast process. I think that can actually be more disruptive and counterproductive. So you know, I actually did a limiting belief session with a client yesterday, but that was her sixth time working with me. So we've been working together for three months. You know, it's something that I think the relationship with Coach and client is really important. I'm definitely the type of coach where you know, it's not a one off session. I don't even offer one off sessions like it's it's a year long program at this point because you have to feel really safe, you know, you have to feel really safe and secure with the people that you're working with to really transform on a deep level. So the limiting beliefs work, I actually was inspired to create that. From john Maxwell. It was literally like a four sentence line in one of his books that I read. And I was like, that's it. That's exactly what I need and what I feel like my clients have needed. I used to run my coaching practice, in that I would help my clients to visualize where they want to be. I would help them to set the goals to get there, and then I would hold them accountable. But I noticed they weren't actually achieving and accomplishing their goals because they were running up against these limits in these blocks. So that's how now I tackle the blocks and I let them know that it's normal to have blocks, right. Like I said, like the unlearning process isn't unique to anyone. We all meet that. So yeah, it's really, I would say like guiding them and holding their hand through it but also empowering them. Don't give them words or language, I might give them examples. But ultimately they end up with an affirmation that is going to then rewire their brain to push them to where they want to be in a loving and kind way.
Brandon Handley 17:10
Hello, hello. And john Maxwell is really awesome, right? I wasn't a fan of his until his latest book, right? And I don't even know what the name of it is, but somebody shared it with me when the leader shift, right, why the leadership, audible was like, so good. And like, literally mowing my lawn listening to it. I was like, I was like, that's it this great, I'm like, you know, and then I was like, get Fine. I'll go read some more of his stuff. You know, because, you know, some, you know, coming from that subculture background and you can't Yeah, that's more it's a little too square square hole for me, right. Um, so, you know, I finally accepted them into my life. It's my john Maxwell story. But it's like that, right? You you. You have and this is, this is My process right sounds kind of similar, where you've got the idea in your mind. And it's not until like you stumble across something else that explains it for you like, Oh my god, that four lines right there explains what I've been trying to convey, but I haven't been able to do it. And there it is. And it's just like a burst right there kind of like a starburst, right? So I love that. Let's talk a second about like, you know, spirituality and Divinity. Right, what I mean? I think, yeah, I think I heard you say divinity. Talk a little bit about that, you know, on one of your podcasts, and then what's that mean to you? Like, kind of taking divine grace and spirituality, right, like
Unknown Speaker 18:46
fill me in like, what's what's up?
Unknown Speaker 18:48
For me my spirituality is a constant exploration. I remember when, you know, I I was a Christian at a point and then I you know, I wasn't and I was raised Christian. So I kind of went in and out and you know, I am no longer a Christian. And I remember asking myself like, well, who do I pray to that, you know? And for me it was it was kind of helpful and fun to just explore, you know, ask other people like, Well, how do you pray? And what does that look like? And I would work with different healers and just kind of, you know, kind of absorb and try on and then figure out what works for me. So, currently, my spiritual practice my spirituality looks like a lot of meditation, a lot of self reflection, a lot of letting go of being told what to do and how to do it and and challenging and questioning and digging in. But a big spiritual practice for me is just reciting some affirmations and prayers that I have. One that I specifically love that I'm working with right now is I love myself unconditionally. I feel myself unconditionally. I feel myself loving myself unconditionally. I feel myself forgiving myself unconditionally. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. So the past the present in the future, and I love that prayer. So that's just mean that brings me back to a place of centering and grounding and then just helps me move on with my day. So yeah, for me, it's really being connected to the divine throughout the day. So cards helped me with that meditation. Prayer yoga. breathwork is a big practice of mine. I think there are a lot of different ways to spirituality. And if you're someone that's looking to explore spirituality, I highly recommend white hot truth by Danielle Laporte. She kind of tackles all these different spiritual practices and religions and beliefs in a really loving, hilarious way. And it really freed me up to be like, this doesn't need to be so serious, you know, like I can just floor and try on and see what works for Marissa,
Brandon Handley 20:47
for sure, for sure. I love that. I love that right? It doesn't have to be so serious. It doesn't have to be. Don't have to like, just kind of make fun of the door. There's always like a headband. Like listen if you go to a dead concert everybody looks like they go to what that concert right? And sometimes you get the same type of thing with spirituality you go to like you're like, Oh, you know what these it looks like this looks like it could be a pretty cool spiritual group you show up and everybody's wearing like the same kind of tie dye skirt like beads around their neck and you know, there's definitely some crystals going on. Right? But it doesn't have to be. You don't have to look the part to be spiritual, right? You don't have to be do it that way. And it doesn't sound like you're doing it that way. Sounds like you're doing you know what's, what's houses look for? maresa. Right. connected to the divine, then let's take another layer deeper. What's the divine mean to you?
Unknown Speaker 21:43
Yes, I really believe I kind of CO relate. Mm hmm. So deep question. So I do pray for divine guidance. I have found that instead of you know, praying to God, I pray for divine guidance. So that's one way that I connect with the divine I also view the divine as our higher self. So sometimes I will visualize either my higher self or my higher self showing up as golden light and invite that into my body and clear and release any beliefs within me that are not in alignment with my higher self, who I believe is the divine version of me.
Brandon Handley 22:19
Okay, is the Divine Self. And just, you know, kind of checking it out, right, I love First of all, I love the imagery. You know, is it the Divine Self a part? A part? Is it within you, a part of you are separate from you, like, I'm just, you know, where we are.
Unknown Speaker 22:36
I see it as something I can always connect with. I think, you know, I'm not personally actually someone that believes, you know, and like, I'm not trying to achieve enlightenment on this earth. You know, but I think that I think I'm a human, you know, a soul and a human body. You know, I am very human and very much of this world. Every day, you know, it's like, um, you know, I don't believe in like wearing all white And being spiritually light ending all day. And I love being a human and love being in this body so that I can bring divine guidance to this earth. So yeah, I think for me, it's something that I can always access and also is within me, but because I live in the world, you know, that can be clouded. Sure, no, no, I get it. I get it. And first of all, I'll throw out like I made a coffee cup. It says a first coffee than awakening. Right? Yeah.
Brandon Handley 23:27
Right. Because we are like totally human. And like, you know, some days which is like, you know, if you if you if you catch me before this cup of coffee might not be best idea, right. So, so here's the here's why I'm digging into that, right? Because I think I think the lion came from like Joe dispenza. Right? We only rise to our level of thinking, right? If we only rise our level of thinking and then if we think that and there's nothing about being human right if we just think that if we think We're just seeing a man and we just think that we're these these shells. And we just think that we're these, you know, flesh bags and there's nothing again, nothing wrong with that. But once you kind of introduce your higher self, once you introduce this connection to divinity, once you access the divinity, your Divine Self, and you've got that ability to access that, what does that do to your level of thinking? Right? And to me, like that just means that you access a different, you know, level or phase of thinking. So with your divine with your divine divinity and divine grace, you're able to take on more than you could if you were just human, right? And again, I'm not saying just humans are bad we all have everybody has the ability. And the other part of this too is like if we go all the way back, you know, what beliefs do you choose? Right? You can choose, you know, if we use Albert Einstein, you know, either everything's a miracle or nothing's a miracle, right? If we use the Vedanta Right, I'm not, if you listen to Swami is Safari on a panda, right, I totally butchered that last name, but I got all the syllables. If, if you ever check him out, like I mean, there's 44 hours like where he's gotten into the introduction of data, but like, part of it is either your all of it or none of it right? You're either all of the universe or you're not a bit you're connected 100% or not at all. So but that's a choice that you make. And once you make those choices, right, it starts to open up and it sounds like you do some la right like, I mean, you know, law of attraction stuff, it all kind of plays in and that's why you know, I'm kind of digging in on the Divinity part, just kind of seeing where you are with that. So once you accept your divine access, how do you feel like that transformed you?
Unknown Speaker 25:46
Yes, interesting, because actually, I'm gonna relate this to the the work. The way that I help people to access their most Divine Self for sure is through meditation visualization. I take them through, you know, deep guided journeys, but I also because of the human experience I really helped them to focus on what their core desired feelings are, and how do they want to feel in this life because I believe that when you can access that, then you can actually live out your most divine and most empowered self. So for me, once I connected with, you know, who am I and what are my wants and my needs and desires, which is typically more difficult for women than it is for men. I was really able to make decisions for my life that bettered my life that made me feel more in alignment that started to attract more of what I wanted, and you kind of alluded to it, but I think that perspective is key. And that's why in the beginning, when we pulled this card, you know, tuning your energy to appreciation is huge. Because if you can attune yourself to appreciation or you know, to an affirmation of gratitude to what's already amazing in front of you, you're going to start to Yes, I believe attract more of it, but also have eyes for seeing more of it. So I'm a big believer in that As well
Brandon Handley 27:01
100% I call that like kind of setting your filters, right? Like, pretend like we're all walking Google's right. If I go and I say, you know, show me beautiful things in Google, it returns beautiful things. It never ever does it return, like a whole bunch of crap. Right? And, you know, so if we wake up every day, you're like, Oh, this sucks. That sucks. This sucks. That sucks. You know, you're setting your filter to this sucks. This sucks. And that's all you're gonna see. Right? So I wanna, I want to, I'm gonna pick on a little bit here on the, you know, the women, you know, women and and kind of determining what they want, you know, versus men. Right? As a challenge, right? What makes you say that like, yeah,
Unknown Speaker 27:44
yeah, but while the masculine energy, like the Divine Masculine is much more rooted in what they want, what they need, getting those needs met, it's much more stable and consistent. Just eat You know, we could go deep, like our hormone cycles are different, you know. So men are men are very static from day to day. So they wake up, they want, it's pretty much the same every day. Women are more in a 28 day hormone cycle. So we change and we add and we flow in the Divine Feminine is it's more creative, it's a more more open, it's more sensitive. So for us, it actually can change a lot. You know, this goes for both women and men, but a lot of women that I work with are also empaths. So they can take on a lot of other people's energies, and men can do that, too. Absolutely. But yeah, I think that, you know, women are naturally a little bit more curious and sensitive and willing to go with the flow versus be like, this is what I want this I need day in day out.
Brandon Handley 28:45
Sure. Enough, fair enough. Fair enough. Um, and here's the only the only the only thing I'll say about that is that I think that's just our Western conditioning. Right? And, and I hit on this all the time with, you know, kind of anybody I talked to especially young guys when we like, when we're growing up, right as men. It's like It's like, and women too, I'm sure it's like, Alright, well, don't give into your emotions, right? Don't react to your emotions. And you know, you can't let your emotions control you. And what that translates into, for me as a child, right is, oh, I'm feeling something, I need to shut that off and never address it again. All right. And I think that i think that that's kind of where the that's what we see. Right? The the men's non ability or haven't traditionally been trained to address their emotions, right, even identify him. Right. And I think that that's the big challenge. It's like, hey, do you even know what you're feeling right now? Because if you don't know what you're feeling, how can you address it? Right? It's just the whole awareness thing we like if it doesn't have a label, you can't you can't do anything with it. Right? So that's the one thing that the author out there because I don't I feel like men kind of get a bum rap and we don't allow. I don't know what the hell I want, right? You know what I mean? It's like, yeah, I'm just doing I'm just doing what the guy had me just did or over there. I'm like, I don't shit works. We'll try that. What do you just do? I'm gonna do that, right. Just like you got to varies. I'll get two burgers. I don't whatever. Right. Yeah. So it's kind of like our social training. Right? Yeah, just saying give men a chance, you know? Yeah, it's, it's the, it's the idea of like, have be had that open dialogue, right? And that's a challenge too. For men. It's like, you know, they feel like you know, I'm going to go just on my own here. So if we kind of open up and share a feeling of it, first of all, we're like, we don't even know we're like, it feels kind of like this amorphous blob over here. Let's let's you know, let's let's whittle it down until we can figure it out. And nobody wants to be caught in that situation. Like I'm feeling these things and I don't even know what they already want to talk about that because that could that could get rejected. Right.
Unknown Speaker 31:01
Yes, no, that's a really great point. I definitely do agree, I think all of us can benefit from being more self aware. So the first piece is the awareness piece of how Yeah, how do I want to feel and not just go? Oh, yeah, like, the, like you said, This is what the person ahead of me did. So this is how I have to do it. One affirmation that I've been telling myself lately, as I, you know, like bring some new programs into existence for the welco is just I can be the first to do it. Because I want to overcome that belief of Well, I have to do it a certain way, because that's how society has done it. It's like, I'm an Aquarius, and I'm here to innovate and honestly, there's to
Unknown Speaker 31:40
me, there's no way so winter Bertha, January 27 25th. So um, you know, it's funny.
Brandon Handley 31:51
The the idea though, so, you know, how do you want to feel in this life, right, how so let's say you're working with us women that aren't over connected with their emotions, how do you get them connected to those emotions? And, you know, to get them to even explore that idea?
Unknown Speaker 32:08
Yeah, so it is a process. So I use the nine areas of wellness. And with each of those areas, we go through an entire map of how they're feeling on a scale of one to 10 in that area, then we talk about what's currently happening. So that's the awareness piece in that area. And then I have them just rewrite and journal about how they want to feel or what they want in that area. So it could be like, you know, I want to buy a house or I want a different career, whatever it is, and then we we go back and I really have them focus on the feelings behind what they desire. And then I have them narrow those down. And then we start to set action steps and goals around those feelings because it's honestly the hardest work is figuring out what you want to feel. emotional process, even just doing that that usually causes some shift and the person but then once you start to get those needs on small levels, it feels good. You know, I always hear that we are so primal, you know, we are primal beings, we want to feel good, we want what we want. So when you get clued in to what you want, you're going to go and get it as long as you can start small, and then you're going to want more of that and more of that. I always say, you know, it's like, you know, if you're a runner, I'm a runner, but after I go for a run, I can be having a pretty shitty day, and I'll go for a run and then I'm like, I feel great. Everything's okay, I want to drink a green juice. I'm gonna wake up early tomorrow and do yoga. You know, I'm like, I feel good. I did something good for myself. So the more small good things you can do for yourself. I think the more you can tap into that transformation a little bit quick, quicker.
Brandon Handley 33:40
And I think he talked about that in the beginning too. Like how do I start doing wellness just for myself? Right. And and how do you do that how you start some of your clients off right small bits and pieces and you know, what's the, what's some of the reactions that they get, like, what's what are like? What are some timelines that you look Got a with the scenes, some transformations and people.
Unknown Speaker 34:05
Oh man, it's so cool. So I really do focus my practice on women who who work in corporate, they certainly don't have to. But a lot of my clients do work in corporate. So it's really amazing to see that the work that we do in their personal life actually translates into their corporate space, they are much more confident. And this is within a couple of months. So that they noticed that they're much more confident they're making healthier decisions for their life. They're trying a lot of different wellness modalities that feel like they finally fit. Because that's the type of coach that will be like, cool, we're gonna have you do yoga, but how are you feeling? What do you need? Okay, so you're anxious. So let's not have you do power yoga, let's have you do some yoga. So it's very holistic in that way, really looking at the client as a unique individual. their relationships begin to change very quickly. And yeah, they're just overall happier and they get feedback really quickly from other people. A lot of my clients are like, people are telling you that I seem happier. And I'm like, Yeah.
Brandon Handley 35:04
Awesome. That's awesome. I love it. I love you know, look, I mean, everybody, I think needs it right? to kind of go through the process. If we at least have somebody out there encouraging them and seeing them for who they are, right, we like you know, I see you for who you are. And we're gonna help you to see the same for yourself. Yeah. Um, do you want to talk a little bit more about the wall method? Like kind of what you got going on there?
Unknown Speaker 35:31
Yeah, sure. I'd love to. So how a man the well method was really I would say that burst into existence just from a gap that I experienced in the wellness industry. And this obviously is, you know, my personal methodology and what works for me. So there are plenty of ways to do wellness. But what I noticed when I really wanted to start my wellness journey, and I was like, I'm ready. This is important to me. I'm ready to invest in it. Like I mentioned earlier, it was to like, it felt like I was piecemealing everything together and it honestly started to add up. You know, I'm like working with one healer there and I'm driving 30 minutes and then I found this other I related coach and I have to go 45 minutes into the city and I'm like driving all over and scheduling all these appointments and it was a little overwhelming. Yes, it absolutely worked. And I've connected with so many incredible wellness leaders. So what I've done with the well method is I've developed a one year program so my clients actually work with me as their holistic life coach and then they also quarterly get a session with a wellness expert. So I'll have somebody that you know, teaches them I Aveda in a private one on one session and that really helps them to understand more about their own body and seasonal wellness. I have a girl that will be doing body acceptance and self love working with an astrologer and then a womb wisdom guide and healer. So it's an amazing womb wisdom guide and healer
Unknown Speaker 36:58
wisdom
Unknown Speaker 37:00
Yes, this might be new. Yeah.
Brandon Handley 37:03
That's interesting. That's actually I've never heard I've never I've never heard and it's just fun to say actually waited.
Unknown Speaker 37:08
Yeah, it's a really cool creative title, but she's a cycle track and how to actually use their cycle to their advantage, which is really important and women's wellness.
Brandon Handley 37:18
Sure, man, it's like, you know, the tides of the ocean no doubt, right? Yeah. And I'm sure that there's like some emotional ebbing and flowing right. When are you going to use that? high tide of energy? You got it.
Unknown Speaker 37:32
I can tell you have a wife who understands
Brandon Handley 37:38
so listen again. I grew up in your my hippie mom. Oh, yeah. single mom is just kind of like, you know, it's just it's kind of already there. Right. So all that stuff there. So advantage disadvantage, I don't know. Um, and and so you're rolling this out? This is going to come out like around July so we're going to be live in July?
Unknown Speaker 37:58
Yes, yes, we will be live In July, so I've actually already been doing I would say, half of this program, or you know, years now. So it's really just an accumulation of everything that has worked and then really making it personalized. It will be a personalized bonus plan so that you don't have to go find all the healers and ask weird questions and go into crystal shops and feel like you're like, knowing that Unicode
Brandon Handley 38:22
gamma system there bro.
Unknown Speaker 38:25
Paying the table, you know, it's, it's all designed specifically for you. And actually, it's based on seasonal wellness. So we'll go through different wellness topics that I have found to be transformative in my life based on the seasons and the nature of each season and what you know, I believe that we should be holistically looking at in this season.
Brandon Handley 38:44
I love it. I love it on your page. Where do I find you at wellness podcast, you've got your wellness podcast, you offer a free virtual chain training on your site. You've got some meditations on there. You've got books Love I'm gonna go ahead and just say you know playing big by Tara Moore You are a badass by Jensen zero desire map. Which one did you mentioned at the beginning? Right? White Hot
Unknown Speaker 39:12
yes white hot truth by Danielle Laporte and she also wrote the desire map and all my clients get the desire map is I guess when they started incredible book,
Brandon Handley 39:21
right and I saw you had in your picture untethered soul. So you're Michael singer fan right? Um Have you thought Have you read the surrender experiment?
Unknown Speaker 39:31
I haven't,
Brandon Handley 39:32
should I? It's interesting. It's actually changed me and just like his his whole concept of it right? is you know, and I actually interviewed this guy named Greg Bernstein. He's like a shaman, you know, God doing vortex tours in Hawaii, and he's much one that I'm not doing any justice. But uh, you know, he, he talks about it too. We talk about la right and we also kind of talk about the constant Have you already have limiting beliefs? Even your most unlimited thought of what you want is pretty limited, right? We think the box is huge, right? But really, we're playing like and like this, this kind of a pixel of it, as it were. So who am I? To go tell the universe what's best for me? Right? And so, Michael singer kind of does it in this way where he says, I'm pretty sure the universe wants what's best for me, but like, even more than I could ever imagine, so I'm just gonna surrender to what the universe has offer. Right? And I was like, I was like, it's pretty potent bro. That's pretty it's pretty, it's pretty big. Right? And then like, his whole story is is pretty interesting. But just like that, that that kind of idea was like, All right. So I wasn't I wasn't sure if you would, you'd read that one what um, you know, so you're doing the cards. What is something that else is kind of like just radically changed your whole life, you know, spiritual journey. or anything that you're doing? What is a book a movie? A song, poem? Whatever.
Unknown Speaker 41:06
Yeah, well I'm gonna have that book to my list because I really enjoy that and think I would really really love that so you know what I'm gonna throw this one in there this is probably not what you're expecting doesn't probably didn't sound spiritual it is but just joy and having fun like having so much fun I think spirituality can get so serious you know I'm some meditation is so important getting on my mind doing my yoga practices, but sometimes you just need to go like have a drink with a friend or you know, go do something fun for yourself. So for me, I bought a surfboard recently I used to surf in California. And you know, my commitment is just to make sure that I'm at the beach and then I'm surfing and just really honestly like living a life that I want to live so I'm going to throw in there just fun.
Brandon Handley 41:48
No, I love it. I love it And listen, it's actually in the word enlightenment right light, be light, right like just kind of doesn't say and heavy man doesn't say like, you know, and German and like, carry all this heavy shit around with you and be stoic. And so it gets a bad rap too. But I love it though. So no joy. And I like that you use joy over, you know, happiness. I think joy is more sustained. And you know, more recently I heard the definition of happiness is completely external is literally based on happenstance. So the things that are your around and your circumstances, right, I think that joy is something more innate that you can control. So I'll take it. I'll take it. What? Yeah, what would you say? What would you say that we haven't kind of hit on something that you would share?
Unknown Speaker 42:40
Yeah, I mean, I don't think we talked too much about how transformational meditation is, I know that you meditate. I think what's really interesting, you know, I'm, I'm a pretty, you know, woowoo spiritual person. But I do also think that research is important and there's so much research behind mindfulness meditation, the practice of meditation that I always And follow is mindfulness meditation. I completed Jon Kabat Zinn's Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course, through Thomas Jefferson University and it was life changing. You know, bringing mindfulness into your day can be so helpful to help you to access what's really going on. And you know, we both talked about the importance of awareness, right. So getting aware of what's going on through mindfulness is very helpful.
Brandon Handley 43:26
You on your podcast, you have a really nice way of kind of putting, like mindfulness and meditation you feel free to share that here, right? Like, it's not necessarily that your mind won't be distracted it instead it will, is to bring it back. So share a little bit of that.
Unknown Speaker 43:42
Yeah, I see mindfulness and meditation as a training ground. So it's literally like me going into training and I schedule it in and I'm like, Alright, this is where I train my mind because what happens in that space lasts. Like I said, there's a lot of research around it, but the benefits of meditation last. So for me, I see it as a training. Round. And just like anything that you're training and it takes practice, and it's never going to be to a point where your mind is silent again, bring you back to we're human. But it's about the relationship that you have with your thoughts. So you'll you know, be meditating, your thoughts come up, what is your relationship to them? And what are they showing you and maybe need to go off of the anchor of your breath, if that's what it is, if your anchors your inhale and your exhale, and your body speaking to you and it's like pain or uncomfortability or have this thought, you know, listen to me, then it's kind of working with that and being like, yeah, body Yes, mind. Yes, divine guidance. What are you trying to show me? And that's really where I explore myself and and then also ask for spiritual guidance to
Brandon Handley 44:42
follow that. Yeah, you're right. We didn't want to talk about too much. Meditation. The one thing that I learned through meditation, and he talked about unconditional love, right, which to me is kind of synonymous with don't judge like non judgement, right? You're paying attention to your body, but you're not judging it, right? It's like, hey, there's it's acknowledgment. But it's not giving it a good or a bad week, right? Is that what you're saying?
Unknown Speaker 45:10
Yeah, absolutely. I think through mindfulness comes it actually research has proven that empathy for others and empathy for yourself, which is the loving kindness and the self compassion,
Brandon Handley 45:21
the metta metta meditation, right? And here's what I love about the metta meditation. We spend a lot of time thinking about ourselves. Yeah, right. And this is like an opportunity even like, I'll pull out midday and do like a five minute metta meditation, so I can think of some other people and not think about my own shit. Right? And but but because that's what we do, right? We think about all the stuff that we've got going on for ourselves. So if we can take just five minutes, give ourselves one minute in there, like all right, well, this this, if you're not familiar with meditation, you know, explain the metta meditation real quick for somebody who's never done it.
Unknown Speaker 45:56
Sure. So yeah, metta meditation is also known as loving kindness meditation. very accessible, you know, on apps or on YouTube, if you'd like I also have on on my website, it will guide you through a very incredible meditation where you are seeing others in front of you and sending them loving and kind words you also go typically back and forth between sending others loving and kind words, and then you're self loving and kind words. And through that the state of the brain actually changes. And you can see benefits from that very quickly.
Brandon Handley 46:27
Yeah, no, it's awesome. And I still remember my first rounds of meditation. I did it headspace. And then I didn't do it for like two weeks. And then I was irritable as hell. And I tracked back I was like, What's different? What's what, what what, you know what I mean? Because I hadn't done it. I was able to track it back to meditation. And I, I'm sure I missed the day here, there, but it's part of my daily life. So if you're an irritable Raji son of a bitch, want to try is meditate Where can we send people to go find you on all the things that you're doing right now?
Unknown Speaker 47:11
I am a connector is I would love to connect to the guys chat more about this stuff. I definitely someone that is on Instagram a lot. You can find me at Marissa rose Nash, and my website is the well code.org. I'm also on Facebook at Marissa rose Nash or the welco by Marie rose, so feel free to reach out I do also offer a free 30 minute solo sessions where we explore limiting belief in one of the nine areas of wellness to help you get unstuck and find a little bit of freedom there.
Brandon Handley 47:43
Awesome. Well, hey, thanks a lot for stopping by today. Glad you took a chance
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